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MANCHESTER: Arsenal’s Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (right) takes a knee alongside Manchester City’s Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne (center) and Referee Anthony Taylor ahead of the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on June 17, 2020. — AFP

City make winning return after joining ‘race protest’

MANCHESTER: Arsenal’s Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (right) takes a knee alongside Manchester City’s Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne (center) and Referee Anthony Taylor ahead of the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on June 17, 2020. — AFP MANCHESTER: Manchester City secured the first win of the Premier League’s restart with a...

Japanese photographer Koji Ishii taking pictures of a lost glove on a pole beside the road in Tokyo. -AFP

Must be glove: the Japan man obsessed with lost gloves

Japanese photographer Koji Ishii taking pictures of a lost glove on a pole beside the road in Tokyo. -AFP Koji Ishii can’t help himself: whenever he sees a lost glove on the streets of his hometown Tokyo, he just has to stop and document it. For more than 15 years, the 39-year-old has photographed and meticulously recorded details about thousands of lone gloves on the streets of the Japanese capital and beyond. It’s a passion, but also, he...

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Different but similar

I came across a piece about customs that distinguish people from each other, and it was amazing how a subject is approached differently by people of different nations; even in different parts of the same country. There is no doubt that every nation has its own exclusive customs due to various factors such as geopolitical location, environment, history and even civilizations that existed there.In many cases, the existence of certain customs...

MP Safa Al-Hashem is seen during a session at the National Assembly on June 16, 2020. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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MP Safa Al-Hashem is seen during a session at the National Assembly on June 16, 2020. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Muna Al-Fuzai

Maids and the virus

Muna Al-Fuzai Last week, a local private TV channel interviewed two Asian domestic workers in Kuwait. Both were in tears and confused over their situation, because they suddenly found themselves on the street without shelter in difficult circumstances, as they were thrown out from their sponsor’s house on the pretext of the spread of the coronavirus. Their painful oppression made me and others wonder about the conditions of some of the...

KUWAIT: Officials hold a press conference to announce the resumption of sports training. — KUNA

Sports training to resume June 28

KUWAIT: Officials hold a press conference to announce the resumption of sports training. — KUNA KUWAIT: Public Sports Authority (PAS) Deputy Director-General Saqer Al-Mulla said the tripartite committee adopted a sports training resumption mechanism, which will start June 28. In a press conference held Wednesday in the presence of representatives of the ministry of health and Kuwaiti Olympic Committee, Mulla affirmed that the mechanism is...

Kuwait’s Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and NATO Jassem Al-Budaiwi. — KUNA

Kuwait underlines continued support to the Syrian people

Kuwait’s Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and NATO Jassem Al-Budaiwi. — KUNA BRUSSELS: Kuwait has once again stressed its commitment and determination to continue support to the Syrian people and renewed calls for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. This was expressed by Kuwait’s Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and NATO Jassem Al-Budaiwi during a video event on Syria organized by the EU Tuesday evening. He...

Cristian Tudor

EU envoy praises Kuwait’s efforts to fight pandemic

Bader Al-EssaCristian Tudor KUWAIT: Underlining the importance of further deepening the excellent relationship between the European Union and Kuwait, the Ambassador of the European Union to Kuwait and Qatar Cristian Tudor joined social media influencer and Kuwaiti entrepreneur Bader Al-Essa on his social media platform to have a direct discussion with youth in Kuwait on the “Role of passion in building diplomatic relations” and EU-Kuwait...

Ahmed Yousef Behbehani (third left) and other Kuwait Journalists Association officials meet HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in this file photo.

Kuwait mourns passing of Ahmed Yousef Behbehani

Ahmed Yousef Behbehani (third left) and other Kuwait Journalists Association officials meet HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in this file photo. Kuwait’s pioneering media figure and economist Ahmed Yousef Behbehani passed away on Wednesday at the age of 79 following a long and successful career. Behbehani was the first Kuwaiti to helm the Arab Journalists Association. He was also the chairman of Kuwait Journalists...

KUWAIT: The National Assembly is sanitized after a suspected case of coronavirus was discovered after a parliamentary session on Wednesday.— KUNA

Ministers, MPs asked to isolate over suspected virus infection

KUWAIT: The National Assembly is sanitized after a suspected case of coronavirus was discovered after a parliamentary session on Wednesday.— KUNA KUWAIT: The secretariat general of the National Assembly has asked all those present during Wednesday’s parliament session to self-quarantine for 14 days after a lawmaker was suspected to be infected with the coronavirus, according to a report in Al-Anbaa daily. The secretariat general said all...

Buses and taxis are seen in Kuwait City in pre-COVID times. – Photo by Fouad Al-Sheikh

Lack of public transport has made life difficult for many

Buses and taxis are seen in Kuwait City in pre-COVID times. – Photo by Fouad Al-Sheikh By Ben GarciaPublic transport is a basic necessity wherever you are in the world today. However, when the lockdown began, all public transport in Kuwait was ceased. Since June 1, the first phase of a five-phase program by the government to return to normalcy is being implemented. In some sectors, work has resumed. But resumption of public transportation is...

PARIS: Handcuffs and badges are displayed on the ground during a protest in reaction to the French Interior minister’s announcements, amid the latest wave of protests against racism and police violence. —AFP

French black, Arab men face ‘discriminatory’ police checks

PARIS: Handcuffs and badges are displayed on the ground during a protest in reaction to the French Interior minister’s announcements, amid the latest wave of protests against racism and police violence. —AFP PARIS: French police conduct discriminatory identity checks on black and Arab men, Human Rights Watch charged yesterday, as angry protests over alleged racism in the security forces sweep across the country. France has seen numerous...

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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Crown Prince of Jordan Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II at Bayan Palace on Dec 15, 2024. - Amiri Diwan

Jordan Crown Prince visits Kuwait

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DAMASCUS: People chat at a pub on Dec 13, 2024. - AFP

Syrian pubs warily reopen

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SEATTLE: Kuwait's Undersecretary of Finance Aseel Al-Munifi and Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Public Sector Angela Heise sign a memorandum of understanding during a meeting in the presence of officials. — KUNA

Ministry of Finance, Microsoft sign deal to advance digitization

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DAMASCUS: People react as they search for their missing relatives among bodies recovered at the Saydnaya prison, at the morgue of the Damascus Hospital, also known as the Mujtahid Hospital, on Dec 15, 2024. - AFP

‘Endless torture’: Inmate recalls hell of Syrian jails

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Kuwait shivers in subzero cold