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DUBAI: People visit the newly-inaugurated Hindu temple in Dubai's Jebel Ali neighborhood on Oct 4, 2022. – AFP

Ornate Hindu temple opens doors in UAE

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ first purpose-built Hindu temple opened in Dubai on Tuesday, providing a place of worship and support network for the large Indian community including migrant laborers. The large white marble building with Indian as well as Emirati architectural flourishes sits in the officially Islamic country’s Jebel Ali port district, which is also home to churches and a Sikh temple.Thousands of South Asian workers live in...

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Are we being changed by what we watch?

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: Watching movies and TV shows and following social media constantly could have an important role in reshaping people's mind or opinions over the years toward issues that weren't acceptable to them in the past. With the wide reach of social media, shows and movies, new issues have been discussed on media channels that are not suitable for certain cultures, directed to specific groups like women, children or men. Meanwhile,...

BEIRUT: Classes being carried out at the schools. - KUNA Photos

Kuwait-funded schools perform well in tenth year in Lebanon

BEIRUT: Twelve charitable schools in Lebanon, established by Kuwait to educate Syrian refugee students in North Lebanon, started their tenth year, with students expressing deep gratitude for the Kuwaiti donations that enabled them to attend classes. A delegation from the International Islamic Charitable Organization, the Society for Humanitarian Excellence, the Islamic Development Bank and the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development, toured the...

KUWAIT: (From left to right): Sanaa Taqi, Fatimah Al-Mufarreh, Fakher Al-Deen and Khaled Al-Nassar. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait Translation Society remembers Tawfiq Al-Nassar on Int'l Translation Day

By Khaled Al-AbdulhadiKUWAIT: Kuwait Translation Society held a remembrance day for Tawfiq Al-Nassar on Tuesday at Kuwait National Library, with the attendance of Dr Tareq Fakher-Al-Deen, Fatimah Al-Mufarreh, Sanaa Taqi and his son Khaled Al-Nassar. Tawfiq Al-Nassar was a translator at the Amiri Diwan during the reigns of three different Amirs - Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah....

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KFF carries out beach safety procedure check

KUWAIT: Sheikh Talal Al-Sabah, Acting Interior Minister headed a meeting on Monday at the KFF headquarters to discuss the safety procedures to be carried out across all beaches in the country. The meeting which was also attended by several undersecretaries aimed at keeping beaches safe and prevent any drowning incidents.During the meeting, team members from KFF displayed statistics related to previous drowning incidents and other possible dangers...

LIVERPOOL: Rangers' Scottish goalkeeper Allan McGregor (left) dives as Liverpool's Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah (center) shoots to score from the penalty spot during the UEFA Champions League group A football match on October 4, 2022. Liverpool won the game 2-0. - AFP

Liverpool edge Rangers as Bayern, and Napoli underline credentials

PARIS: Liverpool eased to a comfortable 2-0 win in the 'Battle of Britain' against Rangers in the Champions League group games on Tuesday while Napoli underlined their credentials with an impressive 6-1 thrashing of Ajax in Amsterdam. On a night when a minute's silence was held before every match in tribute to the 131 victims of the Indonesia stadium tragedy, Bayern Munich and Club Brugge also made it three wins from three while Inter edged...

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Uzbekistan Japan face off in the AFC Futsal Asian Cup

KUWAIT: The finalists in the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Kuwait 2022 Championship will be decided on Thursday as Uzbekistan face Japan (by 5:00 pm) while current champions will face Thailand (8:00 pm). Uzbekistan qualified after defeating Kuwait 3-0 and grabbed 12 points. Meanwhile Japan reached the semi-finals with difficulty, starting with their loss to Saudi Arabia 1-2. They had two consecutive wins against South Korea 6-0 and Vietnam 2-0.The...

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Arab basketball clubs' championship begins

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The second round of the Arab men basketball clubs' championship will kick off on Thursday with six matches. Sixteen clubs from 11 countries are participating in the tournament that continues until Oct 15. Al-Riyadhi (Lebanon) meets Al-Gharrafa (Qatar) at 3:00 pm. At 5:00 pm, Ahli Benghazi (Libya) play Ittihad Alexandria (Egypt). The third match with be between Ahli Aleppo (Syria) and the hosts Kuwait Club at 7:00...

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Kuwait Girls Gymnastics team win second place

KUWAIT: Kuwait Girls Gymnastics team won second place and the silver medal in the Arab Juniors Gymnastics Championship being held in Wahran, Algeria. The hosts Algeria won first place while Jordan took third. Kuwait's Gymnast Fatima Al-Nama won 5 silver medals in the floor exercise, balance beam, parallel bars, pommel horse and individual general gymnastics - raising the team's medals to six.President of Arab and Kuwait Gymnastics Associations...

INDORE: India’s cricketers celebrate with the trophy after winning the series at the end of the third and final Twenty20 international cricket match between India and South Africa on October 4, 2022. – AFP

South Africa shine in third T20; India win series

INDORE: South Africa's Rilee Rossouw on Tuesday called his maiden Twenty20 international century coming against a "world class" India "special" after he helped the tourists to a consolation 49-run win in the third match. The left-handed Rossouw, who came into his 21st T20 for South Africa on the back of two ducks, made an unbeaten 100 in 48 balls to steer the team to 227-3 after being invited to bat first in Indore. South African bowlers then...

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Profile of Kuwait Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

KUWAIT: An Amiri Decree was issued on Wednesday re-appointing His Highness the Prime Minister (ret. General) Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as Prime Minister of the Kuwait Government. Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was born in Kuwait in 1956 and is the son of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.Graduated from Kuwait University where he studied commerce, Sheikh Ahmad had climbed the Ministry of Interior...

KUWAIT: Participants at the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

WHO seminar discusses low breastfeeding rate in Kuwait

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The World Health Organization (WHO) in Kuwait, in collaboration with the Public Authority for Food & Nutrition (PAFN) and the Ministry of Health, organized on Wednesday the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) orientation seminar at United Nations House. In a press statement, Dr Assad Hafeez, WHO Representative for Kuwait, said: "Breastfeeding is very important and we realized that effort is needed in Kuwait to put in...

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SAN ANTONIO, Chile: A worker checks a car following the arrival of a Chinese ship with an import of cars, at the Port of San Antonio, in Valparaiso region, Chile. -- AFP

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STOKE MANDEVILLE: Britain’s Helene Raynsford, and Britain’s Gregor Ewan, light the torch of President of the International Paralympic Committee Andrew Parsons, lit from the cauldron, during the Paralympic torch-lighting ceremony at Stoke Mandeville in Aylesbury, central England on August 24, 2024. - AFP

Torch starts journey at English home of Paralympic Games