Ministry workers protest allowance suspension
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: A large number of Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) employees staged a sit-in on Monday to protest over the suspension of remote areas’ allowances some of them had been...
View ArticleState to increase borrowing from global markets
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Kuwait will increase its borrowing on international markets to plug a budget deficit resulting from low oil prices, the finance minister said yesterday. The move comes after the...
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Kuwaiti FM heads to Brussels for Syria’s future conference
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah leaves for Brussels yesterday. —KUNA KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and...
View ArticleDebate over revoked citizenships continues
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: A governmental committee discussing the issue of nationality revocations held its first meeting recently that was chaired by Amiri Diwan advisor Ali Al-Rashed. It agreed on the...
View ArticleKuwaiti warplane enters Iraqi airspace: Safwan authorities
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Iraqi authorities said a Kuwaiti military plane entered Iraqi airspace over Safwan in Basra governorate and broke the sound barrier, terrifying residents of the area. Safwan...
View ArticleKidnapper at large
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives are looking for an unidentified person who attempted to a kidnap a minor Syrian girl by after placing his hand on her mouth to prevent her from crying out for...
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Kuwaiti official stresses press freedom promotion events
Kuwait Times Chairman of the Federation of Arab Journalists Moayed Allami speaks during the event KUWAIT: A senior Kuwaiti media official underlined yesterday the significance of conferences and events...
View ArticleAllowance replaces vehicles for officials
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The board of directors of the Public Authority for Housing Welfare decided that it is necessary for the authority’s officials to hand over their vehicles by October as instructed...
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Fishermen still struggling; farmers reassured
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Fishermen pack up their gear at a Sharq harbor following a long day of work yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Despite the Cabinet’s decision to suspend closing Shamlan...
View ArticleMinister confirms MEW staff allowances will not be cut
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Minister of Electricity and Water and Minister of Oil Essam Al-Marzouq denied plans to deduct Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) employees’ allowances retroactively, and...
View Article240 expats involved in visa trafficking case
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: More than 200 expats discovered that they had entered Kuwait with visas registered on the file of a citizen’s farm whose estimated number of laborers needed was forged, so they...
View ArticleRajaan arrested
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: British authorities yesterday arrested the fugitive former director of Kuwait’s Public Institution for Social Security. Fahd Al-Rajaan’s arrest comes days after the Cabinet...
View ArticleMPs demand probe in KAC chief resignation
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Lawmakers yesterday strongly lashed out at the government’s handling of Kuwait Airways Company (KAC) after the resignation of its chairwoman and the appointment of a new board of...
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Kuwait-US military exercises at Shuwaikh Port
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Kuwait and US military forces held drills at Shuwaikh Port yesterday as part of the joint US-GCC annual military exercises, Eagle Resolve. More than 3,000 military personnel from...
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A parliament of owls in Kuwait
Kuwait Times The Q8 Owl Group is the first its kind in Kuwait and the region. The Q8 Owl Group Breeding or keeping owls as pets is a new phenomenon in Kuwait, although wild owls can be found in the...
View ArticleFire Service seals Salmiya hotel over safety concern
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Service Directorate yesterday sealed a hotel in Salmiya apparently over fire safety concerns. Deputy Director General for Prevention Sector Affairs Brig Khalid Abdallah...
View ArticleWitness turns culprit after court turmoil
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: A citizen who went to a police station to testify as a witness, turned a culprit when she verbally insulted an officer and pushed another before leaving the station. Police...
View ArticleMore than 1m people in Kuwait depressed
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health reported that from 5 percent to 9 percent of people in Kuwait suffer from depression with the number of those affected, by variant degrees of the illness,...
View ArticleSporadic rains
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: There is a chance for sporadic rain today in Kuwait due to the presence of a low-pressure wind in the country’s atmosphere, said Abdulaziz Al-Qarawi, an official at the Kuwait...
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Al-Shuaiba town – historical area fondly remembered by Kuwaitis
Kuwait Times A cultural club in Shuaiba town in 1966 KUWAIT: Reminiscing about the past is a unique trait that human beings share as a specie and this process is especially true when it comes to places...
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