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Companies complain against Sulaibiya fish farms
KUWAIT: Several fish companies have complained against officials at the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources for not implementing the law on violating fish farming companies in Sulaibiya agricultural area, attempting to find a loophole for them and delaying the reclamation of fishing areas. The complaint was filed at the Public Anticorruption Authority. The department concerned with the allocated areas has sent more than...
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Domestic help offices challenge law in court
KUWAIT: A lawyer has claimed that some items of law 68/2015 regarding domestic helpers are unconstitutional, adding that there are many defects in the law, and filed a case at the constitutional court. Faisal Al-Enezi was speaking during the 'domestic help' conference in the presence of a large number of domestic help office owners. He said there are several items in the law that will harm office owners and take away their rights.Enezi went over...
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14 arrested for e-crimes in Kuwait for indecent videos on YouTube
KUWAIT: After an Iraqi born resident was arrested for uploading videos with indecent words to YouTube, e-crime detectives have now arrested an additional 14 others, the majority of whom are citizens. All have been detained in connection with the same videos after being named by the prime suspect, who appeared on the videos encouraging young people to abuse drugs and compete in exchanging rap-like insults using very indecent words and...
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Wars will not terminate IS
The Western press has recently reflected Western leaders' general tendency to wage a complete war against the Islamic State (IS) group in retaliation for the recent Paris blasts that I hope nobody would immediately describe as the 'Paris Foray' the way they did with 'Manhattan Foray'. There are strong calls by rightist powers, such as the Republican party in the US, for immediate land military offensives in Syria after creating a no-fly zone to...
PARIS: Forensics officers of the French police search for evidence outside a building in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis yesterday, where French police special forces raided an apartment, in which at least two militants were killed and seven arrested. - AFP n
Two killed in fierce Paris police raid
PARIS: Forensics officers of the French police search for evidence outside a building in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis yesterday, where French police special forces raided an apartment, in which at least two militants were killed and seven arrested. - AFPPARIS: A woman blew herself up and a suspected jihadist was killed yesterday in a massive police assault in Paris targeting the possible mastermind of France's worst-ever terror attacks....
An undated picture shows a picture of an explosive, apparently contained in a soda can, used to bring down a Russian airliner. - AP n
Group says 'Schweppes bomb' downed Russian plane - IS executes Chinese, Norwegian hostages
An undated picture shows a picture of an explosive, apparently contained in a soda can, used to bring down a Russian airliner. - APCAIRO: Islamic State said in the latest edition of its English language magazine yesterday that it had killed a Chinese and a Norwegian captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men under a banner reading "Executed". "We condemn the killing," Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said, while adding...
This image from evidence gathered by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service during its investigation of Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Darren Yazzie shows a message written by his victim on a bedroom wall. Yazzie was convicted in Jan 2015 of rape of a child and sentenced to 17 years confinement. —AP
US military shields child sex cases - Military justice system opaque
This image from evidence gathered by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service during its investigation of Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Darren Yazzie shows a message written by his victim on a bedroom wall. Yazzie was convicted in Jan 2015 of rape of a child and sentenced to 17 years confinement. —APWASHINGTON: Child sex offenders are the largest category of inmates in US military prisons, yet a full accounting of their crimes and how much time...
SOUTH MERIDEN, Connecticut: A member of the Ahmadiyya community of Connecticut walks past the Baitul Aman mosque, where police and the FBI had been investigating reports of multiple gunshots fired at the mosque during the weekend. — AP
US Muslims facing backlash after Paris -  Islamophobia on the rise
SOUTH MERIDEN, Connecticut: A member of the Ahmadiyya community of Connecticut walks past the Baitul Aman mosque, where police and the FBI had been investigating reports of multiple gunshots fired at the mosque during the weekend. — APHARTFORD, Connecticut: Muslims around the US are facing backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including vandalism to mosques and Islamic centers, hate-filled phone and online messages and threats of...
FLORENCE, South Carolina: Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov Jeb Bush, speaks during a campaign stop Tuesday. Bush called the struggle against the Islamic State group “the war of our time”. — AP
Bush to keep Gitmo jail open if elected
FLORENCE, South Carolina: Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov Jeb Bush, speaks during a campaign stop Tuesday. Bush called the struggle against the Islamic State group “the war of our time”. — APCHARLESTON, South Carolina: Republican Jeb Bush was to pledge yesterday that if elected president next year he will keep open the disputed US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as long as the fight against Islamic militants...
HALIFAX: Air France Flight 55 taxis to the terminal at Halifax Stanfield International Airport yesterday. The flight was on its way from Washington, DC to Paris when it made an emergency landing in Halifax after the airline received anonymous threats. — AP
Air France flights to Paris diverted over bomb scare - Airline receives anonymous bomb threats
HALIFAX: Air France Flight 55 taxis to the terminal at Halifax Stanfield International Airport yesterday. The flight was on its way from Washington, DC to Paris when it made an emergency landing in Halifax after the airline received anonymous threats. — APLOS ANGELES: Two Paris-bound Air France flights from the United States were diverted Tuesday and landed safely after the airline received anonymous bomb threats, the carrier said. Flight 65...
CESME: A group of refugees, led by Turkish police, are escorted to buses in place of sailing to the Greek island of Chios via raft, at a beach in the western Turkish coastal town of Cesme, in Izmir province, yesterday.—AFP
Turkey detains 8 Europe-bound IS suspects 'posing as refugees' - British 'terror sponsors' held in Hungary
ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained eight suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist (IS) group, state media said yesterday, adding they were planning to sneak into Europe posing as refugees. Counter-terror police detained the suspects in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport after they flew in from the Moroccan city of Casablanca on Tuesday, the official Anatolia news agency reported.The police found a hand-written note on one of the suspects detailing...
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Religious sisters pose as prostitutes to save sex slaves
LONDON: An army of religious sisters who rescue victims of human trafficking by posing as prostitutes to infiltrate brothels and buying children being sold into slavery, is expanding to 140 countries, its chairman said yesterday. John Studzinski, an investment banker and philanthropist who chairs Talitha Kum, said the network of 1,100 sisters currently operates in about 80 countries but the demand for efforts to combat trafficking and slavery was...
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani poses with ministers and delegates from the region, including Kuwaiti Deputy PM and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah, attending an anti-drug trafficking conference on July 22, 2024. - AFP
Iraq becoming major drug conduit
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Inner seasons of a woman
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Defense praises Arifjan, Beuhring military chief
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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
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Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Higher Education, Lamia Al-Melhem holds talks with the Omani Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation, Dr Rahma Al-Mahruqiya. - KUNA
Kuwait, Oman discuss education, research