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The legacy continues
By Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan Editor-in-Chief Sixty years is a long time for any business, but for the newspaper business, especially in today's climate, it is a lifetime. A remarkable lifetime. When my father, Yousuf Saleh Al-Alyan, started Kuwait Times in 1961, his mission was straightforward: Provide the English-speaking community with a reliable source of news and information about Kuwait. He also understood that journalism, at its...
Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Touring Kuwait's iconic towers
Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKuwait Towers stands as the undisputed national symbol and one of the most recognizable landmarks in Kuwait, an embodiment of the nation's dramatic economic and urban development after the discovery of oil. Today, the Towers have become an integral element of the Kuwait City skyline, occupying a focal position on the seafront along Arabian Gulf Road. Known to residents fondly as "Al Abraj" (simply the Towers), they are...
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MP targets PAM with questions on rules, property ownership
By B IzzakKUWAIT: MP Saleh Al-Mutairi yesterday targeted the Public Authority of Manpower and its chairman with a series of questions about regulations and properties owned by its senior employees. In his questions addressed to Commerce and Industry Minister Abdullah Al-Salman, who oversees the authority, Mutairi asked if the minister has recommended to the Cabinet to renew the tenure of the authority director for a fresh term, although he has...
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A momentous journey
By Abdellatif Sharaa Today marks the 60th anniversary of our beloved Kuwait Times. This is the place where I have spent many hours and days; a place that gave me the opportunity to learn how states are run; a place that gave me the opportunity to meet, speak with and pose questions to dignitaries from various parts of the world. Kuwait Times gave me the opportunity to participate in very important events, particularly those that had to do...
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Work less, achieve more
By Sahar Moussa Karoshi is a Japanese word, which means ‘death from overwork’— it was invented in the 1970s to describe deaths caused by work-related stresses and pressures. Many people worldwide are obliged to work long hours and sometimes do two jobs in order to pay their rent and children’s school fees and put food on the table; unfortunately, they end up spending too much time in the office away from their loved ones, just to provide...
Photo taken on Sept 21, 2021 shows the full moon, seen from Kuwait City. - Photo by Asad/Xinhuann
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Photo taken on Sept 21, 2021 shows the full moon, seen from Kuwait City. - Photo by Asad/Xinhua
DEBARK, Ethiopia: People who fled the war from May Tsemre, Addi Arkay and Zarima gather around in a temporarily built internally displaced people (IDP) camp to receive their first bags of wheat from the World Food Program (WFP) in Debark.- AFP n
'Silent killing': Starvation stalks Tigray
DEBARK, Ethiopia: People who fled the war from May Tsemre, Addi Arkay and Zarima gather around in a temporarily built internally displaced people (IDP) camp to receive their first bags of wheat from the World Food Program (WFP) in Debark.- AFPADDIS ABABA: Mothers in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray region describe feeding leaves to their children in a desperate bid to keep them alive. As they move from place to place, dodging fighting and searching...
BEIRUT: Magalie Eid, a volunteer operator, answers calls at Embrace, an NGO which runs a suicide-prevention hotline, in Lebanon's capital Beirut. - AFP n
People have lost hope: Lebanon's only suicide hotline inundated
BEIRUT: Magalie Eid, a volunteer operator, answers calls at Embrace, an NGO which runs a suicide-prevention hotline, in Lebanon's capital Beirut. - AFPBEIRUT: The phones at Lebanon's only suicide hotline hardly ever stop ringing as people grow more and more desperate in the face of a financial downturn that has spurred a mental health crisis. In one call, a father says he is thinking of taking his own life because he is unable to feed his...
KABUL: A Taleban fighter stands guard along a street near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul yesterday. - AFP n
Recognize the Taleban? World powers face Afghan dilemma
KABUL: A Taleban fighter stands guard along a street near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul yesterday. - AFPPARIS: The international community faces a growing dilemma over whether to recognize the Taleban as the rulers of Afghanistan, weighing distaste on the vision of the Islamist group with the need for stability. Since the August 15 takeover of Kabul by the Taleban, which dislodged the pro-Western government, world powers have opened up channels of...
CARBIS BAY: In this file photo US President Joe Biden (left) and France's President Emmanuel Macron speak after the family photo at the start of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. - AFP n
US and France leaders try to defuse submarine row
CARBIS BAY: In this file photo US President Joe Biden (left) and France's President Emmanuel Macron speak after the family photo at the start of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. - AFPPARIS: US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron had a "friendly" phone call Wednesday to defuse a deep row over submarine sales to Australia, promising to meet in person to repair the transatlantic relationship. The call, which the...
KIEV: In this file photo, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (center) and his wife Olena together with members of his crew react at The Olympic Stadium in Kiev, with the chief aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. - AFP n
Ukraine adopts law limiting oligarchs after gun attack
KIEV: In this file photo, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (center) and his wife Olena together with members of his crew react at The Olympic Stadium in Kiev, with the chief aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. - AFPKIEV: Ukraine's parliament yesterday passed a law meant to reduce the influence of oligarchs in the country a day after an attack on a top presidential aide that officials said could have been a retaliation to the...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation's president (not in picture) as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin. - AFP n
Fears of hole in EU heart as 'Queen of Europe' departs
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation's president (not in picture) as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin. - AFPBRUSSELS: Angela Merkel's exit from the stage is sparking fears of a hole at the heart of the European Union during challenging times - but there are also hopes for a wind of change. Tributes have been growing for the German...
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