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HONG KONG: People queue on a street for Covid-19 test kits in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po area as yet another record high number of new COVID-19 infections were recorded in the city.-AFP

Virus-hit Hong Kong considers lockdown as bodies pile up

HONG KONG: Hong Kong may impose a China-style hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signaled yesterday, with the city's zero-COVID strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals. Two years of strict zero-COVID policies kept the coronavirus largely bay but a breakthrough of the highly transmissible Omicron variant exposed how little authorities had done to prepare for a mass outbreak. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam...

KHARKIV: A man looks at a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier destroyed as a result of a fight not far from the center of this city located some 50 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border yesterday. - AFP

'Another war': Afghan flees Russian bombs in Ukraine

MEDYKA, Poland: After leaving Afghanistan a year ago, Ajmal Rahmani believed he had found a haven of peace in Ukraine. This week, he and his family had to flee again-this time to Poland to the sounds of Russian bombs. "I run from one war, come to another country and another war starts. Very bad luck," Rahmani told AFP shortly after crossing into Poland. His seven-year-old daughter Marwa clutched a beige-colored soft toy dog as Rahmani spoke....

Kuwaiti Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab World Affairs, Minister Plenipotentiary Nasser Al-Qahtani.

Kuwait underlines importance of unifying Arab position on Ukraine

CAIRO: Kuwait stressed yesterday the importance of unifying Arab position on the Ukrainian crisis in line with international law and the United Nations (UN).This came in a speech by the Kuwaiti Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab World Affairs, Minister Plenipotentiary Nasser Al-Qahtani, when he chaired the extraordinary session of the Arab League Council at the level of permanent delegates, according to Egypt's request to discuss the current...

KUWAIT: Dmitro Malets displays the Ukrainian national flag.

Worried Ukrainian expats in Kuwait condemn invasion

By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: The Ukrainian community in Kuwait has denounced Russian aggression against their country. Olga Urshuliak, 34, who has been working in Kuwait for the past four years as a fitness instructor, said her country's sovereignty is under attack. She added as a Ukrainian, she will never surrender, although she was worried about the safety of her mother."I am very afraid for my mom who is alone at home. I am the only daughter to my...

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Kuwait's Harley team drives across country to celebrate national days

KUWAIT: The international bikers team, Harley, organized a parade across Kuwait in celebration of the National and Liberation Days. The national celebration is an opportunity for the team to present their sport to people, while also bringing awareness of the importance of abiding by traffic laws, head of the team Jameel Al-Ali told KUNA yesterday.The team includes over 200 members participating in events with 20 to 50 motorcycles, he said, adding...

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Kuwaiti para athletes return with 34 medals after West Asia Games

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The Kuwait national team returned earlier in the week after participating in the West Asia Paralympic Games in Bahrain. The delegation was received by Deputy Chairman of Kuwait Paralympic Committee, board members Sheikh Jaber Thamer Jaber Al-Ahmad and Fatima Hayat, Honorary President of Irada Disabled Sports Club Sheikha Suhaila Al-Sabah, Chairman of Kuwait Disabled Sports Club Shafi Al-Hajeri and parents of...

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Desperate Afghans resort to selling their kidneys to feed families

Jobless, debt ridden, and struggling to feed his children, Nooruddin felt he had no choice but to sell a kidney -- one of a growing number of Afghans willing to sacrifice an organ to save their families.The practice has become so widespread in the western city of Herat that a nearby settlement is bleakly nicknamed "one kidney village"."I had to do it for the sake of my children," Nooruddin told AFP in the city, close to the border with Iran. "I...

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Ukraine to meet Russia as Putin puts nuclear defenses on alert

KHARKIV, Ukraine: Ukraine said yesterday it had agreed to talks with Russia after four days of conflict, as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his defense chiefs to put nuclear "deterrence forces" on alert. The conflict has already killed dozens of civilians, forced hundreds of thousands to flee and turned Moscow into a global pariah. President Volodymyr Zelensky's office said a Ukrainian delegation would meet the Russian one at the border...

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MoH commends GCC cooperation in curbing COVID

KUWAIT: Cooperation amongst members of the GCC had resulted in the success of efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), a Kuwaiti health official said yesterday. In a statement to KUNA, Health Ministry Spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad indicated that national pandemic indicators show that the fourth wave of the coronavirus has been subsiding, noting that this success was attributed to the efforts of national staff as well as their...

ORLANDO: Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2022 (CPAC) on Saturday. - AFP

Trump praises Putin, revives election lies

ORLANDO: Donald Trump emerged from political exile Saturday to blast President Joe Biden and NATO over the Ukraine crisis and reprise his false claims of a stolen 2020 election in a speech to grassroots Republicans. Speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, the former president spent 86 minutes reprising many of his favorite applause lines, assailing the "radical left" and its "witch hunt" against him.As...

CAIRO: Kuwaiti female artists during the symposium. - KUNA

Kuwaiti artists display works at Aswan Women Film Festival

CAIRO: Three Kuwaiti female artists and writers displayed at an international event in Egypt, yesterday their successful ventures in fields of choice, articulating that their experiences of womanhood shaped their careers and heavily influenced their work. This came in symposium organized by Nut Forum as part of Aswan International Women Film Festival. The symposium, moderated by Narmeen Amer, revolves around the challenges women in creative...

KUWAIT: Late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrives in Kuwait following the Liberation of Kuwait from the occupation forces. - KUNA file photo

Kuwaitis recall sacrifices on 31st Liberation anniversary

KUWAIT: People of Kuwait recall the country's liberation from the Iraqi occupation on the occasion of the country's 31st Liberation Day. They remember the great sacrifices made by the patriots for freedom of the homeland. Although, Kuwait's invasion on August 2, 1990, was quite a brutal one, the Kuwaiti people rebuffed the aggression affirming their solidarity with the legitimate leadership that had been headed by the late Amir Sheikh Jaber...

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