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KRCS partners KFAED in aid projects for Rohingya refugees
KUWAIT: Secretary General of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Maha Al-Barjas said Sunday the Society, in collaboration with Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED), carries out humanitarian aid projects to alleviate the suffering of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.During her visit to Sadar hospital in Cox's Bazar town, southeast Bangladesh, Barjas thanked the Fund for its robust contribution to the humanitarian aid projects,...
LA TESTE-DE-BUCH: Members of the public observe a fire from La Teste-de-Buch, southwestern France. – AFP
Firefighters in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece battling forest blazes
LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France: A summer heatwave that has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest Europe showed no signs of abating Sunday, as parts of the continent readied for new temperature records early next week. Firefighters in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece are battling forest blazes that have ravaged thousands of hectares of land and killed several personnel since the start of the week. It is the second heatwave engulfing...
Fajer Ahmed
Transfer of visa
By Fajer Ahmed beauty is in its diversity, and gratitude should be shown to those who travel to Kuwait leaving their families behind to become a part of our community. Today I chose questions by a foreign nurse because I personally have a lot of appreciation for foreign nurses and what they offer to the Kuwaiti community. Question: I am a registered nurse working in a private medical center. I've been with the current company for eight...
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Raising legal, social awareness needed to tackle rise in cyberbullying: Psychology Professor
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: There are many ways to bully and hurt someone online. While cyberbullying has many forms and types, it has the same destructive effect on the victim. Bullying varies between harassment, defamation, identity impersonation, cyberstalking, electronic ostracism, hacking, as well as electronic bullying through photography, spying, and deception.To learn more about this topic, Kuwait Times spoke with Amthal Al-Huwailah, a faculty...
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Lawyer warns of alarming increase in drug crimes in Kuwait
By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Crime rates in Kuwait have witnessed a dramatic surge recently. Most significantly, murder rates have witnessed an alarming increase according to the latest statistics issued by Central Statistical Bureau for 2020. Meanwhile, official statistics show that more than around 75 percent of murders committed recently had a close relationship with drug abuse. Lawyers say drug abusers commit crimes to pay for their drugs, or while...
Dr Mishal Al-Gharabally
Kuwait University begins accepting online applications
KUWAIT: Acting Dean of Admissions and Registration at Kuwait University Dr Mishal Al-Gharabally announced that the university began accepting online applications Sunday to join the first semester for the year (2022 - 2023) and until July 27. Dr Gharabally added in press statement, that those qualified to apply online are Kuwaiti students, children of Kuwaiti women, citizens of gulf countries and stateless residents born to non-Kuwaiti mothers who...
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Deliveroo celebrates Eid with movie lovers in partnership with Cinescape
KUWAIT: In keeping with their promise to consistently deliver joyful moments to food lovers around the country, and in celebration of the Eid holiday, Deliveroo surprised moviegoers with goodie bags filled with a variety of treats. In partnership with Cinescape, Deliveroo distributed goodie bags to movie patrons at a Cinescape Dolby theater at 360 Mall. In addition to Deliveroo-branded merchandise and coffee cups, the moviegoers were treated to...
NEW DELHI, India: Demonstrators hold placards as they shout slogans during a protest in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka on the 100th day, in New Delhi on July 17, 2022. - AFP
S Lanka protest movement reaches 100 days
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's protest movement reached its 100th day Sunday, having forced one president from office and now turning its sights on his successor as the country's economic crisis continues. Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his palace shortly before demonstrators invaded it last weekend and on Thursday resigned from the presidency.His mismanagement is blamed for Sri Lanka's financial turmoil, which has forced its 22 million people to...
IDO OSHUN, Nigeria: Supporters dance to drumming to celebrate the victory of the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke, following the conclusion of the gubernatorial election at Ido Oshun, Osun State in southwest Nigeria. - AFP
Nigeria's opposition party wins key southwest state
OSOGBO, Nigeria: Nigeria's main opposition party has won the governorship election in southwest Osun state, the electoral commission said on Sunday, in a major upset to President Muhammadu Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress.Osun is one of eight of Nigeria's 36 states where governorship elections are not being held at the same time as the rest of the country because of legal challenges to previous results. The Independent National Electoral...
Boeing sees 82% growth in commercial air fleet through 2041
Boeing expects 82% growth in commercial fleet through 2041
WASHINGTON: The pandemic has not fundamentally altered the long-term growth outlook for commercial aviation, with an 82 percent increase in jets seen through 2041, according to a Boeing forecast released Saturday.The company projected a total global fleet of 47,080 over the next two decades, compared with 25,900 in 2019, with half of deliveries replacing jets that will be retired, Boeing said in its annual commercial market outlook. The forecast...
EMALAHLENI, South Africa: A general view of absorbers at the Kusile Power Station, a coal-fired power plant located on the Hartbeesfontein Farm in eMalahleni. - AFP
South Africa's business owners fume as power cuts hit profits
JOHANNESBURG: South Africans' annoyance at power cuts has given way to worry, with business owners complaining that the prolonged energy crisis for which no end is in sight is eating into profits and hobbling economic activity. At Native Rebels, a colorful second-floor bar flanked with a large balcony in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, the cost of running a generator to keep lights on for weeks has been a huge burden, co-owner Masechaba...
EUGENE: Gold medalist Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's 10,000m during the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene.- AFP
Gidey win women's 10,000m title
EUGENE: Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey upstaged Dutch star Sifan Hassan to win the women's 10,000m at the World Championships in  Oregon on Saturday while Poland's Pawel Fajdek claimed his fifth world title in the men's hammer throw. All eyes in the 10,000m were on Hassan, who produced a stunning 1500m-10,000m double at the 2019 world championships in Doha before winning 5000m and 10,000m gold and 1500m bronze at last year's Olympics in Tokyo.But...
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Kuwait importers worry over new customs regulations, extra costs
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PIFSS denies newspapers and social media reports
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GAZA: A Palestinian child injured in a Zionist strike reacts as she is carried to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 21, 2024. - AFP
Zionists kill dozens in Gaza