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Inay Viola in her employers’ vehicle.

Life a rollercoaster ride for Filipina family driver

Viola has spent 32 years working for her supportive sponsors Inay Viola in her employers’ vehicle.We rarely hear stories of housemaids being treated fairly by their employers. In fact, most of the stories published by local dailies are about the miserable conditions and mistreatment of domestic workers. Based on records from the interior ministry obtained by Kuwait Times, the number of Filipino domestic helpers as of April this year was around...

Kuwaiti Farmer Mubarak Al-Owaini. — Photos by Moayad Hassan

Field of experiments inside Al-Owaini greenhouse

Kuwaiti Farmer Mubarak Al-Owaini. — Photos by Moayad HassanWhen you open the gates of the Al-Owaini greenhouse, you are hit by a draft of cool, humid air because of the huge exhaust fans that draw internal air outwards, condensing it to cool the place. Unlike regular greenhouses, this hothouse is like a field of experiments - a travelling funfair of trees, aromatic herbs and climbing vines. Between the pleasure of discovery and learning, the...

SANAA: In this photo, a girl scavenges for recyclable items at a garbage dump in a street in Sanaa, Yemen.—AP

Yemen's civil war turns country into cholera breeding ground

SANAA: In this photo, a girl scavenges for recyclable items at a garbage dump in a street in Sanaa, Yemen.—APSANAA, Yemen: Collapsing on sidewalks and constantly vomiting, some of the Yemeni villagers barely make it to the tiny health center where doctors spread carton sheets in the backyard and use trees to hang bags of IV fluids for patients. They are part of a stream of hundreds of suspected cholera victims that continues to converge on the...

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Russian national detained over planned drone attack

ADANA: Turkish police officers escort Russian national Renad Bakiev. - APISTANBUL: Turkish authorities have detained a Russian national and suspected Islamic State group militant for allegedly planning a drone attack on US aircraft at Turkey's Incirlik air base, police said yesterday. Renad Bakiev was detained in the southern city of Adana over suspicions that he plotted to crash an American aircraft or attack the Incirlik air base using a...

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Iranian blogger says she feels 'safe' after reaching Israel

Times of Israel founding editor brought her to country JERUSALEM: Iranian blogger Neda Amin speaks during a press conference. - APJERUSALEM: An Iranian blogger who wrote for an Israeli news website and who left her country for exile after threats of imprisonment arrived in Israel yesterday, saying she feels "safe now" after finally reaching the Jewish state. Neda Amin spoke shortly after arrival in Israel at a joint press conference with David...

NAIROBI: Protesters who had been engaged all day in clashes with riot police, erupt in celebration after hearing news from an opposition press conference which they interpreted as meaning opposition leader Raila Odinga would become president, in the Kawangware slum of Nairobi. — AP

Kenyan election official: Hacking attempt failed

Kenyans tensely awaited the final tally of election NAIROBI: Protesters who had been engaged all day in clashes with riot police, erupt in celebration after hearing news from an opposition press conference which they interpreted as meaning opposition leader Raila Odinga would become president, in the Kawangware slum of Nairobi. — APNAIROBI: The database of Kenya's election commission was unsuccessfully targeted by a hacking attempt, a top...

PARIS: French Police work on the scene where French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. —AP

French soldier attack suspect not known as radical: Police

PARIS: The man suspected of ramming a BMW into a group of soldiers near Paris is a 37-year-old Algerian who was known to police as a suspect in minor crimes but not as someone with radical beliefs, police said yesterday.Hamou Benlatreche was living legally in France and had never been convicted of a crime, a police officer involved in the case told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak about...

JHELUM: Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses his supporters behind glass during a rally. — AP

Pakistan's deposed PM criticizes top judges

JHELUM: Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses his supporters behind glass during a rally. — APJEHLUM: Pakistan's deposed prime minister yesterday criticized the country's Supreme Court judges for disqualifying him from office, pledging to keep up his quest for justice even as the crowds following his "caravan of democracy" road rally dwindled. Nawaz Sharif embarked on an on-the-road rally on Wednesday from Islamabad, heading...

File Photo of Uttara Saud, 14, sits inside a Chaupadi shed in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal February 16, 2014 (REUTERS)

Nepal strengthens laws against menstrual exile

File Photo of Uttara Saud, 14, sits inside a Chaupadi shed in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal February 16, 2014 (REUTERS)KATHMANDU: Nepal's parliament has passed a bill toward making women safer by strengthening laws against acid attacks along with the ancient Hindu customs of demanding dowry payments for marriage and exiling women who are menstruating. The new law goes into effect in August 2018, with violators...

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Sri Lanka FM resigns over alleged scandal

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's foreign minister resigned yesterday after being accused of possessing a luxury apartment paid for by a businessman investigated for shady treasury bond transactions. Ravi Karunanayake, who was the finance minister at the time the deals took place, denied the allegation but told Parliament that he is resigning from the Cabinet to "set an example" to others and protect the government. He said he would continue as a lawmaker.He...

Survivors from both India and Pakistan, from left to right: Sohinder Nath Chopra in New Delhi; Mohammad Ishaq in Rawalpindi, Pakistan; Shamsul Nisa, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir; Krishen Khanna, in New Delhi; Shamim Uddin, in Karachi, Pakistan; Hira Gulrajani in New Delhi; Akhtari Begum in Lahore, Pakistan. - AP

Remembering Partition: 70 years since the divide of India-Pakistan

Survivors from both India and Pakistan, from left to right: Sohinder Nath Chopra in New Delhi; Mohammad Ishaq in Rawalpindi, Pakistan; Shamsul Nisa, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir; Krishen Khanna, in New Delhi; Shamim Uddin, in Karachi, Pakistan; Hira Gulrajani in New Delhi; Akhtari Begum in Lahore, Pakistan. - APNEW DELHI: It's been 70 years since India and Pakistan were carved from the former British Empire as independent nations, a...

SYDNEY: Jonathon Hunyor, right, CEO of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre speaks in front of the law courts after lodging an application in the High Court for an injunction to prevent a vote on gay marriage through a nonbinding ballot by mail. —AP

New challenge filed in court to Australian gay marriage vote

SYDNEY: Jonathon Hunyor, right, CEO of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre speaks in front of the law courts after lodging an application in the High Court for an injunction to prevent a vote on gay marriage through a nonbinding ballot by mail. —APCANBERRA: Gay-rights advocates filed a court challenge yesterday to the government's unusual plan to canvass Australians' opinion on gay marriage next month, while a retired judge said he would...

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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.

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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

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