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Bedoon threatens to commit suicide
KUWAIT: Education ministry security officers and policemen yesterday managed to prevent a bedoon from committing suicide by jumping from the first floor of MoE's headquarters in South Surra. A number of ministry employees said the man threatened to kill himself unless his children were registered in schools, despite the expiry of his security card. Fire at MoH office The health ministry announced a minor fire had broken out at its health office...
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Kuwait Airways receives five star rating from APEX
KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways Company announced it was granted a five star rating from the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) for 2019. The rating covers neutral point of views for clients, said the company in a press statement yesterday. It added that passengers on over one million flights rated about 600 international aviation companies from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. Among the evaluation's categories are food and drink quality, Wi-Fi...
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Exploring Bait Al Othman
Bait Al-Othman Museum located in hawally is one of the most fascinating local museums in kuwiat. The museum's collection covers a wide array of Kuwait's history as well as other aspects of life. It was inaugurated in April 2013 and focused primarily on the history and culture of pre-oil Kuwait. There are military tanks and other vehicles, memorabilia from pre-oil days including movie posters, soda bottles, documents, books, Kuwait Airways...
Muna Al-Fuzai
Kuwait is NOT the worst place for expats
Muna Al-Fuzai The InterNations annual Expat Insider index for 2019 ranked Kuwait as the worst destination for expatriates for the second year in a row. The list saw Kuwait occupying the bottom spot after Italy, Nigeria, Brazil, Turkey, India, United Kingdom, Greece, Russia and South Korea. Actually, aside from Kuwait, I have lived in some of these countries as an Arab expat and those were the best times of my life, so I personally can't...
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Saved! Our history and the ice skating rink
Nawara Fattahova In April, reports about shutting down and demolishing the Ice Skating Rink spread in Kuwait. Officials didn't provide exact information on the expected date of the closure, and even the staff working at the rink were unsure about it. I felt sad, and thousands other fans of the rink were also despondent. So I tried to go skating as much as I could to exploit the remaining time to the maximum. But this week I was very happy to...
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‘Rebel’ Saudi women shun abaya robe
Trend underscores bold push for social liberties by young Saudis RIYADH: Saudi human resources professional Mashael al-Jaloud, 33, walks in western clothes past women wearing niqab, an Islamic dress-code for women, at a commercial area in the Saudi capital Riyadh. — AFP RIYADH: Her high heels clacking on marble tiles, a defiant Saudi woman turned heads and drew gasps as she strutted through a Riyadh mall-without a body-shrouding abaya. The...
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Jihadists kill 9 Nigerian troops
KANO, Nigeria: At least nine Nigerian soldiers were killed and 27 are missing after IS-affiliated jihadists ambushed a military convoy in the country's restive northeast, two military sources have told AFP. Jihadist fighters assaulted the convoy with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades as it was en route to the town of Gudumbali in Borno state on Monday, the sources said. Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), which is...
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Johnson vows UK will be ready for no-deal Brexit
Documents paint grim picture of possible public disorder LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday Britain will be ready for a no-deal Brexit on October 31 despite his own government's assessment warning that planning remained "at a low level". Johnson insisted the government had been "massively accelerating" its preparations for leaving the European Union without an agreement since the August 2 report, which was disclosed on Wednesday...
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US to ban flavored vaping products as lung disease cases surge
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's administration announced Wednesday it would soon ban flavored e-cigarette products to stem a rising tide of youth users, following a spike in vaping-linked deaths. The move could later be extended to an outright prohibition of vaping if adolescents migrate to tobacco flavors, seen as more legitimate products that help smokers quit their habit. Addressing reporters at the White House, the president said that...
TEXAS: In this file photo tents are seen at a temporary holding facility for migrants that has been in use since early May, to hold the record numbers of migrants entering the El Paso border sector, in El Paso, Texas. —AFP
In victory for Trump, top US court permits asylum restrictions
Democrats say ruling puts people's lives at riskWASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to implement asylum restrictions that prevent most Central American migrants from applying at the US border. Democrats said the ruling puts people's lives at risk. The decision-temporarily in effect while lower court proceedings play out-is a victory for Trump's restrictive immigration policies, which he...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 19, 2017 Rohingya refugees who were stranded walk near the no man's land area between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Palongkhali area next to Ukhia. - Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp on August 25, 2019 to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP)
Bangladesh PM blames Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation failure
DHAKA: Bangladesh's prime minister has blamed Myanmar for the failure of a recent attempt to repatriate Rohingya refugees, saying its neighboring country did not do enough to win the community's trust. The comments from Sheikh Hasina came three weeks after a fresh push to return the Muslim minority to Myanmar's conflict-scarred Rakhine state that fell flat when no-one turned up. Some 740,000 Rohingya fled their villages in Rakhine following a...
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Turkish families seek answers over relatives' disappearances
Disappeared men accused of having ties with terrorist organizations ANKARA: Sumeyye Yilmaz speaks to AFP in her home in Ankara about how she believes her husband, Mustafa Yilmaz, has been abducted and fears he may be being tortured.-AFP ANKARA: After 100 days behind bars over accusations of belonging to a Turkish "terrorist organization", Mustafa Yilmaz was relieved to be back with his wife and daughter and allowed to return to work. But his...
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HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrives in Scotland on the personal invitation of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland on Jan 14, 2025. - Amiri Diwn photos
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Britain's King Charles III (L) welcomes Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, during an audience at Buckingham Palace, in London, on October 25, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt / POOL / AFP)
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Amir departs to the UK at personal invitation of King Charles III