5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (352+ words) PARIS: A remarkable English family, one of whose members took his life, are endeavoring to make suicide less of a taboo subject by rowing 3,000 miles (4,830 kilometers) across the Atlantic. "That is across a myriad of things like why, how, was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (169+ words) kuwaittimes.com Germany records 16,300 heat-related deaths BERLIN: Germany registered a record 16,300 heat-related deaths during Europe's severe summer heat waves, official data showed Thursday. Countries across Europe have recorded more than 30,000 excess deaths during the back-to-back heat waves and drought that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (478+ words) Kuwait Times Women survivors face sanitation woes in Nepal relief camp NUWAKOT, Nepal: Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (315+ words) PEKANBARU: Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said Wednesday, as El Nino-fuelled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra islands. Indonesia, a vast archipelago, has for weeks battled wildfires…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (327+ words) ISLAMABAD: At least 14 infants were killed in a fire that broke out in the gynaecology ward of the government run hospital Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Pakistan's federal capital Islamabad on Wednesday. The Islamabad administration in a statement confirmed…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (304+ words) ISLAMABAD: A fire in the maternity ward of a public hospital in Islamabad killed 14 infants on Wednesday, Pakistani authorities said, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif calling for an investigation into the circumstances. The fire broke out on the third floor…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (386+ words) ISLAMABAD: A fire in a hospital maternity ward in Islamabad killed 14 infants on Wednesday, Pakistani authorities said, blaming a faulty air conditioner for the blaze. The dawn fire broke out on the third floor of the Mother and Child Health…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (232+ words) Kuwait Times Ministry launches environmental health awareness pavilion KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health inaugurated its second Environmental Health Awareness Pavilion for 2026 at The Avenues mall on Tuesday, under the slogan “Prevention is Better than Control.” Organized by the Medical Entomology…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (428+ words) Kuwait Times Kenyan farmers turn to worms as soils degrade Agriculture is vital to East Africa's economy, but a 2025 soil report by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, a German think tank, found that more than 40 percent of the region's soils were…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (637+ words) PARIS: Europe saw at least 30,000 excess deaths across a blistering summer of back-to-back heatwaves and drought which scientists have blamed on man-made climate change, according to provisional figures. Between mid-July and mid-August, the continent’s EuroMomo monitoring platform estimates that Europe…...