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AL-AGHAWAT, Iraq: People gather to collect water from a cistern amid shortage and high temperature in this village in Diwaniya province on July 18, 2022. - AFP

Boiling heat, no water as taps run dry in Iraq

AL-AGHAWAT, Iraq: Younes Ajil turns on the tap in his home but nothing comes out: Dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit Iraq, surviving on sporadic tanker-truck deliveries and salty wells. For everything from drinking to bathing and washing dishes and clothes, Ajil and his eight children wait at their home in Al-Aghawat for trucked-in water from the Diwaniyah provincial authorities once or twice a week.In burning summer...

KUWAIT: Travelers Aldo Giaquinto and Vera Kozlovskaia visit Kuwait Times.

Globetrotting couple follow their dreams, reach Kuwait

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: A mix of spontaneity, love and craziness were the key ingredients to create a perfect life for Italian Aldo Giaquinto and his Moldovan wife Vera Kozlovskaia. Giaquinto and Kozlovskaia's passion for traveling made them leave England to travel the world in a Land Cruiser.Love at first sight was the reason behind their childhood dream come true. "We meet at Christmas in Italy. We had a connection that made us start the trip of...

Silhouette of male suicider going to hang himself against grunge background

Study on suicides during the COVID pandemic in Kuwait

By Farah Al-FalahKUWAIT: In line with capabilities assigned to the National Diwan for Human Rights by its establishment law (67 of year 2015) and according to the article no. 6 related to preparing studies about various human rights and sensing from it the dangerousness of suicidal behavior that accompanied the spread of the COVID pandemic globally and led to consequences on many economic, social and psychological levels have put humanity in...

Khaled Shahwan and Khaled Mahdi address the event.

Enhancing women's role in workforce a priority for Kuwait

KUWAIT: Seven goals have been set to enhance the role of women in society and the workforce, in compliance with Kuwait's plan for development as part of the New Kuwait 2035 vision. "The development plan aims to have women occupy 35 percent of executive roles in compliance with the fifth goal of the development plan," said General Secretary of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development Dr Khaled Mahdi.Mahdi added that "Kuwait has set forth a...

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stc collaborates with Teeela as part of its summer initiatives

KUWAIT: Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, collaborated with Teeela, a leading toy shop App in the GCC, to distribute gifts to children during the "Purple Island" event held at 360 Mall. The initiative was in line with the Company's corporate social responsibility initiative and served as an additional event stc has...

KUWAIT: Cars traverse a highway towards Kuwait City. – Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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Ukraine will fight 'till the end'

KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Wednesday that Ukraine will resist the Russian invasion "until the end" without "any concession or compromise", as the nation marks its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war. "We don't care what army you have, we only care about our land," Zelensky said in a defiant morning video address. "We will fight for it until the end." Referring to Russia -- which launched...

VIENNA, Austria: File photo shows photographers and TV cameramen watch a demonstration of a monitoring camera used in Iran during a press conference of Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the current situation in Iran at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria. - AFP

US says Iran agrees to ease key demands for nuclear deal

WASHINGTON: The United States said Tuesday that Iran has agreed to ease key demands that had held up the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal, with all eyes on what President Joe Biden in turn is offering. The United States is expected shortly to respond to Iran through European Union mediators, after a year and a half of indirect diplomacy that just weeks ago looked on the verge of collapsing. US officials said Iran dropped demands to block some UN...

DANSA, Ethiopia: File photo shows local farmers walk next to a tank of alledged Eritrean army that is abandoned along the road in Dansa. Ethiopian authorities accused Tigray rebels of launching a new offensive against federal forces in the country's north, five months after a truce paused the worst of the fighting. – AFP

Fighting resumes in northern Ethiopia after five-month lull

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, with the warring sides blaming each other for shattering a five-month-old truce. The renewed warfare was unleashed after both sides repeatedly blamed each other for the lack of progress in efforts to hold negotiations to try to end the brutal 21-month conflict. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) said government forces...

KUWAIT: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kuwait Airways Ali Al-Dukhan and the Chief Executive Officer Maen Razouqi during the press conference .— Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

Kuwait Airways holds its general assembly for the fiscal year 2021

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: Kuwait Airways on Wednesday held its ordinary General Assembly meeting for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2021. The meeting approved all the items on the agenda including the financial and administrative reports. It also reviewed the annual report of the board of directors and their achievements during the year 2021 in the presence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kuwait Airways Ali Al-Dukhan and Chief...

TORONTO, Canada: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right) watch as Volkswagen AG's CEO Herbert Diess (second left) shakes hands with Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, after signing a Memorandum of Understanding at the Canadian-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. - AFP

Germany, Canada partner on transatlantic hydrogen trade

OTTAWA: The leaders of Canada and Germany signed a green hydrogen deal on Tuesday, laying a path for a transatlantic supply chain as Europe seeks to lessen its dependence on Russian energy. "It's a vote of confidence for Canada as a leader in clean energy," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a joint press conference with visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "We cannot as a world continue to rely on authoritarian countries that will...

CHONGQING, China: This photo taken on August 22, 2022 shows a combine harvester harvesting rice in a field in China's southwestern Chongqing. – AFP

China faces 'severe threat' to harvest from worst heatwave on record

CHONGQING, China: China's autumn harvest is under "severe threat" from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record. The world's second-largest economy has been hit by record temperatures, flash floods and droughts this summer-phenomena that scientists have warned are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change.Southern China has recorded...

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Lynn Whyte at Kuwait Cancer Centre, receiving chemo treatment.

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KUWAIT: Rescuers work at a collapsed building in Jabriya on Aug 21, 2024. - KUNA

Minister vows legal action over Jabriya building collapse

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WARSAW: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Belweder Palace on Aug 22, 2024. - AFP

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Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Humoud Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah speaks during the visit. - KUNA photos

Shaddadiya project to help drive wheel of industrial development