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UK Yoga 'warriors' fighting to diversify booming industry

London-based yoga instructor Stacie Graham is on a mission to make the ancient practice more racially and socially diverse, urging her charges to become "warriors for change" in the booming industry. Yoga, which originates from India, and pilates-a form of exercise focused on postural alignment-are now a $30 billion-a-year industry, according to the Global Wellness Institute. But this success masks a lack of diversity, which affects the entire...

TEHRAN: A handout picture shows Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meeting Kuwait's newly-appointed ambassador to Iran Bader Abdullah Al-Munaikh on August 13, 2022. - AFP

Kuwait sends first envoy to Iran in over six years

TEHRAN: Kuwait has sent its first ambassador to Tehran since a downgrading of relations in 2016, Iran has announced. Kuwait recalled its ambassador and the United Arab Emirates downgraded relations with Iran after Saudi Arabia that year cut ties with its regional rival, with Bahrain following suit. That came after Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran following Riyadh's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr Al-Nimr.Bader...

BELIN-BELIET, France: A doe looks on in a burnt forest following a fire in South Gironde on Aug 13, 2022. – AFP

Rain brings relief to France fires, more evacuated

TOULOUSE: A forest fire that flared anew in southern France sent 1,000 more people fleeing while overnight rain brought blazes elsewhere in the country under control, officials said on Sunday. France has been buffeted this summer by a historic drought as well as a series of heatwaves and several forest fires. A fire that had been raging since Monday in the southern Aveyron region appeared to be under control and dying out on Saturday afternoon...

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Max 40 students per class, ban on raising school fees

KUWAIT: Four new private foreign schools are preparing to receive new students for the upcoming academic year starting on August 28 after they were licensed by the ministry of education, as part of preparations by the ministry to organize the educational system at all private schools.The ministry of education stressed it is closely monitoring fees charged at private schools so that they do not exceed what was previously agreed, pointing out that...

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Raids continue in Jleeb, Mahboula

KUWAIT: Field security sectors carried out an extensive security campaign in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and Mahboula, resulting in the arrest of 29 men and women on charges of violating public morals, and 51 others for various violations in the two areas.The General Department of Relations and Security Media at the Ministry of Interior said that in implementation of the directives of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Acting Minister of...

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Interior Ministry's Passports Undersecretary receives complaints

KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Nationality and Passports and Acting Undersecretary for Residency Affairs Fawaz Al-Mashaan will receive citizens and residents with complaints and transactions on Monday at the Residency Affairs Department and on Tuesday at the Nationality and Travel Documents Department every week from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm, the Interior Ministry Relations and Security Information Department said.In other...

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Municipality teams crack down on basements' violations

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality Campaigns against the use of buildings basements for commercial purposes continue as inspectors are intensifying their field tours in investment areas. The supervisory team of Hawally closed three basements used for purposes other than what they were licensed for. Meanwhile 127 shades on state property were removed. In Ahmadi, two citations were issued and three engineering warnings were handed out, in addition to...

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Firemen douse building blaze

KUWAIT: Firefighting teams controlled a fire in a commercial building under construction in the Capital governorate. The Public Relations and Media Department of Kuwait Fire Force said firefighting teams managed to put out a fire in wood and trash in a room of the commercial building under construction without any casualties.

CHIBAYISH, Iraq: Children sit on a boat on the dried-up bed of Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province on July 24, 2022. - AFP

Iraq's Garden of Eden now 'like a desert'

HUWAIZAH MARSHES, Iraq: To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 km of sunburnt land in southern Iraq, where drought is devastating swathes of the mythical Mesopotamian Marshes. The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and tributaries originating in neighboring Turkey and Iran.Vast expanses of the...

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Palestinian short film "Touchline" screened at Kuwait women's society

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The Women's Cultural and Social Society screened on Saturday a Palestinian short film "Touchline", directed by Mohammed Saffouri, at Lulwa Al-Qatami hall. The film tells the true story of the Palestinian Catastrophe (Nakba) through the eyes of a young football player in 1948. In his speech during the panel discussion, Palestinian American Saffouri said that the award-winning film is based on his grandfather's life, as the war...

KUWAIT: The head of the regional International Committee of the Red Cross Mamadou Sow in a group photo during his visit to the Kuwait Crescent Society. - KUNA

ICRC panel head hails Kuwaiti support

KUWAIT: The humanitarian initiatives taken by Kuwait to support the international humanitarian efforts have been praised by the head of the regional International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mamadou Sow, after his meeting with the head of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Dr Hilal Al-Sayer. "The initiatives taken by Kuwait are appreciated by all global organizations that care for humanitarian work, and especially by the ICRC," Sow...

KUWAIT: An archive photo showing the Fish market in Sharq. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

'Kanaad' fishing not allowed for two months

KUWAIT: Fishing for the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, locally known as 'Kanaad', will be halted until Oct 15, Head of the Kuwait Fishermen's Union Dhaher Al-Suwayyan announced. "The fishing sector is considered one of the most important food security sectors in the country, and it deserves to be improved and supported," he said, pointing out that support has remained the same since the start of the '90s and not been improved relative to other...

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

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