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By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: Over the last few years, food trucks have become popular in Kuwait and around the Gulf, serving up burgers, fries, sodas and other street food. Food trucks are ubiquitous anywhere where crowds gather, but especially in places like Khairan, desert camping areas, festivals and bazaars. Unfortunately, the pandemic has halted most […]

KUWAIT: Inspectors yesterday found laborers working in the afternoon’s scorching heat in the district of Al-Msasayel, and penalized their employers. The workers were found pouring masonry and carrying construction materials to a building site under the day’s peak sunlight, Ahmad Dashti, head of the work safety division in Farwaniya Governorate, said in a statement to […]

By B Izzak KUWAIT: Public, private and foreign schools will reopen for on-campus learning in late September and early October amid stringent health precautions by authorities, Education Minister Ali Al-Mudhaf said yesterday. All foreign-language schools will reopen for students on Sept 26, while public and private Arabic schools will reopen on Oct 3, the minister […]

KHARTOUM: Sudan will hand longtime autocrat Omar Al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court along with two other officials wanted over the Darfur conflict, officials said yesterday. Bashir, 77, has been wanted by The Hague-based ICC for more than a decade over charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Sudanese region. The […]

DOHA: Qatar’s long-delayed first legislative elections have stirred debate over eligibility as well as a flurry of online distortion. Elections to the 45-seat shura council, as proposed under a 2004 constitution, have been postponed repeatedly and its members have instead been directly named by Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. Following the publication of an […]

TIZI OUZOU, Algeria: The death toll climbed to at least 69 as firefighters, soldiers and civilian volunteers battled blazes in forests across northern Algeria yesterday, in the latest wildfires to sweep the Mediterranean. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared three days of national mourning starting from today, and authorities say they suspect widespread arson after so many […]

KUWAIT: The arrival of Filipino domestic helpers has been accelerated lately, as demand for them is high, which has led to a significant rise in recruitment costs. Sources told Al-Rai daily the cost of bringing a helper from the Philippines ranges between KD 1,400 to KD 1,600, including KD 890 to be paid to the […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) announced yesterday the start of operating the first pipeline from Al-Khafji joint zone to Kuwait. Light gas is transported via the pipeline, which is of a 24 million cubic feet capacity, to networks of Kuwait Oil Company. KGOC said in a statement that operating the pipeline would boost optimum […]

ISTANBUL: The Kuwaiti firefighting team, with all its equipment, continues to participate in controlling the current situation in the areas affected by forest fires in Turkey. Lt Col Abdullah Al-Saleem, the general coordinator of the team, said in a statement to the press that the Kuwaiti firefighters are in the state of Mugla and are […]

MANILA: Philippine tricycle driver Jesus Gomez struggled to make a living even before the capital Manila went back into a coronavirus lockdown last week that forced most of his customers to stay home and halved his meagre income. Six months behind in rent and unable to afford cooking gas, the 77-year-old joined hundreds of others […]

SHIMLA: Rescuers were working to clear tons of rocks and mud yesterday after a landslide buried about 60 people in India’s Himalayan north, killing at least 10. A bus carrying between 20 and 25 people had been buried under rubble, said the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which is involved in the rescue efforts. “A total […]

FRANKFURT: Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor, yesterday launched his campaign with polls showing falling support that could leave the outcome of September’s vote wide open. Laschet, 60, once a frontrunner in the race, is now on the back foot as he begins his delayed tour with a dialogue […]

By Islam Sharaa Fully wireless earphones are one of those ideas that sounds like a dream: pop a tiny little headphone into each ear and listen to music or take calls untethered from everything. Until recently, the reality was quite different. The first wireless earphones were gigantic, died after a few hours and had a […]

As Lorraine Alberto begins her Portuguese class at Goa University, students from the former colony are in short supply. Across Goa, a tiny coastal state once administered by Lisbon, there is little appetite for the territory’s 450 years of European heritage after a few short generations of Indian rule. Ramshackle colonial homes and Bollywood’s increasing […]

Aretha Franklin decided Jennifer Hudson was the natural woman to play her in musical biopic “Respect,” personally hand-picking the singer-actress a few years before her death in 2018. The late “Queen of Soul” shared not just a phenomenal vocal ability with the “Dreamgirls” star, but also a deep vein of personal tragedy. As the movie […]

It’s a typical Berlin scene: a long line of sharply dressed people waiting round the corner to get into a club. The thud of music from inside the venue, strict entry controls and the chance of waking up with a headache the morning after are all familiar, too. Only, on a rainy evening in the […]

Within a small reception ceremony held at the Italian Embassy in Jabriya, the Ambassador Carlo Baldocci, on behalf of the President of the Republic of Italy, awarded Fareah Al-Saqqaf the award of “Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy”. In attendance were a number of LOYAC’s and LAPA’s board members, as well as […]