Новости за 01.05.2019

Bridge linking Kuwait City with Silk City to help establish Kuwait as an international trade hub KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah attended and patronized the inauguration ceremony of Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Causeway yesterday. The ceremony was attended by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq […]

KUWAIT: Well-informed sources said that the parliament has excluded the bill on taxing expat remittances from its agenda for the current parliamentary term ending in June. The sources said the government strongly disapproves of the proposal and will most likely reject it and return it to the parliament, where it will have to be passed […]

KUWAIT: The ministerial team authorized by the Cabinet to follow up and handle compensating those affected by the rains last year issued a statement with details. According to the statement, the team studied 3,931 claims including 2,251 for vehicle damage and 780 for property damage, while 900 personal damage claims are still being studied. The […]

KUWAIT: Diplomatic sources said Iranian authorities released Kuwaiti citizens Adnan Al-Kharafi and Fahd Al-Alyan after interrogating them for entering Iran’s territorial waters by mistake. Sources said communications with Iranian authorities continued until they were released. The sources said the citizens are in good condition and were handed over to the Kuwaiti Embassy in Tehran. They […]

Constitutional court says law fails to explain where conflict of interest occurs KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Public Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) said it followed the ruling of the constitutional court issued yesterday in appeal no. 7 for 2018, which said law 13/2018 with regards to banning conflict of interest is unconstitutional, saying that it totally respects and appreciates […]

KUWAIT: A Nepalese man was killed in Mangaf, said security sources, noting that detectives received a report about the man who had been stabbed in the chest. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress. Policeman jailed The criminal court yesterday sentenced a police officer, a criminal investigator, to four years in jail […]

KUWAIT: The head of Horeca Kuwait organizing committee and Leaders Group for Consulting and Development General Manager Nabila Al-Anjari said the recent ads about new hotels, restaurants and hospitality investment projects is a good sign that the sector is continuously progressing and growing. In a statement, Anjari focused on major projects in hospitality and recreation […]

MUMBAI: A bomb attack by suspected Maoist rebels killed 15 Indian elite commandos and their driver yesterday, police said, in the latest incident of election-time violence in a decades-long insurgency. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the 1960s in several areas of India in clashes between security forces and guerrillas first inspired […]

AL-MASHAHADA, Iraq: After plentiful winter rains, Iraq is heading into summer with overflowing reservoirs and lush marshes. But don’t be fooled, observers warn: its water woes and related protests are not over. Far from last year’s shortages, “the land between the two rivers” is expected to hold 42 billion cu m in its reservoirs at […]

LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced yesterday to 50 weeks in jail for breaching a British court order seven years ago, when he took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden. The Australian whistleblower, who was arrested on April 11 after Ecuador gave him up, will serve the nearly one-year sentence […]

Saleh’s interpellation ends quickly – 10 MPs file no-confidence motion against Jabri KUWAIT: As the National Assembly was in the middle of a marathon session grilling two ministers over alleged violations, opposition MP Abdulkareem Al-Kandari field a new grilling against HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah for allegedly failing to implement development programs. […]