Новости за 14.04.2019

Uproar over suspension of bedoon bank accounts KUWAIT: MPs and activists were up in arms yesterday over a decision by the central agency for bedoons to ask banks to suspend the accounts of bedoons – stateless people – who did not provide the necessary documents to renew their IDs. MPs threatened action against the government […]

‘Mass exodus’ of expat teachers from education ministry KUWAIT: The labor office at the Egyptian embassy banned owners of small projects from bringing in workers from Egypt to Kuwait with visas related to the projects, after the office received many complaints, a local daily reported yesterday quoting sources. Egyptian workers who arrived in Kuwait lately […]

KUWAIT: FIFA president Gianni Infantino met HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday, state media said, amid reports the state is in talks to host matches to support Qatar during the 2022 World Cup. HH the Amir and the head of the country’s sports federation met with Infantino on a low-profile visit that […]

KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday sentenced two Iranians to death for killing a ruling family member, another Kuwaiti and an Indonesian woman in an armed robbery in 2016. The victims were found inside an apartment in Salwa with their hands and feet tied and their mouths gagged. At the time, the interior ministry’s media […]

KUWAIT: Environment Public Authority Chairman Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmed issued a decision on the conditions and regulations of smoking shisha in enclosed and semi-enclosed public places. The new regulations stress that smoking any form of tobacco is banned in schools, universities and health facilities, and set 19 conditions for serving shisha. These include that the premises […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways announced yesterday that its outbound flights to Dubai International Airport (DXB) have been scheduled to land in Al-Maktoum international Airport instead. Regional Director of GCC in Kuwait Airways Mishaal Al-Dalk said in a statement to the press that flights to DXB were transferred to Al-Maktoum International Airport starting April 17 due to […]

KUWAIT: An Egyptian man was found dead on the roof of a Jabriya building yesterday, said security sources, noting that the man’s face was covered in blood. The body was taken to the coroner, as a case was filed and further investigations are in progress. Sabah Al-Salem fire Qurain Fire Station men responded to a […]

Tehran blasts US dangerous measure, consequences TEHRAN: Floods in Iran have killed 76 people and caused more than $2.2 billion in damages in recent weeks, officials said yesterday, with warnings still in place for large swathes of the country. “With the death of five people in the Khuzestan province flood and another person in Ilam […]

DUBAI: A delegation from Israel that was due to attend a conference in Bahrain this week has pulled out due to security concerns, the organizers said yesterday, after Bahrainis held an extensive campaign against the visit. A spokeswoman for Israel’s Economy Minister Eli Cohen said his planned visit to Bahrain this week had been “delayed […]

WASHINGTON: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders yesterday defended Donald Trump against accusations that he was inciting violence against a Muslim congresswoman after the president tweeted a video of her spliced with footage of the 9/11 attacks. Ilhan Omar, a Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota, has been at the center of an escalating row following a […]