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Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah waves during the opening ceremony of the new legislative year at the National Assembly in Kuwait City, on October 29, 2019.
Amir opens Assembly term with call for unity, resolving Gulf row
Assembly delays grillings, elects Audit Bureau chief, panels Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah waves during the opening ceremony of the new legislative year at the National Assembly in Kuwait City, on October 29, 2019. KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday opened the new term of the National Assembly by calling for national unity in the face of explosive regional tensions and unrest, and also urged a...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Cabinet ministers and National Assembly members pose for a group picture. — Photos by Amiri Diwan and Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwaiti Prime Minister hails leadership's directives to advance reform, development
Kuwait conveyed Arab, Islamic concerns at UN Security Council: Sheikh Jaber KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Cabinet ministers and National Assembly members pose for a group picture. — Photos by Amiri Diwan and Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah praised the directives of His...
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Vigilant countries meet challenges with patience, wisdom: Kuwaiti Speaker
Ghanem laments 'calculated, organized attempts' to damage Kuwait's reputationKUWAIT: The State of Kuwait, like many vigilant countries, must meet challenges and conflicts with patience and wisdom, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday. Addressing the fourth ordinary session of the National Assembly's 15th legislative term, the Kuwaiti top lawmaker indicated that current conflicts in the region seemed to reach crescendo in...
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MPs demand probe in public property violations case
KUWAIT: MPs Abdullah Al-Kandari, Mubarak Al-Harees, Abdullah Fahhad Al-Enezi, Adel Al-Damkhi and Osama Al-Shaheen yesterday demanded forming a special parliamentary committee of five lawmakers to be selected by the parliament to investigate violations on public property committed by a company that had been utilizing lands owned by Kuwait Ports Authority over the past ten years, during which "no state officials acted to protect public funds nor...
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20% orthodontic patients in Kuwait above 20 years
KUWAIT: Consultant orthodontist Dr Rashed Al-Azmi revealed that 20 percent of orthodontic patients in Kuwait are above 20 years old. He said Kuwait comes first amongst GCC states in terms of the quality of dentistry services thanks to Kuwaiti dentists holding the highest degrees from the US and Europe and the use of the latest orthodontic technologies. Speaking at a special ceremony held on the occasion of opening Dazzle Dental Center with the...
KUWAIT: People lined up outside the Philippines’ embassy in Kuwait yesterday on the first day of an amnesty announced by the Interior Ministry for visa violators. —Photo by Ben Garcia
Philippine Embassy in dark over rules, guidelines on visit to work visa transfer
Agency owner warns of 'runaway maids' scenario a la UAEKUWAIT: The Philippine Embassy is in the dark about the rules and guidelines of a recent ministerial decision allowing transfer of visit visas to work visas in Kuwait. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an embassy source said they will wait until they are notified on the matter before issuing an official statement. "We do not have official notification as yet; there are gray areas to be...
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6,479 Kuwaiti educators resigned in 3 years
KUWAIT: Education Minister Hamid Al-Azmi said 6,479 Kuwaiti employees resigned from the education ministry during the past three years, adding that the rare specialty allowance given to Kuwaitis and Gulf nationals of both genders reached nearly KD 2.23 million. Azmi said in an answer to MP Khalil Al-Saleh that employees who resigned between 2016 and 2018 reached 6,479 (1,780 in 2016, 2,489 in 2017 and 2,210 in 2018). He said the numbers include...
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Co-ops close pharmacies in protest of new law
KUWAIT: Kuwait Union for Consumer Cooperative Societies Chairman Meshaal Al-Sayyar announced co-ops had closed their pharmacies in protest over the new pharmacies law, which they deem as marginalizing the role played by co-ops. The government had released a new law in recent weeks requiring that all pharmacies operating within the vicinity of co-op societies must be owned by Kuwaiti nationals before they could be licensed, leaving many pharmacies...
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Child molester arrested in Farwaniya
KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives arrested an Arab man accused of molesting an Arab girl, the interior ministry's relations and security information department said yesterday. Police received a call about a fight in Farwaniya, so detectives responded and found the caller was the girl's relative, who told them the suspect had molested the girl. The suspect was identified by the victim. Meanwhile, Mina Abdullah fire station responded to a call about a...
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Malak Al-Enezi wins bronze for shot put
Malak Al-Enezi KUWAIT: Kuwaiti player at the Kuwait Disabled Sports Club Malak Hadi Al-Enezi won the bronze medal of the shot put event of the Sixth Gulf Women Championship being held in Kuwait. Malak scored 4.04 meters, as Bahrain's Ruba Al-Omari was first with 7.42 meters, and her compatriot Bahrain's Amal Ahmad was second with 5.30 meters. Malak Hadi said she was happy with her first achievement in the name of her country Kuwait. She added...
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Bursting at the seams: Inside IS prison
Many of the prisoners are all skin and bonesHASAKEH PROVINCE: Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty - haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-tail cover every inch of floor space. An AFP team was given rare access to one of the crowded detention facilities in northeastern Syria where Kurdish forces are holding Islamic State group (IS) suspects. As a Turkish offensive launched against Kurdish...
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Hariri resigns as Lebanon crisis turns violent
BAABDA, Lebanon: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (right) hands President Michel Aoun his government's resignation at the Baabda presidential palace yesterday. – AFP BEIRUT: Saad Al-Hariri resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister yesterday, declaring he had hit a “dead end” in trying to resolve a crisis unleashed by huge protests against the ruling elite and plunging the country deeper into turmoil. The move by the leading Sunni...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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KUWAIT: Interior ministry officials have monitored and conducted several inspection campaigns across the country.
MoI continues crackdown on traffic, residency law violators
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HATHRAS, India: Mourners gather as the deceased who died in a stampede during a sermon are kept at a mortuary at Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024. -- AFP
‘Miracles’ and hope: Fatal stampede spotlights India’s craze for godmen
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Scholarship acceptance rates: By the numbers