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The maid dilemma
Muna Al Fuzai We have now reached critical mass. Kuwait has more than 650,000 domestic servants and will likely see that figure grow to a million by end of next year. Mothers of all nationalities can be seen striding through local malls and shopping complexes, with one or two children in tow and a uniformed maid bringing up the rear. Does every single child need their own nanny? Is this culture of maids a way of showing off or a means for...
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Kuwait's landmarks of childhood disappear
Nawara Fattahova It's a sad feeling not being able to go to places we used to enjoy visiting when we were kids. Change is a part of life, but when the change removes most or all of your favorite entertainment places and stores, it hurts. The trend started by demolishing Showbiz, the most popular entertainment park in Kuwait during the 1970s and 1980s, before Entertainment City was built in Doha. The place also housed a mini-zoo, pony rides...
Salman Al-Mutawa
Getting to know foreigners in your class
Salman Al-Mutawa "When I go to the US, I am going to make non-Kuwaiti friends, I'm too used to Kuwaitis," is a statement 60 percent of all students who study abroad, including myself, make before landing in their new home. (I made up the 60 percent figure by the way). It is a fact, however, that many Kuwaitis decide to befriend non-Kuwaitis when they leave Kuwait. Most however end up befriending a majority of Kuwaitis and Saudis, with the...
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Coffee shops and the ‘cafe-rati’ in Kuwait
A small coffee shop in the heart of downtown Kuwait City has a wall-mounted sign saying ‘Free Wi-Fi’. A few steps away, another cafe has a blackboard sign in front of its door reading ‘No Internet, talk to each other’. At the end of the street, another cafe has a large seating area for people who have no interest in communicating with anyone, and want complete isolation. Each table here has only one chair, and is separated by a...
Israeli soldiers maneuver a tank during a military exercise in the northern part of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights yesterday. — AFP
Israel hits Syria site allegedly used for chemical weapons
Syria's army warns of serious repercussions Israeli soldiers maneuver a tank during a military exercise in the northern part of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights yesterday. — AFPDAMASCUS: Syria's army accused Israeli warplanes of hitting one of its positions yesterday killing two people in an attack that a monitor said targeted a site where the regime allegedly produces chemical weapons. The site near the Syrian town of Masyaf, between the...
TEKNAF: A Rohingya Muslim refugee carries a child as they arrive from Myanmar through Lomba Beel after crossing the Naf river, in the Bangladeshi town of Teknaf. —AFP
UN claims more than 250,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar
Refugee camps are bursting at the seams TEKNAF: A Rohingya Muslim refugee carries a child as they arrive from Myanmar through Lomba Beel after crossing the Naf river, in the Bangladeshi town of Teknaf. —AFPCOX'S BAZAR: More than a quarter of a million mostly Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since fresh violence erupted in Myanmar last October, the United Nations said yesterday, as more bodies washed up a day after boats sank attempting...
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Iran prepares aid for Myanmar Rohingyas
TEHRAN: Iran’s Red Crescent said yesterday it has prepared an aid package for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims as they flee a crackdown by security forces, local media reported. “An emergency, food, life support and hygiene package has been prepared by the Red Crescent to be sent to Myanmar,” said head of the organization Morteza Salimi, according to the ISNA news agency. The package would be “immediately sent to the oppressed people of this...
An aerial photography taken and released by the Dutch department of Defense on September 6, 2017 shows the damage of Hurricane Irma in Philipsburg, on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. — AFP
Deadly Irma rips through Caribbean
An aerial photography taken and released by the Dutch department of Defense on September 6, 2017 shows the damage of Hurricane Irma in Philipsburg, on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. — AFPPOINTE PITRE: Powerful Hurricane Irma cut a swathe of deadly destruction as it roared through the Caribbean, claiming at least nine lives and turning the tropical islands of St Martin and Barbuda into mountains of rubble. One of the most powerful...
JOHANNESBURG: South African chef Nthabiseng Mabuza (pseudonym), 35 years old, shows pictures of her injuries, at home on July 7, 2017, in Vosloorus, a middle-class township east of Johannesburg, after telling about her rape by the driver of a public mini-bus taxi, while she was on her way to work, two years ago. — AFP
South African rape victims struggle against policing
Victims live in fear, rapists run free JOHANNESBURG: South African chef Nthabiseng Mabuza (pseudonym), 35 years old, shows pictures of her injuries, at home on July 7, 2017, in Vosloorus, a middle-class township east of Johannesburg, after telling about her rape by the driver of a public mini-bus taxi, while she was on her way to work, two years ago. — AFPVOSLOORUS: South African chef Nthabiseng Mabuza, 35, was on her way to work and the only...
MUMBAI: This file photo taken on August 29, 2017 shows Indian people wading through a flooded street during heavy rain showers.—AFP
No help as Mumbai flood victims are on their own
'No one from the government comes to check' MUMBAI: This file photo taken on August 29, 2017 shows Indian people wading through a flooded street during heavy rain showers.—AFPMUMBAI: When Surekha Chiplunkar's home started to flood during recent heavy rains in Mumbai she knew exactly what to do-she had to; catastrophe comes every year and no one else was going to help. Her family's tiny ground floor apartment in central Mumbai is one of hundreds...
NEW DELHI: This file photo taken on May 21, 2007 shows accused Mumbai bombing mastermind Abu Salem (C-red shirt) being escorted by police at a railway station. — AFP
Two sentenced to death for Mumbai bomb attacks
NEW DELHI: This file photo taken on May 21, 2007 shows accused Mumbai bombing mastermind Abu Salem (C-red shirt) being escorted by police at a railway station. — AFPMUMBAI: An Indian court yesterday sentenced two men to death over bomb blasts in Mumbai two decades ago that killed more than 250 people. Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan and Tahir Merchant were convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 blasts and sentenced to death. "So far as the two death...
TECATE: View of an artwork by French artist JR on the US-Mexico border in Tecate, California. — AFP
California vows to fight for migrant 'Dreamers'
State protesting major setback to their economy TECATE: View of an artwork by French artist JR on the US-Mexico border in Tecate, California. — AFPLOS ANGELES: Donald Trump's move to scrap an amnesty for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants risks costing the US economy dearly, experts warn, and nowhere is this truer than in California which has promised a fierce fight to protect its "Dreamers." The Golden State is home to more than a...
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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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Minouche Shafik
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