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MoH updates protocols as COVID cases jump to 4,397
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The number of new coronavirus cases surged to 4,397 yesterday, with the infection rate climbing to a dangerous 11.7 percent, as government departments are due to cut staff and working hours from today. The ministry also reported one death, as the number of cases in intensive care units rose to 15 and patients in hospitals increased to 162. Based on official statistics, there are more than 24,600 active COVID-19 cases in the...
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Half of Europe on track to catch Omicron
COPENHAGEN: More than half of people in Europe are projected to catch Omicron by March, the WHO said yesterday, as millions in China locked down again exactly two years after Beijing reported the first COVID-19 death. The highly-transmissible variant has ripped through countries at breakneck pace, forcing governments to impose fresh measures and scramble to roll out vaccine booster shots.Europe is at the epicenter of alarming new outbreaks...
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Lebanese join migrant flow to Europe
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: If he wasn’t making good money smuggling irregular migrants to the European Union by sea, Ibrahim himself might have joined the growing exodus from crisis-hit Lebanon. “If I didn’t work in this profession, I would have left, just like so many other people,” said the 42-year-old trafficker, who asked to use a pseudonym when he spoke to AFP in the northern city of Tripoli. “Maybe I would have turned to someone to smuggle...
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UAE threatens jail for making fun of COVID measures
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has threatened to jail people who make fun of its anti-COVID measures after mocking photos and videos appeared online. Federal prosecutors said social media users could be punished under new laws which allow at least two years’ jail and AED 200,000 ($54,000) fines for sharing misleading information during a pandemic.The UAE has introduced a number of measures to tackle a wave of Omicron variant cases that have...
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Kazakh president fires rare criticism at predecessor
ALMATY: Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued rare criticism of his long-ruling predecessor yesterday, and said he expected Russian-led forces to leave the troubled Central Asian country in the next 10 days. The oil-rich country’s descent into chaos has laid bare infighting at the very top of a government once utterly dominated by Tokayev’s mentor, 81-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev, who retains the constitutional status of...
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US Open champion suffers humiliating loss in Sydney
SYDNEY: US Open champion Emma Raducanu's Australian Open warm-up tournament lasted just 55 minutes after she was thrashed 6-0, 6-1 by Elena Rybakina at the Sydney International yesterday. The 19-year-old Raducanu took the tennis world by storm in September when she won the US Open as a qualifier. She opted not to play last week's Melbourne Summer Set tournament after recovering from COVID-19, meaning her last chance for some match practice ahead...
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Al-Attiyah closes in on Dakar crown
WADI AD-DAWASIR: South African Giniel de Villiers won the Dakar Rally ninth stage yesterday as Nasser Al-Attiyah moved closer to clinching his fourth title. The 51-year-old Qatari had seen Sebastien Loeb nibble away at his extensive lead over the past couple of days. But with Friday's finish in Riyadh looming France's serial world rally champion has a 39min 05sec deficit to make up on Al-Attiyah. Saudi driver Yazeed Al-Rahji is almost an hour...
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Djokovic's saga throws light on migrants' ordeal
MELBOURNE: It was the most unlikely Australian residence for the world's number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic: a grim, five-storey former hotel with no check-out allowed. For four nights, Melbourne's infamous "alternative place of detention" for migrants became his abode: no tennis courts, no swimming pool and no leaving. Dozens of journalists and scores of fans, anti-vaccination mandate protesters and migrant rights activists rallied outside...
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Indian govt takes stake in stricken Vodafone unit
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has agreed to forego $2.1 billion in interest payments and instead become the largest shareholder in British telecoms giant Vodafone’s local unit Vi, the company said yesterday. Vodafone has been losing money in India since Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani kicked off a price war in the vast market when his conglomerate Reliance launched telecoms arm Jio in 2016.With the British parent company refusing to...
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In Cuba, the ordeal of queuing for hours ‘just to be able to eat’
HAVANA: Cubans are no strangers to queuing for everything from bread to toothpaste, often standing for hours under a blazing sun with no access to a toilet or drinking water, and always with the fear of leaving empty-handed. It is a daily ordeal Cubans have endured for about 60 years of communist rule, now worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, a steep economic downturn and tightened US sanctions.“I spent almost all night here just to buy...
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French far-right candidate Zemmour struggling before vote
PARIS: Having entered France's presidential race full of sound and fury, far-right TV pundit Eric Zemmour risks seeing his campaign amount to nothing because of a widely contested clause of electoral law. Like all candidates in the race, Zemmour needs to muster 500 endorsements from elected figures around the country by the middle of March in order to have his name on the ballot paper for the polls in April.His dramatic entrance into front-line...
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Multi-millionaire killer Durst dead
CALIFORNIA: Real estate heir and convicted murderer Robert Durst, who was jailed for life for the killing of his best friend, died Monday in a California prison, his lawyer said. Multi-millionaire Durst was the subject of an explosive HBO documentary entitled "The Jinx," which ultimately led to his conviction over one of the three gruesome deaths for which he was believed to be responsible.Attorney Chip Lewis said the 78-year-old succumbed to...
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Crackdown on visa violators
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Kuwait expands ‘open door’ policy to virtual domain
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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Minister of Municipal Affairs Dr Noura Al-Mashaan and Head of the Municipal Council Abdullah Al-Mahari inspect the Darwazat Abdulrazzaq project. – KUNA photos
Darwaza Abdulrazzaq project set to reopen
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Interior cracks down on residency violators