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CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced a television host to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed Al-Gheiti, who has expressed his stance against homosexuality on several occasions, was accused of promoting homosexuality and contempt of religion. The misdemeanors court in Giza also fined him 3,000 […]

KUWAIT: MP Omar Al-Tabtabaei yesterday called on Finance Minister Nayef Al-Hajraf to pay greater attention over what he claims are a host of violations in Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), the country’s sovereign fund which manages over $600 billion in assets. The lawmaker alleged that a number of senior officials at KIA made highly suspicious deals […]

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump bitterly attacked top Democrat Nancy Pelosi yesterday and she again insisted that he end the government shutdown before border security talks can begin, but there were hints of possible movement in coming days. Trump lashed out on Twitter a day after Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, dismissed as […]

KUWAIT: Informed sources at the Public Authority for Manpower said the authority is about to implement a decision to raise the transfer, renewal and issuance fees for work permits in the private sector ranging between KD 20 to KD 400. The sources said renewal fees for work permits will increase from KD 10 to KD […]

Summit urges Syrian refugee return – Call to eradicate poverty to eliminate terror BEIRUT: Kuwait has launched an initiative to form a $200 million fund for investments in technology, Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said yesterday. Addressing the Arab Development, Economic and Social Summit in Beirut, he cited […]

KUWAIT: Chairman of the employees’ syndicate at the ministry of social affairs and labor Yahya Al-Doussary said in consideration of ministry employees’ circumstances, a meeting was yesterday with Civil Service Commission Undersecretary Bader Hazza Al-Hamad to discuss a decision by the CSC to set official working hours from 7 am till 3 pm. Doussary said […]

Search for man who dumped dead baby near dumpster KUWAIT: A driver died following a traffic accident reported yesterday on Abdali-Mutlaa Road. After receiving an emergency call, firefighters rushed to the scene located on the 19th kilometer mark of the road where the vehicle crashed into a concrete barrier and caught fire. Firemen battled the […]

KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission (CSC) approved a request by the justice ministry to ‘Kuwaitize’ 581 administrative jobs at the ministry, including typists. But the justice ministry stressed that despite its keenness on replacing as many expats as it can with citizens, it will not cancel its current contract with a private company providing employees […]

KUWAIT: Head of anesthesia and ICU at Adan Hospital Dr Huda Al-Foudery stressed Adan Hospital’s ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) center had achieved remarkable results in the past two years, noting that 70 percent of acute respiratory system failure patients attended to at the ECMO center survived. Speaking after returning from Cairo, where along with anesthesia […]