KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Justice announced Sunday that the Ramadan moonsighting committee will meet tomorrow, Shaaban 29th for the year 1441 AH, in order to sight the holy month's crescent of Ramadan. In a statement, the ministry said that the meeting will be held at the headquarters of the Supreme Judicial Council headed by the head of the Supreme Judicial Council and the head of the Cassation and Constitutional Courts, Counselor Yosef Al-Mutawa, and in the presence of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Counselor Dr Fahad Al-Afasi. The Ministry called on citizens, residents and those who manage to watch the Ramadan's crescent to contact the authority at the following number (25376934).

Group helped to embassy
The Interior Ministry released a statement commented on a video clip that circulated on social media showing several expatriates entering Adailiya on foot. It said that policemen went to the area and took the group to the police station. The men said they were heading to the Indian embassy to obtain travel documents to take advantage of the amnesty and leave without having to pay fines. They ended up in Adailiya instead of Daeya where the embassy is located, the ministry said, adding that they were escorted to the embassy later.

Hunger strike
Responding to a video posted on Twitter showing some of the Egyptians accommodated in Kabd pending evacuation, who had been allegedly on hunger strike for two days in an attempt to force the Egyptian embassy to act and accelerate returning them to Egypt, Kuwait Times contacted an official at the embassy to enquire about the incident. The Egyptian embassy official said: "Only a few of the Egyptians went on hunger strike for just an hour. It is over now and we are fully confident in the measures taken by our brothers in the Kuwaiti ministry of interior."

Shops reopening
Minister of Municipality Affaairs Waleed Al-Jassim tweeted that he gave instructions to Kuwait Municipality's executive apparatus to prepare a mechanism to enable car repair shops at co-operative societies to reopen, while complying with health ministry instructions, in order to allow people to repair vehicles under the current circumstances.

Special flights
Kuwait continued to offer limited outbound flights to expatriates wishing to go home. Kuwait Airways announced it will operate special flights to London on April 20-21, 2020 - exclusively for UK nationals/residents and EU citizens - and special flights to Geneva on April 21, 2020 - exclusively for EU citizens. The one way flight costs around KD 252,75. As for Qatar Airways, two daily flights from Kuwait to selected destinations via Doha, will leave Kuwait till May 30, 2020.