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MANSOURA, Egypt: Alleged murderer Egyptian Mohamed Adel is surrounded by guards as he is taken out after his first trial session at the Mansoura courthouse on June 26, 2022. - AFP

Egypt tries man over murder of female student

MANSOURA, Egypt: A trial began Sunday for an Egyptian man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a public street after she rejected his advances - a case that has sparked widespread outrage. A video went viral last week appearing to show the victim, identified as student Nayera Ashraf, being stabbed by a young man outside her university. The crime has triggered widespread anger both in Egypt and beyond, having been followed a few days later by a...

KUWAIT: A general view of the audience at the workshop. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait hosts drug prevention training workshop

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The juvenile welfare department organized on Sunday a drug prevention training workshop coinciding with the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, under the slogan "Protecting our youth is our responsibility". Assistant Undersecretary for Social Welfare at the Ministry of Social Affairs Musallam Al-Subaei said social welfare has been keen to highlight this dangerous drug phenomenon that makes families...

CAIRO: A group photo of officials attending the meeting of the Arab media experts group concerned with evaluating and updating the strategic action plan regarding the Palestinian cause. - KUNA

Kuwait values Arab League's pro-Palestine media measures

CAIRO: Kuwait is supportive of the Arab League's pro-Palestinian cause media measures propagated in international arenas, a Kuwaiti media senior official announced on Sunday. This remark was made to the press from the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information's executive Shawq Al-Shuai' on the sidelines of the two-day fourth meeting of the Arab media experts group concerned with evaluating and updating the strategic action plan regarding the Palestinian...

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KUNA Training center launches mobile journalism program

KUWAIT: Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Center for the Development of Media Skills launched Sunday the Mobile Journalism - Initial Level within its 2022-2023 training season. In a press statement, the Center said that the program, which will last for four days and presented by the academic and media figure Abdullah Kafawin from Jordan TV Channel, aims to refine and develop the trainees' practical skills in photography, video editing, and montage using...

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Workers say market stable but warn labor shortage could cause crisis, price hikes

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Last week, some MPs proposed setting a quota for people of each nationality residing in Kuwait to lessen the number of expats from some nationalities with huge numbers to improve the demographics of the country. This proposal included a plan for decreasing the numbers of large communities within two or three years, starting with reducing the number of marginal workers, especially those who do not work for their actual...

RABAT: The Director General of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) Dr Mohammad Ould Amar. - KUNA

Kuwait takes effective role in joint Arab action: Education Official

RABAT: The Director General of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) Dr Mohammad Ould Amar said on Sunday that Kuwait has a distinguished position and an effective role in the development of joint Arab action in education, culture and science through its achievements. In an interview on the sidelines of his participation in the Seventh International Conference of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural...

KUWAIT: Vehicles drive on a main highway in Kuwait during a sandstorm on June 26, 2022. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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Rodriguez batters Srisaket to retain bantamweight crown

LOS ANGELES: American Jesse Rodriguez stopped the Thai veteran Srisaket Sor Rungvisai in the eighth round on Saturday to successfully defend his World Boxing Council junior bantamweight title. The unbeaten 22-year-old from Texas dominated the veteran Srisaket from start to finish before a hometown crowd at San Antonio's Tech Port Arena. Rodriguez, who is the youngest current world champion, improved to 16-0 with 11 knockouts following a one-sided...

BEIJING: In this file photo, Houston Rockets All-Star Yao Ming takes a penalty shot during their match against the New Jersey Nets in the NBA China Games 2010 basketball match at the Wukesong Arena.- AFP

China still searching for next Yao Ming, 20 years after NBA debut

BEIJING: Basketball Hall of Famer, business magnate, cultural ambassador - no Chinese athlete carries a richer legacy than Yao Ming, whose towering 7ft 6in frame (2.29 metre) stormed into the NBA 20 years ago. The centre was drafted by the Houston Rockets on June 26, 2002, kickstarting a glittering career that won him a succession of personal accolades and transformed the Shanghai-born Yao into a household name in both China and the United...

DUBAI: Egyptians Mohamed El-Shorbagy (left) and Ali Farag compete during the PSA Dubai Squash World Series Finals 2018 at Dubai Emirates Golf club.- AFP

Squash player's switch to UK shows Egypt's athlete exodus

CAIRO: Egyptian squash player Mohamed El-Shorbagy was called a traitor and a sellout when he announced this month he had joined the English national team. Yet the athlete is not the first Egyptian to compete under a foreign flag, with experts saying the choice illustrates a pervasive problem of athletes feeling underpaid and under-equipped."There is only football and a few team sports" that garner support, Hossam Hamed, former wrestler and coach...

AUSTIN: An abortion rights demonstrator holding a pan chants slogans as they march near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America on June 25 for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling. - AFP

New US abortion reality takes shape

WASHINGTON: Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America Saturday for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure. The deeply polarized country grappled with a new level of division: between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined since 1973, and those that still allow it.A few thousand people thronged the streets...

MELILLA, Spain: A Sudanese migrant walks in a temporary centre for migrants and asylum seekers in Melilla, a day after at least 23 African migrants died in a bid by around 2000 people, mostly sub-Saharan African, to force their way into the northern Morocco Spanish enclave. - AFP

Spain says deadly migrant rush 'attack' on its territory

MADRID: The Spanish prime minister on Saturday described a deadly migrant rush on the enclave of Melilla from Morocco as an attack on Spain's "territorial integrity", as human rights activists demanded an investigation. At least 23 African migrants died in the latest drama on the doors of the European Union, when around 2,000 mostly sub-Saharan African migrants approached the Moroccan border with the tiny territory at dawn on Friday.More than...

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