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'Bliss and Paper', a haven for book lovers in Kuwait

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Book lovers can enjoy reading at the cozy Bliss and Paper bookstore in the heart of Kuwait City. Located in Dasman Complex, Bliss and Paper welcomes visitors daily from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm. The store opened in August 2021. Bliss and Paper encourages reading, writing and recycling. "We were a nonprofit organization for eight years. Initially we were located at Bayt Lothan, then at Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah. After that...

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‘Shamel 7’ fire drill held in Arifjan

Kuwaiti fire service, national guard, civil defense and members of the army took part in the “Shamel 7” fire drill in Arifjan on Thursday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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World breaks COVID record with 3 million daily cases

PARIS: The world registered a record-high average of more than three million coronavirus cases a day between Jan 13 and 19, fueled by the Omicron variant, an AFP tally showed yesterday. The figure has increased more than five-fold since the highly transmissible strain was detected in South Africa and Botswana in late Nov 2021. An average of 3,095,971 daily cases were reported over the past seven days, an increase of 17 percent compared with the...

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Amir leaves for Germany

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah left for Germany yesterday on a private visit. HH the Amir was seen off at the airport by HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and senior states officials. - KUNA

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Defiant Biden touts first year achievements

WASHINGTON: Joe Biden sought to reset his presidency in a marathon first year press conference Wednesday, vowing to reconnect with voters and touting successes, while delivering blunt assessments of the "disaster" facing Russia if it attacks Ukraine. "Can you think of any other president that's done as much in one year?" Biden asked, ticking off the epic struggle against COVID-19 and trillions of dollars in government funding to save the US...

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Giant coral reef found off Tahiti

PARIS: Scientists have discovered a vast reef of "pristine" rose-shaped corals apparently unharmed by climate change in deep water off the coast of Tahiti, UNESCO announced yesterday. Mapping approximately three kilometers long and up to 65 m wide, UNESCO said it was "one of the most extensive healthy coral reefs on record". The UN heritage agency said it was "highly unusual" to find healthy coral in cooler waters between 30 and 65 m deep and...

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Pig kidney transplanted to human

WASHINGTON: A US medical team yesterday announced it had carried out the second-known kidney transplant from a pig to a human, the first inside the body of a brain dead recipient. The procedure, which was described in a scientific paper, comes on the heels of the successful implantation of a porcine heart into a person earlier this month. It is hoped that advances in the field of so-called xenotransplantation, or cross-species organ donation,...

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Can US, Russia find diplomatic ‘off-ramp’ on Ukraine crisis?

KYIV: The United States has called for a diplomatic solution with Russia to resolve a crisis over Ukraine, but in public at least, the two powers remain deeply at odds. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday in Geneva as tens of thousands of Russian troops remain stationed on Ukraine’s borders.Blinken, on a solidarity visit to Kyiv on Wednesday, called on Moscow to choose the “peaceful path” on...

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Russia announces huge naval drills

MOSCOW: Russia said Thursday it would hold huge naval drills across four seas, in a new bout of saber-rattling as tensions with the West soared to new heights over the threat that Moscow would march on Ukraine. The Russian defense ministry’s announcement to deploy more than 140 warships and supporting vessels this month and in February to the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Mediterranean followed an angry condemnation from the Kremlin of what it...

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Kuwait reports 4,510 new COVID cases, two deaths

The Kuwaiti ministry of health announced on Thursday 4,510 new COVID-19 infections, 4,109 recoveries and two deaths in the last 24 hours. The ministry's official spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a statement to KUNA that total infections and recoveries reached 484,150 and 436,838 respectively. Deaths went up to 2,482, said the spokesman, revealing that there are 42 patients in ICU, 326 in COVID-19 wards and 44,830 active cases. He indicated...

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UK’s Johnson fights back after defection

LONDON: Allies of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson closed ranks Thursday after a day of high drama prompted second thoughts among some Conservatives about dethroning their embattled leader. One anti-Johnson plot by younger Tory MPs, livid at breaches of lockdowns by partying Downing Street staff, appeared to be fizzling out despite one senior backbencher telling him to his face to quit, “in the name of God”.Wednesday’s defection of...

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Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space

MOSCOW: Russia’s sole active female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, is due to travel to the International Space Station in September on a Soyuz rocket, the national space agency said yesterday. Kikina, a 37-year-old engineer, will be only the fifth professional woman cosmonaut from Russia or the Soviet Union to fly to space. Last year, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said “our beauty” Kikina would fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon as...

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