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Company without contract checking vehicles at border
KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji said yesterday that a private company is continuing to inspect vehicles at the Abdaly crossing point with Iraq although its contract with the customs department expired a year ago. Turaiji said the disclosure about the company coincided with the busting of a 200-kg hashish haul with a truck coming from Iraq and after it was inspected by the company. The bust was made by detectives after the truck was allowed to...
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Temperatures to drop to zero: Meteorologist
KUWAIT: Meteorologist Essa Ramadan expects temperatures to drop to zero in the desert and six degrees Celsius in urban areas. "According to Kuwait Meteorological Center detectors, temperature in desert areas is 0-4 degrees centigrade and 6-9 in urban areas," he said, expecting the cold weather to continue through today despite being sunny, and expected the temperature to record 15 C by daytime and drop to zero in the desert and 3-7 C in urban...
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Unauthorized search voids arrest: court
KUWAIT: The criminal court said searches by policemen at checkpoints beyond normal limits is illegal. The court said precautionary searches by policemen should not progress to other things without justification, and any violation will be considered null without a warrant from the prosecution.The appeals court upheld a ruling of the court of first instance which exonerated an Egyptian, saying that just because a suspect is walking in the street...
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Kuwait Stock Exchange terminates 90 expats
KUWAIT: The Stock Exchange Public Authority handed 90 expatriate employees pink slips effective March 31, 2016. But the way the termination notices were delivered was criticized, because three employees of the authority went around departments and handed the envelopes to the concerned employees.The criticism did not come from expats only, but from their Kuwait colleagues too.The letters included two paragraphs, the first thanking them for their...
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Interior Ministry overseas Jaber Stadium security plan
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah chaired a meeting to discuss security preparations for Jaber Stadium's reopening ceremony. The meeting was attended by State Minister for Cabinet Affairs, Acting Minister of Electricity and Water Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdallah Al-Sabah, Interior Ministry's Undersecretary Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahad and field assistant undersecretaries, as well as...
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Prostitution ring in Salmiya busted
KUWAIT: Vice detectives put an end to the activity of a prostitution network in Salmiya. The network members were using two apartments on two floors. One was located on the fifth floor where an Arab man agrees with the client and receives the money then gives a signal to those on the sixth floor to receive him. Police sent an undercover source and the arrests were made.Car accident kills college studentA student in law college was killed when she...
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Teacher beats second grader
KUWAIT: A second grader was beaten by his teacher in the Mohammad Al-Shayji School in Hawally, and the beating left scratches on his hand. His mother informed the school principal and asked her to take action. Elementary Education Supervisor in Hawally Education Zone Laila Al-Shareef said the principal carried out an investigation into the incident, but the teacher denied beating the student. The principal then asked other students in the...
RAMADI: Displaced civilians from Ramadi and around the area cross the Bzebiz bridge as they leave their hometowns towards Baghdad on Monday. – AP
Iraq forces retake large part of Ramadi from IS
RAMADI: Displaced civilians from Ramadi and around the area cross the Bzebiz bridge as they leave their hometowns towards Baghdad on Monday. – APBAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces recaptured a large part of the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group yesterday, officials said, scoring a significant breakthrough in their fightback against the jihadists. Baghdad's forces have been fighting for months to secure territory around Ramadi, the...
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Trump under fire over Muslim ban call
MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump references fellow candidate Jeb Bush at a Pearl Harbor Day Rally at the USS Yorktown on Monday. - AFPWASHINGTON: A firestorm erupted yesterday over Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States as religious leaders, the White House and his rivals on the presidential campaign roundly condemned the proposal. The leading candidate for the Republican...
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Saudi executes Pakistani heroin smuggler - Sri Lankan Maid wins reprieve from death by stoning in Saudi
COLOMBO: Saudi authorities have agreed to retry a Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, her country's deputy foreign minister said yesterday. Harsha de Silva told parliament in Colombo the government had secured a fresh trial for the woman after Sri Lankan diplomats visited her in a Saudi jail over the weekend. "Through our intervention, they (Saudi authorities) have agreed to reopen the case," de Silva told...
NEW JERSEY: Muslim men pray at a mosque in Jersey City, New Jersey. Muslim American leaders accused Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump of incitement for demanding a ‘complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering the US after a New York shopkeeper was beaten in an alleged hate crime. — AFP
New terror threat frays American unity
NEW JERSEY: Muslim men pray at a mosque in Jersey City, New Jersey. Muslim American leaders accused Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump of incitement for demanding a ‘complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering the US after a New York shopkeeper was beaten in an alleged hate crime. — AFPWASHINGTON: After two grinding decades of combating Islamist terror, America is split asunder, divided not just on how to defeat the Islamic State, but...
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Reckless arms transfers to Iraq 'fuelled IS crimes' - Human rights watchdog calls for tougher controls
USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrierBAGHDAD: Decades of irresponsible arms transfers to Iraq fuelled the Islamic State group's firepower and ability to carry out atrocities on a massive scale, Amnesty International said in a report published yesterday. The London-based human rights watchdog called for tougher controls in order to put a stop to the alarming fallout from the proliferation of weapons in the country. "The vast and varied weaponry...
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KUWAIT: People wander around Souq Al-Mubarakiya during Kuwait's national celebrations in this 2023 file photo. — KUNA
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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti officials meet with a delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss turning Shaab into a United Nations healthy city. — KUNA
Shaab on path to becoming Kuwait’s next healthy city
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DAMASCUS: Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati (left) shaking hands with Syria's new leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa before their meeting in Damascus on January 11, 2025. -- AFP
Syria, Lebanon to build firm ties after years of tensions
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