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Indian embassy celebrates Diwali, Ayurveda Day

KUWAIT: Embassy of India, Kuwait celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights and Ayurveda Day on Tuesday. The day marked the birth anniversary of 'Dhanvantri' and is celebrated as Ayurveda Day. Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in India.Indian Ambassador Sibi George welcomed members of Indian diaspora, Kuwaiti guests, and people from media fraternity and persons who joined the ceremony virtually and greeted them on...

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Suad Al-Sabah's 'Dialogue of Roses and Guns' re-released

Suad Al-SabahKUWAIT: One year after censorship banning the poetry diwan 'Dialogue of Roses and Guns' which represented a quality leap in the poetry experience of Suad Al-Sabah and a clear declaration of her political principles after several editions since 1989, the book was recently released in its new shape and form. The new publication is the 22nd edition of the diwan, and is released more than 30 years after the first edition was published...

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stc visits schools as part of 'Safe Education' initiative

KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, continues its awareness activities under the national campaign 'Safe Education' aimed at providing a safe and healthy environment for education. In line with its sponsorship of the campaign, stc visited several local schools in various areas to encourage male and...

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Inflammatory bowel diseases, agonizing experience amidst treatment hopes

The gastrointestinal tract of a healthy person, showing no areas of inflammation.KUWAIT: Living with a chronic disease is a day-to-day struggle for persons who have them, especially people plagued with gastronomical disorders and/or abnormalities, who experience them in a very limiting manner. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic autoimmune group of disorders that cause two types of inflammation: Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis...

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MP targets minister with questions over 60+ expats

Abdullah Al-Salman Fares Al-OtaibiBy B IzzakKUWAIT: Opposition MP Fares Al-Otaibi yesterday asked Minister of Commerce and Industry Abdullah Al-Salman, who is also Chairman of the Public Authority for Manpower, about why he refused to implement a decision regarding residents aged 60 and above after it was...

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4-year-old Aussie girl found alive after 18-day hunt

This handout photo taken and received yesterday shows four-year-old Cleo Smith recovering in a hospital after she was found "alive and well". - AFPPERTH: A four-year-old Australian girl abducted from a campsite 18 days ago was discovered "alive and well" during a raid on a locked house yesterday, telling her shocked and elated rescuers: "My name is Cleo." Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's tent in remote Western Australia last month,...

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Biden returns home to face the music

CHANTILLY, Virginia: Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin shoots an autographed basketball into the crowd at an election night rally on Tuesday. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden returned from Europe yesterday to a firestorm over a humiliating electoral defeat for his Democratic Party - already riven with fractures that threaten to tank his sweeping domestic reforms in Congress. Amid Biden's nosediving approval...

ROME: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) speaks with US President Joe Biden (2nd left) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (2nd right) during the G20 leaders' summit in Rome on October 30, 2021. – AFP n

Erdogan's health! Turkey probes tweets

ROME: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) speaks with US President Joe Biden (2nd left) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (2nd right) during the G20 leaders' summit in Rome on October 30, 2021. – AFPISTANBUL: Turkey's cyber police yesterday launched a legal probe into "baseless" social media posts speculating about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's health. In a statement, the police said they were investigating 30 people who...

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Ethiopian capital could fall in 'months if not weeks': Rebels

MEKELE: A damaged tank stands on a road north of Mekele, the capital of Tigray. - AFPADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa could fall within "months if not weeks", an Oromo group allied with Tigrayan rebels said yesterday, as the fighters advanced southwards. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been fighting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government for a year, has claimed significant territorial gains in recent days, along...

NEW YORK: New York City Democratic Mayor-elect Eric Adams gestures to supporters during his 2021 election victory night party at the Brooklyn Marriott in New York City. – AFP n

NY elects ex-cop Adams as second ever Black mayor

NEW YORK: New York City Democratic Mayor-elect Eric Adams gestures to supporters during his 2021 election victory night party at the Brooklyn Marriott in New York City. – AFPNEW YORK: Ex-cop Eric Adams, who fought racial discrimination within the police, was elected New York's next mayor on Tuesday and will become just the second African American to lead the United States' largest city. He will take office in January, tasked with steering the...

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Iraq's protest movement seeks to find voice in the parliament

AL-NASRIYAH: Alaa Al-Rikabi, Secretary-General of the Imtidad (Extension) Party which emerged from Iraq's October 2019 protest movement, gives an interview at his home in Nasiriyah in the southern Dhi Qar province. – AFPNASIRIYAH: For the first time in Iraq, a new breed of representatives is entering parliament, born from a civil society movement fed up with the corruption that has long tarnished politics. Among the newcomers is pharmacist...

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Facebook whistleblower sits atop publicity juggernaut

LISBON: Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen delivers a speech on the opening day of the Web Summit in Lisbon. - AFPWASHINGTON: Ex-Facebook worker Frances Haugen strode on stage to roaring applause in Portugal, the latest step in a trajectory that has diverged sharply from that of other high-profile whistleblowers who wound up in exile or ruin. Haugen's leak of company records has benefited from well-oiled communications machinery, powerful...

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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP

Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation

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VARANASI: Medical students shout slogans and hold posters as they protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, in Varanasi on August 15, 2024. -- AFP

Protests sweep India over rape and murder of doctor

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Indians mark Independence Day

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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos

Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan

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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.

Pearl diving trip winds up