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Muna Al Fuzai Attacks on medical staff continue in Kuwait, which is unfortunate and shameful. The latest fight was over a bathroom. It ended tragically with a nurse being sent for surgery and the doctor going to the police station to complain against the attackers. Reports about doctors getting insulted and beaten at their workplaces are becoming viciously repetitive. It is regrettable that some try to justify such attacks because of the...

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Phones down, heads up!

There is a disease, or should I say an epidemic, plaguing Kuwait. Our roads are overrun with drivers - many from this generation - glued to their phones, even while theirs hands on the wheel direct tons of dangerous steel. This is a primary cause of nasty car accidents in this country. The frightening part of this problem is that it is still something that is happening today! We must do something to stop this. I have witnessed firsthand too...

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Kuwait's King of HipHop releases new video

'Exclusive hints about Daffy's latest hit'Kuwaiti hip-hop/rap artiste King Daffy will release a new music video of his song "Shino Elkalam Hatha" starring Kuwaiti actress Shijoon Al-Shuwaini (Shooji) on Monday, July 17. The song is from his latest collaborative album "6arat" (Sarat) with Bahraini hip-hop musicians Flipperachi and DJ Outlaw, which was released last year.The song was inspired by a catchy whistling intro tune of a popular song by...

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Taxis in Kuwait... A historical perspective

Taxi driver in 1960s in KuwaitKUWAIT: Taxis have been a part of the Kuwait landscape since the late 1930s with personal vehicles, owned by well off Kuwaitis, being the precursor of the present organized profession that delivers people to their desired destinations.Back in the day, the relation between clients and drivers was not governed by the rules and regulations of today. It was more of a mutual agreement between both parties regarding the...

JEDDAH: A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace shows Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Jeddah.—AFP

Rex Tillerson leaves Gulf with no end in sight to Qatar crisis

Tensions remain high between Qatar and Arab states JEDDAH: A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace shows Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Jeddah.—AFPDOHA: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson yesterday wrapped up a four-day mission to the Gulf with little sign of progress in resolving the diplomatic crisis pitting Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatar. Tillerson met...

PARIS: US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron stand during the US and French national anthems, during a welcome ceremony at Les Invalides in Paris, yesterday.—AFP

Trump in Paris with Russia scandal in tow

PARIS: US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron stand during the US and French national anthems, during a welcome ceremony at Les Invalides in Paris, yesterday.—AFPPARIS: France rolled out the red carpet to welcome Donald Trump yesterday on a presidential visit laden with military pomp that the White House hopes will offer respite from a growing scandal back home. The US president's brief 24-hour trip to the French...

MAIDUGURI: This file photo shows professor Danjuma Gambo, official university spokesperson and director of the University of Maiduguri radio station, working at his office, in Maiduguri, Nigeria. —AFP

Nigerian university digs in deep ditch around against Boko Haram

MAIDUGURI: This file photo shows professor Danjuma Gambo, official university spokesperson and director of the University of Maiduguri radio station, working at his office, in Maiduguri, Nigeria. —AFPMAIDUGURI, Nigeria: A giant bulldozer digs a deep ditch among the bushes surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, turning it into a fortress to prevent further suicide attacks by Boko Haram. About 27 kilometers of trenches are...

PARIS: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron leave the Elysee Palace in Paris yesterday, after an annual Franco-German Summit. — AFP

EU to crack down on terror art trafficking

PARIS: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron leave the Elysee Palace in Paris yesterday, after an annual Franco-German Summit. — AFPBRUSSELS: The EU said yesterday it would cut off financing for terror groups from the lucrative trade in priceless cultural artifacts stolen in war zones such as Syria and Iraq by imposing tough import controls. "Money is the life blood of war for the terrorists who attack...

MOSCOW: Khamzat Bakhayev, second left, Temirlan Eskerkhanov, center, and Shadid Gubashev, listen to the sentence in a court room in Moscow, Russia yesterday. — AP

Russia sentences Nemtsov hitmen to lengthy jail terms

MOSCOW: Khamzat Bakhayev, second left, Temirlan Eskerkhanov, center, and Shadid Gubashev, listen to the sentence in a court room in Moscow, Russia yesterday. — APMOSCOW: A Russian court yesterday handed lengthy jail terms to five Chechen men convicted of the contract killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as his allies insisted the masterminds remained unidentified. Zaur Dadayev, who carried out the shooting, was sentenced to 20 years in...

Pakistan has been battling Islamist and nationalist insurgencies in mineral-rich Balochistan, the country's most restive province, since 2004, with hundreds of soldiers and militants killed in the fighting - AFP

Four policemen killed in southwest Pakistan

QUETTA, Pakistan: Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed four policemen in southwest Pakistan yesterday, the latest attack to target authorities in restive Balochistan province. The incident took place in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, which has been wracked by separatist and Islamist violence for more than a decade. Senior police official Abdul Razzaq Cheema told AFP that police superintendent Mubarak Shah was on his way to the office...

Indian students shout slogans during a protest against the rapes of two minor girls outside the police headquarters. — AFP

Man arrested over brutal rape, murder of Indian schoolgirl

SHIMLA, India: Indian police yesterday arrested a key suspect in the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl near the hill resort of Shimla, shocking a small community where such brutal violence is rare. The discovery of the 16-year-old's bruised and naked body has triggered outpourings of grief and anger in Himachal Pradesh, a northern state with some of India's lowest rates of sexual violence. An autopsy confirmed the girl-whose body was found...

OSLO: File picture shows Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland speaking during the Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo in front of a photo of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo who died yesterday. —AFP

China's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies aged 61

OSLO: File picture shows Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland speaking during the Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo in front of a photo of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo who died yesterday. —AFPSHENYANG, China: China's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died yesterday while still in custody following a battle with cancer, authorities said, after officials ignored international pleas to let him spend his final days free and abroad. The prominent...

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