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Kuwaiti urgent aid convoy arrives in Gaza Strip: KRCS
GAZA: A Kuwait urgent humanitarian aid convoy carrying medical supplies arrived in the Gaza Strip, said Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) yesterday. In a statement to the press, KRCS Director of Disaster and Emergency Management, Yousef Al-Maraj affirmed that the society has provided about 85 tons of food, medical supplies and wheelchairs to the Palestinian Red Crescent.Maraj expressed the society's readiness to provide more relief aid through...
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT - MARCH 17, 2017: Jewellery shop at the Souq in Kuwait City
How new sale regulations will affect buying gold in Kuwait
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Abdullah Al-Salman issued a new ministerial decision earlier this week regarding precious handmade crafts and jewelry, imposing new regulations, namely tagging each displayed piece with a price. The precious jewelry commercial shops should tag the piece they sell with fixed price, and the price should be registered in the shop's commercial record, the ministry explained.The...
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Early training key to children's dental health
By Ben GarciaAre you brushing your teeth regularly? How many times daily? Why is it necessary for children to visit a dentist? These questions and more were answered by Dr Sumant Mishra, Pediatric Dentist at the Ministry of Health, during an interview with Kuwait Times. Dr Mishra said oral dental hygiene is as important as other health issues."You have to care about dental and oral hygiene because it affects you as a human and your ability to eat...
YASSER AHMAD AL-ZAYYAT-KUWAIT TIMES
Meet the photojournalists of Kuwait
Yasser Ahmad Al-Zayyat - Kuwait TimesBy Nawara FattahovaThe job of a photojournalist can be challenging and even dangerous. Capturing the moments when flood waters overwhelm a highway, when a military invades a country, when a group of alleged terrorists engage in a shootout with police takes grit, courage and incredible amounts of patients. Kuwait Times spoke with some of the country's longest serving and most well-known news photographers to...
MELBOURNE: People queue at a vaccination center in Melbourne yesterday after five million people in Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown following another COVID-19 virus outbreak. - AFPn
Drug-makers hunt for a pill to cure COVID
MELBOURNE: People queue at a vaccination center in Melbourne yesterday after five million people in Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown following another COVID-19 virus outbreak. - AFPWASHINGTON: Prevention is better than cure-but when it comes to COVID, what happens when people can't get the vaccine, don't want it, or they're immune suppressed and it fails to stop infection? The hunt is on for a coronavirus treatment that can...
NGASKI, Nigeria: Men carry the body of a man out of the water in Ngaski, Nigeria. - AFP
More than 150 feared drowned in Nigeria boat tragedy
NGASKI, Nigeria: Men carry the body of a man out of the water in Ngaski, Nigeria. - AFPKANO, Nigeria: More than 150 people were feared drowned in northwest Nigeria on Wednesday after an overloaded boat ferrying passengers to a market sank in the Niger River, local officials said. The boat was travelling between central Niger state and Wara in northwest Kebbi state when it sank, National Inland Waterways Authority local manager Yusuf Birma told...
GENEVA: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is seen on a giant screen delivering her speech remotely at the opening of a UN Human Rights Council emergency meeting on occupied Palestinian territory and East Jerusalem, in Geneva yesterday.-AFP n
Zionist attacks on Gaza may constitute 'war crimes': UN
GENEVA: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is seen on a giant screen delivering her speech remotely at the opening of a UN Human Rights Council emergency meeting on occupied Palestinian territory and East Jerusalem, in Geneva yesterday. - AFPGENEVA: Zionist's recent deadly air strikes on Gaza may constitute war crimes, the UN rights chief said yesterday, as countries discussed launching a broad, international...
KOLKATA: Waves lash over onto a damaged shoreline after Cyclone Yaas hit India's eastern coast in the Bay of Bengal, at a beach in Shankarpur, some 180 km from Kolkata yesterday. — AFPn
Latest India cyclone kills nine, thousands homeless
KOLKATA: Waves lash over onto a damaged shoreline after Cyclone Yaas hit India's eastern coast in the Bay of Bengal, at a beach in Shankarpur, some 180 km from Kolkata yesterday. — AFPDIGHA, India: Thousands of people were homeless yesterday after a cyclone battered COVID-ravaged India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing nine people including four children. Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they...
ISLAMABAD: In this picture taken on May 19, 2021, Pakistani nationals, wearing facemasks wait in a queue to apply for a visa outside Afghanistan's embassy in Islamabad. - AFPn
Afghanistan unlikely coronavirus stopover for Pakistani workers
ISLAMABAD: In this picture taken on May 19, 2021, Pakistani nationals, wearing facemasks wait in a queue to apply for a visa outside Afghanistan's embassy in Islamabad. - AFPISLAMABAD: Afghanistan's capital has become an unlikely pandemic transit route for Pakistanis desperate to reach the riches of Saudi Arabia despite deteriorating security and the threat of bomb blasts. With most Gulf flights from Pakistan cancelled as the country is added to...
NEW DELHI: Delhi police personnel sit outside a gate of the Twitter India's office at Crescent building in New Delhi as police served a notice at Twitter's offices over flagged governments tweets as 'manipulated media' a day before. - AFPn
Twitter slams Indian police 'intimidation', new IT rules
NEW DELHI: Delhi police personnel sit outside a gate of the Twitter India's office at Crescent building in New Delhi as police served a notice at Twitter's offices over flagged governments tweets as 'manipulated media' a day before. - AFPNEW DELHI: The Indian government's battle with social media giants escalated yesterday with Twitter accusing the police of "intimidation" and slamming new IT rules that have also alarmed its peers and privacy...
A resident receives the Anhui Zhifei Longcom COVID-19 vaccine in Linquan county, Fuyang city, in China's eastern Anhui province. - AFPn
China slams US intelligence community over virus probe
A resident receives the Anhui Zhifei Longcom COVID-19 vaccine in Linquan county, Fuyang city, in China's eastern Anhui province. - AFPBEIJING: China hit out at the "dark history " of the US intelligence community yesterday, after President Joe Biden ordered a probe into the COVID-19 origins which threatens to set the course for relations between world's top economies. Washington is reviewing its diplomatic position with China on issues spanning...
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) flanked by Alison Power, Director of Operations visits Colchester hospital in Colchester, eastern England yesterday.-AFPn
UK PM hits back after ex-aide alleges lies and chaos
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) flanked by Alison Power, Director of Operations visits Colchester hospital in Colchester, eastern England yesterday.-AFPLONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday denied overseeing the needless deaths of many thousands of COVID patients, after his former chief advisor alleged the government's pandemic response was undermined by lies and incompetence. Johnson declined to say whether...
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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
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