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Experts advise patience on Greek properties despite low prices
KUWAIT: Greece appears lucrative for realty investors nowadays in shadow of declining plots' prices. However, such a venture in the local market is shrouded with multiple risks considering the ailing economy.Practically, external businessmen have been given the green-light to take advantage of the declining prices in the real-estate sector, also being encouraged with prospected decisions by the government to lower taxes and facilitate...
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KOC launches 3D exploratory survey project at Kuwait Bay
KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) announced yesterday the start of the 3D exploratory survey project in Kuwait Bay near the city of Al-Jahra in cooperation with China National Petroleum Corporation (BGP).It is one of the largest three-dimensional surveys projects in the world and part of the company's strategy for 2030 aimed to produce 65.3 million barrels of oil a day by 2020, and maintain it until 2030, Executive vice president for exploration...
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E-signature enables access to justice ministry services
KUWAIT: Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Yaqoub Al-Sane affirmed yesterday that an electronic signature (e-signature) system would facilitate access to the ministry's services as well as enabling employees and lawyers to complete most transactions online. In a press statement after initiating the e-signature system, Sane said that the country's legal system would stand to benefit from such a process.Meanwhile,...
A picture taken on August 10, 2015, shows smoke billowing following a reported attack on a tunnel used by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the village of Foua, in the northwestern province of Idlib. AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR
Nusra leaves Turkey buffer zone - Insurgents escalate attack on govt-held Foua
A picture taken on August 10, 2015, shows smoke billowing following a reported attack on a tunnel used by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the village of Foua, in the northwestern province of Idlib. AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOURBEIRUT: The Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front says it has quit frontline positions against Islamic State north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to set up a...
A general view shows different forms of transport on a road in Cairo, on August 10, 2015 as soaring temperatures and humidity hit the Egyptian capital and other parts of the country. Twenty-one people have died and 66 others were hospitalised with exhaustion due to the rise in temperature. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED
21 dead as temperatures soar in Egypt heat wave - Blast near Cairo court wounds 3 policemen
A general view shows different forms of transport on a road in Cairo, on August 10, 2015 as soaring temperatures and humidity hit the Egyptian capital and other parts of the country. Twenty-one people have died and 66 others were hospitalised with exhaustion due to the rise in temperature. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHEDCAIRO: Twenty-one people have died and 66 others were hospitalised with exhaustion as soaring temperatures and high humidity hit...
Pakistani rights activists carry placards as they shout slogans during a protest against a child sex abuse scandal in Islamabad on August 10, 2015. Pakistani police on August 10 arrested five more people over a major child sex abuse scandal after a lawyer for the victims accused them of protecting the culprits and activists warned the case was just the tip of the iceberg. At least 280 children were filmed being sexually abused by a gang of 25 men who used the hundreds of videos they produced to blackmail the youngsters' parents, according to Latif Ahmed Sara, a lawyer and activist representing the victims. AFP PHOTO / Aamir QURESHI
More arrests in Pakistan child sex abuse scandal - 280 children were filmed being sexually abused
Pakistani rights activists carry placards as they shout slogans during a protest against a child sex abuse scandal in Islamabad on August 10, 2015. Pakistani police on August 10 arrested five more people over a major child sex abuse scandal after a lawyer for the victims accused them of protecting the culprits and activists warned the case was just the tip of the iceberg. At least 280 children were filmed being sexually abused by a gang of 25...
This picture taken on August 9, 2015 shows anti-nuclear protesters holding a rally against the restart of a nuclear reactor in front of the Kyushu Electric Power Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Japan is set to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor for the first time in two years on August 11, 2015, the operator said, as anti-atomic sentiment still runs high following the 2011 Fukushima crisis. JAPAN OUT AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS
Japan to restart first reactor under new rules since crisis - Japan's 43 operable reactors are currently offline
This picture taken on August 9, 2015 shows anti-nuclear protesters holding a rally against the restart of a nuclear reactor in front of the Kyushu Electric Power Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Japan is set to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor for the first time in two years on August 11, 2015, the operator said, as anti-atomic sentiment still runs high following the...
FERGUSON, MO - AUGUST 09: Police stand over a man with gunshot wounds lying in a parking lot after a shoot out with police along West Florissant Street during a demonstration to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown on August 9, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooter is listed in critical condition in an area hospital. Michael Brown's death sparked months of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and drew nationwide focus on police treatment of black offenders. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Peaceful rallies in Ferguson give way to violence, gunfire
FERGUSON, MO - AUGUST 09: Police stand over a man with gunshot wounds lying in a parking lot after a shoot out with police along West Florissant Street during a demonstration to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown on August 9, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooter is listed in critical condition in an area hospital. Michael Brown's death sparked months of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and drew nationwide...
A man reads a newspaper hunging in front of a shop in Bamako on August 10, 2015. A jihadist group is strongly suspected of carrying out the siege on the Hotel Byblos which began early on August 7 and that ended with the deaths of at least 12 people including five UN workers, a security source said on August 9. AFP PHOTO / HABIBOU KOUYATE
Phone numbers, addresses point to 'jihadist link' to Mali hotel siege
A man reads a newspaper hunging in front of a shop in Bamako on August 10, 2015. A jihadist group is strongly suspected of carrying out the siege on the Hotel Byblos which began early on August 7 and that ended with the deaths of at least 12 people including five UN workers, a security source said on August 9. AFP PHOTO / HABIBOU KOUYATEBAMAKO: Telephone numbers and addresses found on the bodies of four "terrorists" killed in a deadly hotel...
Iraqis take part in a demonstration in support of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's reform plan at the Tahrir Square in the capital Baghdad on August 9, 2015. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed scrapping top government posts and privileges in an ambitious reform drive sparked by swelling popular anger over corruption and poor governance. AFP PHOTO / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI
Iraq rolls out sweeping reforms after protests - Abadi seeks to abolish posts of vice president, deputy PM
Iraqis take part in a demonstration in support of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's reform plan at the Tahrir Square in the capital Baghdad on August 9, 2015. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed scrapping top government posts and privileges in an ambitious reform drive sparked by swelling popular anger over corruption and poor governance. AFP PHOTO / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALIBAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi proposed...
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Man kills son, dumps body
KUWAIT: The body of a citizen was found in the desert in Umm Al-Haiman yesterday, and investigations revealed the man was killed by his father. The department of relations and security information at the Interior Ministry said Ahmadi criminal detectives confronted the suspect with evidence over his involvement in killing his son, and he confessed to committing the crime. The father said that his son was threatening him, and one day the son came...
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Unusual heat wave hits Kuwait, Middle East
KUWAIT: Kuwait is currently being affected by an unusual heat wave and record high temperatures. During the past few days, temperatures in Kuwait City recorded between 47-49 degrees Celsius, while other monitoring stations recorded unusual temperatures between 50-52 degrees Celsius northwest of Kuwait. A heat wave has engulfed much of the Middle East, sending temperatures and humidity soaring throughout the region.In the city of Basra in southern...
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