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Kuwait records 5,176 new COVID cases, one death
KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday said 5,176 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, an all-time record, taking the country’s total caseload to 502,630, according to health ministry data. Some 4,337 more people recovered from the virus, taking total recoveries to 454,799, according to ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, who said the recovery to positive case ratio stands at 90.5 percent.One fatality linked to the virus took...
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Kuwait Army officers to be prosecuted on corruption charges
The Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has referred two Kuwait Army officers, a colonel and lieutenant colonel, to the public prosecution on charges of misappropriation with public funds. This came following investigations prompted by a notification from the deputy prime minister and minister of defense regarding the Eurofighter aircrafts' deal, which revealed that huge sums of money had been appropriated -- much higher than the total...
BEIJING: People queue next to a poster of Bing Dwen Dwen, mascot of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, to have their swab samples taken to test for the COVID-19 oronavirus in Beijing yesterday. - AFP
China lifts Xi'an lockdown as Beijing virus fight ramps up
BEIJING: One of China's longest coronavirus lockdowns ended yesterday with authorities announcing the lifting of most restrictions in the northern city of Xi'an. The historic city's 13 million residents had been confined to their homes since December 22 after the discovery of a COVID-19 cluster that grew to more than 2,100 cases-China's largest outbreak in months.With the Winter Olympics beginning next week, Chinese authorities have been...
OSLO: (L-R) Mahbouba Seraj of the Afghan Women's Network, Ismail Ghazanfar and Heda Khamoush attend a meeting with international special representatives and representatives of Afghans with a background from civil society yesterday in Oslo, Norway. - AFP
Afghan women activists feel betrayed by Oslo talks
OSLO: Afghan women protesting against the Taleban's harsh rule say they have been betrayed by Norway, the first Western nation to host the hardline Islamists since they seized power in August. Led by the foreign minister, a Taleban delegation travelled first class on a plane specially chartered by the Norwegian government to Oslo for meetings with Western officials and members of Afghan civil society.Women activists who have been facing...
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed administers the oath to justice Ayesha Malik as Pakistan's first female supreme court judge on Monday.
First woman judge at Pak supreme court
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan swore in Ayesha Malik as its first female supreme court judge yesterday, a landmark occasion in a nation where activists say the law is often wielded against women. Malik attended a ceremony in the capital Islamabad where she now sits on the bench alongside 16 male colleagues at Pakistan’s highest court.“I want to congratulate Justice Ayesha Malik on becoming the first woman judge of the Supreme Court,” Prime Minister...
ISTANBUL: People walk in a square covered by snow in front of the Blue Mosque on Sunday.
Snowfall blankets Greece; Istanbul airport shut down
ATHENS/ISTANBUL: Snowfall blanketed much of Greece yesterday, closing schools, vaccination centers and parliament in Athens, causing blackouts in mountain villages and falling as far south as the island of Crete. Temperatures plummeted to -14 degrees Celsius overnight as the front dubbed ‘Elpis’ (the Greek word for hope) brought the first snow of the winter to central Athens.Parliament was suspended, schools were shut down across the greater...
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Netflix first Arabic film 'Perfect Strangers' stirs controversy
Directly after its release the first Arabic Netflix film “Perfect Strangers”(Ashab Wala Aaz) stirs wide controversy. The film was subjected to great criticism because of the ideas and scenes it houses which some considered to be inappropriate for Egyptian society, seeing that the movie contains dialogue that was not presented before in any Arabic or Egyptian movie. But at the same time it portrays the reality of the world we are living.The...
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Fashion designer Thierry Mugler dies aged 73
French designer Thierry Mugler, who reigned over fashion in the 1980s and died on Sunday, was as famous for his fantastical couture as for his blockbuster fashion shows. He was 73. Mugler's daring collections came to define the decade's power dressing, with his clothes noted for their structured and sophisticated silhouettes, showcased by his extravagant shows."I always thought that fashion was not enough on its own and that it had to be shown in...
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Kuwait FM presents Lebanon proposal to ease Gulf dispute
BEIRUT: Kuwait’s foreign minister said yesterday that he has given Lebanese authorities a list of suggested measures to be taken to ease a diplomatic rift with Gulf Arab countries. The proposal were delivered to Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati and President Michel Aoun during a visit by Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, the first to Lebanon by a senior Gulf official since a spat erupted last year.The...
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National Assembly won't have isolation room for infected MPs
KUWAIT: The Secretariat of Kuwait National Assembly decided yesterday that the parliament will have no isolation room for MPs infected with coronavirus (COVID-19) in the coming parliamentary sessions. The decision is based on the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, according to a post on the Secretariat's Twitter account. It displayed messages exchanged in their regard between National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and Minister of...
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Indian Embassy holds symposium on 'Combating COVID-19 Variants'
By Sajeev K PeterKUWAIT: Vaccination is a critical tool to tame COVID-19 strains, a panel of eminent doctors said on Saturday during a symposium on 'Combating COVID-19 Variants' organized by the Indian Embassy in association with the Indian Doctors Forum (IDF). Panelists comprising Dr Arijit Chattopadhyay, Dr Saroj Bala Grover, Dr Varkey Alexander and Dr Shanthi Alexander presented diverse aspects of the pandemic and answered questions from the...
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Six horses crowned at Arabian-Egyptian horse championship
KUWAIT: Kuwait Arabian-Egyptian Horse Beauty Championship concluded on Saturday with the honoring of the local breeders of the Straight Arabian-Egyptian horses. The six competitions of the three-day event, hosted by Bait Al-Arab track of the Arabian Horse Center, gathered 289 horses from various stud farms in Kuwait.Barrak Al-Hajeri's Dhoha Al-Hilaliya won the award of the most beautiful filly of the category of less than one year of age, while...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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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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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
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