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Bogus maid offices closed
KUWAIT: Residency detectives suspended two domestic help offices for six months for violating law 68/2015. Detectives learned that some licensed offices deal with domestic helpers who are returned to bogus offices and charge citizens and expats for certain periods which is a violation of the law.Boat mishapTwo boats collided near the Blajat beach resulting in the injury of two persons. Both were treated by paramedics.Fire in SubhanFiremen put out...
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Filipina maid absconded after threatening messages
KUWAIT: A Filipina escaped from her sponsor's house after she was discovered to have written messages threatening to harm her sponsor. The Kuwaiti sponsor checked her maid's phone and had translated several messages so that she could know what they said. She was surprised to find that the messages included comments by the maid threatening to hurt the sponsor. When she confronted the domestic helper, the woman absconded. The sponsor went to...
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A case of spousal violence and other crimes
KUWAIT:  A citizen accused her Saudi husband of beating her and her pregnant sister with intention to make her miscarry. The citizen said she was walking with her sister who is five months pregnant when her Saudi husband stopped and beat them before passersby stopped him. Policemen and paramedics arrived at the scene.Child saved from chokingParamedics rescued a child who got a coin stuck in his throat. The child was playing at home when he...
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Happy Women’s Day!
Muna Al Fuzai Every little thing done by any woman matters to a lot of people. This is a fact of life, and for this I say ‘thank you!’ Well, men, you have to deal with this day, because no matter how important you think you are, women carry out lots of different tasks at any time every single day of the year, so please let her make this day her own. She deserves it. Women’s Day is not another Valentine’s Day. It is a day to recall,...
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Self-help movement in Kuwait needs help
Jeri Al-Jeri Universally, people seek infinite happiness - a natural desire that nobody would want to debate whether or not it is a worthy goal. However, cultures have always had their special “sketch” on what is the perfect definition of a happy individual. China, statistically, houses the least happy demography. It has a complex concept of happiness that demands the loss of one’s self in the service of his or her society. Denmark has...
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More men in Kuwait turning to plastic surgery to satisfy need for ‘perfection’
Over the last few years, a perfect-looking face and body have become important for many people, regardless of gender. Just a few years ago, plastic surgery was limited almost exclusively to women, aside from those performed for medical purposes.Most men viewed plastic surgery as a feminine phenomenon due to the conservative nature of our community. But social media and celebrity culture have played a pivotal role in the rising number of men...
Al-Hayak Bo Salem is a bisht maker
Artisan hands - A series by photographer Huda Al-Abdulmughni
Al-Hayak Bo Salem is a bisht makerIn this series of photographs, I focused on the hands of artisans - the hands that once created the simple, functional and beautiful handicrafts that every Kuwaiti household used or donned on a daily basis: Dhows, woolen weavings, palm baskets, knotted ropes, burqas and bishts. Bearing the passage of time, their aged hands remind us of a time past when we relied on our own hands to sustain ourselves, a time when...
Civilians and security forces *gather near a house damaged in a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. The overnight airstrikes against Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies have killed almost 30 people, including civilians, in the capital Sanaa, security and medical officials there said Saturday. The coalition's overnight airstrikes hit an apartment building in the center of the capital, a UNESCO world heritage site, killing a family of nine, the officials who remain neutral in the conflict that has divided Yemen's security forces said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
Saudi-led coalition used cluster bombs in Yemen: Amnesty
DUBAI: Amnesty International yesterday accused the Saudi-led Arab coalition battling rebels in Yemen of using banned cluster munitions in raids on residential areas. The Brazilian-manufactured munitions were fired in a February 15 attack on three residential districts and agricultural land in Saada province of northern Yemen, a stronghold of the Shiite Houthi rebels, it said in a statement. Two people were wounded in the attack, said Amnesty,...
ALEPPO: Syrian government forces advance on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo on Wednesday near the town of Al- Khafsah, where regime forces retook a key water pumping station the day before. —AFP
Syria strikes kill over 20 near IS stronghold
US adds to forces in Syria to expedite IS defeat ALEPPO: Syrian government forces advance on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo on Wednesday near the town of Al- Khafsah, where regime forces retook a key water pumping station the day before. —AFPBEIRUT: At least 20 civilians, including some children, were killed in suspected US-coalition airstrikes on a village east of the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria, activists reported...
MOSUL: Iraqi civilians walk toward Iraqi security forces after fleeing their homes due to fighting between government forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul. — AP
IS leader Baghdadi ‘flees Mosul’
Local commanders to battle advancing Iraqi forces MOSUL: Iraqi civilians walk toward Iraqi security forces after fleeing their homes due to fighting between government forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul yesterday. (Inset) The leader of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Aka Caliph Ibrahim.— AP / AFPMOSUL: Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is reported to have abandoned Mosul,...
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Emirates concerned about latest US travel order
BERLIN: Emirates, the world’s largest longhaul carrier, said yesterday it was concerned President Donald Trump’s latest travel order will still deter Muslim visitors to America, after booking rates on US flights fell 35 percent following January’s ban.Trump signed a new executive order on Monday, which takes effect on March 16, keeping a 90-day ban on travel to the US by citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. However, the...
LANGLEY: This file photo shows a man walking over the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. — AP
CIA blasts WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks accused of endangering Americans, helping US rivals LANGLEY: This file photo shows a man walking over the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. — APWASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency has accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering the fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA...
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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP
Guards get new arms as Iran vows to punish Zionists
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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP
Brazil plane crash kills 62
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Kuwait residents try to ward off the heat
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Price of image over true value