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PAOUA, Central African Republic: A woman who got pregnant after having been raped by rebels in the northwest of CAR is photographed at a counseling center on December 6, 2021. - AFP
Rape stalks women in CAR's dirty war
PAOUA, Central African Republic: Maia looks down at her expanding belly, her eyes welling with tears. Four months ago, an armed man grabbed and raped the 15-year-old, attacking her as she was harvesting cassava roots.In the remote northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR), sexual violence targeting women, adolescents and even younger girls is on the rise.Brutal acts are committed by rebels, militiamen and security forces alike, according to...
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan: Students attend a class in the Helmand university in Lashkar Gah yesterday, after the Taleban reopened public universities across some provinces. - AFP
Afghan universities reopen with trickle of women attending
MIHTARLAM, Afghanistan: Some public universities opened in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the Taleban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex. Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered when the hardline Islamist group stormed back to power, sparking fears women would again be barred from education -- as happened during the...
COPENHAGEN: Customers are pictured at the fish market in Torvehallerne on February 1, 2022, as Denmark becomes the first EU country to lift coronavirus restrictions despite record case numbers, citing its high vaccination rates and the lesser severity of Omicron variant. - AFP
WHO warns ‘premature’ to declare victory over COVID
GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief warned yesterday that it is too early for countries to either declare victory over COVID-19 or give up attempts to halt transmission. “It is premature for any country to either surrender or to declare victory,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. “This virus is dangerous, and it continues to evolve before our very eyes.” His comment came as Denmark yesterday became the first EU...
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem bangs the gavel during a parliamentary session yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
MP files to grill foreign minister
By B IzzakKUWAIT: MP Shuaib Al-Muwaizri yesterday filed to grill Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah over a series of allegations, including failure to safeguard Kuwait's political interests. Sheikh Ahmad, the son of former prime minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, is the second minister to be targeted with a grilling in the past few weeks after the defense minister, who survived a no-confidence...
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Kuwaiti YouTuber Boarki tells story of relocation to Dubai's sustainable city
By Ahmad JabrKUWAIT: Kuwaiti YouTuber and social media influencer Ahmad Boarki narrated to Kuwait Times the story of his relocation with his family from Kuwait to The Sustainable City in Dubai. The city is almost the same size of Kuwait's erstwhile Entertainment City and contains 500 homes and essential facilities that all run on renewable energy."Imagine a city the size of Kuwait's Entertainment City that contains 500 homes, in addition to three...
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Netflix, 'Perfect Strangers' row reignites freedoms debate in Kuwait
By Sahar MoussaKUWAIT: Kuwait is no stranger to arts and entertainment, as it boasts of having one of the oldest entertainment industries in the Arabian Peninsula. Since the late 1960s, Kuwait's television, drama and comedy scenes have flourished, reflecting an image to the world of the Gulf state's open-minded society that was always considered a pioneer in this field among its peers.In recent years however, people living in Kuwait are feeling a...
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti tennis player Mohammed Al-Awadhi (center) is honored during the event. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait celebrates tennis player, writers for supporting Palestine
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The Kuwaitis for Jerusalem committee organized an award ceremony for young Kuwaiti tennis player Mohammed Al-Awadhi and some Kuwaiti writers for boycotting activities in which athletes and writers from the Zionist entity participated. The group is a joint committee from the Women's Cultural and Social Society and the Society of Graduates.The boycotts are against the normalization of ties with the Zionist entity, which...
NEW DELHI: India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leaves the finance ministry to present the annual budget at the parliament yesterday. - AFP
India to launch 'digital rupee', tax on crypto
MUMBAI: India will introduce a state-backed "digital rupee" and impose a 30 percent tax on profits from virtual currencies, the government announced yesterday while unveiling the next financial year's budget. The plans are a blow to one of the world's fastest-growing cryptocurrency markets, which has remained unregulated despite burgeoning local trading platforms and glitzy celebrity endorsements.They make India the latest major emerging economy...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden meets Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday. - AFP
Biden meets Qatar Amir, hails ties
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden hosted Qatar's Amir Monday in the White House, underscoring the tiny Gulf state's strategic importance - including in a scramble to shield European allies from potential Russian energy cut-offs. Minutes after Boeing and Qatar Airways concluded a huge new deal, Biden lavished praise on Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, saying "our partnership in Qatar has been central to many of our most vital interests"."A lot on...
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Airlines employees pose for a group photo in front of a Boing 737 MAX on the tarmac of the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa yesterday. - AFP
Ethiopian Airlines to resume 737 MAX flights after 2019 crash
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Airlines will operate the Boeing 737 MAX for the first time since a crash nearly three years ago killed all 157 people on board and triggered the global grounding of the aircraft. Flight 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi plunged six minutes after takeoff into a field southeast of the Ethiopian capital in March 2019, five months after a similar crash in Indonesia left 189 people dead.The twin disasters and subsequent scrutiny...
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Facebook's crypto project Diem sold after pushback
SAN FRANCISCO: The Facebook-backed digital currency project Diem announced Monday the winding down and $182-million sale of its technology, capping a years-long initiative that drew significant concern from regulators. Facebook's announcement in 2019 of plans to design a cryptocurrency and payment system raised immediate red flags for global finance officials, who expressed a barrage of criticism about the security and reliability of a private...
WASHINGTON: Stan Deal, President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (left), and Akbar Al-Baker, Group Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Airways, participate in a signing ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office building in Washington, DC, on Monday.-AFP
Boeing seals deals with Qatar Airways, launches cargo plane
WASHINGTON: Boeing launched a new freighter jet Monday while announcing a pair of major agreements with Qatar Airways, in a boost to the still-struggling US aviation giant. The deal with the Middle Eastern carrier was unveiled at a White House ceremony attended by top US and Qatari officials, and includes the sale of 34 777X freighters, plus options for 16 more planes in the latest incarnation of Boeing's storied dual-aisle 777 line.Boeing said...
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NEW YORK: Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana entitled "Comedian" is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's on Nov 8, 2024. - AFP
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Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives for the opening ceremony of the country's tenth parliament at the national parliament in Colombo on November 21, 2024. -- AFP
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