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KUWAIT: Al-Derbaha, a famous children's game from the Kuwaiti heritage. The boys race while pushing a wheel, and whoever reaches the target first is declared the winner. The image dates back to 1958, and was taken in the 'Merqab' district of Kuwait City. The children are (from right to left) Ali Salimi, Al-Shuaibi brothers and Al-Faheed brothers. (Source: A total of commemorative printed images to the Ministry of Information in the 1960s and...
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Human Rights Watch Submission to Committee on Rights of Child on Kuwait
KUWAIT: Human Rights Watch recently submitted to the 87th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Kuwait’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In its submission, it proposes issues and questions that the committee members may want to raise with the government of Kuwait on the topics of nationality, migrant child abuse in detention, child labor and others. The following are excerpts from...
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Health Ministry launches drive-thru coronavirus testing site at airport
Pharmacies must sell masks at state-approved price KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health inaugurated late Saturday a drive-through novel coronavirus testing center at Jazeera Airways Park and Fly facility at Kuwait International Airport. The center will help increase the number of tests carried out by the ministry to discover unreported infection cases, Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah told reporters during the inauguration ceremony. He pointed...
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Standing in Solidarity and Joining Hands to Fight COVID-19
LI Minggang, Chinese Ambassador By LI Minggang, Chinese Ambassador to KuwaitCurrently, COVID-19 is sweeping the globe, posing a grave threat to people's lives and health and a formidable challenge to global public health security. Some have described it as the darkest moment faced by humanity in a century. In a time of increasingly challenging situation under the shadow of COVID-19, it is even more imperative for us to stay rational and sustain...
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Grocery shopping during a pandemic
Over the weekend, I booked an appointment to go grocery shopping at the sultan center in my area. I wanted a morning appointment but only evening slots were available. All day long, I added and subtracted items from the shopping list on my phone, calculating the amount of stuff I could reasonably find in 30 minutes. Did we really need another bottle of bleach right now? Or will what we have at home last until the next grocery run so that I...
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Corona under control?
It seems that the COVID-19 pandemic gave health authorities the time and opportunity to get involved in many issues and procedures. Now they started to study the nature of the virus after absorbing the vicious first attack that took everyone by surprise, because the virus belongs to a family of viruses that appeared earlier, starting with SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which was identified in 2003. Then there was MERS (Middle East...
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Zain partners Mentor Arabia to launch #StayZain campaign
Providing mental health tips to parents, children and youth KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, has teamed up with the Mentor Arabia Foundation, to launch a social media campaign, entitled #StayZain. The regional campaign offers tips for parents, children and youth to maintain good mental and physical health, to reduce anxiety and depression, to motivate them to think...
DORTMUND: Dortmund's Norwegian forward Erling Braut Haaland (Center L) vies for the ball with Schalke's Senegalese defender Salif Sane during the German first division Bundesliga football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 on May 16, 2020 in Dortmund. – AFP
Dortmund thrash Schalke in empty stadium
DORTMUND: Dortmund's Norwegian forward Erling Braut Haaland (Center L) vies for the ball with Schalke's Senegalese defender Salif Sane during the German first division Bundesliga football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Schalke 04 on May 16, 2020 in Dortmund. – AFP BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund provided much-needed fireworks with a 4-0 demolition of bitter rivals Schalke 04 on Saturday after the German league restarted in front of empty stands after...
(L-R) French midfielder Corentin Tolisso, Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcantara, Spanish defender Alvaro Odriozola and French defender Lucas Hernandez wear face masks as they arrive for a training session of the German first division Bundesliga football club FC Bayern Munich on May 13, 2020 at the Bayern's campus in Munich, southern Germany. The Bundesliga returns on May 16, 2020 with Bayern facing Union Berlin on May 17 in an empty stadium due to the new coronavirus pandemic.nChristof STACHE / AFP
Bayern aim to shake off cobwebs with quiet confidence in Berlin
(L-R) French midfielder Corentin Tolisso, Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcantara, Spanish defender Alvaro Odriozola and French defender Lucas Hernandez wear face masks as they arrive for a training session of the German first division Bundesliga football club FC Bayern Munich on May 13, 2020 at the Bayern's campus in Munich, southern Germany. The Bundesliga returns on May 16, 2020 with Bayern facing Union Berlinyesterday- AFP BERLIN: Bayern Munich...
DETROIT: In this file photo, workers leave FCA Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly after the Detroit three automakers agreed to UAW demands to shut down all North America plants as a precaution against coronavirus, in Detroit, Michigan. — AFP
Detroit’s ‘Big 3’ begins to motor back up
DETROIT: In this file photo, workers leave FCA Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly after the Detroit three automakers agreed to UAW demands to shut down all North America plants as a precaution against coronavirus, in Detroit, Michigan. — AFP DETROIT: Detroit’s auto giants are keen to resume production this week, but there will be unease on assembly lines where social distancing is difficult and worries about the deadly coronavirus persist....
MANAUS: This file aerial picture shows a burial taking place at an area where new graves have been dug up at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, in the Amazon forest in Brazil, during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - AFP
Brazil's coronavirus death toll tops 15,000
MANAUS: This file aerial picture shows a burial taking place at an area where new graves have been dug up at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, in the Amazon forest in Brazil, during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - AFP SAO PAULO: Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passed 15,000 on Saturday, official data showed, while its number of infections topped 230,000, making it the country with the fourth-highest number of cases in the world....
This combination of pictures shows former US vice president Joe Biden and US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Progressive rising star Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been named as a co-chair of a new task force aimed at unifying the party's more liberal wing with moderates in support of White House hopeful Joe Biden. - AFP
Trump vs Biden: First it was wild - then came COVID-19
This combination of pictures shows former US vice president Joe Biden and US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Progressive rising star Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been named as a co-chair of a new task force aimed at unifying the party's more liberal wing with moderates in support of White House hopeful Joe Biden. - AFP WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s reelection battle against Joe Biden was always going to be...
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