Новости за 09.03.2019

Two suspects arrested • 4 doctors blamed for cadets’ deaths KUWAIT: A man claiming to be a detective abducted three boys – aged 9 to 11 years – from a playground in Abdullah Al-Mubarak and raped one of them. Amidst outrage on social media, the interior ministry’s relations and security information department confirmed yesterday that […]

KUWAIT: Recent statistics issued by the interior ministry concerning the total number of expat driving licenses and vehicles compared to those of citizens showed 616,000 vehicles are registered under expats’ names, while those registered to citizens number 1.39 million, which does not reflect their proportion of Kuwait’s population – 3.31 million expats out of a […]

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health (MoH) explained that the new fees collected for some services provided by the medical licenses department, the general medical council and the radioactivity prevention department are mainly for logistical services. MoH’s official spokesperson Dr Ahmad Al-Shatti said that the new resolutions include reviewing and updating fees of some services that […]

KUWAIT: Firemen put out a blaze reported in a Mahboula apartment yesterday. The fire was on the third floor of a six-floor building, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said. Mangaf and Fahaheel fire stations responded and firemen evacuated 30 persons from the building. One person suffered from smoke inhalation and was taken to hospital. Separately, […]

Al-Farsi Kite Team participants in Qatar’s Aspire International Kite Festival DOHA: Head of Kuwait’s Al-Farsi Kite Team Abdulrahman Al-Farsi said on Friday that the team is eager to be Kuwait’s representatives in events, highlighting Kuwait’s enhancement of hobbies and spreading the culture of volunteerism. Kite flying is one of the most popular sports, Farsi said […]

Sheikha Rima credited for raising millions to support women, children causes WASHINGTON: As the world observes International Women’s Day, the wife of Kuwait’s Ambassador to the US Sheikha Rima Al-Sabah was named by a prominent US magazine among America’s top 100 party hosts for 2019. Rima Al-Sabah, who is both a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR […]

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump blasted Democrats as “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish” Friday after they passed a congressional measure opposing hate speech in general instead of specifically condemning alleged anti-Semitic comments by a Muslim congresswoman. His remarks follow days of tense debates in Congress addressing sensitive questions about national allegiance, discriminatory tropes aimed at Jews, and […]

LONDON: The British government drew fresh criticism yesterday over its decision to revoke citizenship from a London teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria, after her baby died in a refugee camp. Shamima Begum, 19, had asked to return home after giving birth to her son Jarrah last month in the camp in […]

WASHINGTON: In a divided America where politics seems increasingly to get people’s goat, a small town in Vermont has taken the concept to heart – this week electing one as mayor. He may be a political novice but the goat’s name, Lincoln, brings with it a storied pedigree. And the leading human official in Fair […]

ISLAMABAD: Women’s rights activists Friday condemned the murder of a whistleblower in a notorious “honor killing” case that has shone a years-long spotlight on female victims-and the men who defend them-in deeply patriarchal Pakistan. Afzal Kohistani, the man who first drew attention to the infamous incident in 2012, was gunned down in Abbottabad on Wednesday, […]