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Muslim workers break their fast at a market in Kuwait City on April 16, 2023, during the holy month of Ramadan. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Iftar break at Kuwait’s Mubarakiya Market
KUWAIT: Mubarakiya Market is bustling with life during Ramadan. And near iftar time, it is more alive than ever. Restaurants are filled with customers who take a break and gather to break their fast in the market that has served as the beating heart of Kuwait City for generations.And while shoppers leave shops empty to break their fast, workers take that moment to gather for an iftar meal before going back to work until the early hours of the...
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Jazeera Airways hosts children from KACCH and BACCH
KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways, Kuwait’s leading low cost carrier hosted a total of 100 children from Kuwait Association for the Care of Children in Hospital and Bayt Abdullah Children’s Hospice (KACCH and BACCH) along with their families at the National Geographic Ultimate Explorer in Assima Mall. Together, KACCH and BACCH operate child life programs at hospitals in Kuwait providing specialized child life and therapeutic play programs for children...
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Deputy FM receives Bangladesh’s envoy
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi on Monday met with Bangladesh Ambassador to Kuwait Major General Md Ashikuzzaman at the ministry’s headquarters. The ambassador delivered a letter addressed to Kuwait Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah from Bangladesh counterpart Dr A K Abdul Momen. The letter highlights bilateral relations and ways to boost them in various fields. - KUNA
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Kuwait and Ukraine: 30 years of sustainable multifaceted dialogue
By Dr Oleksandr Balanutsa Ambassador of Ukraine to KuwaitToday, Ukraine and Kuwait mark a very special day – the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our friendly countries. On behalf of our Embassy, I sincerely congratulate Kuwaiti friends and partners on this highly symbolic occasion. Throughout these years of building strong ties, we have managed to achieve great results in the mutually beneficial political,...
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56 percent of Kuwaiti suffer from vitamin D deficiency
By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Vitamin D is an essential nutrient that plays a crucial role in maintaining the health of bones, teeth and muscles. According to an awareness campaign launched by Kuwait Medical Student Association, 56 percent of Kuwaiti people suffer from vitamin D deficiency, based on studies. The association revealed that vitamin D deficiency is important and is considered an essential factor for the absorption of calcium and phosphorus...
The minister of health poses with officials and paramedics during his tour to Bilal bin Rabah Mosque.
Mobile clinics to serve worshippers during final days of Ramadan: MoH
KUWAIT: Kuwait authorities secured 27 mobile medical clinics with the required equipment and staff to operate during prayers in the last ten days of Ramadan throughout the country, Minister of Health Dr Ahmad Al-Awadhi said Sunday. The announcement came during a tour to the Grand Mosque and Bilal bin Rabah Mosque to inspect the medical preparations for these days, namely the 27th of the fasting month. The clinics, said Awadhi, are staffed with...
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Information minister to study media proposals
KUWAIT: Minister of Information, State Minister for Youth Affairs Abdelrahman Al-Mutairi received Kuwait Journalist Association Chairman of the Board Adnan Al-Rashid and a delegation that included Secretary Jassim Kamal, Treasurer Dhairan Aba Al-Khail and Board Member Abdelrahman Al-Alyan. The two sides discussed several KJA requests and proposals that aim at improving the mission of Kuwaiti Journalism and strengthening its leading role at the...
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Donations for defaulting debtors exceed $ 1.7 m
KUWAIT: The sum of donations for aiding defaulting debtors has exceeded KD 517,000 ($ 1.7 million) since the launch of the national campaign to relieve this segment of the society. Spokesman of the unified government application for electronic services (Sahel) Yousef Kadhem said in remarks to KUNA that much more donations are expected. He lauded the citizens who have rushed in large numbers to relieve debt-burdened people in line with the...
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The major players in gaming industry
Video game companies are fighting it out for a slice of an industry worth an estimated $300 billion, with a series of acquisitions leaving four giants and a clutch of feisty independents. Regulators are still poring over Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the biggest buyout in video game history, and on Monday Japan's Sega said it would buy the Finnish maker of "Angry Birds" for more than $770 million.Tencent: Global number...
(KARUIZAWA: (Clockwise from up) Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Deputy Secretary-General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Enrique Mora, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a photo at the start of the first working session of a G7 Foreign ministers’ meeting. – AFP
G7 offer common front on China
KARUIZAWA: For G7 diplomats meeting in the Japanese resort town of Karuizawa, unity was the name of the game on Monday, with ministers lining up to insist there is no daylight between them on China policy. The two days of talks are taking place under the long shadow cast by controversial remarks from French President Emmanuel Macron, who last week suggested Europe should avoid "crises that aren't ours". From the opening remarks of Monday's first...
AS SUWAYDAH: A man walks past the sign of Soueida near Jarablus, in the north-east of Syria's Aleppo province, on April 17, 2023, following a US helicopter raid on an Islamic State group leader in the village. – AFP
US helicopter raid in Syria targets senior IS group leader: Centcom
BEIRUT: A US helicopter raid on Monday targeted a senior Islamic State group leader in Syria suspected of plotting attacks in Europe and the Middle East, US Central Command said. “US Central Command forces conducted a unilateral helicopter raid in northern Syria in the early morning... targeting a senior ISIS Syria leader and operational planner,” Centcom said in a statement, using another acronym for IS. The target of the strike was...
Photo shows US Navy the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) conducting routine operations in the South China Sea. The US Navy said its guided-missile destroyer the USS Milius had sailed through the Taiwan Strait in a 'freedom of navigation' operation carried out days after China staged massive war games. – AFP
US warship sails through Taiwan Strait days after China war games
TAIPEI: A US warship sailed through the waters separating Taiwan and mainland China, the US Navy said, days after Beijing staged war games around the self-ruled island. Led by the United States, multiple Western navies regularly conduct “freedom of navigation operations” to assert the international status of regional waterways such as the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. The USS Milius guided-missile destroyer “conducted a routine...
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