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What's up with your mobile apps? Identifying and mitigating digital risk
By Alastair PatersonI'll venture to guess you're using a mobile device to read this. In a recent Ericsson Mobility Report, the total number of mobile subscriptions at the end of 2016 was approximately 7.5 billion and growing around 4 percent year-on-year. Greater speed, power and storage capabilities of mobile devices means they are used more frequently for activities previously reserved for laptops or PCs.In this increasingly mobile-first...
This combination of photos provided by Boston University shows sections from a normal brain, top, and from the brain of former University of Texas football player Greg Ploetz, bottom, in stage IV of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. —AP
How repeated head blows affect the brain
This combination of photos provided by Boston University shows sections from a normal brain, top, and from the brain of former University of Texas football player Greg Ploetz, bottom, in stage IV of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. —APCHICAGO: Researchers are tackling fresh questions about a degenerative brain disease now that it has been detected in the brains of nearly 200 football players after death. The suspected cause is repeated head...
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Trump, Amir hold talks
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump welcomes His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the White House yesterday. - KUNAUS-Kuwait Economic forum beneficial for both countriesWASHINGTON: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, accompanied by National Guard Deputy Chief Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, met US President Donald Trump at the White House yesterday. Their talks at the Oval Office...
His Highness the Amir is pictured with Cultural Attache at the Embassy in Washington DC Dr Aseel Al-Awadi.
Amir receives Kuwaiti students in US
Kuwaiti students proud of leadership’s support His Highness the Amir is pictured with Cultural Attache at the Embassy in Washington DC Dr Aseel Al-Awadi.WASHINGTON: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday received a batch of Kuwaiti students pursuing their education in the US at his residence in Washington DC. During the meeting, in the presence of Deputy Chief of the Kuwait National Guard (KNG) Sheikh Meshal...
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Temperatures to drop
KUWAIT: Temperatures are expected to become moderate in the upcoming days, affected by the decrease of the Indian seasonal low pressure, said Kuwait Meteorological Center.The low pressure will begin to decrease- an improvement in weather conditions. There will be a drop in humidity rate over the weekend also, Abdulaziz Al-Qarawi, official at the center said yesterday.The highest temperature reached 43 Degrees Celsius yesterday morning, while...
Kuwait’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan with Chinese officials.
Kuwait minister lures Chinese investors
Kuwait’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan with Chinese officials.KUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan yesterday discussed with Chinese officials ways to encourage Chinese firms to open their headquarters in Kuwait through the Direct Investment Promotion Authority. His discussions with Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Qian Keiming focused on alleviating obstacles to the development of...
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Outdoor work resumes
KUWAIT: The Manpower Authority has announced the end of 11 am- 4 pm working period which started June 1st and ended on August 31. So, workers are now allowed to resume normal working hours as the summer ends. The laborers, especially those working at construction sites in open areas had been banned from working during the heat peak period. The Authority had assigned inspectors to ensure workers were not being forced to do work during the soaring...
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Municipality inspection
KUWAIT: Hawalli Municipality inspection teams recently inspected a number of stores, restaurants and cafes. The team leader Riyadh Al-Rabee' said that the inspection teams filed 43 citations for hiring laborers without health certificates, using unlicensed ads, violating cleanliness conditions, dealing with expired food items and operating without a license. Meanwhile, Farwaniya Municipality Inspection team leader Nasser Al-Rasheedi said that his...
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Kuwaiti ends three-month misery of Indian national
KUWAIT: A citizen put an end to an Indian's three-month misery after he had been arrested at the airport, said security sources. The airport computer showed that the suspect was wanted in a criminal case and was later reported dead in January 2016.Working on the case, the citizen found out that the suspect bears the same name with another Indian who had entered Kuwait on the same date and worked in the same company before he absconded and became...
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Indian housemaid shot
KUWAIT: An Indian housemaid was recently rushed to hospital with a gunshot to the left side of her back. Security sources said that the woman's sponsor denied seeing the shooter. The sponsor claimed that she heard the shot and found her bleeding at her house. A case was filed.Suspects nabbedA Nepalese, accused of violating residency laws was recently arrested in Ahmadi with the possession of 12 home-made and 7 imported liquor bottles. Security...
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Blogger jailed
KUWAIT: The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a blogger known on social media networks as 'Chabreet Seyassi' to three months with labor for slandering the Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem on his Twitter account.Hit & run driverA search is on for an unidentified hit and run driver who had been involved in a tripartite collision with other vehicles carrying Canadian military personnel in one and a Saudi in the other, said...
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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP
Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India
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Columbia president resigns months after campus Gaza demos
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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.
Pearl diving trip winds up
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Dr Abdurrahman Al-Sumait
Personification of Kuwait’s philanthropic legacy: Dr Al-Sumait