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Senate sinks Biden push for major voting rights reforms
WASHINGTON: US senators dealt a death blow Wednesday to President Joe Biden’s push to defend voting rights against what Democrats frame as an all-out assault by conservative states targeting racial minorities. Faced with a blockade from Republicans complaining of federal overreach, the ruling Democrats were unable to push through the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed by the House of Representatives last...
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Virus tracing highlights China inequality
BEIJING: The stark contrast between the lives of two coronavirus patients unearthed by Chinese contact tracers sparked a widespread debate yesterday over the country's entrenched wealth inequality. One patient recently infected in Beijing went skiing, shopped at Dior and watched live comedy. Another hauled construction waste through the night across China's capital, working more than a dozen odd jobs in two weeks while he searched for a missing...
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India bids farewell to 'supermum' tiger Collarwali
PENCH TIGER RESERVE, India: Indian animal lovers are in mourning over the sudden passing of a nationally famous tigress credited with repopulating a forest redoubt for her endangered kin. Collarwali, dubbed "supermum" by local press for giving birth to nearly 30 cubs, died peacefully at the weekend after an intestinal problem. Sombre conservation officers gently carried Collarwali's body onto a funeral pyre garlanded with flowers for her ritual...
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Stay or go? Dilemma facing last of the Afghan Sikhs
KABUL: The caretaker of the last Sikh temple in Kabul to regularly host open prayer surveys the cavernous hall where throngs once gathered in worship. Only a handful are left now. "Afghanistan is our country, our homeland," said Gurnam Singh. "But we are leaving out of sheer hopelessness." In the 1970s, Afghanistan's Sikh population numbered 100,000, but decades of conflict, poverty and intolerance have driven almost all of them into exile.The...
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MPs call to resolve housing problem, create more jobs
By B IzzakKUWAIT: During the National Assembly session yesterday, MPs called on the government to take extra measures to resolve the decades-old housing crisis, and pay greater attention to improving education and health services. During their debate of the Amiri Address, delivered by the prime minister at the current term's opening session in October, the lawmakers also called on authorities to create more jobs for Kuwaiti graduates by replacing...
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Speaker requests isolated room in Assembly building for infected MPs
Health minister vows special attention to special needs’ citizensKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem has asked Minister of Health Dr Khaled Al-Saeed to set up a special room at Abdullah Al-Salem Hall to isolate infected members of parliament. This came in Ghanem's speech in the follow up session yesterday that discussed a message from some members to provide a room for infected members to attend and take part in voting on...
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Kuwait reports 4,337 new COVID cases, one death 
KUWAIT: Kuwait reported 4,337 new COVID-19 cases yesterday in addition to one death and 4,063 recoveries. Meanwhile, the number of patients in ICUs increased from 37 Tuesday to 43 yesterday. The number of patients hospitalized also increased from 296 to 336, while total active cases rose from 44,158 to 44,431. The percentage of daily new cases to new tests dropped from 15 percent to 14 percent, while the percentage of recovery remained unchanged...
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Graduation ceremony held for 1,152 officers
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: More than 1,150 officers and enlisted students graduated yesterday as part of the 49th batch of recruits. These graduates will now complete the second phase of service, during which they will receive civil and military training at the national military service institute. This is the first batch of recruits without overnight stays. "This course is according to a new plan, as it was shortened to only two months without...
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Mandatory Olympics app has 'devastating' encryption flaw
BEIJING: An app all attendees of the upcoming Beijing Olympics must use has encryption flaws that could allow personal information to leak, a cyber security watchdog said Tuesday. The "simple but devastating flaw" in the encryption of the MY2022 app, which is used to monitor COVID and is mandatory for athletes, journalists and other attendees of the games in China's capital, could allow health information, voice messages and other data to leak,...
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Osaka and Barty stride closer to showdown as Nadal rolls on
MELBOURNE: Naomi Osaka played the role of smiling assassin and top seed Ashleigh Barty was ruthlessly efficient at the Australian Open yesterday as they moved closer to a potential fourth-round showdown. Rafael Nadal ramped up his march towards an unprecedented men's 21st Grand Slam crown but needed five match points to put away tenacious qualifier Yannick Hanfmann.The impressive Barty, chasing a first title at her home Slam, barely broke sweat...
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Residents over 60 face layoffs
KUWAIT: While 54,000 residents over 60 years of age without a degree wait for a final decision with regards to renewing their work permits, there has been a “wave” of layoffs of people in this category in some companies, Al-Rai reported yesterday quoting sources familiar with the situation. The sources said companies that terminated the jobs of their expat employees aged over 60 were forced to take this step in order to limit the risks of a...
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Motorist dead, another injured in Fifth Ring Road crash
KUWAIT: A motorist died and another was critically injured in an accident reported on Fifth Ring Road near Rumaithiya, Kuwait Fire Force said yesterday. Rescue teams used hydraulic equipment to free the injured driver who sustained several fractures, after which he was taken to hospital for treatment. The other driver’s body was taken to the coroner, KFF noted. An investigation was opened into the accident.
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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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NEW DELHI: In this photograph taken on May 27, 2024, lawyer Karuna Nundy speaks during an interview at her residence in New Delhi. -- AFP
Indian women campaigning to criminalize marital rape