Новости за 27.05.2019

Media urged to play conscious and responsible role KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday underlined that the delicate situation in the region requires cautiousness and social unity to retain the state’s security and people’s safety.” The bitter reality of the region, its dangerous dimensions and consequences, and the developments taking […]

KUWAIT: Two lawmakers said yesterday they will file to grill Interior and Health ministers if they did not take necessary actions over suspicion of corruption in their ministries. MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said yesterday he has informed Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah that a businessman has left the country and returned illegally because he has […]

CAIRO: Qatar has been invited by Saudi Arabia to attend two emergency Arab summits being convened in the Saudi city of Makkah on May 30, Qatar’s foreign ministry said, after previously saying it had not been. Last week Qatar said it had not been invited to the two summits Saudi is planning in Islam’s holiest […]

Ramadan is a month of intensified charity, community relations, forgiveness and compassion. The Quran encourages the reader to spend in charity, saying, “You will never attain virtue until you spend something of what you love…” (3:92) This means that you should give to others what you love for yourself, and in Ramadan we realize how […]

KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah said the Ministry of Health (MoH) is working on making medical centers examine expatriate workers – namely Africans and Asians – in their respective countries, especially after detecting 1,271 cases of infectious diseases from seven of those countries after laborers arriving in 2017-2018 were re-examined in Kuwait. Responding […]

KUWAIT: Responding to the growing number of street vendors, namely children displaying goods for sale on a number of streets, municipal councilmembers Ahmad Al-Enezi and Humoud Al-Enezi demanded issuing temporary licenses to vendors to legalize their status. “It is unacceptable to fight them, confiscate their goods and show inappropriate photos of them during the holy […]

Ministers informed about Iraqi Prime Minister visit’s outcomes KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet yesterday stressed the importance of the coming conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due in Makkah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on May 31. The OIC gathering will be an opportunity for the conferees to share views on an array […]

KUWAIT: A fire at a storage facility belonging to the Ministry of Social Affairs was extinguished by firefighters late on Sunday, without any casualties, an official said. Despite being located within the ministry’s social welfare homes complex, the storeroom is far from the homes themselves, and presented no danger to occupants, a ministry spokesman said. […]

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has received yesterday an invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abulaziz Al-Saud to attend the urgent Gulf Cooperation Council summit, scheduled for Thursday. GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani delivered the invitation for the event, scheduled to be held in Makkah, to His Highness the […]

JAKARTA: About 18,000 bottles of bootleg alcohol were crushed by a steamroller in Muslim-majority Indonesia’s capital yesterday as police warned tipplers off booze during the Ramadan fasting month. Nearly 90 percent of Indonesia’s 260 million people are Muslims who are advised to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan. […]