Новости за 03.02.2019

Amir meets top Danish lawmaker, senior state officials KUWAIT: Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani is due to visit Kuwait today, and is scheduled to hold official talks with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received His Highness the Crown […]

KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday that two groups of lawmakers will meet HH the Amir today separately after they had requested such meeting. Ghanem however provided no details on the names of the two groups or the issues that will be raised, but he said he will be present in both the […]

KUWAIT: Ministry of education’s assistant undersecretary for scholarships and cultural relations Fatima Al-Sannan announced referring 50 law degrees issued to Kuwaitis by an Arab state to the public prosecution over suspicions of being fake. Total debts Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah announced that the ministry’s total debts to companies supplying the ministry with medicine […]

More than half children aged between six and nine use the internet daily KUWAIT: To help parents take the right steps towards children safety on the Internet, independent software assessor AV-TEST has evaluated a number of solutions specifically designed to protect children while they are online – and has awarded Kaspersky Safe Kids with three […]

KUWAIT: Head of the Public Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) Abdul Rahman Al-Namash said responding to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2018 and the progress Kuwait made on it, a meeting was held yesterday at Nazaha headquarters with Kuwait Transparency Society to review its report. Namash added that both sides discussed means of cooperation on executing the […]

KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah said KD 176,644,485 was collected in expat health insurance fees during the fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. He said lists and statistics received by the ministry are crosschecked with what is being deposited in the ministry’s Central Bank account by the contracting company with regards to this contract. […]

KUWAIT: An informed security source said the criminal security sector succeeded in controlling ‘one of the most important drug dens’ inside the Central Prison. The source said detectives succeeded in preventing the management and smuggling of drugs and illicit material from inside the prison. The source said the number of prisoners on drugs charges total […]

KUWAIT: Four vehicles caught fire yesterday morning in Khaitan. Firemen from Farwaniya fire station dealt with the blaze that started in one car and spread to three adjacent vehicles, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate’s public relations department said in a statement. No injuries were reported in the incident, while an investigation was opened to reveal the […]

Health Ministry denies reported high rise in cancer patients KUWAIT: Although there has been noticeable progress in finding cures to some serious diseases, cancer remains one of the most deadly one. In Kuwait, proportion of cancer cases among nationals reached 183 out of 100,000 Kuwaitis, compared to 161 among women, according to official statistics (2015). […]

BAGHOUZ: On a rooftop near the front line with the Islamic State group’s collapsing caliphate in eastern Syria, a US-backed fighter and his comrades sip tea as they await orders to restart the battle. The Syrian Democratic Forces halted their ground assault on IS’s final shreds of territory last week, saying the jihadists are increasingly […]