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This image released by Warner Bros Entertainment shows Eddie Redmayne in a scene from, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.’ — AP photos
‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’
This image released by Warner Bros Entertainment shows Eddie Redmayne in a scene from, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.’ — AP photosJust when you thought the world of Harry Potter couldn't get any darker, along comes a bleak-as-soot spin-off that makes the earlier series look like kids' stuff. Borrowing its title from one of the textbooks Potter studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to...
Eliana Paco
Bolivian designer exports high-end indigenous fashion
Eliana PacoCenturies ago, Spanish colonizers forced their Bolivian servants to wear the puffy skirts that have come to symbolize the country's "cholitas," or indigenous women. Today, one local designer is turning the tables with plans to export high-end cholita fashion-blossoming skirts, bowler hats and intricately woven shawls-to Madrid, Paris and beyond. Fresh off her first show at New York Fashion Week, Eliana Paco, a 34-year-old indigenous...
Taslima Nasreen
Exiled writer Nasreen fears for Bangladesh's future
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen speaks during an interview with AFP at her residence in New Delhi. — AFP photosHaving herself been the subject of fatwas and forced into exile by fundamentalist critics of her writing, Taslima Nasreen despairs at the wave of assassinations of secular bloggers in her native Bangladesh. "You know Islamisation started in Bangladesh in the 1980s and in the 80s I was very worried," recalls the prize-winning...
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Plunging into unknown waters
KUWAIT: People attend an electoral campaign meeting of Islamist former MP candidate Adel Al-Damkhi on Saturday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Court bars royal candidate, reinstates ex-MP Hashem
Damkhi slams Iran • Ashour blasts sectarianism • Hackers target Ghanem KUWAIT: People attend an electoral campaign meeting of Islamist former MP candidate Adel Al-Damkhi on Saturday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The appeals court yesterday upheld a decision by the election authorities to bar ruling family member Sheikh Malek Al-Humoud Al-Sabah from running in the Nov 26 polls. The court overturned a ruling by the lower administrative...
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New Saudi rules, fees for helpers, vehicles, cattle
KUWAIT: The interior ministry's relations and security media department announced that Saudi Arabia has started implementing new measures concerning the entry of domestic helpers accompanying Kuwaiti families into the kingdom. The department highlighted that the new visa fees for helpers would be 2,000 riyals per visit instead of the earlier fee of 200 riyals. In addition, vehicles with Kuwaiti license plates can only remain in Saudi Arabia for a...
KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih attends the workshop. —KUNA
Crackdown on abuse of state lands off Seventh Ring Road
Development plan to move forward KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih attends the workshop. —KUNAKUWAIT: Starting  today, Kuwait Municipality will launch its first mission to remove violations on public property along the seventh ring road where state lands are being used to store machinery, as garages and storage area for scraps metal and used tires, some of which had been there for more than 15 years.Development...
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Ministry ignores recommendation to cancel medical company's license
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry ignored a recommendation made by its technical committee on cancelling the license of the Kuwait Medical City Company - which is fully owned by the Social Security Authority - for not operating for three consecutive years, and decided keeping the license valid.Earlier, Social Security Director Hamad Al-Humaidhi met Minister of Commerce Yousef Al-Ali, explaining the company's inactivity for three years...
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CBK re-issues first Kuwaiti coin ‘baiza’
KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) has re-issued the first Kuwaiti coin currency baiza, as a souvenir coin, 130 years after the first issue date.  One surface of the coin includes the word "Kuwait" with the original issue date, while the other surface has the signature of former Kuwaiti leader Sheikh Abdullah II bin Sabah Al-Sabah. - KUNA1- The Kuwaiti 'Baiza,' Kuwait's first national currency issued 130 years ago2- During the reign of...
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18,000 disability files reviewed
KUWAIT: The Public Authority of the Disabled Affairs (PADA) has reviewed up to 18,000 files, out of total 50,000, of registered persons with disabilities, said Director General Shafiqa Al-Awadhi on Sunday.Reviewing the files of the registered disabled is regularly conducted every three years, in line with the law, Awadhi told the press after a meeting for PADA with numerous officials from other public benefit societies, on several issues and...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
Illegal Sponsorship & Absconding
As I have mentioned in my columns and articles multiple times, there are many legal concerns by expats in Kuwait regarding their employment. Kuwait has gone a long way but there is still a lot that we need to work on for us to be a better and more welcoming country. We have regulations and laws, but we need to discuss the issues that we have with the implementation of Kuwait Labor Law and other bylaws regarding expat employees. There have been...
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Care for orphans
Muna Al Fuzai From the early '60s, Kuwait has presented humanitarian support and care for orphans, including those of unknown parentage and children who have no relatives. Both were housed at the orphanage, where they lived and studied until they got married. Sometimes, in cases of divorce, they returned to the orphanage, because it is the only place they know and in which they grew up. These people face difficulties and problems in their...
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MUMBAI: A vendor counts a wad of Indian rupees. - AFP
Indian rupee hits record low amid geopolitical jitters
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Flag of Kuwait, visa application form and passport on table
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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait population hits 4.919 million
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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP
People power rocks Bangladesh
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Al-Sawaber Complex
Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved