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Young Kuwaiti murders Sri Lankan maid
Kuwait: A Sri Lankan maid in Ali Sabah Al-Salem was killed by the son of her sponsor. He told police that his 28 year old son killed her then escaped. Police were looking for the suspect and he was arrested two hours after the crime. He is being questioned about his motives. Illicit tablets gone nuts Airport customs officers found 7000 illicit tablets with an Asian who attempted to smuggle them in nuts bags. He was sent to concerned authorities....
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Eight Romanian women arrested for illegal sexual activities
KUWAIT: Vice police arrested eight Romanian women and a homosexual who came into Kuwait and began illegal sexual activities. According to sources, each woman was charging KD 200 per hour. They confessed that clients were to fill an electronic form and provide a picture of themselves and they would gets an answer within 48 hours. Information about the Romanians and their activities was received by the Vice and Human Traffic Department Director Lt...
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Two Fingerprint forgers arrested
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested two guards at the ministry of electricity and water, while 37 citizens were sent to the public prosecution for forgery. Two Arabs had agreed with employees, all Kuwaitis, to make fingerprints for them in exchange of KD 15 per month. The fingerprints were made in South East Asia.
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Massive weapon stockpile discovered on the border
KUWAIT: Following the capture of 60 shotguns with two Iraqis at Jraishan border crossing, weapons detectives were able to reach a bedoon who was located around the border area. His house was raided and ammunition was found there. He said that he is used to smuggling weapons, and did it three times during October, with another suspect who is still at large. He said they go to the ranch of a citizen in the Liyah area, and transfer the weapons to...
Unreliable ferry service, lack of facilities and a mostly abandoned island leave little to do on one of Kuwait’s (former) gems
A disappointing trip to Failaka
Unreliable ferry service, lack of facilities and a mostly abandoned island leave little to do on one of Kuwait’s (former) gems KUWAIT: It's been 25 years since the residents of Failaka, the only inhabited Kuwaiti island were forced to move onto the mainland. The idea, back then, was that the island would be developed and serve as a major tourist destination for Kuwait and the region. More than two and half decades later it stands mostly...
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Oil barrels turn into art promoting peace
KUWAIT: Graffiti art is no longer restricted on the walls but has gone a little further ahead to include empty oil barrels to carry an artistic message of peace. This magnificent effort was made possible by a group of fine arts youths and children gathered by ‘LOYAC’. A nonprofit organization, LOYAC works towards the overall development of youth in order to spread artistic culture and community awareness of the role of art in the peace...
Curator Waleed Shaalan, second to the right, briefing visiting media at the Kuwait pavilion with designers Osama Hadeed, Liane Al-Ghusain and Abdulaziz Al-Kandary.
Child's Play - In the race for our future we should not neglect our past: Waleed Shaalan
Curator Waleed Shaalan, second to the right, briefing visiting media at the Kuwait pavilion with designers Osama Hadeed, Liane Al-Ghusain and Abdulaziz Al-Kandary. Kuwait recently took part in the Dubai Design Week expo - showcasing Kuwait's creativity and design talent through one of the Abwab Pavilions. The pavilion, a unique creative concept created with an exterior made from the abundance of Middle Eastern sand which served as natural...
Nina Lushchenko’s nephew Pavel and daughter Veronika react at her grave, after her funeral at a cemetery in the village of Sitnya, 80 km (about 50 miles) of Veliky Novgorod, yesterday.—AP
Cameron: Bomb 'more likely than not' caused plane crash - Egypt denies security lapses at airports
Nina Lushchenko’s nephew Pavel and daughter Veronika react at her grave, after her funeral at a cemetery in the village of Sitnya, 80 km (about 50 miles) of Veliky Novgorod, yesterday.—AP LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron declared yesterday it was "more likely than not" that a bomb brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers - a scenario that officials from Russia and Egypt have tried to dismiss as premature...
A file picture shows the French Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier sailing off the Libyan coast, during the Harmattan operation, the codename for the 2011 French military intervention in Libya. —AFP
France to deploy aircraft carrier in Gulf - Syrian rebels seize town in west in blow to regime
A file picture shows the French Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier sailing off the Libyan coast, during the Harmattan operation, the codename for the 2011 French military intervention in Libya. —AFP PARIS: The French presidency yesterday said it would deploy its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to boost its operations against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The presence of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the flagship...
ARSAL: A general view of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border. A bomb exploded in the Lebanese town of Arsal yesterday, killing and wounding several people including clerics who were holding a meeting at the time, security officials and state media said. — AP
Suicide bomber kills 5 on Lebanon border with Syria - Blast targets Syrian clerics
ARSAL: A general view of Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border. A bomb exploded in the Lebanese town of Arsal yesterday, killing and wounding several people including clerics who were holding a meeting at the time, security officials and state media said. — AP BEIRUT: A bomb exploded in a Lebanese town near the Syria border yesterday, killing and wounding several people including clerics who were holding a...
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
Syrian Americans push to allow refugee havens in US homes
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 NEW YORK: S yrian-American Lina Sergie Attar, a mother of two, has a spare bedroom in her suburban Chicago home, which she would like to use to host a Syrian refugee family. But like many Syrian-Americans willing to pay...
ANTIOCH, IL: A tribute to Fox Lake, Illinois police officer Lt Joe Gliniewicz remains outside a home in Antioch, Illinois. — AP
Illinois village shocked, over news about officer - Employees pull down white ribbons
ANTIOCH, IL: A tribute to Fox Lake, Illinois police officer Lt Joe Gliniewicz remains outside a home in Antioch, Illinois. — AP FOX LAKE, Ill: Public works employees were pulling down the blue ribbons that residents had tied to trees and poles as a tribute to their slain hero. Signs around the small town that had praised the cop known as "GI Joe" suddenly disappeared, replaced in one case by another that labeled him "GI Joke." The friends...
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22,000 obtain exit permit as rule takes effect from July 1
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KAFR MALIK: Palestinian mourners attend the funeral of three people killed the previous day in Kafr Malik in the Zionist occupied West Bank.-- AFP
6 Zionists held for attacking soldiers in West Bank
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BEIJING: Officials are seen in a group photo at the the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's (AIIB) 10th annual meeting, held in Beijing from June 24 to 26, 2025.
AIIB membership opens new financing path for Kuwait
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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah and Acting Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Ali Al-Adwani visit husseiniyas to review security plans on June 27, 2025. - KUNA
Robust security plan for husseiniyas
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PILTON: Mo Chara and Moglai Bap of Irish rap band Kneecap perform on the fourth day of the Glastonbury festival on June 28, 2025. - AFP
Kneecap perform at Glastonbury despite ban calls