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MP Saleh asks about delay in Zour contracts
KUWAIT: MP Khalil Al-Saleh, who has announced plans to grill Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair, yesterday sent him a number of questions on the reported delay in signing several contracts for the new Zour refinery. Saleh cited a report published in a local daily about Omair ordering Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) to delay signing the five contracts with international companies, which was supposed to take place in mid-October.The lawmaker asked if...
The Environment Public Authority (EPA) holding a meeting with KNPC officials. - KUNA
EPA, KNPC discuss Mina Al-Ahmadi gas leakage
The Environment Public Authority (EPA) holding a meeting with KNPC officials. - KUNAKUWAIT: The Environment Public Authority (EPA) said it is closely monitoring the investigation on the gas leakage from Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s Mina Al- Ahmadi refinery. In a press statement, EPA Director General Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said the authority members held a meeting with KNPC officials to weigh the measures taken - to...
Kuwait Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives Vice-President of the Romanian Intelligence Major General Silvio Berdoy. —KUNA
Interior Minister, Romanian security official discuss case of missing Kuwaiti
Kuwait Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives Vice-President of the Romanian Intelligence Major General Silvio Berdoy. —KUNAKUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday discussed with the Vice-President of the Romanian Intelligence Major General Silvio Berdoy the ways of bolstering cooperation and the latest developments over...
Education Minister Dr Bader Al-Essa, Ambassador to Japan Abdulrahman Al-Otaibi, Undersecretary Dr Hamed Al-Azemi pose for a group photo. —KUNA
Kuwait's minister urges use of safer alternative energy - Kuwait joins forum on innovation for climate change
Education Minister Dr Bader Al-Essa, Ambassador to Japan Abdulrahman Al-Otaibi, Undersecretary Dr Hamed Al-Azemi pose for a group photo. —KUNATOKYO: Kuwait's Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Bader Al-Essa yesterday urged the international community to strive for a world with a healthy environment, more sustainable and free from pollution. At the plenary session in the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) focusing on future...
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Kuwaiti workers make up 45% of total workforce
KUWAIT: All Kuwaiti workers don’t exceed 45 percent of the total workforce and 84 percent of them are employees in the government sector, Undersecretary of Ministry of State for Youth Affairs Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah said. In a seminar organized by the Center for the Gulf Arabian Peninsula Studies at the Kuwait University on “empowering youth and their role in educating society”, Sheikha Al-Zain said that ambitions and needs of the Kuwaiti...
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American arrested; illicit drugs, KD 72,000 seized
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested an American expat working at Camp Arifjan with 1,400 envelopes of the drug "chemical", in addition to KD 72,000 he made from sales. He confessed to receiving the drugs by courier at Camp Arifjan. He said he also manufactures the drug at home. In another development, DCGD busted a network selling imported liquor in Ahmadi, run by a Kuwaiti citizen and four Indians. They had 850 imported liquor bottles. The...
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3-mth-old baby dies at creche
KUWAIT: An Egyptian accused a nursery in Maidan Hawally of "killing his daughter unintentionally while there. Reemas is a 3 months old girl who was left at the nursery while her parents went to work, then when they returned, they were surprised by the girl's death. The father accused the nursery of negligence. The cause of the child's death and further details have not been made public. Detectives are working on the case.Furniture theft...
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Pledging Govt alliance
Any political bloc's exaggerations in reminding the government of previous political attitudes to have it 'return the favor', especially when such blocs are weak or attacked by other blocs, are politically unwise. They might even lead to further weakness and confusion for the concerned bloc, and may lead to further concessions if any government parties show any intention to help them. Norms suggest that the government befriends no one, and...
Undercover Israeli police officers and Israeli soldiers detain a wounded Palestinian demonstrator, being pulled up, during clashes. —AP
New unrest hits Israel, West Bank despite calls for calm
Undercover Israeli police officers and Israeli soldiers detain a wounded Palestinian demonstrator, being pulled up, during clashes. —APJERUSALEM: New violence rocked Israel and the West Bank yesterday, including a stabbing in annexed east Jerusalem, even as Israel and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas took steps to ease tensions. The knife attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, in which a Palestinian woman stabbed a Jewish man before being shot...
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Boko Haram suspected after 14 killed in Nigeria blasts
LAGOS: At least 14 people were killed in three separate suicide bomb attacks in northeast Nigeria yesterday, with suspicion falling on radical Islamist group Boko Haram after a string of similar strikes in recent months. The triple blasts in the Yobe state capital, Damaturu, came after the militants this week claimed to have carried out three suicide attacks near Abuja last Friday that left 18 dead. Damaturu has been repeatedly attacked during...
In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site, a Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea. — AP
Syria ground army launches offensive; Russia intensifies aerial, warship strikes
In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site, a Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea. — APBEIRUT: Heavy Russian aerial bombing and cruise missile strikes launched from warships in the Caspian Sea yesterday provided cover for a major Syrian army ground offensive in a coordinated attack on rebels. Amid a dramatic escalation in its air war over Syria, Moscow said it was ready...
President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting on immigration hosted by Telemundo and MSNBC, at Florida International University. — AP
US government deports fewest immigrants in nearly a decade
President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting on immigration hosted by Telemundo and MSNBC, at Florida International University. — APWASHINGTON: The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the past 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to internal figures obtained by The Associated Press as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton called Obama's deportation policies too harsh.Deportations of...
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