Новости за 10.06.2019

Abdulsamad slams KOC for failing to meet production targets KUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem yesterday called for expelling around two million expatriates from Kuwait over the next five years in order to make Kuwaitis a majority in their home country. “Reforming the imbalance in the demographic structure is an urgent necessity and a national requirement, because […]

KUWAIT: Take it or leave it! That was the instruction of a Kuwait-based Filipina recruiter to nine female workers who entered Kuwait through legal means but complained their contract was changed when they arrived here. The recruiter advised the women to sign and accept the new contract rather than go back to their country of […]

KUWAIT: Vice Chairman of the Union of Cooperative Societies Khaled Al-Hudhaiban warned about security threats posed by vehicles abandoned in various co-ops’ parking lots, noting that vehicles will not be allowed to be parked for over three days and that surveillance cameras will be installed to monitor the parking areas. Hudhaiban said some expats park […]

KUWAIT: Manager of Al-Durra company for domestic helpers Saad Al-Munai said since he took over in March, he has been coordinating with foreign ministry advisor Anas Al-Shaheen to facilitate recruiting domestic helpers from Cambodia, adding that a special meeting will be held soon to discuss this matter. Munai added that Al-Durra will sign a contract […]

KUWAIT: Detectives arrested a policeman and a solider for raping a Kuwaiti woman. A police source said the woman, who is wanted for financial debts, was arrested and handed to a policeman for processing. Meanwhile, a soldier present there made a plan with the policeman to blackmail her, but she was able to escape. The […]

Kuwait pension fund files new complaint against wanted ex-chief KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah has instructed the Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) to continue looking into all works done during its former director-general’s term of office. His Highness the Prime Minister has also ordered that all violations in […]

KUWAIT: The beauty of the interior design of Kuwait’s Grand Mosque. — Photo by Ahmad Al-Shawaf (KUNA)

TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign minister warned yesterday of the consequences of waging “economic war” against the Islamic republic through US sanctions, saying those conducting and supporting it could not expect to “remain safe”. “One cannot expect an economic war to continue against the Iranian people and that those waging this war and those supporting it remain […]

PATHANKOT, India: Six men were convicted yesterday over the notorious 2018 gang rape and murder in India of an eight-year-old girl from a Muslim nomadic tribe that provoked horror and stoked inter-religious tensions. The six men from the Jammu region of northern India escaped the death sentence, however, with three defendants given life imprisonment and […]

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari was arrested yesterday after his bail application was rejected in connection with a high-profile money laundering case that saw millions allegedly siphoned out of the country. Zardari, husband of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, served as president from 2008 until 2013 and has long been the subject […]