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Al-Hajri campaign for oil sector workers' rights
KUWAIT: Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) employees' syndicate's secretary general Nasser Abdullah Al-Hajri said "history would never forget those who do not protect oil sector workers' rights", adding one cannot keep silent about the current situation. Expressing absolute rejection of applying the strategic salary alternative project on oil sector employees, Hajri called for exempting both current and future oil sector employees from being...
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Panel to refer investment suspicions to prosecution - Court defers Abdaly cell trial to Nov 3
KUWAIT: A National Assembly panel probing suspected violations and graft at the Kuwait Investment Office in London and other investment offices overseas is expected to recommend to refer the case to the public prosecution, rapporteur of the panel MP Madhi Al-Hajeri said yesterday. Hajeri was speaking after the committee held a meeting yesterday with the head of the government legal office and following a visit by the committee members to London...
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New e-media 'bill guarantees rights' - Our goal is the national interest: Sheikh Salman
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah said a new draft law would organize e-media, but regretted current laws failed to license e-media. He was speaking in a seminar on Tuesday night about a bill prepared by the Ministry of Information for the regulation of e-media. The seminar is co-organized by the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) and Kuwait Journalists...
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Kuwait fire department ready for torrential rain
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) has taken all necessary precautions to cope with incidents that may happen due to possible torrential rains and floods, an official of the department said yesterday.Brig Gen Mohammad Al-Mahmeed, the acting deputy director general for fight sector affairs, said in a statement that the firemen were ready to deal with any emergency round the clock. Special equipment, such as water sucking pumps and...
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‘No room for mistakes’, Sheikh Al-Khaled warns
KUWAIT: No room for mistakes and law must be abided by without complacency, stressed Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Sabah late on Tuesday.His remarks came after touring a number of Husseiniyas (congregation halls for Shia commemoration ceremonies) and visiting the ‘decisionmaking’ room of the Interior Ministry earlier.Accompanying Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled was Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahad...
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Dolphins found in water tank at power station
KUWAIT: Three dolphins were found in one of the water tanks at the Subiya power station and the Kuwait dive team is monitoring the situation, said an official yesterday.Team official Mahmoud Ashkanani said that the team was working with personnel at the power station to make sure that the dolphins were safe.The two sides are also working together to prevent any damage to the facility, he said. A monitoring report on the activities of the dolphins...
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Court summons coroners in terrorist cell case hearing
KUWAIT: The high court's criminal circuit cross-examination into the terrorist cell case, involving 26 suspects, resumed yesterday with the court summoning coroners to listen to their testimonies. The court had summoned, during the previous session held on October 13th, the ballistics officer who testified to the presiding judges. On October 6th, it listened to the criminal inspection officer in a closed-door session.On October 4th, the court...
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Egyptian jailed for insulting Amir
KUWAIT: The prosecution decided to jail an Egyptian in a state security offense and insulting the Amir on twitter. A security source said state security detectives arrested an Egyptian who made insulting tweets to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah and the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah. The man also reportedly publishing photos of executed Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussain, hurting the feelings of Kuwaiti...
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Drunk man arrested
KUWAIT: A drunk man decided to have a tipple in his neighbor's garden, who saw him and called the police. Ahmadi patrolmen went and arrested him with a bottle of liquor, and took him to the police station.Forging signatureA citizen accused one of his employees of forging his signature on a work permit transaction in favor of a compatriot. A security source said the citizen told Saad Al-Abdullah police that an Egyptian working for him forged his...
A man sits with a young girl wrapped in a blanket on the shore after arriving with other refugees and migrants on the Greek island
Flying on a fake ID: Refugees' path less travelled to Europe - Crisis creates massive demand for fake IDs
A man sits with a young girl wrapped in a blanket on the shore after arriving with other refugees and migrants on the Greek islandPARIS: Ali, a Palestinian-Syrian banker desperate to reach the Netherlands, had to hide his surprise when he finally met a shadowy forger known as "The Whale" at an Arab-style shisha cafe near Athens. "It turns out the guy I'd been speaking to, who sounded so big and scary on the phone, was actually tiny," said...
A handout picture released by International Rescue Committee on August 14, 2014, and taken on August 13, 2014 shows Iraqi Yazidi refugees at Newroz camp in Al-Hassakah province, north eastern Syria, being cared for by the International Rescue Committee, after fleeing Islamic State militants. — AFP
Nazi researchers' probe IS over Yazidi 'genocide'
A handout picture released by International Rescue Committee on August 14, 2014, and taken on August 13, 2014 shows Iraqi Yazidi refugees at Newroz camp in Al-Hassakah province, north eastern Syria, being cared for by the International Rescue Committee, after fleeing Islamic State militants. — AFPBERLIN: A group that documented Nazi war crimes is now investigating whether massacres committed by Islamic State jihadists against Iraq's Yazidi...
A Syrian man carries a bicycle amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held area. —AFP
Islamic State not alone in looting Syria cultural heritage
A Syrian man carries a bicycle amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held area. —AFPNEW YORK: The Islamic State group may dominate headlines about the destruction of heritage sites in Syria, but it is far from the only culprit, new US research warned yesterday. The Syrian regime, Kurdishand other opposition forces are also major players in the destruction, according to...
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KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Sheikh Salem Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah chairs a meeting of the Supreme Traffic Council on July 21, 2024. - KUNA
Smooth flow traffic eyed
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HODEIDA: This handout satellite image shows a view of burning oil tanks in the port of Yemen’s Houthi-held city of Hodeida on July 21, 2024, a day after Zionist airstrikes. - AFP
Kuwait expresses concern as Zionists attack Yemen
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