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Iraqis wanted to topple the system; taboos fell instead
BASRA: An Iraqi woman raises a placard as she takes part in an anti-government demonstration in this southern city on Feb 13, 2020. The placard reads in Arabic: "You are the revolution and you are the taboo". - AFP BAGHDAD: Mocking clerics, falling in love at rallies and mending a broken society: Even if Iraq's young protesters have failed to overthrow entrenched politicians, they have scored by shattering decades-old taboos. Since October, the...
Residents of a residential neighbourhood on the edge of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, facing Kafr Hamra, return to their homes to check the damage caused by fighting between regime forces and rebel fighters, on February 18, 2020. - Syrian troops pressed an offensive today on the country's last major rebel enclave where the mass displacement of civilians is sparking fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.nAround 900,000 people have been forced from their homes and shelters in less than three months, leaving huge numbers to sleep rough in the thick of winter. (Photo by - / AFP)
Syria presses assault amid fears over mass displacement
ALEPPO: Residents of a residential neighborhood on the edge of this northern Syrian city facing Kafr Hamra return to their homes to check the damage caused by fighting between regime forces and rebel fighters yesterday. - AFP BEIRUT: Syrian troops pressed an offensive yesterday on the country's last major rebel enclave where the mass displacement of civilians is sparking fears of a humanitarian catastrophe. Around 900,000 people have been...
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Fists fly as guards called in during Assembly session
KUWAIT: MPs are involved in a brawl during a session of the National Assembly yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: MPs yesterday were involved in fistfights, traded jibes and insults and exchanged heated arguments during a highly-charged session that at one point turned into total chaos when guards quarreled with spectators in the jam-packed gallery. Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem accused leading opposition MP Mohammad...
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600 workers employed in Kuwait stranded in China due to virus
KUWAIT: Chinese Ambassador to Kuwait Li Minggang speaks during a press conference yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: Around 600 Chinese workers are currently stranded in China as the result of a ban imposed by Kuwait on Chinese citizens as a precautionary measure to protect Kuwait against the deadly coronavirus epidemic. The workers, according to Chinese Ambassador to Kuwait Li Minggang, were all engaged in the most...
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Minister to push Kuwaitis' employment in private sector
Mariam Al-Aqeel By A Saleh KUWAIT: With the return to her office in the previous Cabinet formation, Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel started reopening the files of the manpower authority, said informed sources, noting that in order to control Kuwait's demographics, the minister's urgent priorities will include domestic helpers and work permits. The sources added in her former capacity as...
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Expats to pay KD 2.5 per visit for medical services: Dhaman
KUWAIT: Dhaman's primary healthcare center in Hawally. - KUNA KUWAIT: Dhaman Hospitals Company CEO Dr Mohammed Al-Qenae said two Dhaman centers have been completed in Hawally and Farwaniya and are ready to receive patients. Qenae also urged everyone to visit the centers and experience firsthand the quality services they provide, adding that the company is keen on offering its medical services at reasonable prices and that Dhaman will soon start...
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Two remanded in custody in Mutalaa fatal accident
By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: Two men held over a sand collapse incident in Mutlaa that left a number of fatalities recently were remanded in custody for 10 days yesterday pending investigations in the case. The two suspects, Chinese and Egyptian, face manslaughter charges in the case that forced the Public Authority for Housing Welfare to suspend operations at the Mutlaa city mega housing project until legal procedures are complete. The authority...
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KRCS launches donation drive for Syrians today
Relief workers distribute aid from Kuwait Red Crescent Society to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) plans to hold a fundraising campaign today to raise donations for Syrian refugees as they cope with the plummeting temperature. The donation drive is incumbent upon the venerable Kuwaiti charity given the misery Syrians have had to withstand in recent years, KRCS secretary general Maha Al-Barjaes said...
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Kuwait, Iran Foreign Ministers discussed regional situation during meeting: Jarallah
A general view of people in attendance. KUWAIT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif touched upon the situations in the region and the ties between the two countries during a meeting they had recently on the sidelines of Munich Security Conference, a senior Kuwaiti official said. "There is continued communications with Iran and visits by Iranian officials to Kuwait,"...
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Embassies to delay national celebrations over virus fears
KUWAIT: Minister of Health Dr Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah submitted a report during a Cabinet meeting on the latest developments of coronavirus, amid the spread of the epidemic and the rising number the deaths and the cases infected with the disease. He also offered statistics on the countries in which the disease is spreading, saying that the cases infected with the disease hit a four-fold rate during the last two weeks. The minister stressed that...
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Qatari Foreign Ministry official praises women's role in Kuwait
BRUSSELS: Lolwah Rashid Al-Kahter, Assistant Foreign Minister and Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, speaks during an event organized at the Brussels Press Club yesterday. - KUNA BRUSSELS: A top Qatari official lauded the role of women in Kuwait, in particular in civil society. "In the wider Gulf region in some countries, the status of women especially in the civil movement for example in Kuwait is really excellent,"...
Doctor checking blood sugar level with glucometer. Treatment of diabetes concept.
Diabetes main cause for sexual impotence: Specialist
Doctor checking blood sugar level with glucometer. Treatment of diabetes concept. By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: Head of the urology unit at Jaber military hospital Dr Mohammed Al-Ghanem warned that the reasons of sexual disorders (impotence) from which many men worldwide suffer may be physical or psychological. Ghanem explained that physical reasons include chronic diabetes, which affects nerves and vessels supplying reproductive organs with...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones