Новости за 27.07.2019

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BAGHDAD: Governor of the Iraqi province of Muthanna Ahmad Manfy announced yesterday the discovery of a mass grave with indications that the buried human remains might belong to Kuwaiti martyrs who were executed by the former regime in the governorate’s desert. “Local security forces and intelligence found initial information of discovering a group cemetery in […]

WASHINGTON: Washington has approved $125 million worth of support for Pakistan’s F-16 warplanes, and also $670 worth of support for India’s C-17 transport planes. Approval to support US-built aircraft for the two south Asian rivals were approved by the US State Department, and announced simultaneously by the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The approval for […]

TRIPOLI: Rescue workers said yesterday they had plucked the bodies of 62 migrants from waters off the Libyan coast a day after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean this year. About 145 migrants were rescued by the Libyan coastguard Thursday after their overloaded boat went down east of the capital near the port […]

MANILA: Eight people were killed and dozens injured when a series of earthquakes struck islands in the far northern Philippines early yesterday, toppling historic buildings and sending terrified locals fleeing their homes. The tremors hit the province of Batanes, a group of sparsely populated islets north of the nation’s largest Luzon island, tearing deep cracks […]

BRUSSELS: The European Union is offering new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a wary welcome, insisting it will consider any detailed new ideas he has on Brexit but cautious lest his gambit is ultimately to blame Brussels for a no-deal departure. The 27 remaining EU members say publicly and privately that the divorce settlement, agreed […]

BEIRUT: Syrian authorities have released a US citizen and he has been handed back to his family, thanks to the mediation of Lebanon, a Lebanese security official said on Friday. The security official did not give the name of the released American, but he was later identified as Sam Goodwin, 30, from St Louis, Missouri. […]

TUNIS/KUWAIT: Representative of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, offered condolences on Friday to the Tunisian government and people on the passing away of former President Beji Caid Essebsi. In a statement to KUNA, Sheikh Nasser prayed to Allah the Almighty to bestow blessing upon […]

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works began an early maintenance campaign of sewer networks in an operation that will continue until the end of the next rainy season. The maintenance works should help prevent a repeat of the crisis that followed the rains in November of last year, which submerged cars and flooded homes and […]

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti meteorologist and historian Adel Al-Saadoun said yesterday that Eid Al-Adha will fall on Sunday, August 11. He told KUNA that the first of Thul Hijja month will be on Friday, August 2 and Arafat Day will be on Saturday, August 10. – KUNA 270 kg of drugs, $30K busted KUWAIT: Customs officers, in […]

KUWAIT: A delegation representing syndicate of public labor unions has discussed with Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of State for Services Khaled Al-Roudhan their role in achieving the vision of Kuwait 2035. In a press statement yesterday, the federation’s chairman Hussein Al-Azmi said that Roudhan affirmed during the meeting their pivotal role in […]

KUWAIT: Hawally and Salmiya fire stations responded to a fire that started in a basement of a Hawally building. The basement was used as a seamstress’ shop, where textiles were stored. The 18-storey building was evacuated and fire was put out quickly. A fireman was injured, treated in hospital and discharged in stable condition. No […]

KUWAIT: In light of decree 232/ 2018, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is working diligently to ensure that construction materials’ subsidies were reaching benefactors directly and not used in an illicit manner to create a black market. In 2018, KD 125 million (around $412.5 million) worth of subsidies were given by the ministry in […]