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Official appeals to the public to follow passport renewal regulations - Passport, visa validity linkage starts Jan 1
Major General Talal Maarafi and Brigadier Adel Al-HashashKUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior's (MoI) Director General of the Residency Affairs Department Major General Talal Maarafi said the department is exerting all efforts to develop the systems in order to achieve comfort for citizens and expatriates and ease procedures and transaction processes.Maarafi said the department will start from Jan 1, 2016 the application of article 12 of the...
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Ministries warned of administrative violations; MP rejects arming budget
KUWAIT: The government performance apparatus issued stern warnings to seven government bodies over the multitude of the administrative violations they have committed. Informed sources said that the bodies include ministries of health, education, electricity and water, information, communications, municipality as well as the public authority for Quran printing and publication. —Al-QabasMP rejects arming budgetKUWAIT: MP Rakan Al-Nisf rejected a...
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KD 70 million collected in traffic tickets
KUWAIT: An official security source said the total amount collected in traffic fines for 2015 is around KD 52 million so far, adding that the traffic sector expects the total to reach an unprecedented amount of around KD 70 million, especially after lifting the block on grave violations for 2014 and some for 2015. Meanwhile, traffic officers will form a special team that will carry out campaigns in some areas against vehicles that obstruct...
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MPA works with PAAAFR to inspect farmlands
KUWAIT: Manpower Public Authority’s Deputy Director for Labor Protection Abdullah Al-Motoutah said that the authority had formed a joint committee with the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) to inspect agricultural land tenancy and the laborers registered on them. Separately, and following his meeting with the World Bank, the manpower authority’s acting director Ahmed Al- Moussa hailed the role it played in...
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Lawmakers endorse draft for new Juvenile Law
KUWAIT: The National Assembly approved yesterday the draft for a new Juvenile Law and turned it over to the government for its perusal and approbation. The new draft law supplants a 1983 law where the age of a juvenile offender was set at below 18. The new law sets it at below 16.The thrust of the new law is geared toward rehabilitation not severe punishment and in that spirit it withholds criminal responsibility for any offender below the age of...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is pictured with Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) top officials and winners. — Amiri Diwan photos
Amir patronizes KFAS' award ceremony
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is pictured with Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) top officials and winners. — Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday patronized award distribution ceremony held by Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) for winners in 2014 and 2015.At onset of the event, His Highness the Amir was...
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Farwaniya shoplifter arrested
KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives, in cooperation and coordination with The Avenues mall administration, put an end to the activity of a female citizen who frequented the mall during the past few months and stole lightweight expensive items from several shops. A security source said the citizen confessed that she took advantage of being veiled, which made it difficult to identify her, and the fact that women are not searched by guards even if the...
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The light Police and Specialties
The joke goes that a contractor hired three workers to erect several lampposts on a desert road. The contractor asked the first worker to dig, because he was fast in doing that, and asked the second to place the huge pole in the hole using his strength, and asked the third to fill the hole around the pole and press it. The contractor, after supervising them for few days, each in his own specialty, and making sure that each one of them knew...
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Kuwait bags gold, bronze at World Bodybuilding championship
KUWAIT: Kuwait Bodybuilding National Team won one gold and one bronze medals during the Wor l d Bodybuilding and Physical Fitness Championship that was held in Thailand lately with the participation of 55 teams of various categories and weights. Head of the team Mohammad Al-Khalaf said upon the team’s arrival in Kuwait.Tariq Al-Shakhs became champion of the 90 kg category while his teammate Nayef Al-Shimmari took third place in the physique...
LONDON: Protesters hold placards protesting against Britain launching airstrikes against the Islamic State group inside Syria during a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday. - AP
UK set to vote for Syria air strikes - Cameron urges use of 'Daesh' for IS
LONDON: Protesters hold placards protesting against Britain launching airstrikes against the Islamic State group inside Syria during a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday. - APLONDON: Britain's parliament looked set to vote in favor of joining air strikes on Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria yesterday despite angry exchanges which have exposed deep divisions on military action. Prime Minister David Cameron kicked off...
DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani shake hands during a ceremony yesterday. - AP
Russia accuses Erdogan of links to IS oil trade - Turkish leader rejects 'slander'
DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani shake hands during a ceremony yesterday. - APMOSCOW: Russia yesterday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of involvement in illegal oil trading with Islamic State jihadists, ratcheting up the heat in a dispute over Ankara's downing of one of Moscow's warplanes. The Turkish strongman accused Moscow of "slander" over claims his...
PESHAWAR: The parents and siblings of slain Pakistani school student Asfand Khan, who was killed during an attack by Taleban militants at an army public school, pray alongside his photograph at their residence yesterday. - AFP n
Pak hangs school massacre convicts - Relatives of victims hail executions of four militants
PESHAWAR: The parents and siblings of slain Pakistani school student Asfand Khan, who was killed during an attack by Taleban militants at an army public school, pray alongside his photograph at their residence yesterday. - AFPPESHAWAR: Pakistan yesterday hanged four men linked to the Taleban's massacre of more than 130 schoolchildren, with parents of victims saying they deserved "no forgiveness" as the attack anniversary approached. The...
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Kuwait posts KD 1.6bn deficit
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Defense praises Arifjan, Beuhring military chief
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BAGHDAD: First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah met with former Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki, and leader of the Iraqi National Wisdom Movement Ammar Al-Hakim on Monday. Following his participation in the International Drug Control Conference, Sheikh Fahad Al-Yusuf had friendly discussions with Al-Maliki and Al-Hakim which reflected the deep-rooted brotherly relations between the two nations. – KUNA photos
Kuwait affirms coordination to combat drug trafficking
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(Left) Mahmoud Al-Aloul, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Fatah, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Musa Abu Marzouk, senior member of Hamas, attend an event at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 23, 2024. - AFP photos
Palestinians to form unity govt