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Kuwait Fashion Week showcases local designers
Kuwait has always been a place with amusing contradictions. It takes the extreme - of almost everything in life. Kuwait is an Islamic country where women are expected to wear hijab or abaya, like they do in Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Islamic countries where hijab (or abaya) is a must. A lot of locals and non-local women do wear the hijab or abaya of course, but at the same time if you hit the mall, you will be amazed seeing so many elegant...
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Kuwait’s vandalized and neglected playgrounds
In Salmiya, nursery schoolchildren queue up to return to the bus after an unrewarding visit to a local playground filled with half a swing set and a broken jungle gym. This park could have been a neat place for kids to play and interact with each other, and for their parents to engage in friendly conversations as the weather turns cooler across the country.But this was not to be. Vandalism and neglect affect all areas of Kuwait. Public spaces...
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Three-golden months finally arrive for Souq Safafeer
Cooler weather means camping season in Kuwait and for all the businesses that provide camping supplies, a three month boon in sales. In Souq Safafeer, the music of hammer against corrugated tin combine with the voices of customers haggling for the best price to create a symphony of sound that signals the camping season swinging into high gear."I always consider the next three months the busiest because I get a lot of bulk orders from companies...
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How do you find your destination in Kuwait?
Some people are well-oriented while others are completely lost when it comes to driving around Kuwait. Those who are constantly on the road due to their job quickly learn the short cuts and bystreets and are able to orient much better than those stuck in an office all day. Most people drive only from their home to work, drop the kids at school and do a bit of shopping. Kuwait can be a labyrinth of streets if you don't drive around a lot.Some...
LIMASSOL: Two British Tornados warplanes fly over the RAF Akrotiri, a British air base near costal city of Limassol, Cyprus yesterday as they arrive from an airstrike against Islamic State group targets in Syria. (inset) A second pilot looks out from a British Tornado warplane. — AP
UK bombs Syrian oil field after MPs vote - British parliament authorizes air strikes on IS
LIMASSOL: Two British Tornados warplanes fly over the RAF Akrotiri, a British air base near costal city of Limassol, Cyprus yesterday as they arrive from an airstrike against Islamic State group targets in Syria. — APLONDON: Britain joined the US-led bombing campaign over Syria yesterday, hitting an oil field held by Islamic State jihadists just hours after a decisive parliamentary vote authorized air strikes.Royal Air Force planes based in...
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Divorced Saudi women to get ID cards
RIYADH: Female divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia are set to get their own ID cards allowing them to act independently from men, local media reported on Thursday. The changes will allow women to register a child for school, access records and authorize medical procedures once their marriages have ended, the reports said. Without their own identity documents, divorced women in Saudi currently need permission from their husbands or a court order...
GUSH ETZION: An Israeli soldier from the elite infantry unit stands guard as Israeli settlers stand at a bus station at the Gush Etzion junction in the Israeli occupied on the main road between Jerusalem and Hebron on December 2, 2015. — AFP
Fear reigns at junction where Jews, Palestinians cross paths - Series of knife, car-ramming and gun attacks
GUSH ETZION: An Israeli soldier from the elite infantry unit stands guard as Israeli settlers stand at a bus station at the Gush Etzion junction in the Israeli occupied on the main road between Jerusalem and Hebron on December 2, 2015. — AFPGUSH ETZION JUNCTION: Abu Malak has spent 17 years working at a petrol station at a major junction near Jerusalem where Israelis and Palestinians cross paths, but lately there's been a change. "Some...
BEIRUT: Abdul Halim al-Attar, kisses his daughter Reem, 4, at their house, in Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Attar, a refugee from Syria who was photographed selling pens in the streets of Beirut, is now running three businesses in the city after an online crowdfunding campaign in his name collected $191,000. —AP
New start for Syrian refugee in Lebanon after online campaign
BEIRUT: Abdul Halim al-Attar, kisses his daughter Reem, 4, at their house, in Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Attar, a refugee from Syria who was photographed selling pens in the streets of Beirut, is now running three businesses in the city after an online crowdfunding campaign in his name collected $191,000. —APBEIRUT: Abdul Halim Al-Attar, a refugee from Syria who was photographed selling pens in the streets of Beirut, is now running three businesses...
SAN BERNARDINAO: Authorities guard the perimeter near the location of an officer-involved shooting on Wednesday in San Bernardino, California, following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center for the disabled. —AP
14 dead, 17 hurt in California shooting - Armed couple shot dead in shootout with police
SAN BERNARDINAO: Authorities guard the perimeter near the location of an officer-involved shooting on Wednesday in San Bernardino, California, following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center for the disabled. —APSAN BERNARDINO, California: A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a...
CHENNAI: The flood-hit Chennai city after heavy rains in Chennai yesterday. — AP
Chennai city remains under water - India army on war footing as flood toll nears 270
CHENNAI: The flood-hit Chennai city after heavy rains in Chennai yesterday. — APCHENNAI: The Indian military evacuated more than 2,000 residents stranded in the southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday as the death toll from flooding rose to 269 after the heaviest cloudburst in over a century. Forecasts of more rain over the next 48 hours forced the army to work on a war footing to rescue survivors trapped in inundated parts of Chennai, India's...
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Pakistan rejects 30 deportees from Greece, sends back plane
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan refused to allow 30 migrants deported from Greece to leave a plane at Islamabad yesterday, a week after talks with the European Union to settle a dispute over forced repatriations. The charter plane later took off with the 30 still aboard, though others that Pakistan deemed legitimate deportees were allowed to disembark.A top EU official said last week Pakistan would stick to an agreement to take back citizens deported from...
This photo provided by the Sundance Film Institute shows Michalina Olszanska in a scene from the film, “The Lure,” directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. — AP photos
Sundance Film Festival reveals drama, documentary contenders
This photo provided by the Sundance Film Institute shows Michalina Olszanska in a scene from the film, “The Lure,” directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska. — AP photosThe dramatic contenders at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival span history, genre and setting, from the slave days in the South to the gay-sex scene today in LA's Korean spas. What unites them, says festival director John Cooper, is excellent storytelling and a "thorough understanding...
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DHAKA: Garment workers sewing clothes at a Snowtex Group textile factory in Dhamrai, a sub-district in Dhaka. - AFP
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street, in central London in this file photo -- AFP
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MOE BYE: This picture taken on December 3, 2024 at Moe Bye in Pekon Township, on the border of Karen State and southern Shan State, shows members of the Kayan National Army (KNA) posing for photo before going to the front line during the conflict with Myanmar’s military. – AFP
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ALTADENA: Firefighters work the scene as an apartment building burns during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county, California. – AFP
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