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Obesity: One of the biggest challenges facing public health
KUWAIT: The head of the bariatric surgery association Dr Mohammed Al-Jarallah said obesity is one of the biggest challenges facing public health in the world today, stressing that obesity changes lives and increases the probability of getting diabetes, heart disease, blood pressure, cancer, anxiety and depression. He was speaking on the occasion of World Obesity Day, which is marked on March 4 every year under the slogan "Changing Perspectives:...
KUWAIT: Embassy of the Russian Federation holds a reception on Thursday on the occasion of the Russian Federation Defender of the Motherland Day. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Russia to facilitate tourist visa application, issuance process
By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The Russian Embassy revealed that starting from March 6, the Russian Federation is updating its visa regime to facilitate the tourist visa application and issuance process for citizens of several countries including Kuwait. According to the new rules, Kuwaiti passport holders can apply for a single or double-entry tourist visa valid for three months by providing a hotel booking confirmation. The same measures apply to...
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Emotional intelligence essential at workplace
By Ghadeer GhloumKUWAIT: Emotional intelligence or emotional quotient is a wide concept that can hardly be described in limited words. However, there are some remarkable factors that reflect one's high level of EQ, such as maturity, empathy and sound judgments.What identifies an individual as emotionally intelligent?Emotionally intelligent people have self and social awareness. Self-awareness means that they are capable of understanding their...
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Safety bill: Legal but harmful
By Atyab Al-Shatti debate ensued between journalists, human rights activists and the UK government over introducing a safety bill that aims to mitigate various types of harmful content that people and children are exposed to, including cyberbullying, credit card fraud, invasion of privacy, children's exposure to adult content, ads in games related to pornography, games encouraging suicide among children and other dangerous content that...
KUWAIT: Soldiers attend military training at Camp Buehring.
Media personnel tour helicopter air assault school at Camp Buehring
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: The US Army organized a visit for local media personnel to attend soldier training of the helicopter air assault school at Camp Buehring on Thursday, as part of a 'Day in the life of American soldiers in Kuwait' tour. The tour was led by 1st Lieutenant Austin May, Public Affairs Officer for the US Army (ASG-KU), while trainer SSG Fa'aumu Sekonaia of Mobile Training Teams (MTT) gave a statement explaining the air assault...
BAKHMUT, Ukraine: A Ukrainian serviceman gives food and water to a local elderly woman in the town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. - AFP
Russian official inspects front as Kyiv struggles
MOSCOW, Russia: Russia's defense minister has inspected the frontline in east Ukraine, after the United States offered more support to Kyiv, whose forces are struggling in eastern Bakhmut. Sergei Shoigu "inspected a command post on the front" in the direction of the southern Donetsk region, the defense ministry said, without specifying exactly where or when.It put out a rare video of Shoigu travelling in a helicopter and talking to a soldier in...
ROISSY-CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT, France: This photograph shows departures terminal 1 panels following a technical failure, which impact all border controls at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, in the northeastern outskirts of Paris, on March 4, 2023. - AFP
Chaos as Paris airports hit by border control IT outage
PARIS: A computer glitch at Paris' main Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports hobbled border controls on Saturday, causing long queues for passengers. "A national breakdown of border police currently affects checkpoints at the departure and arrival of Paris-CDG and Paris-Orly. An extension of the waiting time is to be expected," Paris Airports tweeted.It was not immediately clear if other airports or sectors were affected. Images posted on social...
COVENTRY, UK: Stuart Richards from the GMB Union stands with Amazon workers outside the Amazon fulfillment centre in Coventry, central England on March 2, 2023, in a continuation of their industrial action at the depot. - AFP
'It's hard to survive': UK Amazon workers
LONDON: "Amazon won't give you anything if you don't fight for it," a union organizer shouted through a bullhorn as dozens of disgruntled workers staged a strike outside the US tech warehouse in Coventry, central England. "We're asking for a raise. One of my children has eczema, I told him to take a bath every other day, I can't pay for the hot water," Kaur, who declined to give her first name, told AFP.The 40-year-old mother of three, wearing a...
Kuwait Society for Relief inaugurates water project in Yemen. - KUNA photos
Kuwait's society inaugurates water project in Yemeni city
ADEN: Kuwait Society for Relief (KSR) has opened the project "urgent solutions to the water problem" which will benefit over 300,000 residents in Taiz city, southwestern Yemen. The project, with a production capacity of four million liters a day, has been handed over to the local authority of water and sanitation, deputy director of KSR office in Yemen, Adel Baghesh told KUNA.It was implemented in cooperation with Estijabah Foundation, a Yemeni...
KUWAIT: The waxing gibbous moon rises above Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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TUNIS: Demonstrators lift placards and national flags during an anti-government rally called for by the UGTT union. - AFP
Thousands rally against Kais Saied’s 'violent discourse'
TUNIS, Tunisia:  More than 3,000 people demonstrated against Tunisia's government on Saturday at a rally organized by the powerful UGTT trade union, which called on President Kais Saied to accept "dialogue".Saied has pushed through sweeping changes to the political system in the sole democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings, concentrating near-total power in his office since he froze parliament and sacked the government in July...
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US services activity cools less than expected in Feb: Survey
WASHINGTON: The US services sector remained resilient last month, helped by healthy demand and as employment picked up, according to survey data released Friday. The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) services index, which measures the health of a major sector of the American economy, logged a reading of 55.1 percent in February, down slightly from a month earlier.A figure above 50 signals the services sector is expanding, and the latest...
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MELBOURNE: Women walk past signage advertising Australian universities in the central business district oin this June 10, 2020 file photo. - AFP
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