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Women using long-acting contraception less likely to use condoms
NEW YORK: College women using long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), like IUDs or hormonal implants, may be less likely to get pregnant but more vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease compared to peers not on LARCs, a US study finds. Among sexually active women, those who used LARC methods were more than two times less likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter than women not on a long-acting contraceptive, researchers...
ETHIOPIA: Honey farmer Alem Abreha is pictured smoking a beehive on his honey farm outside Wukro in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia
Ethiopian honey farmers struggle with sticky traditions
ETHIOPIA: Honey farmer Alem Abreha is pictured smoking a beehive on his honey farm outside Wukro in the Tigray region of northern EthiopiaZAENA, Ethiopia: The beehives of Ethiopia, Africa's top honey producer, make about a quarter of the continent's honey, but travelers who come to sample the liquid gold often find there isn't enough to go around. In a country where 85 percent of all jobs are in agriculture, industry experts say the...
NEW DELHI: In this photograph employees of Indian company Nuts and Boltz work in their office in New Delhi. — AFP photos
Red tape and taxes put brakes on ‘Make in India’ push
Lack in technology increases import for smallest things NEW DELHI: In this photograph employees of Indian company Nuts and Boltz work in their office in New Delhi. — AFP photosNEW DELHI: When Saurabh Ahuja tried to import a $600 3D printer for manufacturing drones in his Delhi workshop, he ended up spending another $900 in taxes and bribes and waited three months for it to clear customs. "We lack in technology and industry to make the smallest...
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Cliff of populism
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Manpower Authority inspectors protest fingerprinting system
A number of safety inspectors at the Public Authority for Manpower plan to organize a sit-in outside the office of Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh on Tuesday, well-informed sources said. The sit in comes as a reaction to a decision made by the authority's human resources manager, who refused to exempt the inspectors from having to use the fingerprint scan admission registering system....
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Transparency in medicine prices
Muna Al Fuzai I understand the desire of pharmaceutical companies to make profits, because they are not charitable institutions but medical and commercial organizations, so the achievement of profit is an important goal to continue working. But the issue of difference in prices of medicines is making everyone frustrated. Why are prices of drugs becoming expensive and not accessible to all people? The prices of medicines are supposed to be...
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Plane escort shoots himself dead by accident: Interior
KUWAIT: A security officer from the airplane protection department at Kuwait's Special Force shot himself dead by accident while examining his weapon, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. Officers were receiving weapons at the department's weapon room ahead of a mission, when a chief warrant officer (CWO) started examining his own, but unluckily he shot himself dead by mistake, the ministry added. Another was injured and hurried to...
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Kuwait free of new bird flu strain
KUWAIT: Kuwait is free of the new deadly strain of avian influenza, known as bird flu (H5N1), the Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resource (PAAAFR) affirmed yesterday. Livestock and poultry production in the country is totally bird flu-free, PAAAFR said in a press statement, adding that only limited cases of bird flu infections were discovered between January and March, and were reported to World Health Organization (WHO).In a...
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Fight against terror comes under the spotlight in Riyadh Forum to Counter Extremism, Fight Terrorism
KUWAIT: The Riyadh Forum to Counter Extremism and Fight Terrorism to be held on May 21st at the Intercontinental Hotel under the sponsorship of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition, Dr Saud Al-Sarhan, Secretary General of The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, announced today. This year's event 'The Nature of Extremism and the Future of Terrorism' will be part of a high-level set of visits and activities during the...
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Municipality inspects stores and restaurants in preparation for upcoming month of Ramadan
.KUWAIT: In preparation for the upcoming month of Ramadan, Capital municipality inspection teams recently inspected a number of stores and restaurants in Sharq, Beneid Al-Gar and Shuwaikh Industrial area. The campaign resulted in confiscating 217 kilograms of expired food items and filing 79 citations for violations that include unlicensed ads, discovery of inedible and expired food items and violation of cleanliness’ conditions.
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The snobbishness syndrome
It is a disease infecting people who only see perfection in materialistic things and glorify and respect  those with full pockets while they marginalize and look down upon people who seem not to belong to the 'High Class.' For them, the appearance of loftiness is elegant while those with poorer appearances are nothing more than a filthy commoner. Such beliefs and images have unintentionally invaded our minds and one way or another, we tend to...
KUWAIT: Plastic bags containing drug pills that truck drivers tried to smuggle into Kuwait yesterday.
30,000 drug pills busted on way to Kuwait
KUWAIT: Plastic bags containing drug pills that truck drivers tried to smuggle into Kuwait yesterday.KUWAIT: Customs officials busted 30,000 Captagon pills that two truck drivers tried to smuggle them from Iraq yesterday. The drugs were discovered in hidden places inside the two trailer trucks that were trying to pass through the Abdali northern border checkpoint yesterday. The drivers were taken to the proper authorities to face...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
US orders nuclear submarine to Mideast
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
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KURSK: This handout photograph taken and released by the Government of Kursk region of Russia on August 9, 2024, shows women and children being evacuated from the town of Rylsk in Kursk region. — AFP
Putin orders Russian army to ‘dislodge’ Ukrainian forces
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HERAT, Afghanistan: Afghan female workers sort and process dry Saffron at a facility in Herat. – AFP
Three years after return of Taleban, Afghan economic woes loom large