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KUWAIT: Firemen rescued a child who fill in a nine-meter-deep hole near Mangaf Co-op Society, Kuwait Fire Force said yesterday. Firemen used rescue tools to help the child out of the hole, KFF said, noting that he was in a stable condition. Paramedics onsite took the kid to hospital for a medical checkup, it added.

By Chidi Emmanuel & Nawara Fattahova Rats are becoming a disturbing urban problem. Parts of Maliya and Mirqab in Kuwait City are ravaged by rodents. Owing to the speed at which rats breed, a minor infestation that is not dealt with quickly can soon become a major invasion. Some abandoned and dilapidated properties and restaurants […]

By Nawara Fattahova After four years of preparatory work, the Jahra Nature Reserve is finally open to the public. Managed by the Environment Public Authority (EPA), the reserve welcomes visitors daily from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. The reserve is spread over an area of 18 square kilometers, from Khuwaisat in the north to Jaber […]

By Nawara Fattahova With the arrival of the New Year, people wish for things they hope will come true. They make resolutions for things they want to work on to improve their lives. Sometimes they succeed in achieving their resolutions, while in many cases they fail to do so. Like every year, Kuwait Times staff […]

NEW YORK: British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty in New York on Wednesday of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell faces spending the rest of her life behind bars after the 12-person jury convicted her on five of the six counts she was […]

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday reimposed social distancing measures at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, after recording the highest number of infections in months. Workers have returned floor markings removed on October 17 to guide people to social distance in and around the Grand Mosque-which is built around the Kaaba, the […]

PARIS: Millions around the world braced yesterday for drastically curtailed New Year celebrations as record coronavirus cases fuelled by the Omicron variant saw the WHO warn a COVID “tsunami” threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems. Coronavirus, first detected two years ago and declared a global pandemic in March 2020, has killed more than 5.4 million people, […]

KOLKATA: A destitute Indian woman who claims she is heir to the dynasty that built the Taj Mahal has demanded ownership of an imposing palace once home to the Mughal emperors. Sultana Begum lives in a cramped two-room hut nestled within a slum on the outskirts of Kolkata, surviving on a meagre pension. Among her […]

LEVITTOWN, United States: As Joshua Waldorf was running for a third term on the Pennsbury school board in November, one particularly heated debate triggered a flood of vitriolic messages to his inbox-one of them urging him to shoot himself. In a shift mirrored in cities across America, his local council overseeing schools in the leafy […]