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KUWAIT: Adnan Khalifa Al-Rashid (second from left) attends the Kuwait Journalists Association's general assembly meeting yesterday.n

Kuwait Journalists Association elects new board members

KUWAIT: Adnan Khalifa Al-Rashid (second from left) attends the Kuwait Journalists Association's general assembly meeting yesterday.KUWAIT: Kuwait Journalists Association's (KJA) general assembly unanimously approved the board's administrative and financial reports for 2020, and the estimated budget for 2021, as well as Al-Buzaie and Partners as auditors for 2021. The general assembly was held Monday at KJA's temporary premises in Shuwaikh.The...

KUWAIT: Health Assurance Hospitals Company (DHAMAN) and Kuwait Society for the Handicapped (KSH) officials pose for a group photo during the signing ceremony.n

DHAMAN signs deal with Kuwait Society for Handicapped

KUWAIT: Health Assurance Hospitals Company (DHAMAN) and Kuwait Society for the Handicapped (KSH) officials pose for a group photo during the signing ceremony.KUWAIT: Health Assurance Hospitals Company (DHAMAN) signed a cooperation agreement with the Kuwait Society for the Handicapped (KSH) to provide primary healthcare services for persons with severe disabilities who reside at the Association. On this occasion, DHAMAN CEO Thamer Arab, said that...

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Society seeks to cover dialysis costs for 1,000 patients

Khaled bin SabtKUWAIT: Director of Kuwait Humanitarian Friendship Society Khaled bin Sabt said the "Khairna fi Kuwaitna" (our good is in our Kuwait) campaign, which is dedicated to help financially struggling kidney patients, will continue until the end of October.The goal of the campaign is to cover expenses of kidney dialysis for 1,000 patients, he said. Donations will be used to cover the patients' dialysis sessions, he noted, adding that...

KUWAIT: 'The Spread of Panic' miniature deals with COVID-19 chaos. The artwork is owned by the Khaleeji Art Museum. - KUNA photosn

Kuwaiti artist evokes social awareness, activism through contemporary miniatures

KUWAIT: 'The Spread of Panic' miniature deals with COVID-19 chaos. The artwork is owned by the Khaleeji Art Museum. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: At first glance, miniatures created by artist Dana Al-Rashid seem to belong to a different era; however, with a keen eye on details, one cannot help but notice the contemporary aesthetics, evoking a sense of social awareness and activism on significant issues in Kuwait. From the documentation of now-demolished...

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem attend the opening of the second session of the 16th legislative term yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat n

Amir opens Assembly term amid optimism over national dialogue

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem attend the opening of the second session of the 16th legislative term yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatBy B IzzakKUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday opened the new term of the National Assembly amid optimism resulting from the outcome of the national dialogue to resolve political disputes. Unlike the...

Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thanin

Qatar amir pledges 'equal citizenship'

Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-ThaniDOHA: Qatar's amir pledged "equal citizenship" yesterday after some people were excluded from participating in the country's first legislative elections, sparking rare debate in the wealthy Gulf country. Only descendants of Qataris who were citizens in 1930 were eligible to vote and run for 30 of the 45 seats in this month's Shura Council polls, disqualifying members of families naturalized since...

A US Navy Martin UAV drone flies over Gulf waters as Royal Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) Abdulrahman Al Fadhel takes part in joint naval exercise between the US 5th Fleet Command and Bahraini forces yesterday. – AFP n

US, Bahrain conduct first drone drills

A US Navy Martin UAV drone flies over Gulf waters as Royal Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) Abdulrahman Al Fadhel takes part in joint naval exercise between the US 5th Fleet Command and Bahraini forces yesterday. – AFPMANAMA: The US and Bahrain navies conducted yesterday a joint exercise at sea, launching a series of drills integrating unmanned systems into regional maritime operations. The US Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, announced last month...

MOSCOW: A serviceman of Russia's emergencies ministry disinfects Moscow's Savelovsky railway station yesterday amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. - AFP n

COVID cases, deaths rising again in Europe

MOSCOW: A serviceman of Russia's emergencies ministry disinfects Moscow's Savelovsky railway station yesterday amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. - AFPPARIS: COVID infections and deaths are on the rise again in Europe, with Russia, Ukraine and Romania registering the highest fatalities on the continent, an AFP tally showed yesterday. About 1,672,000 new cases have been registered on the continent over the past week, an average of about...

KHARTOUM: Sudanese youths flash victory signs by a roadblock made of burning tires yesterday as they protest a military coup that overthrew the transition to civilian rule. - AFP n

Sudanese stand ground in protests against coup

KHARTOUM: Sudanese youths flash victory signs by a roadblock made of burning tires yesterday as they protest a military coup that overthrew the transition to civilian rule. - AFPKHARTOUM: Angry Sudanese stood their ground yesterday in street protests against a military coup which has been condemned internationally, and raised fears for the fate of its civilian prime minister. But at a news conference yesterday the country's top general Abdel...

BALA MURGHAB: Photo shows a man walking as the sun sets at the Jamal Khan village of Bala Murghab district in Badghis province. Drought stalks the parched fields around the remote Afghan district of Bala Murghab, where climate change is proving a deadlier foe than the country's recent conflicts. - AFP n

Asia suffers hottest year on record

BALA MURGHAB: Photo shows a man walking as the sun sets at the Jamal Khan village of Bala Murghab district in Badghis province. Drought stalks the parched fields around the remote Afghan district of Bala Murghab, where climate change is proving a deadlier foe than the country's recent conflicts. - AFPGENEVA: Asia suffered its hottest year on record in 2020, the United Nations said yesterday ahead of the COP26 summit, with extreme weather taking...

MENLO PARK: Photo shows the Facebook 'like' sign at Facebook's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California. - AFP n

Facebook removes Brazil leader's video linking COVID shots to AIDS

MENLO PARK: Photo shows the Facebook 'like' sign at Facebook's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California. - AFPBRASILIA: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro found himself in social media time-out Monday after his video warning of a supposed link between COVID-19 vaccines and AIDS triggered action by Facebook and YouTube. Facebook removed the offending video, while YouTube went further, suspending the far-right leader for one week in...

LANZHOU: Residents wait to undergo nucleic acid tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a middle school in Lanzhou, in China's northwestern Gansu province. - AFP n

China locks down a city of 4 million over COVID-19 cases

LANZHOU: Residents wait to undergo nucleic acid tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a middle school in Lanzhou, in China's northwestern Gansu province. - AFPBEIJING: China placed a city of four million people under lockdown yesterday, ordering them not to leave home except in emergencies, in a bid to eradicate a COVID cluster of just a few dozen confirmed cases. Beijing imposed strict border controls after the coronavirus was first detected in...

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BAGRAM: Taleban military vehicles parade to celebrate the third anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan at Bagram Air Base on Aug 14, 2024. - AFP

Military show marks 3 yrs of Taleban rule

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah preside over a Cabinet weekly meeting on Tuesday at Bayan Palace. - KUNA

Cabinet mourns Sheikh Salem Al-Ali

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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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