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UK's Johnson faces fresh scandal over lockdown breach
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was embroiled yesterday in another scandal over his government's alleged lockdown breaches, as police said they were investigating a Downing Street gathering to which over 100 people were invited. In the latest in a string of such accusations, Johnson and others allegedly held a drinks party in the garden of his official residence in May 2020 when all in-person socialising was outlawed. An email leaked...
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Six killed in Philippine jail brawl
MANILA: Six inmates were killed and 33 wounded during a fight in an overcrowded jail in the Philippines, authorities said yesterday, in the second such incident in as many weeks. The deadly brawl happened Monday between rival gangs at Caloocan City Jail in the National Capital Region, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology spokesman Xavier Solda said.An investigation was under way into the cause of the violence that Solda said started as a fight...
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Taiwan passes extra $8.6bn defence budget as China threat grows
TAIPEI: Taiwan's parliament yesterday passed an extra spending bill of nearly $8.6 billion in its latest bid to boost defence capabilities against an increasingly bellicose China. The government proposed a five-year special defence budget of around TW$237.3 billion from 2022 as Chinese warplanes breached its air defence zone at unprecedented levels last year.Democratic Taiwan lives under constant threat of an invasion by authoritarian China,...
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UN wants $5bn aid for Afghanistan to avert humanitarian catastrophe
GENEVA: The United Nations said yesterday it needed $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan in 2022 to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and offer the ravaged country a future after 40 years of suffering. In its biggest-ever single-country appeal, the UN said $4.4 billion (3.9 billion euros) was needed within Afghanistan, while a further $623 million was required to support the millions of Afghans sheltering beyond its borders.The UN said 22 million...
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Public Works Minister gives priority to completing maintenance of Khaitan roads
Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Mousa affirmed keenness to complete construction and maintenance of roads, as well as rain drainage sewers in Khaitan, pointing out that the project has a top priority to achieve security for people.In a press statement Tuesday, Mousa, also Minister of State for Youth Affairs, said that this is one of the vital projects included in the plan of the Public Authority for Roads and Transportation (PART) in developing...
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Kuwait cuts isolation period for vaccinated to 7 days
Kuwait on Tuesday updated the quarantine and isolation conditions for vaccinated and unvaccinated people in the country. Ministry of Health Spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad explained the conditions as follows:• A person is considered in contact if they come in contact with a positive case for at least 15 minutes without covering the mouth and nose, and for a space of two meters or less.• A person in contact must quarantine for 14 days that can...
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End mass jabs and live with COVID, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce
COVID should be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu, and ministers should end mass-vaccination after the booster campaign, the former chairman of the UK’s vaccine taskforce has said.With health chiefs and senior Tories also lobbying for a post-pandemic plan for a straining NHS, Dr Clive Dix called for a major rethink of the UK’s Covid strategy, in effect reversing the approach of the past two years and returning to a “new...
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'Historic': US surgeons implant pig heart in human
WASHINGTON: US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations. The “historic” procedure took place Friday, the University of Maryland Medical School said in a statement on Monday. While the patient’s prognosis is far from certain, it represents a major milestone for animal to human transplantation.The...
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Cabinet imposes limited curbs as COVID cases soar to 3,683
By B IzzakKUWAIT: As the number of new coronavirus cases soared to 3,683 yesterday, a new record high, the Cabinet imposed a series of restrictions including cutting public sector employees to a maximum of 50 percent and calling on the private sector to reduce staff in offices. Government Spokesman Tareq Al-Mazrem said there are currently no plans to close the airport or impose a curfew in Kuwait, reiterating at the same time that the situation...
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US, Russia hold high-stakes talks on Ukraine
GENEVA: Top US and Russian officials held crucial talks yesterday on soaring tensions over Ukraine and security demands from Moscow, with little hope of a diplomatic breakthrough on the table. The high-stakes negotiations come with Russian troops massing on Ukraine's border and fears of an invasion, and Moscow demanding wide-ranging concessions from Washington and its NATO partners.The talks launch a week of high-stakes diplomacy between Russia...
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Kazakh president says 'attempted coup' defeated
ALMATY, Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said yesterday his country had defeated an attempted coup d'etat during historic violence last week, and insisted that Russian-led troops called in to help quell the unrest would go home "soon". During a video conference of leaders from several ex-Soviet countries in a military alliance that sent in the troops, Tokayev's Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin confirmed they would leave...
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Suu Kyi hit with new jail term, convictions
YANGON: A Myanmar junta court yesterday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader. The Nobel laureate has been detained since February 1 when her government was forced out in an early morning coup, ending Myanmar's short-lived experiment with democracy.The generals' power grab triggered widespread dissent, which security forces...
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DHAKA: An unidentified man bleeds after being shot during a clash between police and anti-quota protesters on July 19, 2024. - AFP
Bangladesh court winds back job quotas that sparked unrest
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People call for transparency as concerns mount over food poisoning and safety
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KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Sheikh Salem Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah chairs a meeting of the Supreme Traffic Council on July 21, 2024. - KUNA
Smooth flow traffic eyed
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US President Joe Biden
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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
Kuwait expresses concern as Zionists attack Yemen