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Health Ministry launches winter flu vaccination campaign
KUWAIT: Health Ministry Spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad takes a flu vaccine during a vaccination campaign launched against winter diseases at the Abdullah Center Youssef Al-Abdulhadi Clinic in Yarmouk yesterday. – KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health launched its seasonal vaccination campaign for winter against the seasonal flu and pneumococcal pneumonia. The vaccines will not protect against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) but can help...
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Kuwait Fire Force ready for rain season
KUWAIT: Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh (left) Chief of the Kuwait Fire Force Lt Gen Khalid Al-Mikrad (right) attend the event. - Kuwait Fire Force photos KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force installed several floating hydraulic water pumps in the southern artificial island of Sheikh Jaber Causeway, during a ceremony held on Wednesday in attendance of Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and State...
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Outdoor exercise is back for winter season
KUWAIT: Workout machines were refurbished at several public parks and walkways around Kuwait, in time for the outdoor winter season when moderate weather conditions allow people to exercise in the open. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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The risks of lowering the guard
By Sajeev K Peterseems complacency has taken over most of us in Kuwait these days. Have we overcome the fear of coronavirus? Has the caution we exercised in the initial months of the outbreak of the pandemic given way to a 'come what may' attitude? Are we dropping the guard? One may begin to think on these lines if you look around public places in Kuwait where people frequent these days; streets, malls and restaurants.You may see people...
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Social distancing: Word of the year
By Shakir Reshamwalaread it here first - when dictionaries start compiling lists to select the 'word of the year', 'social distancing' is likely to be the top contender. Of course it is a combination of words, but you get the drift. The term has been trending since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and is showing no signs of fading away, unlike 'deep dive', 'synergy' and other annoying buzzwords. There are other claimants to the crown...
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Photo of the Day
KUWAIT: This August 18, 2020 file photo shows people lined up - with little to no social distancing observed - to board a public transportation bus at a bus stop in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
TOPSHOT - Pro-democracy protesters give the three-finger salute as they gather in Bangkok on October 15, 2020, after Thailand issued an emergency decree following an anti-government rally the previous day. (Photo by Jack TAYLOR / AFP)
Hundreds defy Thai crackdown
BANGKOK: Pro-democracy protesters give the three-finger salute as they gather yesterday. - AFP BANGKOK: Hundreds of Thai protesters gathered in defiance of a sweeping crackdown yesterday after authorities moved to crush months of pro-democracy demonstrations by imposing emergency powers and rounding up leading activists. Protesters chanted "Prayut get out!" and "Free our friends!" as they confronted police at Ratchaprasong, a busy junction in...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 14, 2019, a Lebanese anti-government protester, draped in a national flag, sits on the rooftop of 'The Egg' buidling overlooking the Mohammed al-Amin mosque and the Martyrs square in the capital Beirut's downtown district. - Lebanon is now suffering though one of the darkest periods in its chaotic history, and soaring poverty combined with a seemingly inexorable brain drain make for a bleaker future yet. (Photo by Patrick BAZ / AFP)
Setbacks and subtle victories: One year of Lebanon protests
BEIRUT: In this file photo taken on Nov 14, 2019, a Lebanese anti-government protester, draped in a national flag, sits on the rooftop of 'The Egg' building overlooking the Mohammed Al-Amin Mosque and the Martyrs Square in the capital's downtown district. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon's protest movement has made some important gains since it burst out onto the streets a year ago, even if its revolutionary fever has died down. Demonstrations that erupted...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 11, 2019 Cypriot Parliament Speaker Demetris Syllouris attends his first trilateral meeting with his Greek and Egyptian counterparts in the Cypriot capital Nicosia. - Syllouris resigned on October 15, 2020 after he was secretly filmed allegedly trying to facilitate a passport for a fugitive investor. Syllouris insisted he was innocent of any wrongdoing but said he had decided to step down for the good of the office, after the corruption allegations broadcast by Al Jazeera tarnished Cyprus's image as a European Union member. (Photo by Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)
Cyprus speaker resigns over passports scandal
Demetris Syllouris NICOSIA: The speaker of the Cypriot parliament resigned yesterday after he was secretly filmed allegedly trying to facilitate a passport for a fugitive investor. Demetris Syllouris insisted he was innocent of any wrongdoing but said he had decided to step down for the good of the office, after the corruption allegations broadcast by Al Jazeera tarnished Cyprus's image as a European Union member."I have not violated the law in...
Released prisoners walk toward a plane of the International Red Cross on the tarmac of an airport in Yemen's government-held city of Seiyun, in the eastern province of Hadhramaut, as the war-torn country begins swapping 1,000 prisoners in a complex operation overseen by the International Committee of the Red Cross, rebel officials said. - The exchange, agreed after a week of negotiations in Switzerland last month, involves the release of 1,081 prisoners over two days, the largest number since the conflict erupted in 2014. (Photo by - / AFP)
Hundreds of fighters head home in Yemen prisoner exchange
SEIYUN, Yemen: Released prisoners walk towards a plane of the International Red Cross on the tarmac of an airport in this government-held city in the eastern province of Hadhramaut yesterday. - AFP SANAA: A landmark prisoner exchange between the government and Houthi rebels began yesterday, with hundreds of combatants heading home on flights crisscrossing Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The swap is a rare sign of progress in the process to end the...
Supporters cheer and hold up signs as the US president speaks at a Make America Great Again campaign event at Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines, Iowa on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP)
Trump, Biden in competing town halls with president in uphill battle
DES MOINES: Supporters cheer and hold up signs as the US president speaks at a Make America Great Again campaign event at Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday.-AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will participate in dueling town halls instead of clashing face-to-face in their second debate, as the US president seeks to jolt his struggling campaign 19 days before the election. The split screen...
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Trump's teen son Barron caught coronavirus, first lady reveals
In this file photo taken on August 27, 2020, US First Lady Melania Trump (left) looks at her son Barron Trump after US President Donald Trump delivered his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's teenage son Barron contracted the coronavirus, First Lady Melania Trump revealed Wednesday in a shocking piece of news underlining how much the...
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A helicopter flied over burning oil fields which were set on fire by Iraqi soldiers before they retreated from Kuwait.
How Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait upended lives of expatriates
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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk on the newly built walkway in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian birr weakened by 28 percent against the dollar this week after the central bank adopted a market-determined foreign exchange rate. – AFP
Ethiopian authorities crack down on price hikes after currency float
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KUWAIT: Oil wells were set ablaze by Iraqi troops. – KUNA
Kuwait marks 34th invasion anniversary, remembers support
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(Left) Iranians take part in a funeral procession for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. (Right) Hezbollah fighters and mourners carry the casket of slain top commander Fuad Shukr during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on Aug 1, 2024. - AFP photos
Hamas, Hezbollah vow revenge
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Being in Kuwait during invasion: Soldier’s sister shares story