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KUWAIT: (From left) Norah Al-Otaibi, Ahmad Al-Khanna, Mohammad Al-Awadhi, Hamza Tekin, and Ahmad Al-Kendari attend the seminar. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Association of Youth for Jerusalem holds seminar in support of Palestine

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: The Association of Youth for Jerusalem held a seminar on Saturday at the Kuwait Society of Lawyers titled "The Near Victory". The seminar discussed violations by the Zionist occupation and the assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Participants, including academics, intellectuals, and media representatives, condemned the Zionists, calling for international action to defend the Palestinian people."The...

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Domestic labor union reject ministry imposed fee

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Kuwait Union of Domestic Labor Offices is opposed to a decision by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to set the recruitment cost of domestic workers. In a press statement, the Union of Domestic Labor Offices disagreed with ministerial resolution no. 33 for 2021 regarding amending the prices of recruitment of domestic workers, saying such a decision must be taken by forming a committee from the ministry, Public Authority...

KUWAIT: Cars drive amid a heavy sandstorm in Kuwait City on May 16, 2022. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

May one of the highest months with sandstorms in Kuwait

KUWAIT: May has become one of the highest months of the year in recording sandstorms, with 30 days in 25 years, Kuwait Meteorological Center said. In a statement to the press on Sunday, head of the center Dr Hassan Al-Dashti said that June was at the forefront during the past half century, but there had been change in the pattern of climatic phenomena in recent years, which made May the lead in dusty conditions instead of June. Dashti added that...

KUWAIT: Officials sign the agreement. - KUNA

Kuwait fund approves $49.5 million loan to boost Argentina water supply

KUWAIT: A Kuwait-based fund said on Sunday it would provide Argentina with a loan worth $49.5 million (KD 15.2 million) for a project to improve water supply in two of its northern provinces. The endeavor aims to prop up economic development in the South American nation's Santa Fe and Cordoba provinces, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) said in a statement, highlighting the project's aim of ensuring adequate water supply in...

GENEVA: Health Minister Dr Khaled Al-Saeed attends the meeting. - KUNA

Arab ministers to organize joint German Arab medical conference

GENEVA: Arab health ministers are in the process of organizing a joint German-Arab medical exhibition and conference and an Arab strategy project to improve nursing, midwifery and enhance blood transfusion techniques, Kuwaiti Health Minister Dr Khaled Al-Saeed said, Sunday.This came in a statement to the press following his participation at the Council of Arab Health Ministers meeting, held in Geneva on the sidelines of the 75th World Health...

CAIRO: Director-General of the Public Authority for Youth Dr Mishaal Al-Rabee heads the Kuwaiti delegation to the Arab event. - KUNA

Kuwait plans key projects to promote youth leadership

CAIRO: Kuwait plans to introduce a number of marquee endeavors designed to thrust its youngsters into leadership roles, the chief of its public authority for youth said on Sunday, citing progress his country has made towards youth development.The progress Kuwait has made in its efforts to further engage with the nation's youngsters has propelled the country to the 27th spot in an Arab Youth Development Index, Dr Mishaal Al-Rabee said on the...

KUWAIT: This picture taken on May 21, 2022, from Kuwait City shows a view of the sun and the sunspot region AR3014, one of the largest in years, stretching more than 125,000 Km from end to end, more than 10 times the Earth's diameter. - Photo by Mohammad Al-Hajeri

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KHARKIV, Ukraine: People carry their belongings as they walk past a damaged building in Kharkiv on May 21, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. – AFP

Ukraine takes centre stage at Davos

KYIV, Ukraine: Russian forces pursued their bombardment of frontline Ukrainian cities Sunday, seeking to gain military momentum as Kyiv's diplomatic counter-offensive targeted the world's business and political elite gathering in Davos. Shelling and missile strikes hit Kharkiv in the north, and Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia in the south, while eight civilians were killed on the eastern front in the Donbas, Ukrainian officials said.Three months after...

AL-JADAA, Iraq: A woman walks near her tent at the Jadaa rehabilitation camp for the displaced near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. About 30,000 Iraqis, including 20,000 children, are still in northeastern Syria, in camps where refugees and displaced live alongside families connected to the Islamic State (IS) group.- AFP

For Iraqis back from Syria, life on hold in 'rehabilitation' camp

JADAA CAMP, Iraq: Awatef Massud is longing to reunite with her Iraqi family after years spent in Syria, but first she must do time in a vetting camp to ensure she has no links to jihadists. The 35-year-old mother of five fled to neighbouring Syria in 2014 to escape violence at home after the Islamic State group swept across swathes of Syria and Iraq.For four months now, since her return to Iraq, she has been living in the Jadaa camp, a compound...

NAGAON, India: Villagers make their way on a raft past homes in a flooded area after heavy rains in Nagaon district, Assam state. Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead.- AFP

Bangladesh's worst floods recede but millions still marooned

SUNAMGANJ, Bangladesh: North-east Bangladesh's worst floods in nearly 20 years began receding on Sunday, but rescue workers were struggling to help millions marooned by extreme weather across the region that has killed around 60 people. Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring northeast India, but many experts say that climate change is increasing the frequency, ferocity and unpredictability.In...

BOSTON: Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat dunks the ball against the Boston Celtics during Game 3 of the 2022 NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals on May 21, 2022. - AFPn

Heat battle past Celtics to take series crucial 2-1 lead

BOSTON: Bam Adebayo delivered a 31-point masterpiece as the Miami Heat dug deep to defeat the Boston Celtics 109-103 on the road and take a crucial 2-1 lead in their Eastern Conference finals series on Saturday. After an injury forced Miami talisman Jimmy Butler out of the game at half-time, Adebayo stepped up with a superb all-round display to hold off a ferocious Boston fightback at the Celtics' TD Garden. Adebayo, who had averaged just eight...

TULSA: Tiger Woods of the United States walks to the tee during the third round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club on May 21, 2022. - AFP

Hurting Tiger withdraws from PGA after woeful 79

TULSA: Tiger Woods withdrew from the PGA Championship after limping to a nine-over par 79 in Saturday's third round, his remarkable comeback from severe leg injuries succumbing to a painful reality. Woods withdrew from a major for the first time as a professional and only the second time ever following the 1995 US Open. After struggling to the third-worst major round of his career with pain in his surgically repaired right leg, the 15-time major...

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GAZA: Friends and relatives mourn over the body of photojournalist Ibrahim Muhareb, who was killed as he was covering the advance of Zionist forces north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip the previous day, at Al-Nasser Hospital on Aug 19, 2024. - AFP

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KUWAIT: Inmates line up at the new deportation center in Sulaibiya.

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