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Women in Kuwait are defying conservative norms and a culture of “shame” to speak out against harassment for the first time, in a social media campaign sparked by a popular fashion blogger. Dozens of testimonies about being stalked, harassed or assaulted have emerged online, mainly from the Instagram account “Lan Asket”, Arabic for “I will not be silent”. Statements came from Kuwaiti citizens as well as expatriates, who make up a large sum of the total population. Kuwaiti fashion blo...

In conservative Kuwait, women launch their own #MeToo movement

A fashion bloggers social media campaign has received overwhelming online support

Kuwait is one of 25 states that don’t permit women to pass nationality to kids, spouses

Women in Kuwait have launched a social media campaign in which they demand accountability and share their testimonies

news Coronavirus digest: German nursing home sees outbreak after vaccines dw.com 08/02/2021 dw.com Fourteen residents at a German nursing home have tested positive despite receiving two vaccine doses. Markus Söder has warned against lifting Germanys lockdown too soon. All the latest COVID news. © Rainer Droese /localpic/imago images 14 people have tested positive to the UK variant despite receiving two doses of the Pfizer vaccine Local officials in the district of Osnabruc...

Fourteen residents at a German nursing home have tested positive despite receiving two vaccine doses. Markus Söder has warned against lifting Germany's lockdown too soon. All the latest COVID news.

Emirates Airline has announced further temporary flight bans across its network, while services to Denmark are set to resume this week.

Union criticizes latest Health hammer-blow KUWAIT CITY, Feb 7: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim had another meeting with the owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) covered by the decision of the Cabinet to close certain establishments in order to curb the spread of coronavirus, affirming their message has been delivered to the concerned authorities and that their demands will be taken into consideration. “No one is against any decision to protect the public from coronavirus,...

Kuwait City: As Kuwait witnesses an increase in COVID-19 cases, the government is set to review a series of new restrictions, one of which is the possible return of a partial curfew, by the end of the week. The alarm has been sounded as hospital beds are filling up and the occupancy rate that the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is at 15 per cent, an increase form last week’s where it was at 9 per cent. A government source told Al Qabas that if the health situation is not contained before the Holy m...