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Are teeth removals necessary for dental braces?
Dr Saud Al-Anezi By Dr Saud Al-Anezi, Consultant OrthodontistKUWAIT: Orthodontics (braces treatment) is a branch of dentistry which deals with problems of teeth alignment or jaws. It aims to improve the facial appearance and the smile of the individual. Removing teeth, or teeth extraction, to make space before the orthodontist starts the treatment is one of the most extensively debated topics among doctors all over the globe. The current...
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Manpower authority director meets Indian ambassador
KUWAIT: General-Director of the Public Authority of Manpower (PAM) Ahmed Al-Mousa on Monday stressed the authority's commitment to providing legal protection and ensuring an appropriate work environment for all workers in the private and domestic sectors. While receiving India's Ambassador to Kuwait Sibi George and his accompanying delegation, Mousa said Kuwait's labor market is hiring workers who serve the market and meet its needs.Mousa...
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KUWAIT: A photo taken yesterday shows parts of Kuwait City and Shuwaikh Port. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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A new regional gaming powerhouse: 'Zain esports' to boost online gaming ecosystem
KUWAIT/RIYADH/AMMAN/MANAMA: Zain Group, a leading telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces the highly transformational development of the launch of the 'Zain esports' brand, marking the beginning of a year-long calendar of large and exciting regional online esports tournaments comprised of multiple Flagship events as well as smaller, regular community tournaments with attractive cash and devices prize...
(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on November 30, 2020 showsn(L-R)Neera Tanden, former President of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jared Bernstein, former Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to US Vice President Joseph Biden, at the daily White House briefing at the White House in Washington on June 8, 2009, former Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Heather Boushey in a panel discussion about the release of a new report authored by Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on May 12, 2015 in Washington, DC, and aphoto taken on December 13, 2017 of former Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen during a briefing at the US Federal Reserve in Washington, DC. - President-elect Joe Biden on November 30, 2020 announced key members of his economic team, including Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury; Neera Tanden, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Cecilia Rouse, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; and Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey, members of the Council of Economic Advisers.nPresident-elect Joe Biden on November 30, 2020 announced key members of his economic team, including Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury; Neera Tanden, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Cecilia Rouse, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; and Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey, members of the Council of Economic Advisers.nPresident-elect Joe Biden on November 30, 2020 announced key members of his economic team, including Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury; Neera Tanden, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Cecilia Rouse, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; and Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey
Biden taps Janet Yellen to lead barrier-breaking economic team
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced key members of his economic team, including Janet Yellen (bottom right), Secretary of the Treasury; Neera Tanden (top left), Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Jared Bernstein (top right) and Heather Boushey, members of the Council of Economic Advisers. - AFP WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday he will nominate former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to lead the...
FILE PHOTO: A Debenhams store is pictured, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Harrogate, Britain August 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith/File Photo
Collapse of two UK retailers puts 25,000 jobs at risk
A Debenhams store is pictured following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Harrogate. -- Reuters LONDON: Debenhams and Topshop-owner Arcadia, two of Britain's biggest clothing retailers, stood on the brink of collapse yesterday following coronavirus fallout and fierce online competition, risking the loss of 25,000 jobs. British department store chain Debenhams said it was set to close for business save for an unlikely rescue, meaning...
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Markaz: Industries Qatar leads top GCC M&A transactions in Q3 2020
KUWAIT: Qatar's industrials sector leads the top GCC M&A transactions during Q3 2020 as per a report recently issued by the Investment Banking Department at Kuwait Financial Centre "Markaz". Industries Qatar announced they intend to acquire an additional 25 percent stake in Qatar Fertilizer Company (QAFCO) for a total consideration of $1.0 billion.QAFCO was established in 1969 as a joint venture between the Qatari government and a number of...
Olena Shcherban, Ukrainian ethnologist and historian, who studies borscht and has 365 of its unique recipes from all over Ukraine in her private collection, wearing Ukraine's traditional clothes and headdress cooks borscht in clay, pots in the wood stove in the village of Opishnya in Poltava region on November 26, 2020. - It was the beginning of October, when Ukraine announced its plan to have borscht, a dish usually made with beetroot and carrots widely recognised as part of its intangible cultural heritage. Kiev said it will submit an application to the United Nations cultural body UNESCO to set the record straight, and suddenly Russia got angry. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)
Battle over borscht: New front in Russia-Ukraine conflict
Olena Shcherban, Ukrainian ethnologist and historian, who studies borscht and has 365 of its unique recipes from all over Ukraine in her private collection, wearing Ukraine's traditional clothes and headdress cooks borscht in clay, pots in the wood stove in the village of Opishnya in Poltava region.-AFP photos Ukrainian chef Ievgen Klopotenko never expected to find himself at the center of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. But that's just...
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Pop star Rita Ora 'embarrassed' after breaking London lockdown
Rita Ora British singer Rita Ora apologized on Monday for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules after holding a 30th birthday party with friends in a London restaurant. Writing on the social media platform Instagram, Ora called the party, which took place on Saturday in Notting Hill, west London, a "serious and inexcusable error of judgment"."It was a spur of the moment decision made with the misguided view that we were coming out of lockdown and...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 25, 2020 Dr. Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. According to reports, Texas has reached over 1,220,000 cases, including over 21,500 deaths. - Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when he spotted a distraught elderly man in the Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU). (Photo by Go Nakamura / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Photo of Texas doctor comforting elderly Covid patient goes viral
Dr. Joseph Varon comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas.-AFP photos Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when he spotted a distraught elderly man in the Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU). Varon's comforting embrace of the white-haired man on Thanksgiving Day was captured by a...
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Helpers to return from Dec 7; cost of quarantine KD 270
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday decided to allow domestic helpers to start returning to the country from Dec 7, according to government spokesman Tareq Al-Mazrem. He added the Cabinet set the cost of each returning maid at KD 270 to cover quarantine expenses. The amount does not include airfare, Mazrem said.Health Minister Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah told the Council of Ministers that the number of new coronavirus cases has dropped...
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Kuwait completes inclusion into MSCI Emerging Markets Indices
HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-SabahKhalid Al-Roudhan KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait yesterday completed the Kuwaiti capital market's inclusion into the MSCI Emerging Markets Indices with the successful implementation of the first tranche of index inclusion. A total of seven listed companies - the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), Kuwait Finance House (KFH), Zain, Agility, Boubyan Bank, Mabanee and Gulf Bank - were included. The inclusion brought in...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests