Новости за 22.07.2019

Amir wishes to have free markets with the Iraqis: Minister Roudhan KUWAIT: Kuwait plans to issue multiple entry visas to nearly 400 Iraqi businessmen as per an agreement reached recently between the two countries, a senior government official said yesterday. Minister of Commerce and Industry and State Minister of Services Affairs Khalid Al-Roudhan explained that […]

KUWAIT: In response to many complaints by expats with regards to obstacles they face including requirement of a certificate from their embassies proving the information in the passport is correct, Director General of the Residency Affairs Department Brig Abdelqader Shaaban instructed all residency departments not to demand this certificate to correct the passport data of […]

KUWAIT: While official statistics by the interior ministry and Public Authority for Manpower reveal that 65,000 domestic helpers left the country during the past three years after their contracts expired, other official reports have revealed that more than 69,000 domestic workers entered the country since the start of this year – a rate of 383 […]

Salwa building fire leaves two people hurt; firemen battle huge Amghara blaze KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man was killed and two others were injured after two boats collided near the scientific center. The accident was handled by Salmiya sea fire station. Separately, a building in Salwa caught fire, so Bidaa and Mishref fire stations responded and […]

KUWAIT: Health sources said analysis of samples taken from the weight-loss pills which allegedly caused a young woman’s death recently in Kuwait meet safety standards and do not contain any harmful chemicals. The 21-year-old woman, who was preparing for her wedding, took the pills promoted by a fashionista on social media, and later died after […]

KUWAIT: An aerial view showing yachts docked near a beach in Shaab. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait calls for restraint amid regional escalations TEHRAN: Iran arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some to death after dismantling a CIA spy ring, an official said yesterday, as tensions soar between the Islamic republic and arch-enemy the United States. US President Donald Trump dismissed the report as “totally false”. Security agencies “successfully dismantled a (CIA) […]

BEIJING: China yesterday thanked the United Arab Emirates for backing its security crackdown in Xinjiang, state media said, as President Xi Jinping played host to Abu Dhabi’s crown prince. Beijing has come under growing international scrutiny for placing an estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps in the name of counter-terrorism, but […]

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday offered to mediate the decades-long Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, signaling a shift in long-standing US policy that the issue must be solved bilaterally. Kashmir has been divided between both countries and China since the end of British colonial rule in 1947, and remains at the root of […]

SUR BAHER: Israel demolished a number of Palestinian homes it considers illegally constructed near its separation barrier south of Jerusalem yesterday in a move that drew international condemnation. Palestinian leaders slammed the demolitions in the Sur Baher area which straddles the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, but Israel defended them as essential to its security and […]