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BOSTON: In this still photo from video, Gibbs Saunders, right, managing director of the nonprofit Healthworks Community Fitness, exercises with clients at their gym in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. —AP photos
More doctors are prescribing exercise instead of medication - ‘Exercise is not a new medicine. It’s really an old medicine’
BOSTON: In this still photo from video, Gibbs Saunders, right, managing director of the nonprofit Healthworks Community Fitness, exercises with clients at their gym in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. —AP photosBOSTON: When Dr Michelle Johnson scribbles out prescriptions, the next stop for many of her patients is the gym, not the pharmacy. Doctors treating chronic health problems increasingly are prescribing exercise for their patients -...
In this undated image provided by Polk and Co, performers appear in ‘Wicked’ in New York. — AP
Broadway’s ‘Wicked’ reaches $1 billion mark
In this undated image provided by Polk and Co, performers appear in ‘Wicked’ in New York. — APProducers of “Wicked” say the theatrical blockbuster has grossed over $1 billion on Broadway, joining only “The Lion King” and “The Phantom of the Opera” to that mark but faster than either rival.The show, which opened in 2003 based on novelist Gregory Maguire’s fanciful “Wizard of Oz” prequel, took just 121/2 years to reach $1...
Japanese designer Issey Miyake
The fashion scouts taking Japan’s underground labels global
Japanese designer Issey MiyakeFar from the flashbulbs of Tokyo fashion week, Yoshio Yokobori is juggling multiple roles-talent scout, cultural interpreter, dealmaker-in a quest to help foreign buyers navigate a labyrinthine design landscape and access Japan’s most exciting underground labels. Although Tokyo’s streets offer up a wealth of inspiration for global trend spotters, Japanese designers have struggled to make a dent abroad in recent...
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Road To The White House
KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Planning Hind Al-Subaih gestures during a session at the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Subaih grilling delayed, Dashti immunity lifted - Assembly OKs recommendations on bedoons, elderly bill
KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Planning Hind Al-Subaih gestures during a session at the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The National Assembly decided yesterday to delay the grilling of Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih to today's follow-up session. MP Saleh Ashour had filed an interpellation motion against the minister on issues such related to privatizing cooperative...
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No work permits for co-ops until further notice
KUWAIT: The Manpower Public Authority yesterday suspended the issuance of work permits for co-ops until further notice, said the authority's PR and media manager and official spokesperson Aseel Al-Mazyad, noting that the authority would issue works permits co-ops had already applied for before the suspension.Salmiya homeownersMunicipal Council member Yousef Al-Ghareeb reiterated calls on the state to repossess residential areas in Salmiya, which...
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Ministry forms panel to ‘change rent law’
KUWAIT: A high-ranking source at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said there is no move by the ministry towards limiting or deciding rents of real estate.The source said the ministry will set up a committee that will be formed soon to work on changing the rent law as “it does not go along with the current market factors of the market,” providing that increases should not be more than 100 percent every five years.The source said it is not...
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KPC to turn expat admin staff to ‘contract’ workers
KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation’s (KPC) executive administration resumed meeting with various oil companies to acquaint its employees about initiatives that would help cut expenses as well as stop the uncontrolled growth of payroll in the coming five years. In this regard, wellinformed official oil sources said that KPC’s initiatives aim at saving KD 190 million yearly, adding that oil sector payroll costs would jump from KD 1.5 billion...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in presence of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan photos
Amir, Yemeni President hold official talks
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in presence of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the visiting Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and his accompanying delegation, at Bayan Palace yesterday. His Highness the Crown Prince...
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KD 60 ‘food allowance’ to municipality officials
KUWAIT: An official source at Kuwait Municipality said KD 60 will be paid as food allowance to some municipality officials, as Deputy Director General for the Financial and Administrative Sector Walid Al-Jassim opened the issue of the “allowances” some department officials are undeservedly receiving.The source said the value of the “shift allowance” being paid to some officials is highly exaggerated, and some of it exceeds three...
KUWAIT: Firefighters tackle a blaze at a main power transformer in Hawally yesterday.
No injuries in Hawally transformer blaze
KUWAIT: Firefighters tackle a blaze at a main power transformer in Hawally yesterday.KUWAIT: A power transformer caught fire near a private school in Hawally yesterday morning, but no injuries were reported. Firefighters from three different fire stations arrived to the scene located at the Zarqaa Al-Yamama Street shortly after the blaze was reported. They immediately evacuated the area and tackled the flames. The fire was brought under control...
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Man used diplomatic license plates to commit robberies
KUWAIT: Jahra police put an end to the activity of a Saudi thief who robbed passersby claiming to be a detective. The suspect used diplomatic license plates he stole from Yarmouk and moved about without being stopped by police. Jahra detectives received information that a man was harassing people in various areas of Kuwait and robbed them, claiming to be a detective and using diplomatic license plates. Jahra detectives located the man in a Jahra...
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP
Mideast seethes amid carnage
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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP
The impact of oil discoveries
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care
‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns