Новости за 27.02.2019

KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways yesterday announced suspending flights to Lahore and Islamabad until further notice due to the tense situation between India and Pakistan. Several other airlines, including Emirates and Qatar Airways, suspended flights to Pakistan yesterday after the South Asian nation closed its airspace following heightened tensions with neighboring India. Etihad, flydubai, Gulf Air, SriLankan […]

KUWAIT: Schools were almost empty yesterday after the national holidays, while the entire teaching staff is present, well-informed educational sources said. “It seems that there no solutions to the mass absence problem and that the few students who showed up to school were sent home,” commented the sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. […]

Four kidnappers promised to be paid KD 1,000 each KUWAIT: Farwaniya police patrols foiled an attempt by four men to kidnap a person in the area, and arrested the suspects who claimed that someone promised to pay them KD 1,000 each for the operation. Patrolmen in Farwaniya became suspicious when they saw an SUV at […]

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Tuesday congratulated citizens and residents on the 58th anniversary of National Day and the 28th anniversary of Liberation Day. His Highness the Amir appreciated their joyful and exuberant participation in various public festivities that reflected highly civilized conduct, and national unity and amity. His […]

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti embassies and diplomatic missions in Canberra, Bern, Bandar Seri Begawan, and Dhaka held receptions marking the country’s 58th National Day, 28th Liberation Day, and the 13th year of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s ascension to power. In the Australian capital, Ambassador Monther Al-Essa held a reception attended by […]

Kuwait pledges $250 million in aid to Yemen GENEVA: Kuwait’s permanent delegate to the UN-Geneva ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim commended yesterday the outcomes of the UN High-Level Pledging Conference for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen. Ghunaim said in a statement to the press that Kuwait’s aid to Yemen was a positive addition to support the humanitarian […]

BEIRUT: Human Rights Watch has accused authorities in the United Arab Emirates of mistreating and denying adequate medical care to a terminally-ill Emirati woman in prison on terrorism charges. The New York-based rights group said Alia Abdel Nour, 42, was diagnosed with breast cancer after her arrest in 2015 and is being denied regular contact […]

Khan warns of Kashmir escalation • Pak publishes video of captured Indian pilot ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan both said they shot down each other’s fighter jets yesterday, with Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a 1971 war, prompting world powers to urge […]

CAIRO: A hurtling locomotive crashed, derailed and caught fire at Cairo’s main train station yesterday, killing at least 20 people in the latest disaster to strike Egypt’s rundown railways. The country’s transportation minister resigned hours after the accident. The train engine appeared to have slammed into the buffers at the end of the track at […]