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KUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem speaks during a National Assembly session yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Hashem calls to limit expats' stay in Kuwait to only 5 years
Lawmaker calls for deporting expats for traffic offensesKUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem, who has been campaigning against expatriates in Kuwait, yesterday called to limit expats' stay in the country to just five years that can be extended only once for a similar period. Any extension should be based on educational qualifications, she added. In a set of proposals filed yesterday, Hashem provided a long list of cases where expatriates should be deported...
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Kuwait rejects Israeli initiative "without even reviewing it"
KUWAIT: The Israeli initiative to sign a non-aggression agreement with GCC states that was recently proposed by Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz was passively received by GCC states, including Kuwait, which initially rejected receiving the initiative even through a third party, said high-ranking diplomatic sources. Notably, Katz had tweeted confirming the report, saying that the initiative is fully supported by the US, describing it as a...
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Ministry receives complaints from owners of shops closed to fight visa trafficking
Kuwaitis detained in Cyprus to return back home todayKUWAIT: Minister of State for Economic Affairs and head of the supreme committee to handle demographic imbalance Mariam Al-Aqeel issued resolution number 7/2019 on forming a special committee to follow up the complaints of owners of licenses issued to stores that were closed in a bid to fight visa trafficking. Aqeel stressed that the resolution aims at fighting visa trafficking and workers...
MECCA: Muslim worshippers watch as others circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca on August 17, 2018 prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city. — AFP
Umrah, hajj visas different from Saudi tourist passes
KUWAIT: Saudi Arabia has started issuing tourist visas for nationals of 49 countries at various airports, Batha land border with UAE and King Fahd bridge with Bahrain, said diplomatic sources, noting that both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are working on developing the Khafji-Nuwaiseeb and Riqee-Salmi land borders between them for the same purpose. The sources expected the development process to be concluded by the end of the year, which would give...
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Firemen battle huge Sulaibiya farm blaze
KUWAIT: A fire broke out in a 500 sq m warehouse at a Sulaibiya farm used for storing lumber, electrical appliances and heaters. Security sources said firemen from Sulaibikhat, Jleeb, Salmiya, Kuwait City and backup brigades rushed to the scene, where the blaze had extended 70 m outside the warehouse. Firemen managed to contain the flames and prevent the fire from spreading any further, before they controlled the fire without any casualties....
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Exploring Kuwait's hidden gem: The Arab Fund Building
Celebrating Arab artists and artisans Kuwait boasts a bevy of unique and beautiful landmarks, museums and interesting places to visit, though many of them are not well known. Among the most amazing of Kuwait's hidden gems is the beautiful Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) building, known locally as the Arab Fund building. Designed by local architectural firm Pace, the building was completed in 1994 at a cost of $150 million...
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At least 110 people killed in week of unrest
Iraq unrest hits volatile Sadr CityBAGHDAD: At least 15 people were killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and protesters overnight in Baghdad's Sadr City district as violence from a week-long nationwide uprising swept through the vast, poor swathe of the capital for the first time. At least 110 people have been killed across Iraq in the worst wave of violence since the defeat of Islamic State nearly two years ago, with protesters...
STOCKHOLM: The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (from left) Gregg Semenza of the US, Peter Ratcliffe of Britain and William Kaelin of the US appear on a screen during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute yesterday. - AFP n
Trio wins Nobel over how cells adapt to oxygen
STOCKHOLM: Three researchers from the US and Britain yesterday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how human cells sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels, opening up new strategies to fight common diseases such as cancer and anemia. William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza of the United States and Britain's Peter Ratcliffe split the nine million Swedish kronor ($914,000) award. While the fact that humans need oxygen to survive has been...
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Climate 'rebellion' sees mass arrests and blocked roads
NEW YORK: Climate protesters from Sydney to New York blocked roads yesterday, sparking mass arrests, as they started two weeks of civil disobedience demanding immediate action to save the Earth from "extinction". The demonstrations, triggered by the group Extinction Rebellion, were mostly limited to a few hundred people in each city, far from the size of last month's massive Greta Thunberg-inspired demonstrations. Protesters chained themselves to...
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Four members of Indian family drown trying to take selfie
NEW DELHI: A newly-married woman and three other family members were swept away and drowned while trying to take a selfie in a fast-flowing river in southern India, police said yesterday. The group of six were holding hands and standing in waist-deep water when one woman stepped into a sudden drop in the riverbed and slipped, pulling the others with her, a local police officer told AFP. The woman's husband managed to save one woman but the rest...
AL MANDHARIYAH: Photo shows the Khosrawi border crossing between Iraq and Iran, also known as the Munthriya border crossing, in the Diyala province of eastern Iraq, as Iranian pilgrims arrive on their way to the central Iraqi shrine city of Karbala ahead of the Arbaeen religious festival. —AFP
'Enemies seek to sow discord' between Iran, Iraq: Khamenei
Iran reopens Iraq border crossing shut amid unrestTEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "enemies" were trying to drive a wedge between Tehran and Baghdad in a tweet yesterday following deadly unrest in neighboring Iraq. "#Iran and #Iraq are two nations whose hearts & souls are tied together… This bond will grow stronger day by day," Khamenei was quoted as saying on his office's Twitter account. "Enemies seek to sow discord...
WAMENA: Indonesian military assist residents evacuated from Jayapura after they arrived at an airport in Wamena. Anger over racism against indigenous Papuans by residents from other parts of Indonesia has fuelled weeks of angry protests in the impoverished region. — AFP
Over 16,000 flee unrest in Papua
JAKARTA: More than 16,000 scared residents have fled an unrest-hit city in Indonesia's Papua region, the military said yesterday, as one of the deadliest eruptions of violence in years sparked calls for an independent probe. Several dozen people were killed when violence broke out in Wamena city last month, with some victims burned alive when buildings were ablaze, and others stabbed in the chaos, according to authorities. Since mid-August,...
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