Новости за 22.09.2019

Defense minister vows impenetrable security – 5 MPs demand debate on situation KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday that HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is in good health and will return to the country from the United States following a period of recuperation. HH the Amir travelled to the US […]

Sheikh Sabah commends ‘noticeable development’ in the kingdom KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah addressed a cable of congratulations to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on the 89th anniversary of the kingdom’s national day. His Highness the Amir, in the cable, commended the […]

KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission urged the education and health ministries to report the names of expat employees they wish to terminate before the end of the year so that it could complete the needed procedures and replace them with Kuwaitis in the new fiscal year. In this regard, informed sources said statistics had shown […]

Woman seduced victims to steal their money KUWAIT: The interior ministry wrote to another ministry with regards to paying for airline tickets of its employees who are being deported, Al-Rai daily reported yesterday. Informed sources said the 10 are of Syrian, Indian, Egyptian and Bangladeshi nationalities. It said ministries and government departments bear the cost […]

KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday sentenced an international gang with members from Kuwait, UAE, Syria, Jordan and Egypt to 10 years in jail with labor and fined them KD 198,000 for the sums they had illegally withdrawn from some bank accounts and money laundering operations they had conducted using fake credit cards and special […]

KUWAIT: High-rise buildings spread across Kuwait City’s landscape. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani yesterday denounced the presence of foreign forces in the Gulf and said Iran will put forward a peace plan, after arch-foe the United States ordered reinforcements to the tinderbox region. “Foreign forces can cause problems and insecurity for our people and for our region,” Rouhani said before a massive military parade […]

DUBAI: Construction on the United Arab Emirates’ first official synagogue will begin next year and be completed by 2022, according to local media reports. The synagogue will be part of the multi-faith “Abrahamic Family House” complex in Abu Dhabi, which will also feature a mosque and church of which full construction will be completed in […]

Latest killings amid growing tensions between refugees and authorities DHAKA: A Rohingya couple was shot dead during a gunfight in a border town camp hours after they were detained by Bangladesh police, officials said yesterday, the latest killings amid growing tensions between the refugees and authorities. Police in Teknaf town said the refugee couple – […]

NAIROBI: The World Health Organization has accused Tanzania of failing to provide information on suspected cases of Ebola in the country, potentially hindering efforts to curb the spread of the deadly virus. East African nations have been on high alert over an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has left 2,103 […]