Новости за 28.03.2019

KUWAIT: The residency affairs investigations directorate decided to not deport 10,000 workers sponsored by fake companies whose owners – six Kuwaitis – have already been referred to public prosecution over human trafficking charges, said security sources. The sources explained that for humanitarian reasons and for being victims themselves, the criminal security sector had been instructed […]

KUWAIT: The weather in Kuwait will be warm with partial clouds in the coming days, said meteorologist Abdulaziz Al-Qarawi. The country is currently affected by high pressure that will recede gradually, allowing Sudan’s seasonal low pressure to affect the weather, Al-Qarawi told KUNA yesterday. Yesterday’s weather was moderate with southwesterly winds, turning to northwesterly light […]

MoCI vows to control meat prices during Aussie livestock ban KUWAIT: Opposition MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said yesterday that two current lawmakers and one former MP, in addition to an unspecified number of businessmen, have been referred for legal investigations over inflated bank accounts. The lawmaker said the suspects have been sent to the public prosecution […]

Strong Kuwait-Qatar relations hailed DOHA: Representative of HH the Amir of Kuwait, First Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, has expressed admiration of the National Museum of Qatar’s new premises, describing it as a distinctive cultural and scientific masterpiece. In statements to KUNA after representing HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad […]

Family and friends from abroad and Kuwait gathered at the 2019 Global Biking Initiative (GBI) biking event in Kuwait, to celebrate the life of the “Great Giver”. A team of bikers came to Kuwait to cycle for a cause against child labor, child trafficking and child abuse in the name of the late Ahmed Hashim […]

As part of our occasional series exploring various areas of Kuwait, Kuwait Times visited Shamiya to learn more about this historic residential area. Shamiya is located near Kuwait City between the First and Second Ring Roads, consisting of 10 residential blocks. Although the Shamiya Gate is named the same as the area, the gate is […]

PUBG takes hold in Kuwait’s gaming communities I jump off the plane carrying us to Sanhok Island with 99 others and have only 35 minutes to find two guns and enough ammo to survive. I see two parachutes glide towards me and run for cover while frantically searching for weapons. Footsteps appear on the map, […]

MOGADISHU: At least 11 people died when a bomb exploded on a busy street and ripped into a nearby restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu yesterday, medics said. Security officials and witnesses reported bodies strewn on the ground as plumes of smoke rose high into the air after the bomb detonated on Mogadishu’s Maka Al-Mukarama road, […]

NEW DELHI: A legal restriction that bars non-residents from owning property in India’s northern state of Jammu and Kashmir is “constitutionally vulnerable” and discriminatory, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said yesterday. Repeal of the measure adopted in 1954 to safeguard the special status of India’s only Muslim-majority state has support from many in the Hindu-dominated region […]

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani minister has branded the US ambassador to Kabul a “little pygmy” in a high-level diplomatic Twitter row that erupted over ongoing peace talks between Washington and the Taleban in Afghanistan. The furore underscores the delicate balance of regional tensions as the US steps up a push to find a way out of […]