Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she encountered the notorious morality police and died after a “violent blow to the head”, her cousin living in Iraq said. “Jhina’s death has opened th...

Kuwait: The consumer prices on an annual basis grew by 4.15 percent in August, according to the State of Kuwait Central Statistical Bureau. In a statement to KUNA on Wednesday, the bureau indicated that inflation rate in Kuwait increased by 0.08 perc...

By B Izzak KUWAIT: The constitutional court rejected on Tuesday a petition challenging the legality of two emergency Amiri decrees related to the snap polls, and also rejected a demand to suspend the Sept 29 general elections. The rejection means tha...

TOKYO: Japanese and foreign dignitaries paid tribute to assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe at a state funeral on Tuesday that drew both mourners and protesters to central Tokyo. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida described the former leader as a...

LAUREL, Maryland: Bullseye: A NASA spaceship on Monday struck an asteroid seven million miles away in order to deflect its orbit, succeeding in a historic test of humanity’s ability to prevent a celestial object from devastating life on Earth. ...

With the cost of living surging, free hot bread distribution for the poor has been introduced in Dubai, a rich Gulf emirate where millionaires rub shoulders with hard-working migrants. The city of skyscrapers soaring above the desert, which imports a...

By Yousuf Awadh Al-Azmi “It is not important to read a lot, rather it is useful reading.” – Arnold J Toynbee I was browsing the shelves of a library in the city, looking for a certain book. As I was moving slowly, I thought about th...

KUWAIT: Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al Sabah, Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Interior, informed the Kuwaiti Cabinet on his decision to move the camp of the Southern Brigade to the Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAH...

By Majd Othman KUWAIT: Former education minister Moudi Al-Humoud told Kuwait Times on the sidelines of a discussion event held on Monday by Mudawi List Platform titled “Mudawi Diwaniya” that Kuwaiti women from an earlier stage are fully e...

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti activists said on Monday that candidates running for positions in the upcoming national elections, scheduled to be held next Thursday, must put environmental causes on the forefront of their respective campaigns, to achieve sustainabl...