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New COVID cases top 4,500 despite 82% vaccination rate
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The health ministry yesterday reported 4,548 new coronavirus cases as the pandemic continued to spread, despite an 82-percent vaccination rate announced by the ministry. National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said he declined a request by the health ministry to suspend Assembly sessions, adding that at least one lawmaker and a "large number" of Assembly employees have tested positive.The health ministry also said the number...
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UK PM sorry for partygate scandal amid calls to quit
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday apologized for attending a lockdown-breaching party held in his Downing Street garden, but deflected calls to resign as the opposition leader called him a "man without shame". After days of dismal headlines and collapsing poll ratings, Johnson said he regarded the newly revealed boozy get-together in May 2020 as a work event for Downing Street staff.He conceded he did not appreciate how the event...
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US on 'threshold' of living with coronavirus: Fauci
WASHINGTON: Despite soaring cases and record-high COVID-19 hospitalizations, the United States is approaching the "threshold" of transitioning to living with the coronavirus as a manageable disease, Anthony Fauci said Tuesday. Speaking to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the top US scientist said eliminating COVID was unrealistic and that "Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of...
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Archaeologists from Europe back in Iraq
NASIRIYAH, Iraq: After war and insurgency kept them away from Iraq for decades, European archaeologists are making an enthusiastic return in search of millennia-old cultural treasures. "Come and see!" shouted an overjoyed French researcher recently at a desert dig in Larsa, southern Iraq, where the team had unearthed a 4,000-year-old cuneiform inscription. "When you find inscriptions like that, in situ, it's moving," said Dominique Charpin,...
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Several killed in blast in Somali capital
MOGADISHU: Several people were killed yesterday in a suicide car bomb blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, officials said. The attack was claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group, which said in a brief statement that it was targeting “foreign officers”. It took place only days after Somali leaders had agreed on a new timetable for long-delayed elections in the troubled Horn of Africa country.The government said in a statement on Twitter...
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Biden gambles big on voting rights reform
ATLANTA: President Joe Biden took a major political gamble Tuesday in calling for a break in the Senate’s supermajority rule so that Democrats can override Republican opposition to voting rights reforms that he called crucial to saving US democracy. Speaking in Atlanta, Georgia, the cradle of the civil rights movement, Biden — who called last year’s Capitol riot by Donald Trump supporters an “attempted coup” — declared “this is the...
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Owners of problem flats welcome UK cladding move
LONDON: Owners of flats built with combustible cladding have welcomed a UK government move to make developers contribute more to the cost of its removal following the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire but say much more is needed. “I would say it’s a step in the right direction, but it’s certainly not a solution,” said Lucy Brown, 47, a financial headhunter who lives on the top two floors of an apartment block in London’s Docklands.Housing...
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Mali travelers stranded as West African sanctions bite
BAMAKO: A bus station in Mali’s capital stands unusually quiet, with  foreign passengers left in limbo after West African countries closed their borders with the military-ruled nation. Africa Tours Trans is one of the main bus firms in the impoverished Sahel state, offering connections to its regional cities as well as to neighboring countries. But late Tuesday morning only one bus arrived at its station in Bamako, coming from the central...
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HK to create more national security crimes
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will create a host of new national security crimes, the city’s leader said yesterday, as she presided over the first session of a new “patriots only” legislature scrubbed of political opposition. The legislation will add to a sweeping national security law imposed directly on Hong Kong by Beijing that has transformed the international finance hub and empowered authorities to carry out a widespread crackdown on...
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Pakistan court shuts military golf course
ISLAMABAD: A golf club belonging to Pakistan’s military was closed yesterday after a court ruled it encroached on national park land in the capital and breached environment regulations. In a rare ruling against the country’s powerful armed forces, judge Athar Minallah said Tuesday that the navy had “illegally” established Margalla Greens Golf Club, an 18-hole course adjacent to the country’s top military university.The course, which...
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Kim urges more ‘military muscle’ after hypersonic missile test
SEOUL: Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of a hypersonic missile, state media said yesterday, and urged North Korea to press ahead with building more “strategic military muscle” despite international sanctions over its nuclear weapons program. Pictures in state media showed Kim using binoculars to observe the second missile launch by the nuclear-armed nation in less than a week.Hypersonic missiles are listed among the “top...
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Hot milk and grooming for camels at Saudi luxury ‘hotel’
With heated stalls and hot milk, life couldn’t get more glamorous for Saudi Arabia’s most beautiful camels when they stay at a luxury compound near Riyadh. For 400 riyals (just over $100) a night, the camels are trimmed, scrubbed and pampered before taking part in beauty contests, where millions of dollars are at stake. The camels, many of which are rented, are checked closely for Botox and other illegal enhancements which could see them...
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HODEIDA: This handout satellite image shows a view of burning oil tanks in the port of Yemen’s Houthi-held city of Hodeida on July 21, 2024, a day after Zionist airstrikes. - AFP
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