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COVID clouds world New Year party
The world began ushering in 2022 on Friday after another tumultuous and pandemic-ridden year capped by new restrictions, soaring case numbers, and a slight glimmer of hope for better times ahead. The past 12 months saw a new US president and a fresh Adele album, the first spectator-free Olympics, and dreams of democracy from Afghanistan to Myanmar and Hong Kong crushed by authoritarian regimes.But it was the pandemic – now entering its third...
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Child rescued from 9-meter-deep hole near Mangaf Co-op
KUWAIT: Firemen rescued a child who fill in a nine-meter-deep hole near Mangaf Co-op Society, Kuwait Fire Force said yesterday. Firemen used rescue tools to help the child out of the hole, KFF said, noting that he was in a stable condition. Paramedics onsite took the kid to hospital for a medical checkup, it added.
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Residents raise concerns as rats run amok
By Chidi Emmanuel & Nawara FattahovaRats are becoming a disturbing urban problem. Parts of Maliya and Mirqab in Kuwait City are ravaged by rodents. Owing to the speed at which rats breed, a minor infestation that is not dealt with quickly can soon become a major invasion. Some abandoned and dilapidated properties and restaurants offer an ideal habitat for rats, and once they have settled in, they reproduce rapidly.These little creatures are now...
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Jahra Nature Reserve: An oasis of calm
By Nawara FattahovaAfter four years of preparatory work, the Jahra Nature Reserve is finally open to the public. Managed by the Environment Public Authority (EPA), the reserve welcomes visitors daily from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. The reserve is spread over an area of 18 square kilometers, from Khuwaisat in the north to Jaber Al-Ahmad in the south.Prior online booking is needed to visit the Jahra Reserve. Only two groups can enter at a time for a...
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Kuwait Times staff welcome 2022
By Nawara FattahovaWith the arrival of the New Year, people wish for things they hope will come true. They make resolutions for things they want to work on to improve their lives. Sometimes they succeed in achieving their resolutions, while in many cases they fail to do so. Like every year, Kuwait Times staff share our resolutions for 2022 with our readers.Nawara: I fulfilled most of my old resolutions, but I certainly didn't fulfill last year's...
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British socialite Maxwell convicted of sex trafficking
NEW YORK: British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty in New York on Wednesday of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell faces spending the rest of her life behind bars after the 12-person jury convicted her on five of the six counts she was facing, including the most serious charge of sex trafficking a minor.The conviction, just days after she turned 60 on...
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Saudi boosts pandemic measures at Mecca's Grand Mosque
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday reimposed social distancing measures at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, after recording the highest number of infections in months. Workers have returned floor markings removed on October 17 to guide people to social distance in and around the Grand Mosque-which is built around the Kaaba, the black cubic structure towards which Muslims around the world pray.Saudi authorities said they will...
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World heads into New Year facing COVID 'tsunami'
PARIS: Millions around the world braced yesterday for drastically curtailed New Year celebrations as record coronavirus cases fuelled by the Omicron variant saw the WHO warn a COVID "tsunami" threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems.Coronavirus, first detected two years ago and declared a global pandemic in March 2020, has killed more than 5.4 million people, triggered economic crises and seen societies ricochet in and out of lockdowns. The...
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Destitute 'heir' of India's emperors demands residence
KOLKATA: A destitute Indian woman who claims she is heir to the dynasty that built the Taj Mahal has demanded ownership of an imposing palace once home to the Mughal emperors. Sultana Begum lives in a cramped two-room hut nestled within a slum on the outskirts of Kolkata, surviving on a meagre pension.Among her modest possessions are records of her marriage to Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht, purported to be the great-grandson of India's last Mughal...
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School board battles open new front in US culture wars
LEVITTOWN, United States: As Joshua Waldorf was running for a third term on the Pennsbury school board in November, one particularly heated debate triggered a flood of vitriolic messages to his inbox-one of them urging him to shoot himself.In a shift mirrored in cities across America, his local council overseeing schools in the leafy suburbs of Philadelphia had unwittingly become a battleground in the politicized culture wars roiling the nation....
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Bangladesh scraps women-only beach zone after social media outcry
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Authorities in Bangladesh's main tourist resort scrapped a dedicated beach section for women and children after a social media outcry over gender segregation, officials said yesterday. On Wednesday afternoon, Cox's Bazar officials inaugurated a section of the shoreline on the world's longest natural sea beach as an exclusive zone for women and children.But hours later, the administration issued a press release saying that...
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India's tiger conservation body saw record 126 big cats deaths in 2021
NEW DELHI: India's tiger conservation body said 126 of the endangered big cats died in 2021, the most since it began compiling data a decade ago. The previous highest number of deaths per year before the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) began compiling data in 2012 was in 2016, when 121 perished.India is home to around 75 percent of the world's tigers. It is believed there were around 40,000 tigers at the time of independence in 1947...
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Kuwait expands ‘open door’ policy to virtual domain
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Minister of Municipal Affairs Dr Noura Al-Mashaan and Head of the Municipal Council Abdullah Al-Mahari inspect the Darwazat Abdulrazzaq project. – KUNA photos
Darwaza Abdulrazzaq project set to reopen
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Interior cracks down on residency violators