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KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah chairs a Cabinet meeting on Monday. – KUNA

Cabinet launches national campaign against drugs

By B Izzak and KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet has decided to launch a national anti-drug campaign at the behest of HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. The decision was made during the Cabinet's weekly meeting held at Seif Palace on Monday, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Barrak Al-Sheetan in a statement following the meeting.The anti-drug campaign will be based on raising public awareness,...

SAO PAULO: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks after winning the presidential run-off election on Oct 30, 2022. - AFPn

Bolsonaro silent as Lula makes stunning return

RIO DE JANEIRO: After a stunning political comeback and massive victory party, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faced a tough to-do list Monday - complicated by incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged defeat. Elected Sunday by the narrowest margin in Brazil's modern history -- 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent - charismatic but tarnished ex-president Lula will now return for an unprecedented third term at the helm of...

MORBI, India: Indian rescue personnel conduct search operations after a bridge across the river Machchhu collapsed on Oct 31, 2022. - AFP

Arrests after 130 die in India bridge collapse

MORBI, India: Nine people were arrested Monday in connection with the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in western India that killed at least 137 people, police said. The bridge, which had reopened days earlier after renovation, collapsed on Sunday evening, sending hundreds tumbling into the river or clinging to the wreckage while screaming for help in the dark. The nine - all associated with a company that maintained the bridge in Morbi - were...

Dr. Khalid Al-Saleh

Health ministry and competition for top positions

By Dr Khalid A Al-Saleh ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council countries launched the Gulf Center for Disease Prevention and Control, which was approved by the supreme council in January 2021, in order to strengthen coordination for the prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases in all GCC countries. Although infectious diseases are of major importance, the major danger threatening GCC citizens are chronic or non-infectious diseases...

KUWAIT: The National Assembly.

National Assembly to discuss budgets for '22-23 fiscal year

KUWAIT: Kuwait National Assembly will hold its ordinary session on Tuesday and Wednesday, to discuss items on its agenda, highlighting bills to link the budgets of ministries, government departments, attached and independent authorities for fiscal year 2022- 2023. On the agenda are requests to form parliamentary investigation committees, submitted by some members, to investigate the distribution of lots by the Public Authority of Industry, and a...

KUWAIT: Turkish Ambassador Tuba Nur Sonmez and Minister of Justice Abdulaziz Al-Majed cut the cake. – Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Turkey Embassy marks 99th anniversary of Republic Day

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The Embassy of Turkey to Kuwait hosted a reception on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey on Sunday at Waldorf Astoria Hotel. "It is the embassy's first National Day reception since 2019, due to the pandemic. Therefore, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you all for being with us today to share our joy and pride," Tuba Nur Sonmez, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey...

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Flu spreads in Kuwait as winter approaches

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: Flu is spreading all over the country among people of all ages with the advent of winter. After the pandemic, its effects have become stronger, especially in children, with symptoms like very high temperature and fatigue. Kuwait Times spoke to Senior Specialist, Respiratory and Internal Medicine, Dr Nouh Baqer, who explained the reason behind the strong effects of the flu and prevention methods. "Influenza has two groups of...

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Positive Kuwaiti Volunteer Team holds meeting

KUWAIT: The third meeting this year of the Positive Kuwaiti Volunteer Team was held on Oct 25, 2022 at the headquarters of the Sociologists Association in Adailiya, as part of joint cooperation between civil society organizations to support initiatives and community partnership. The meeting was attended by Narges Al-Shatti, Head of the Volunteer Team. Other team members include Dr Siham Al-Qabandi, Laila Al-Hanyan, Dr Loujain Al-Sayegh, Laila...

KYIV, Ukraine: Local residents wait in line to collect water from a public water pump in a park of Kyiv on October 31, 2022.- AFP

Ukraine water, power cuts after Russian strikes

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine suffered sweeping blackouts and water supplies were cut for 80 percent of Kyiv residents on Monday after what Ukrainian officials called another "massive" Russian missile attack on energy facilities. The Ukrainian army said "more than 50" cruise missiles were launched at targets across the country, days after Russia blamed Ukraine for drone attacks on its fleet in the Black Sea.The army said many missiles were shot down by...

ASHDOD, Zionist entity: A Zionist soldier registers ahead of casting their ballot for the general elections at a military base in the city of Ashdod. - AFP

Netanyahu eyes comeback on eve of Zionist entity election

JERUSALEM: Zionist politicians were making their final campaign pitches Monday before the divided country holds its fifth election in less than four years, with hawkish ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu eyeing a comeback. The 73-year-old Likud party leader served as prime minister for longer than anyone in Zionist entity's history before he was ousted in June 2021 by an ideologically-divided coalition crafted by the current caretaker Prime Minister...

Allison Fluke-Ekren

American woman who led an all-female IS battalion faces up to 20 years in prison

WASHINGTON: An American woman who grew up on a farm in Kansas, converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, where she led an all-female military battalion, is to be sentenced Tuesday for providing support to a foreign terrorist group.Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to terror charges in June in a US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. "For at least eight years, Fluke-Ekren committed...

Dr Wafaa Al-Hashash

Around 120,000 Kuwaitis infected with coeliac disease: Consultant

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Consultant in internal medicine, gastroenterology and liver transplant Dr Wafaa Al-Hashash said around 120,000 Kuwaitis are infected with coeliac disease, which is a condition where the immune system attacks its tissues when the person ingests gluten. Dr Hashash said around 1.7 million people in GCC countries have coeliac disease, according to a study conducted by Saudi Arabia, which revealed the rate of infection in GCC...

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TARIM, Yemen: The Terkait Medical Center includes eight medical clinics and related departments. - KUNA photos

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Palestinian senior medical students attend to patients. – KUNA photos

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