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Nurseries struggle to stay afloat as closure drags on
 By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: When the Cabinet announced last week that schools will reopen in September, there was no mention of nurseries. After being closed for over a year, many nurseries in Kuwait went bankrupt and had to close, while others have fallen in debt waiting to reopen.There used to be around 500 nurseries in all of Kuwait’s governorates. According to a study by the Preschool Owners Forum (POF), 200 nurseries closed down in the...
Saudi volunteers guide stranded dolphins by hand to move them from shallow sandy beaches into deeper waters of the Red Sea on Friday. — AFP
Saudis rescue 40 dolphins
Saudi volunteers guide stranded dolphins by hand to move them from shallow sandy beaches into deeper waters of the Red Sea on Friday. — AFPRIYADH: More than 40 dolphins beached in northwest Saudi Arabia due to heavy winds and unstable weather have been rescued but seven others died, official news agency SPA said Friday. SPA said they had been driven into shallow waters and ashore this week in Khor al-Thuqba on the Red Sea. Environment ministry...
ISMAILIYA: A farmer harvests grass for cattle in front of the Taiwan-owned MV ‘Ever Given’ container ship lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the Suez Canal yesterday. — AFP
Human error seen in Suez ship grounding
ISMAILIYA: A farmer harvests grass for cattle in front of the Taiwan-owned MV ‘Ever Given’ container ship lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the Suez Canal yesterday. — AFPSUEZ: Egypt’s Suez Canal chief said yesterday that “technical or human errors” could be behind the grounding of a huge container ship blocking the vital waterway, causing a backlog of over 300 vessels. Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority,...
LUXEMBOURG: Kuwait’s ambassador Jasem Al-Budaiwi (left) and foreign minister of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn after signing the aviation agreement. —KUNA
Luxembourg, Kuwait sign agreements to strengthen, expand bilateral relations
LUXEMBOURG: Kuwait’s ambassador Jasem Al-Budaiwi (left) and foreign minister of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn after signing the aviation agreement. —KUNALUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg and Kuwait signed two agreements recently, one in the aviation area and the other in the financial sector, that aim to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. The first agreement on air service was signed by Luxembourg’s foreign minister Jean...
KUWAIT: Pictures from inside accommodations prepared for Filipino domestic helpers.
Preparations continue for resumption of recruitment of Filipino domestic helpers
KUWAIT: Pictures from inside accommodations prepared for Filipino domestic helpers.By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Preparations for the imminent resumption of hiring Filipino domestic helpers continues, especially by foreign and local recruitment agencies, to meet the demands of the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait and requirements of the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment. Recruitment agencies are busy refurbishing their offices, as some of them...
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UNHCR, Fiqh Academy sign MoU to alleviate plight of refugees
KUWAIT: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA), an entity of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), signed recently a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in efforts to support vulnerable refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide. The MoU was signed by Dr Koutoub Moustafa Sano, Secretary General of IIFA and UNHCR’s Senior Advisor on Islamic Philanthropy and Representative to the...
KUWAIT: Fire engines parked outside a Bayan house where a fire was reported Friday morning.
Woman dead in Bayan house blaze; fires reported in Hawally, Khaitan
KUWAIT: Fire engines parked outside a Bayan house where a fire was reported Friday morning.KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti woman died one day after she was saved from a burning house in Bayan, Kuwait Fire Force said yesterday. The victim was left in critical condition after the fire engulfed the ground floor of the building Friday morning. Firefighters had rushed to the scene, arriving four minutes after receiving a distress call about the incident, read a...
NEW YORK: In this photo members of the Public Safety Patrol, a volunteer anti-hate crime group, prepare for a patrol in a car park in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York. — AFP
New Yorkers patrol after surge in anti-Asian attacks
NEW YORK: In this photo members of the Public Safety Patrol, a volunteer anti-hate crime group, prepare for a patrol in a car park in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York. — AFPNEW YORK: Wearing bright safety vests and carrying walkie-talkies, volunteers patrol a Chinese neighborhood in New York to protect Asian Americans against a surge of pandemic-era violence after deadly mass shootings at Asian-owned spas in Atlanta. “We want to...
Central American asylum-seeker migrants who were airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, in Texas, to be expelled from the United States, cross the Paso del Norte International Border Bridge into Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico, on March 23, 2021. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP)
On US-Mexico border, a revolving door for migrants
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico: Central American asylum-seeker migrants who were airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, in Texas, to be expelled from the United States, cross the Paso del Norte International Border Bridge into Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico. — AFPCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico: Honduran migrant Fernando Sanchez paid a trafficker $7,000 to smuggle him to the United States with his three-year-old daughter, but they spent just days on US...
WASHINGTON: In this file photo Director of the Centers for Disease Control Robert Redfield speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James S. Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. —AFP
Former US CDC head thinks coronavirus came from Chinese lab
 Director of the Centers for Disease Control Robert Redfield  —AFPWASHINGTON: The former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in China, he said in an interview that aired Friday. Robert Redfield, who served in the top public health role under former president Donald Trump, told CNN: “If I was to guess, this virus started transmitting somewhere in September,...
BATA, Equatorial Guinea: This video grab obtained by AFPTV from ASONGA TV shows an aerial view of destroyed houses after accidental blasts at the Nkoa Ntoma military camp in Equatorial Guinea’s economic hub Bata. —AFP
E Guinea survivors count their luck and misfortune
BATA, Equatorial Guinea: This video grab obtained by AFPTV from ASONGA TV shows an aerial view of destroyed houses after accidental blasts at the Nkoa Ntoma military camp in Equatorial Guinea’s economic hub Bata. —AFPBATA, Equatorial Guinea:  On the afternoon of March 7, 2021, Sisto Asumu’s life was changed in an instant. An enormous blast shook a military camp just a hundred meters from the house where the 26-year-old was living with his...
Activists of the Hifazat-e Islam group clash with police in Chittagong on Friday during a demonstration against Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh. . — AFP
Bangladesh braces for violence
Activists of the Hifazat-e Islam group clash with police in Chittagong on Friday during a demonstration against Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh. . — AFPDHAKA: Hundreds of people demonstrated outside a key mosque in the Bangladesh capital yesterday, as the country braced for violence a day after deadly protests by hardline Islamists against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The clashes, which began...
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DAMASCUS: Syria's interim prime minister Mohammad Al-Bashir addresses worshippers during Friday prayers at Umayyad Mosque on Dec 13, 2024. - AFP (See Page 5)
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Kuwait, US reaffirm strong ties
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KUWAIT: Exam proctors search students before they enter the exam hall to take their final exams in this file photo. — KUNA
MoE forms new exam printing press committee after violations found
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Dr Intisar Al-Hatlani
Kuwaiti academic urges support for scientific research
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KUWAIT: Health Minister Ahmad Al-Awadhi poses for a photo with a delegation from the University of Houston during their visit to Kuwait.
MoH taps University of Houston for medical scholarships, training