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Adding light to local traditions

Story and images by Athoob A Al-Shuaibi - Kuwait TimesA tradition is a social idea, circulating through generations with practice, because it signifies an identity, a sense of belonging and nostalgia. But not all customs in Kuwait are local in origin, many of our traditions have been adopted from other countries, as is the case in many cosmopolitan countries around the world. In Ramadan, most customs are centered on spirituality and food. Family...

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi fireman sits after fire was extinguished at the site of car bomb attack in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Jadida in the Iraqi capital yesterday. — AFP

Baghdad bombings kill 25 as Falluja siege continues

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi fireman sits after fire was extinguished at the site of car bomb attack in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Jadida in the Iraqi capital yesterday. — AFPBAGHDAD: Two suicide bombings that killed about 25 people in Baghdad yesterday were claimed by Islamic State, whose stronghold of Falluja near the capital is surrounded by Iraqi forces which are now advancing on the city. The ultra-hardline Sunni insurgents said one attack...

TEL AVIV: Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman (4th L) is surrounded by security forces as he visits the site of a shooting attack the previous night at a shopping complex yesterday. — AFP

Hamas calls the attack a 'heroic operation' - Israel clamps down after deadly cafe attack

TEL AVIV: Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman (4th L) is surrounded by security forces as he visits the site of a shooting attack the previous night at a shopping complex yesterday. — AFPTEL AVIV: Israel clamped down on Palestinian movements and boosted security yesterday after Palestinian gunmen shot dead four people at a popular Tel Aviv nightspot, the deadliest attack in a months-long wave of violence. Surveillance video seemingly...

MAHIN: Syrian government troops fire at Islamic State group positions near Mahin, Syria. The nearly five-year Syrian conflict has left at least 250,000 people dead, forced millions to flee the country and given an opening to the Islamic State group to capture territory in Syria and Iraq. — AP

Over 130 IS fighters killed in battle for Syria's Manbij - US-backed forces tighten grip around Islamic State

BEIRUT: More than 130 Islamic State group fighters have been killed in a US-backed offensive on the key jihadist-held city of Manbij in northern Syria, a monitoring group said yesterday. US-led coalition air strikes supporting the assault by Kurdish and Arab fighters, launched on May 31, have also left 30 civilians dead, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. US-backed forces said they had reached the militants' last main route in and out...

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Pakistan's Supreme Court bails women jailed for 'vulgar' texts

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday bailed a mother and daughter who had been in jail for two months for allegedly sending "vulgar" texts and pictures to another woman, a defense lawyer said. Maria Naz, 19, and her mother Shazia Begum were arrested in Rawalpindi, a garrison town adjoining the capital, Islamabad, by the Federal Investigation Agency after Naz's aunt lodged a complaint claiming she had received offensive texts from them,...

LAHORE: Hassan Khan, husband of Zeenat Rafiq, who was burned alive, allegedly by her mother, shows his marriage certificate to media at his home yesterday. —AP

Mums comfort scared daughters after the Pakistan 'honor killing'

LAHORE: Two young girls stand inches away from charred bricks and ash, staring at the detritus of a "kind and gentle" teenager who taught them the Koran but was savagely burned by her mother for marrying the man of her choice. Maham and Muskan were pictured Wednesday with their eyes riveted to the spot where, just hours before, 16-year-old Zeenat Bibi was doused in kerosene and set alight. That night, Maham's mother told AFP, she had to reassure...

NEW DELHI, INDIA: An African man waits to hire a vehicle. — AP

Africans in India face constant battles with racism - Fear and anger common emotions

NEW DELHI, INDIA: An African man waits to hire a vehicle. — APNEW DELHI: Fear and anger. Those are the emotions that shadow Odole Emmanuel Opeyemi every time the Nigerian man steps out of his New Delhi apartment. Every encounter with Indians is fraught with those feelings, whether he's taking an autorickshaw or the Metro, buying vegetables or trying to find a spot to park his car. "When I sit down in the Metro, people sit away from me. Even...

(From left) Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Roads Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook accept the award for group/duo video of the year for “Girl Crush”.

McGraw, Underwood win big at CMT Awards; Pharrell performs

(From left) Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Roads Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook accept the award for group/duo video of the year for “Girl Crush”.Tim McGraw ended Carrie Underwood's four-year-winning streak for the top prize at the 2016 CMT Music Awards with his music video for "Humble and Kind" - which features footage provided by Oprah Winfrey - while stars from outside the country music world performed onstage, including Pharrell,...

In this image released by Summit Entertainment, Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan and Henry Lloyd- Hughes appear in a scene from, “Now You See Me 2.”—AP

Review: The hocus pocus of 'Now You See Me 2' wears thin

In this image released by Summit Entertainment, Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan and Henry Lloyd- Hughes appear in a scene from, “Now You See Me 2.”—APThe magician heist movie "Now You See Me 2" disappears with not a poof, but in a hyper-kinetic blur of hectic plot mechanics, ceaselessly nattering characters and so many ploys of misdirection that the film's own direction got lost up someone's sleeve long ago. Now you see it, now...

‘Saq Al Bamboo’ and ‘Been Galbin’: Episode 3

‘Saq Al Bamboo’ and ‘Been Galbin’: Episode 3

‘Saq Al Bamboo’ and ‘Been Galbin’: Episode 3KUWAIT: Kuwait Times is publishing a daily review of two of the most popular Kuwaiti soap operas showing on Al Rai TV and MBC Drama TV. Here is the review of the third episode:'Saq Al bamboo' (Bamboo stalk)Hind told her brother Rashid that she knew about Josephine's pregnancy as she noticed the way he defends and care about her. Hind doesn't want the baby to be aborted, but was still afraid of...

People dressed in white gather for the ìDiner en Blancî (Dinner in White) event at the place Vendome in Paris on June 8, 2016. — AFP photos

Thousands flock to posh Paris flash mob picnic

People dressed in white gather for the ìDiner en Blancî (Dinner in White) event at the place Vendome in Paris on June 8, 2016. — AFP photosIt’s the world’s classiest flash mob, when a highly selective group of guerrilla gourmets armed with picnic baskets and linen napkins take over a famous landmark. The latest “Diner en Blanc” (Dinner in White) took place in Paris Wednesday when some 7,000 people dressed in white from head to toe...

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Bryan Mound storage facility located in Brazoria County

US hopes to flex energy muscle - Obma govt plans to overhaul strategic oil reserve

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Bryan Mound storage facility located in Brazoria CountyFREEPORT, Texas: The United States boasts the world's largest stash of emergency oil supplies, yet the country's ability to influence global crude markets with releases from that reserve has waned.The Obama administration hopes to fix that problem with an overhaul of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR, and details about its plans should be...

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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP

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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA

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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP

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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA

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