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Online sales to the rescue during pandemic time

By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: E-commerce thrived during the pandemic, and became a source of much-needed revenues for many individuals. Online seller Melito Alcantara's posts on Facebook generate a steady flow of income. "I started selling food on Facebook during the pandemic. People at that time were into online transactions, so I joined a group of Filipinos who are in this business," he said. Alcantara started by posting some of his dishes on his...

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Kuwaitis protest outside embassy in support of Muslim women in India

KUWAIT: The women’s wing of the Islamic Constitutional Movement held a demonstration near the Indian Embassy yesterday in support of Muslim women in India. Around 120 people, the majority of them women, expressed their rejection and disapproval of the persecution of Muslim women in India and slammed the silence of the international community.The protesters carried placards against what is happening against students wearing the hijab in India,...

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah and Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah walk together during a session at the National Assembly yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait plunges into crisis after defense, interior ministers quit

By B IzzakKUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday appeared headed into yet another political crisis after two senior Cabinet members submitted their resignation immediately after a third minister narrowly survived a no-confidence vote following a grilling by an opposition lawmaker. Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah and Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Sabah said in a joint statement that reforms are impossible to achieve under the...

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Law criminalizing 'imitation of opposite sex' overturned

KUWAIT: Kuwait's constitutional court yesterday overturned a law that criminalizes "imitation of the opposite sex" in a move Amnesty International said was a breakthrough for transgender rights in the region. Kuwaiti lawyer Ali Al-Aryan, who filed a lawsuit to overturn Article 198 of the penal code two years ago, confirmed that the law had been overturned, saying it violated personal freedoms, which are stipulated in the constitution."The law was...

PETROPOLIS, Brazil: People carry the corpse of a victim out of the rubble after a mudslide in Petropolis, Brazil yesterday. - AFP

Torrential rain kills 55 in Brazil tourist town

PETROPOLIS, Brazil: At least 55 people were killed in devastating flash floods and landslides that hit the picturesque Brazilian city of Petropolis, turning streets into torrential rivers and sweeping away houses, officials said yesterday. Rescue workers raced to find survivors buried in the mud and wreckage after heavy storms Tuesday dumped a month's worth of rain in three hours on the scenic tourist town in the hills north of Rio de Janeiro....

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Anger in UK over Prince Andrew's '£12m' settlement

LONDON: Disgraced British royal Prince Andrew was urged yesterday to "live out his retirement in ignominy" after reportedly settling a sexual assault lawsuit for a whopping £12 million ($16.3 million, 14.3 million euros). The lawyer for US accuser Virginia Giuffre said on Tuesday that both parties had settled out of court, sparing Andrew the public humiliation of a trial. The details were not revealed. Giuffre, 38, has said she had sex with...

BANGALORE: Police stand guard as a student of a government high school and pre-university college for women steps out to return a phone to her parents standing outside yesterday. – AFP

India schools reopen after hijab row

UDUPI, India: Schools reopened in southern India under tight security yesterday with public gatherings banned following protests over Muslim girls wearing the hijab in classrooms. Tensions have been high in Karnataka state since late last year when at least four schoolgirls were prevented from wearing the Muslim headscarf, sparking protests that have since spread across India.In an attempt to calm tensions, Karnataka's state government...

BOULDER: This handout photo shows a strontium atomic clock, one of the world's most accurate timekeeping pieces in the lab of Professor Jun Ye at the University of Colorado. - AFP

Clock can transform physics

WASHINGTON: US scientists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity - which holds that gravity slows time down - at the smallest scale ever, demonstrating that clocks tick at different rates when separated by fractions of a millimeter. Jun Ye, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, told AFP it was "by far" the most precise clock ever built - and could pave the way...

POKROV, VLADIMIR OBLAST, Russia: Journalists wait in front of the entrance to the penal colony N2, where Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred to serve a two-and-a-half year prison term for violating parole, in the town of Pokrov. - AFP

At new fraud trial, Navalny vows to fight on against Kremlin

POKROV: Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said he would keep challenging Russia's leadership during the opening of a new fraud trial that could extend his jail term by more than a decade. Navalny appeared at the beginning of the hearing Tuesday via video link wearing a prison uniform and flanked by guards at the makeshift court inside his penal colony, smiling and embracing his wife. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he was...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are seen ahead of their meeting over Ukraine security at the Kremlin on Feb 15, 2022. – AFP

Long shot: Putin's giant table sparks jokes and speculation

MOSCOW: White, glistening and six metres long: The table chosen for Vladimir Putin's meeting with world leaders has sparked a flurry of memes-and a slew of speculation about its symbolism. The stretching table has featured in photographs splashed across the internet in recent days, as the Russian president sits with Western leaders eager to defuse tensions over a feared Ukrainian invasion.He sat across from French President Emmanuel Macron at the...

AT SEA: This undated Royal Canadian Air Force photo obtained from the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax, shows a helicopter crew and vessels of opportunity searching the ocean for survivor of a Spanish fishing trawler which sank off eastern Canada. – AFP

Spain mourns trawler as Canada hunts for survivors

MADRID: Spain was in mourning Wednesday a day after one of its fishing trawlers sank off eastern Canada, leaving 10 dead and 11 missing in its worst fishing tragedy in almost 40 years. "Once again the people of the sea have been hit very hard," said Alberto Nunez Feijoo, head of Spain's northwestern Galicia region where the boat was based."Galicia is a big family and when a family is struck by a tragic event, it unites in grief to seek comfort,"...

HEART: A rickshaw taxi driver looks on as burqa clad-women walk a long road, in Heart. – AFP

'My heart and body shake': Afghan women defy Taleban

KABUL: One after the other, quickly, carefully, keeping their heads down, a group of Afghan women step into a small Kabul apartment block-risking their lives as a nascent resistance against the Taleban. They come together to plan their next stand against the hardline Islamist regime, which took back power in Afghanistan in August and stripped them of their dreams.At first, there were no more than 15 activists in this group, mostly women in their...

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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP

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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP

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