Weekend forecast: Cloudy with a chance of rain
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Astronomer Adel Al-Saadoun said today’s weather will be stable and that it would be cloudy during the weekend with a chance of scattered rain. Saadoun added that temperatures...
View ArticleDetectives get more powers –‘Mandoubs’ renamed
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Director General of the Investigations Department Major General Fahd Al-Dousari gave directors of investigations authorities that were previously limited to the director general...
View ArticleOil up as Kuwait revives hope for output freeze
Kuwait Times SINGAPORE/MANAMA: Oil prices climbed in Asia yesterday after Kuwait said an agreement to freeze output during a producers’ meeting this month could still be reached despite conflicting...
View ArticlePanel rejects govt power tariffs, approves its own; New charges for buildings...
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s financial and economic affairs committee yesterday rejected a government draft bill to raise power charges and approved a much milder one made by the...
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The dying art of shoemaking in Kuwait
Kuwait Times You are hit by the strong smell of leather and dyes and sounds of wiping, polishing and sewing machines all working all at the same time when you enter the small shoe repair shop. Everyone...
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‘Mad World’ after ‘Man’s World’
Kuwait Times Artist Shurooq Amin There is a difference between an artist creating an arbitrary stir and a controversial artist. Kuwaiti artist Shurooq Amin is definitely someone who provokes society,...
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‘Day laborers’ fulfill market demand despite the law
Kuwait Times At six in the morning you’ll find them sitting on street curbs in Bneid Al Gar, Hawally, Salmiya, Farwaniya, Shuwaikh and areas of Kuwait. They gather around and wait until a vehicle pulls...
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A visit to one of Kuwait’s ‘Ghost Houses’
Kuwait Times Some people believe in ghosts or super natural spirits, while others don’t. But whether they believe or not, most most people are curious to find out what is in an “haunted house”, and...
View ArticleEgyptian flees via UAE despite travel ban
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Residency affairs detectives said after receiving information about an Egyptian leaving the country despite seven travel ban orders against him on financial cases worth KD 65,000,...
View ArticleEgyptian inmate raped by two Kuwaiti inmates
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: An Egyptian prison inmate was raped by two Kuwaiti inmates in their jail. The two citizens pulled a sharp object and refused all his pleas, and raped him in his prison cell. Prison...
View Article‘Romanian prostitutes’ nabbed
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested an international prostitution gang made of Romanian girls, according to a statement by Relations and security information department at the Interior...
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MP questions Finance Minister over metro, railway projects – Former Speaker...
Kuwait Times MP Saleh Ashour KUWAIT: MP Saleh Ashour yesterday sent a large number of questions to Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh over a reported plan to take the multi-billion-dinar metro and railway...
View ArticleKuwait inks contracts to import 2.5 million tons of gas per year
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Kuwait’s state-run oil firm has signed contracts to import 2.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year through 2020 to meet the emirate’s needs, a company official said...
View Article84,000 Kuwaitis visited Dubai in two months
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Up to 84,000 Kuwaitis visited Dubai in January and February, down by 1 percent compared to the same period in 2015, a report by the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing...
View ArticleA bloody fight in Salmiya
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Nine friends partying in Salmiya with three women lost their temper after they got drunk. An argument over who danced best soon triggered a bloody fight that made neighbors to call...
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Ahmadi Music Group commemorates Mozart
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: In a cordial atmosphere, a musical reception was held by the US Embassy last Thursday. The Ahmadi Music Group commemorated the famous musician Mozart by playing a preview of the...
View ArticleMunicipality refers ‘turkeys case’ to Public Prosecution
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Upon recommendations by the Kuwait Municipality’s Legal Department, Director Ahmed Al-Manfouhi has referred the probe results of ‘turkey shipment’ to the Municipality Minister...
View ArticleKuwait urges cooperation against terror, extremism
Kuwait Times GENEVA: Kuwait has called on the international community to face violent extremism and terrorism through “mechanisms of cooperation with the UN strategy” for combating terrorism and the UN...
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Police bust fake medicine ring
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Security officials inspect counterfeit medicines seized yesterday. KUWAIT: Capital financial crime detectives arrested two Egyptians with half a million counterfeit medical pills...
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Inside the commerce ministry’s customer protection, supervision departments –...
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Eid Al-Rasheedi, Assistant Undersecretary for Supervisionand Consumer Protection at the Ministry of Commerce andIndustry speaks to Kuwait Times. — Photo by Joseph Shagra KUWAIT: As...
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