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KUWAIT: The Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) on Monday hosted the 61st meeting of the Technical Committee of Civil Retirement and Social Insurance Agencies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states. The three-day gathering, held in Kuwait, forms part of ongoing GCC efforts to strengthen joint mechanisms and harmonize practices in the field of social protection. In a press statement, the PIFSS said the committee’s discussions will focus on bolstering insurance rights for GCC citizens while advancing the financial sustainability of social insurance systems across the region.Key topics on the agenda include the development of electronic inspection systems and…

KUWAIT: The Regional Office of the International Organization for Leisure Activities in Science and Technology (MILSET Asia), based in Kuwait, organized on Monday the fourth annual scientific conference for outstanding secondary school students for the 2024-2025 academic year. The event was held under the patronage of Minister of Education Dr Sayyed Jalal Al-Tabtabaei and witnessed the participation of 112 distinguished students.Dr Abdullah Al-Mutawa, Head of the MILSET Asia Office, expressed his pride in the success of the scientific gathering, emphasizing the importance of nurturing excellence among students to foster innovation and creativity in service of Kuwait’s development. He called on…

CNN  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept up appearances for nearly 19 months: Freeing the hostages and defeating Hamas, he insisted, stood equally atop the pyramid of Israel’s war goals. Even as members of his right-wing governing coalition threatened to topple his government if he agreed to a ceasefire and hostage release deal. Even as he himself threw up eleventh-hour obstacles to reaching such a deal. And even as evidence mounted that Israel’s military operations had both directly and indirectly led to the killing of Israeli hostages. Amid all those contradictions, Netanyahu insisted both objectives were just as important. But…

Rebekah Vardy has agreed to pay almost £1.2m of Coleen Rooney’s legal costs after the latter won the high-profile Wagatha Christie libel suit against her, a judge has been told.A specialist costs court was previously told that Mrs Rooney, the wife of former England striker Wayne Rooney, ran up a legal bill totalling more than £1.8m after she successfully defended Mrs Vardy’s High Court claim in 2022. The high-profile court case took place after Mrs Rooney accused Mrs Vardy on social media in 2019 of leaking her private information to the press.Mrs Vardy, wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy,…

President Donald Trump’s administration has been exploring ways to increase the country’s birth rate, with the president himself saying he wouldn’t mind being known as the “fertilization president.” But congressional Democrats and activists say Republicans have long overlooked the growing cost of having and raising children and ignore policy solutions that are readily available.“If you want to encourage families to have children and be serious about it, then you would work to lower costs, build economic security for families,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro, an 18-term Democrat from Connecticut and a leading proponent of a federal paid family leave program, told NBC…

Last week, the predatory Israeli military took time from its busy schedule of exterminating Gaza’s Palestinians, bombing and shooting Palestinians across the West Bank, bombing Lebanon, and initiating an assortment of bombing runs across Syrian territory – including the capital Damascus – to launch an extra special bombing run. The latest air raid targeted what Israel claimed was “an extremist group” that had attacked members of the Syrian Druze community, whom Israel “promised” to defend within Syria itself. Following the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last December at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda…

New Scotland Women head coach Melissa Andreatta plans to immerse herself in the local culture as she begins the task of trying to get the national team back to a major tournament.The 46-year-old Australian started her new role this week after being appointed as Pedro Martinez Losa’s successor last month. Andreatta has only ever worked in her homeland, with her most recent role as assistant head coach of the Matildas, but she has no worries about moving her family across the world. Image: Melissa Andreatta has been appointed the new Scotland Women’s head coach “It’s a massive move, it took…

Suwar Ashour weighed just 2.4kg at birth five months ago. Since then, she has gained less than half a kilogram. “She used to vomit heavily from both breast milk and formula,” said her mother, Najwa Aram, as she leaned over the crib where the tiny infant lay.  Aram told Middle East Eye she had stayed in the hospital with her baby for 10 days. Aram herself is malnourished and has struggled to breastfeed. “Suwar was born during the hardship of war,” she said.  New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside…

Ten years have passed since Luis Enrique won the Champions League with Barcelona. If he is to repeat the feat with Paris Saint-Germain, only Ernst Happel and Jupp Henyckes would have endured a longer wait to lift the famous trophy for a second time.Victory would elevate Luis Enrique into an elite club. But there is a more specific statistic that poses an intriguing question regarding his legacy: PSG have already completed the most dribbles in a Champions League season since his Barcelona side of a decade ago. Is this a distinctly Luis Enrique idea? It seems too much of a…

Watford have sacked head coach Tom Cleverley after a run of five league wins in 2025 saw them finish 14th in the Championship.The former Hornets player was appointed on an initial interim basis in March 2024, and was handed the job full-time after losing only one of seven games. Despite losing both the club’s player and young player of the year last summer, he led the Hornets to within four points of the play-offs at the end of March, but one win from their final seven games saw them finish 11 points adrift.Though Cleverley’s dismissal represents Watford’s 10th sacking in…