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Watchdog refers health ministry official to prosecution
KUWAIT: Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) referred an assistant undersecretary at the Health Ministry to the public prosecution, the watchdog's official spokesman Dr Mohammad Buzubar said yesterday. Nazaha received information about an official and another person signing contracts by direct order without going through the usual procedures, that besides not obtaining approvals from the concerned supervisory authorities about the contracts...
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Four years since Kuwaiti businessman went missing in Romania, family remains hopeful
Kuwait exploring every possible effort to know his whereabouts This photo provided by Al-Baghli’s family shows Mohammad Al-Baghli (left) with his son Riyadh (right) and his granddaughter KUWAIT: Kuwaiti businessman Mohammad Al-Baghli has been missing in Romania for more than four years despite efforts by government and private institutions to know his whereabouts. Since his disappearance in a Romanian village on August 5, 2015, authorities in...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
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Attorney Fajer Ahmed I love Kuwait. I love it unconditionally. Kuwait is one of the first spaces, places, concepts, communities, etc that I felt that I was a part of and that I belonged to. Kuwait is the place that I wake up every morning, aspiring to inspire its communities. I aspire to inspire the people to be just, fair and loving. And because I love Kuwait and I feel that I belong to it, I want it to become the best that it can be. I believe...
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More than 400,000 diabetes patients in Kuwait, says doctor
KUWAIT: A group photo on the sidelines of the seminar. KUWAIT: Kuwait has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world with the number diabetics in the country ranging between 400,000 and 430,000, a Kuwaiti Endocrinologist said yesterday, adding that there is also a large number of people in Kuwait who are 'pre-diabetic' or at risk of becoming diabetic.Head of the Kuwait Diabetes Society Dr Waleed Al-Dhahi made that statement during a...
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Gardeners working near a road in Kuwait City
KUWAIT: Gardeners working near a road in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Khamenei tells Iran Guards 'to develop' advanced weapons
TEHRAN: A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (center) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (left) in the capital Tehran. - AFP DUBAI: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards yesterday to develop more advanced and modern weapons, amid increasingly tense disputes with the United States and Gulf Arab...
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26 dead as Hagibis slams Japan; Amir sends condolence
TOKYO: Tens of thousands of rescuers were working through the night to reach people feared trapped in Japan by landslides and floods caused by a powerful typhoon that killed at least 26, officials and local media said. Typhoon Hagibis moved away from land yesterday morning, but while it largely spared the capital it left a trail of destruction in surrounding regions. More than 100,000 rescuers - including 31,000 troops - were working through the...
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Trudeau in fight of his political life
'The Liberals' support is close to a historic low' QUEBEC: Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau arrives for a press conference after the Federal Leaders Debate at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau. —AFP OTTAWA: The gloves have come off as Justin Trudeau struggles to hold onto his parliamentary majority heading into the last week of a tight campaign before Canada's October 21 general election. The latest polls...
This picture taken on October 12, 2019 from Turkey near the town of Suruc shows a US observation post near the Syrian town of Kobani Kobane where the Pentagon said an explosion occurred “within a few hundred meters.” —AFP
Pentagon says up to 1,000 troops to withdraw from northern Syria
Fifth day of an offensive that has provoked an international outcryWASHINGTON: The Pentagon said yesterday President Donald Trump had ordered the withdrawal of up to 1,000 troops from northern Syria -- almost the entire ground force in war-torn country -- amid an intensifying Turkish assault on Kurdish forces. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the move came after the US learned that Turkey was pressing further into Syria than had been expected....
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Britain's Johnson pushes for last-ditch Brexit deal
They have very little time left to succeed LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson was to brief his ministers yesterday on progress in Britain's last-ditch efforts to strike a new Brexit agreement with the EU. Negotiators went behind closed doors for intensive talks in Brussels after Johnson outlined a new set of divorce terms to Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday. But they have very little time left to succeed. EU leaders will meet in...
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China's blacklisted AI firms: what you should know
BEIJING: The Chinese high-tech companies blacklisted by Washington over alleged ties to rights abuses are rising stars in China's ambitious drive to overtake the United States in the technology sector. They make surveillance cameras, facial recognition software and other technology that has become ubiquitous in Xinjiang, the heavily policed northwestern region where an estimated one million mostly Muslim minorities, like ethnic Uighurs, are held...
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Rakhine rebels abduct 31 after storming bus
YANGON: Suspected ethnic Rakhine rebels disguised as a sports team stormed a bus in rural Myanmar and took 31 hostages -- mostly off-duty firefighters and construction workers -- authorities said yesterday. The state-backed Global New Light of Myanmar said the bus -- travelling to the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe -- was flagged down by a man dressed in civilian attire before 18 rebels in sportswear emerged from the forest and ordered the...
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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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LONDON: Britain's incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria wave as they pose on the steps of 10 Downing Street on July 5, 2024. - AFP
‘Restless’ Starmer seeks ‘reset’, axes Rwanda scheme
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Row erupts over foreign scholarships
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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