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'Servant' term replaced with 'domestic worker' in laws

By B IzzakKUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday approved an amendment to a law governing domestic workers, changing the word "servant" to "domestic worker" in all Kuwaiti laws to ensure they are in sync with international laws, especially those related to human rights. According to an explanatory note, the amendment was attributed to avoid reservations by international human rights organizations and agencies concerned with labor affairs...

KYIV: A woman is evacuated from a burning apartment building yesterday as Russian troops intensified their attacks on the Ukrainian capital. - AFP n

Russian forces press in on Kyiv as talks resume

KYIV: Russian forces pressed in on Kyiv yesterday with a series of strikes on residential buildings that killed four people in the Ukrainian capital, despite a fresh round of talks aimed at halting the war. In the highest-level EU delegation to go to Kyiv since the war began, the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia travelled to the besieged capital in a sign of support for Ukraine.But tensions were mounting, with Kyiv's mayor...

BANGALORE: A girl wearing a hijab walks past police guarding outside a school yesterday after a court upheld a local ban on the hijab in classrooms. - AFP n

Court upholds school hijab ban in Indian state

BANGALORE: An Indian court upheld a local ban on the hijab in classrooms yesterday, weeks after the edict stoked violent protests and renewed fears of discrimination against the country's Muslim minority. Southern Karnataka state was on edge for several weeks after a small group of girls in their late teens were prevented from wearing the garment on school grounds at the end of last year.Demonstrations snowballed across the state and police used...

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Iran foils Zionist 'sabotage' plot at nuclear plant

TEHRAN: Iran has arrested several suspected members of a spy network linked to the Zionist entity, foiling its attempt to sabotage a key underground nuclear facility, state media reported. The announcement comes as Iran is engaged in talks with major powers on reviving a landmark nuclear deal abandoned by the United States in 2018.Iran has accused the Zionist entity of repeatedly targeting its nuclear facilities and scientists, most recently in...

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah attends a parliamentary session at the National Assembly yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat n

Kuwait's new interior and defense ministers take oath

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah took constitutional oath before the parliament session yesterday in line with Article 91 of the constitution. Article 91 of the constitution states that before taking up his functions at the Assembly or at its committees, a member of the National Assembly...

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Environment Public Authority (EPA) and UN Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia yesterday ink cooperation memo. - KUNAnnnnn

Kuwait environment body, UNEP ink cooperation deal

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Environment Public Authority (EPA) and the UN Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia yesterday inked a memo for bilateral cooperation in environment protection in Kuwait. Speaking to reporters following the signing of the memo, EPA Board Chairman and Director-General Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said it is the second memo to be clinched by both sides, saying it will largely help in attaining...

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ESCWA launches Arab forum for sustainable development in Beirut

BEIRUT: The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) yesterday launched the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development titled (Recovery and Resilience 2022) in the Lebanese Capital Beirut. During the opening session, Arab League Secretary General Ahmad Abul Geit said that the Arab Region has witnessed a significant increase in poverty levels during 2020 with 14 million people, raising the total number to 115 million...

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Kuwait to enhance its digital economy

KUWAIT: State Minister for Municipality affairs and State Minister for Communications and Information Technology Dr Rana Al-Fares said that the network development project will commence so as to increase the net speed to 1 GB as well as expanding the digital economy - making way for new job opportunities.In her opening speech at the Smart Cities Conference, organized by the Information Technology Society through the Zoom application, she...

SHANGHAI: Officials and workers, wearing protective gear, work in an area where barriers are being placed to close off streets around a locked down neighborhood after the detection of new cases of COVID-19 in Shanghai yesterday.-AFPn

Millions under lockdown in China

BEIJING: Tens of millions of people were under lockdown across China yesterday, as surging virus cases prompted the return of mass tests and hazmat-suited health officials to streets on a scale not seen since the start of the pandemic. China reported 5,280 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, more than double the previous day's tally, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread across a country that has stuck tightly to a zero-COVID...

NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: Relatives mourn during the funeral of 16-year-old Palestinian Nader Rayan who was killed by Zionist forces, at the Balata camp near the northern city of Nablus yesterday. - AFPn

Zionist troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank

NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: Zionists troops killed two Palestinians in separate shootings in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the latest in a flurry of deadly clashes as a US envoy tours the region seeking to ease tensions. A 16-year-old died in an exchange of fire with troops carrying out an arrest raid outside the northern city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry and Zionist forces said. Separately, a Palestinian in his 20s was...

A sign shows gas prices outside a gas station in Washington DC. - AFP

China under pressure from US and allies to pull its lifeline from Russia

BEIJING: China is under intense diplomatic pressure from the US and its European allies to pull its lifeline from an isolated Russia but, three weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, Beijing has shown few signs of abandoning its friends in the Kremlin. Washington has driven Russia to the cusp of default since Vladimir Putin's invasion of neighboring Ukraine, strangling its economy with sanctions and pulling the country from the global payments...

WASHINGTON, United States: This file photo shows the Marriner S Eccles, US Federal Reserve, building in Washington, DC.-- AFPnn

Fed begins policy meeting as it gears to raise rates

WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve opened its two-day policy meeting yesterday as it prepares to raise borrowing rates for the first time since the pandemic began in an effort to tamp down rising inflation. Policymakers face a difficult task of trying to contain prices without stamping out economic growth as costs for housing, food and energy rise at rates not seen for 40 years and the economic fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine makes the...

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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos

Alain Delon: Women he loved and left

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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)

Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP

Hezbollah reveals its military muscle

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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA

Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey

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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.

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