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Ambassador Sadeq Mohammad Maarefi is seen during the meeting. — KUNA

Kuwait renews call to clear Mideast of WMDs

Ambassador Sadeq Mohammad Maarefi is seen during the meeting. — KUNAVIENNA: Kuwait yesterday renewed its call to clear weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East "as soon as possible." The official Kuwaiti stance was expressed by Ambassador Sadeq Mohammad Maarefi, Kuwait Permanent Delegate at the United Nations in Vienna, during a preparatory meeting for the conference on reviewing the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), due in New...

Urology specialist Faisal Al-Hajeri conducting surgeries in Turkey. — KUNA

Kuwaiti urologist performs surgeries on Syrian refugees

Urology specialist Faisal Al-Hajeri conducting surgeries in Turkey. — KUNAANKARA: A Kuwaiti physician yesterday performed six surgical procedures in a hospital located in the Turkish province of Hatay. Speaking to KUNA, urology specialist Faisal Al-Hajeri said that the surgeries were carried out in "Hospital Emel" to treat an array of urinary tract injuries sustained by Syrian refugees. On the surgeries, he said the intricate and lengthy...

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The spread of drugs

Muna Al Fuzai An alarming statement was published recently by Kuwait's Ministry of Interior (MoI) about the General Directorate for Drug Control regarding the arrests of many suspects for being involved in drugs crimes last month. A total of 52 drugs cases were registered in only the first half of April and 66 accused people were involved. Think about that for just a minute. In 15 days, 52 drug-related cases. That's nearly 3.5 cases every...

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This week we saw the launch of a beautiful public service campaign aimed at combatting what has become rampant racism and discrimination. Across Kuwait, on the front pages of newspapers, on billboards and all over social media, were advertisements highlighting one of the most important articles of the Kuwaiti Constitution. I repeat it here for those who missed it: 1. All people are equal in human dignity and in public rights and duties...

Suhaila Al-Najdi - The Chair

.At birthday and school parties, children play a lot of games that have been inherited down through generations. One of the most popular games is musical chairs, where children compete to grab the last chair, whatever it takes. The end justifies the means! As a consequence, losers get upset, especially if the chairs are forcibly taken.Kuwaiti artist Suhaila Al-Najdi saw in musical chairs the seed of the obsession of power and clinging to a...

LONDON: In this file photo, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II sits next to Prince Philip in the House of Lords as she waits to read the Queen’s Speech to lawmakers in London. — AP

Britain's Prince Philip, 95, to retire from public duties

LONDON: In this file photo, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II sits next to Prince Philip in the House of Lords as she waits to read the Queen’s Speech to lawmakers in London. — APLONDON: Britain's Prince Philip, the 95-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, will retire from public engagements later this year, Buckingham Palace said yesterday. The Duke of Edinburgh, who turns 96 on June 10, is the longest-serving consort in British history, and...

BANKI: A Nigerian army vehicle patrols in the town of Banki in northeastern Nigeria.—AFP

Banki: a Nigerian border town choked by Boko Haram homeless

BANKI: A Nigerian army vehicle patrols in the town of Banki in northeastern Nigeria.—AFPBANKI, Nigeria: The Nigerianarmy calls it "New Banki City", an optimistic name conjuring up visions of modern housing. The reality is an overcrowded camp for 32,000 desperate people made homeless by Boko Haram. In this ravaged corner of northeast Nigeria, the Islamists frequently launch attacks on military convoys, unleash suicide bombers and litter the...

MOSUL: In this photo, a humvee of the Iraqi Federal Police drives through an abandoned street in western Mosul, Iraq.—AP

Iraq forces launch new push on IS in west Mosul

MOSUL: In this photo, a humvee of the Iraqi Federal Police drives through an abandoned street in western Mosul, Iraq.—APMOSUL: Iraqi forces thrust into west Mosul from the north yesterday, opening a new front in the more than six-month-old offensive to dislodge the Islamic State group from the country's second city. The assault is aimed at sealing the siege of the Old City, where die-hard jihadists holding huge numbers of civilians hostage are...

PARIS: French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen, left, and French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! movement, Emmanuel Macron pose prior to the start of a live broadcast face-to-face televised debate in television studios of French public national television channel France 2, and French private channel TF1 in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris.—AFP

Macron 'convinces' majority of French viewers in TV debate

Candidates clash over terrorism, economy, Europe PARIS: French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen, left, and French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! movement, Emmanuel Macron pose prior to the start of a live broadcast face-to-face televised debate in television studios of French public national television channel France 2, and French private channel TF1 in La...

MUMBAI: Egyptian patient Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty lies in a hospital bed at The Saifee Hospital in Mumbai, ahead of an operation. — AFP

Egyptian woman leaves Indian hospital more than 300 kg lighter

MUMBAI: An Egyptian woman widely believed to have been the world's heaviest woman left an Indian hospital yesterday more than 300 kg lighter for further treatment in Abu Dhabi. Eman Ahmed, who weighed more than half a metric ton when she was operated on in March, has not walked for 25 years. She is in her mid-30s.A series of operations in Mumbai brought her weight down to below 200 kg, her doctor, Muffazal Lakdawala, wrote in a blog post. But she...

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India convicts police and doctors in gang rape case

MUMBAI: An Indian court yesterday convicted five police officers and two doctors of tampering with evidence in the gang rape of a pregnant woman and the murder of her family during one of the worst incidents of religious unrest since independence. Bilkis Bano was gang raped and seven of her relatives were killed during religious riots that broke out in the western state of Gujarat in 2002.At least 2,000 Muslims were hacked, beaten, shot or burnt...

This photo taken on March 14, 2017 shows residents who fled from conflict areas near the Myanmar-Chinese border gathering in Lashio town and waiting to find transport to their hometowns.nThe UN said at least 50,000 people have fled their homes in Shan and Kachin States since September to escape some of the worst violence to grip Myanmar's restive border regions for decades. / AFP PHOTO / NAY MYO

Over half of Rohingya girls who fled violence became child brides

KUALA LUMPUR: More than half of Rohingya Muslim girls who fled violence in western Myanmar ended up becoming child brides, according to a United Nations survey that also showed widespread domestic abuse. Since 2012, violence and communal clashes in Myanmar's Rakhine state have forced more than 168,000 of the ethnic Muslim Rohingya minorities to flee, including a rising number of women and girls, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR.In a...

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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP

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