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Smog-choked Delhi gears up for car ban - Critics warn the measures will be unenforceable

NEW DELHI: An Indian worker displays a sticker on his vehicle that indicates it runs on compressed natural gas (CNG) after getting it checked at a pump in New Delhi. _ AFPNEW DELHI: Millions of Delhi residents will have to find alternative ways to work from Friday, when authorities launch a trial of draconian traffic restrictions to try to clean up the world's most polluted capital.Private cars will be banned from the roads on alternate days...

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Sheikh Salman wants to divide FIFA in two

Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al KhalifaMIAMI: The frontrunner in the FIFA presidential election, Asian football chief Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, says he wants to divide the organisation into two separate entities as part of a 'turnaround' plan for the crisis-hit organisation.Salman, who is president of the Asian Football Confederation, said in a statement on Wednesday that FIFA's governance and business functions would be separated if he...

DURBAN: South African batsman Morne Morkel is dismissed by England bowler Suart Broad during day five of the first Test match between South Africa and England at Kingsmead Stadium in Durban yesterday. — AFP

Clinical England beat South Africa by 241 runs

DURBAN: South African batsman Morne Morkel is dismissed by England bowler Suart Broad during day five of the first Test match between South Africa and England at Kingsmead Stadium in Durban yesterday. — AFPDURBAN: England captain Alastair Cook hailed the performance and potential of his team after they completed a crushing 241-run win over South Africa on the fifth day of the first Test at Kingsmead yesterday.It took England only 80 minutes to...

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Bill Cosby charged with sexual assault

Bill Cosby and Andrea ConstandNEW YORK: US comic Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault in Pennsylvania over an incident that took place in 2004, a prosecutor said yesterday - the first criminal charges filed against the actor after dozens of women claimed abuse. "Mr Cosby is charged with aggravated indecent assault. This is a felony," Kevin Steele, assistant district attorney for the state's Montgomery County, told reporters in...

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MPs flatly against any fuel, utility price hike - Discrimination alleged at prosecution; Gitmo Kuwaiti to be freed

KUWAIT: Lawmakers' opposition to reported government plans to increase fuel prices amongst other spending cuts has gained momentum, with more MPs joining the fray. The reports said that an international consultancy group has advised the government to lift subsidies on petrol prices in addition to electricity and water, besides other measures to cut spending. The increase of petrol prices is expected to be enforced soon, perhaps within weeks,...

KUWAIT: Policemen round up suspected residency violators during a raid in Industrial Ardiya yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

545 arrested in Ardiya crackdown

KUWAIT: Policemen round up suspected residency violators during a raid in Industrial Ardiya yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: More than 500 people were arrested in a police crackdown in Industrial Ardiya yesterday, the second in a week following a similar campaign in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh in which thousands of residency violators were arrested. The Interior Ministry announced that 545 expatriates were arrested for violating residency...

KUWAIT: Labor union members stage a protest outside the Manpower Public Authority yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Labor unions stage sit-in to protest 'interference'

KUWAIT: Labor union members stage a protest outside the Manpower Public Authority yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Several Kuwaiti labor unionists organized a sit-in in front of Manpower Public Authority in protest against its alleged interference in the internal affairs of labor unions. President of the Arab Union of Municipalities and Tourism Workers and President of Kuwait Municipality Workers' Union Mohammad Al-Arada said the...

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Kuwait to send troops to fight Houthi rebels

KUWAIT: Kuwait has decided to send troops to Saudi Arabia to resist cross-border attacks by the Yemeni Houthi movement, Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas reported yesterday citing an informed source. Though a nominal member of a Saudi-led coalition that has bombed the Iran-allied Houthis for nine months, Kuwait has held off sending ground troops to the conflict in which scores of soldiers from neighbors the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia...

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A Visit To The Shelter

Good morning dear brothers and sisters and I wish all of you a happy holiday to come. In this article, I would like to talk about my experience during my recent visit to the shelter of the Philippines Embassy here in Kuwait on December 25th. I was invited by some of the volunteers in charge of caring for those workers in the shelter before they are deported in a matter of few days. I also have had the honor to meet His Excellency the Ambassador...

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Six cities to house 220,000 laborers

Gardeners are seen working near a street in Kuwait City in this file photo. The picture is used for illustrative purposes only.KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality's Acting Director General Ahmad Al-Manfouhi announced the completion of a report that includes the locations where new labor cities are planned to be built in Kuwait.The report, which will be sent to the cabinet soon, specifies six locations to build residential areas for laborers in Subbiya,...

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New bill restricts referral to psychiatric disease hospital

KUWAIT: In a major step towards improving psychiatric treatment, the cabinet recently passed a bill on psychiatric healthcare for psychiatric patients, which will be referred to the parliament for review and approval within a few days. According to the new law, no one is to be admitted to public or private psychiatric hospitals or clinics without diagnosis and recommendation from a psychiatrist made upon developing severe psychiatric disorder...

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KUWAIT: People wander around Souq Al-Mubarakiya during Kuwait's national celebrations in this 2023 file photo. — KUNA

New Mubarakiya markets coming to Ahmadi and Jahra

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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti officials meet with a delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss turning Shaab into a United Nations healthy city. — KUNA

Shaab on path to becoming Kuwait’s next healthy city

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KUWAIT: Hawalli Governor Ali Al-Asfar and a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation meet to discuss the requirements for turning Shaab and other Hawalli governorate areas into a healthy city. — KUNA

What Kuwait’s vision for expanding healthy cities means for people

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