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Search on for Jahra child rapist
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives are searching for a man who kidnapped an Egyptian child from a Jahra public park, raped him, then brought back to where he kidnapped him. The 10-year-old boy was reportedly playing in the park with his family, when the suspect kept an eye on him. As the child went further from his family, the suspect lured him to the outside, put him in his car, then took him to an isolated area where he raped him before bringing him...
Muna Al-Fuzai
Visa traders
Muna Al-Fuzai I usually receive via email inquiries or complaints about the visa and residence system in Kuwait. I do not have the answers, because this issue in Kuwait is left to the sponsor. The sponsor decides the fate of the worker and agrees or refuses and sometimes bargains until the worker feels helpless and is forced to accept the conditions or complain to the authorities.I believe that the Public Authority for Manpower is trying to...
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Losing a pet
Nawara Fattahova By Nawara FattahovaA pet is not just an animal - it's a member of the family. When a pet dies, it hurts and those who don't understand this, who don't have pets can seem heartless or cruel for lacking empathy. I fell in love with sugar gliders even before adopting them. I always wanted one, though they are not really meant to be pets. But my mom refused, she did not want pets in the house. Then one day a friend told me her...
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Lampposts on Gulf road seen at sunset. Photo by Mustafa Albader/KUNA
Rafael Nadal of Spain (R) holds his trophy after winning an exhibition game against compatriot David Ferrer, to inaugurate the Rafa Nadal Academy Kuwait, at Shaikh Jaber Al Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah International Tennis Complex in the Kuwaiti capital, on February 5, 2020. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)
Rafa Nadal Academy inaugurated in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Rafael Nadal of Spain (right) holds his trophy after winning an exhibition game against compatriot David Ferrer, to inaugurate the Rafa Nadal Academy Kuwait, at Shaikh Jaber Al Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah International Tennis Complex in the Kuwaiti capital on February 5, 2020. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah International Tennis Complex located in Al-Zahraa has been inaugurated and Rafa...
A worker wearing a protective facemask transfers bags of chemical fertilizer that will be exported at a port in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province on January 31, 2020, during the virus outbreak in Hubei's city of Wuhan. - China's manufacturing activity slipped in January, official data showed on January 31, 2020, as the country grapples with a new virus that has claimed more than 200 lives. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
China to halve tariffs on $75bn of US imports
NANTONG, China: A worker wearing a protective facemask transfers bags of chemical fertilizer that will be exported at a port in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province. China yesterday said it would halve tariffs on $75 billion-worth of US imports as part of its trade truce with Washington.-AFP BEIJING: China yesterday said it would halve tariffs on $75 billion-worth of US imports as part of its trade truce with Washington and as officials...
Mostra di Leonardo
Da Vinci's Interactive museum .. new gateway in Florence
Mostra di Leonardo A permanent interactive museum has recently opened for public in Florence, includes the most prominent creations of renowned artist Leonardo Da Vinci, not only in the field of art but in science and technology among others. The museum, which is located between Galleria dell'Accademia and Museum of Opera of Saint Maria of Fiore, in one of the ancient palaces, built in 1513, features invention models, designs and reproduced art...
A worker uses a sewing machine at Ferrara Manufacturing, a company founded more than 30 years ago in the Garment District of New York City, on January 16, 2020, days before New York Fashion Week (NYFW). - Sewing machines hum and steam comes off irons as thousands of workers, mostly Asian and Latino migrants, make clothes in the few surviving workshops of New York's threatened garment district. The small neighborhood, nestled amid skyscrapers close to Times Square, has lost 95 percent of its workforce since its heyday in the 1950s, when it employed hundreds of thousands of people. Exorbitant rate increases have forced many manufacturers to move production abroad; not to China but to Paris, Milan, and London. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
Garment district decline threatens fabric of New York
A worker uses a sewing machine at Ferrara Manufacturing. Sewing machines hum and steam comes off irons as thousands of workers, mostly Asian and Latino migrants, make clothes in the few surviving workshops of New York's threatened garment district. In the weeks leading up to New York Fashion Week, the factories are abuzz with activity as they get high-quality garments ready for the catwalk, but for how much longer? The small neighborhood,...
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Hatidze, the Macedonian beekeeper charming Hollywood
(From left) Macedonian film editor Atanas Georgiev, Macedonian director Tamara Kotevska and Macedonian director Ljubo Stefanov nominees for "Honeyland" attend the Oscar Week: Documentary at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in Beverly Hills, California.-AFP Watch out at the Oscars on Sunday for Hatidze Muratova. You can't miss her. She will be the only Turkish-Macedonian peasant in the starry audience at the Dolby Theatre in...
Ground personnel carry NASA astronaut Christina Koch shortly after landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan, on February 6, 2020. - NASA's Christina Koch returned to Earth safely Thursday having shattered the spaceflight record for female astronauts after almost a year aboard the International Space Station. Koch touched down at 0912 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency. (Photo by Sergei ILNITSKY / POOL / AFP)
US astronaut returns to Earth after longest mission by woman
Ground personnel carry NASA astronaut Christina Koch shortly after landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan, yesterday. -AFP ALMATY: NASA's Christina Koch returned to Earth safely yesterday after shattering the spaceflight record for female astronauts with a stay of almost 11 months aboard the International Space Station. Koch touched down at 0912 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space, along...
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Google Maps marks 15-year milestone with new features
SAN FRANCISCO: Google Maps marked 15 years on the road yesterday with the rollout of new features for the popular mobile app which has helped move navigation into the digital age. The tech giant is marking the occasion with a new look and product updates, vice president of product Dane Glasgow said in a blog post. Google has dominated the market for navigation apps in recent years but the latest updates appear aimed at staying ahead of...
TOPSHOT - The Diamond Princess cruise ship, with over 3,700 people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new coronavirus, is seen through a fence while anchored at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port on February 6, 2020. - Thousands of people were stranded aboard two cruise ships in Asia on February 6, quarantined by officials desperate to stem the spread of a deadly virus that has killed hundreds in China and spread panic worldwide. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
Coronavirus death toll hits 563
YOKOHAMA: The Diamond Princess cruise ship, with over 3,700 people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new coronavirus, is seen through a fence while anchored at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port yesterday. - AFP SHANGHAI: China's fast-moving coronavirus spread among passengers of a quarantined Japanese cruise liner yesterday and dragged down production at more global businesses, as scientists across the world searched for a...
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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