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CALIFORNIA: Conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif. —AP

Facebook removes accounts in fight against fake news

CALIFORNIA: Conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif. —APLONDON: Facebook says it has deleted tens of thousands of accounts in Britain ahead of the June 8 general election in a drive to battle fake news. The tech giant also took out newspaper advertisements in Britain's media offering advice on how to spot such stories. The ads suggest that readers should be "skeptical...

HODEIDAH, YEMEN: In this photo taken on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, Salem, 5, who suffers from malnutrition, lies on a bed at a hospital. —AP

Yemen cholera outbreak kills 25 people in a week

SANAA: A cholera outbreak in Yemen killed 25 people this week, the World Health Organization said, as two years of war continues to wreak havoc on the impoverished country’s health and sanitation system. The deaths from the diarrheal disease which is carried in food and water tainted by human faeces are among 1,360 cases that the United Nations agency reported since April 27. Some severe cases can kill within hours unless treated with...

SEPANG: Malaysian Customs officials stand as seized pangolin scales are displayed during a press conference at Customs office in Sepang, Malaysia yesterday. — AP photos

Record haul of pangolin scales seized in Malaysia

SEPANG: Malaysian Customs officials stand as seized pangolin scales are displayed during a press conference at Customs office in Sepang, Malaysia yesterday. — AP photosKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian customs officers have seized more than 700 kilograms of pangolin scales, the country’s largest haul of the scales considered by some to have medicinal properties, officials said yesterday. The 712kg haul worth 9,184,800 ringgit ($2.12 million) was made...

Cast of ‘Stranger Things’, winner of the Show of the Year pose, in the press room

'Stranger Things,' 'Beauty' win big at MTV awards

Cast of ‘Stranger Things’, winner of the Show of the Year pose, in the press roomNostalgic horror sensation "Stranger Things" and Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" shared the spoils Sunday at the MTV Movie and TV Awards, expanded and renamed this year to include television. Netflix's hit series took best show and best actor in a show for an emotional Millie Bobby Brown, one of its young stars, while best actor in a movie went to Emma Watson...

Models display creation by Morroccan designer Albert Oiknine during the Kuwait international fashion week in Kuwait City. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait International Fashion Week

Models display creation by Morroccan designer Albert Oiknine during the Kuwait international fashion week in Kuwait City. — Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatLovers of fashion enjoyed the beautiful fashion designs presented by local and international fashion designers during the unique Kuwait International Fashion Week event held from May 7 to 11, 2017 at Al- Hamra Business Tower. 20 international designers will be participating in this event that is...

Palestinian fashion designer Natalie Tahhan displays some of her creations at her studio

Palestinian fashion designer breathes new life into tradition

Palestinian fashion designer Natalie Tahhan displays some of her creations at her studioPalestinian fashion designer Natalie Tahhan is hard at work in her Jerusalem studio, replacing the painstaking processes of cross-stitching and embroidery with a laptop computer and printed fabric. Taking inspiration from traditional Palestinian patterns, Tahhan designs patterns digitally and then has them printed on satins and silks before piecing together...

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KUWAIT: ALTCO General Manager George Sassine (left) and Kuwait Food Bank Society Secretary General Salem Ali Al-Hamar sign a contract to provide the bank with 1,000 food baskets.

Food bank signs contract with Quaker for 1,000 food baskets

Bader Al-KharafiKUWAIT: Kuwait Food Bank Society (KFBS) announced signing a contract with ALTCO (Quaker) to provide the bank with 1,000 food baskets including various Quaker products. The contract was signed at the food bank's headquarters by KFBS Secretary General Salem Ali Al-Hamar and ALTCO General Manager George Sassine in a ceremony attended by both sides' officials.A press release issued by KFBS said with natural ingredients of high...

20,000 expatriates deported in 2016

KUWAIT: According to the interior ministry's residency affairs directorate statistics, 19,730 expats of various nationalities were deported in 2016, ie 54 a day, who have no right to return to Kuwait unless they are granted an exemption by the interior minister. The statistics showed that over 1,000 expats had been deported on direct orders of the interior ministry's assistant undersecretary for passports and citizenship affairs Maj Gen Mazen...

KUWAIT: Buildings of the expatriate labor housing complex in Shadadiya. — Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh

Maid company to start operation in Sept

KUWAIT: The Assembly's health and labor committee discussed yesterday the implementation of a law to set up a company for the recruitment of domestic helpers, head of the committee said. MP Saad Al-Khanfour said the company is scheduled to start operations at the start of September and its offices have already been readied.The lawmaker said that the cost of the recruitment will drop by half when the company starts, adding that it will have...

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WikiLeaks Kuwait

Badrya Darwish What's this new war we are seeing nowadays in Kuwait? Every day we have a surprise about scandals involving well-known and influential people. I'm sorry guys - I cannot publish their names as the newspaper could be accused of damaging unity and solidarity in Kuwait. But social media, which seems to be held to a lower standard, is full of reports of scandals and scams and kickbacks and corruption in major ministries, involving...

MP Mohammad Hayef

MP Hayef says government delaying citizenship return

MP Mohammad HayefKUWAIT: Islamist opposition MP Mohammad Hayef yesterday charged that the government was deliberately delaying the implementation of an agreement to reinstate the citizenships revoked from opposition figures. Hayef also criticized National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem over his "negative" role in the issue, saying that the speaker's practices in this issue are unacceptable.The government has formed a high-level committee to...

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