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In collaboration between the Ministry of Health, Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital, Zain and KFAS KUWAIT: Relying on Zain’s leadership in international connectivity and with the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the Ministry of Health, represented by the surgical team at Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital led by Dr Suleiman Al-Mazidi, Dr Muhannad Al-Haddad and Dr Humoud Al-Rashidi, has achieved a new global feat by performing an intercontinental remote robotic surgery from Kuwait on a patient in Brazil, at a distance exceeding 12,000 kilometers. It is the farthest by distance in history, under review by the Guinness World…

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa attends a protest against a tent shelter for migrants at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on August 22, 2023. Paul Frangipane | Corbis News | Getty ImagesCurtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee in the race for mayor of New York City, said Wednesday that he has received at least seven calls from “emissaries” of wealthy people who have repeatedly offered him money to end his campaign.Sliwa slammed those offers as “unethical and illegal.”And he warned that if he receives one more such offer, he will begin revealing names of the…

KUWAIT: In line with its unwavering commitment to bringing the dreams of ill children to reality, National Bank of Kuwait helped Asrar, one of NBK Children’s Hospital patients, make her dream come true. This came as part of the bank’s humanitarian initiative “I Dream to Be”, in its thirteenth consecutive year, which is an embodiment of NBK’s values of supporting children and giving them hope and strength to face the challenges of illness.Eleven-year-old Asrar has always dreamt of becoming a pediatrician to help children with their treatment journey and meet the inspirational figure in this field Dr Ahmed Al-Awadhi, the…

Shanaz Hemmati, a veteran of two multibillion-dollar startups, says any prospective entrepreneur needs to remember one key lesson before launching a new business.No matter how confident you are in your business idea, seek out as many prospective customers or clients as you can and get their feedback before you commit to a business model, she says.Hemmati and Ross Buhrdorf are the co-founders of ZenBusiness, which makes artificial intelligence software aimed at helping first-time entrepreneurs navigate the regulatory processes of starting a small business. They launched the business in 2017, and it was most recently valued at $1.7 billion in November…

World leaders gathered in New York for day two of the United Nations General Assembly, in a week where Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the issue of Palestinian statehood dominated the agenda both among western nations as well as the global south. With Israel’s final foray into Gaza City leading to a full occupation of the enclave, an impending annexation of the occupied West Bank, and the bombing of five other countries in between, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been blamed for fomenting unrestrained chaos and destruction far beyond the region. Iran: Israeli aggression, European snapback sanctions ‘unlawful’ Iran’s…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Seven Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Amazon have denounced a government plan to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration, saying it threatens their ancestral lands and violates constitutional protections.The criticism targets a plan from the Ministry of Energy and Mines in August to auction the rights for 49 oil and gas projects worth more than $47 billion. Officials say the “hydrocarbon roadmap” is a strategy to modernize Ecuador’s oil industry, attract foreign capital and boost production. Their plan includes contract renegotiations and new licensing rounds that the government says comply with existing legal frameworks.Indigenous…

A graph displaying the Apple stock price on a smartphone app.Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesRegulators are moving to dismantle one of the most controversial barriers for active retail traders — the $25,000 minimum equity rule for pattern day trading.The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Tuesday approved amendments that would replace the long-standing threshold, making active day trading more accessible to smaller accounts. The change is pending approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission.The $25,000 minimum equity rule mandates that traders must maintain a minimum account balance of $25,000 in a margin account to execute four or more day trades within…

Nikita Parris says Matt Beard “transformed” the women’s game in England when very few cared. The former Liverpool boss passed away last weekend aged 47, with an outpouring of current and former players and clubs paying homage to the manager who also took charge of Chelsea and West Ham’s women’s sides.London City Lionesses forward Parris, who came up against Beard teams on numerous occasions, said the two-time Women’s Super League winner made sacrifices for the women’s game when not many people cared about it.”He transformed women’s football in England just through sheer wanting to and caring,” Parris said on the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant Black mother two years ago was not trained or supervised properly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against the police chief and the township that employed him. The estate of Ta’Kiya Young sued Blendon Township and its police chief over her August 2023 fatal shooting in the parking lot of a grocery store in the Columbus suburbs. She had been suspected of shoplifting bottles of alcohol when Officer Connor M. Grubb and another officer approached her car. Young, 21, partially lowered her window and…

Three of the nation’s largest public school districts stand to lose $24 million after missing a Trump administration deadline to agree to change policies supporting transgender students, officials said Wednesday.The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights had given New York City Schools, Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia until Tuesday to agree to stop giving students access to locker rooms and restrooms corresponding with their gender identity or risk losing funding for specialty magnet schools. In letters to the districts Sept. 16, the Education Department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, said the…