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British PM: 90% in ICUs have not had booster jab
LONDON: Around 90 percent of coronavirus patients in intensive care units have not had a booster jab, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday, defending his decision not to tighten virus curbs in England. Speaking at a vaccination center, Johnson urged people to get “vital” booster jabs, saying “the overwhelming majority” of those currently going into intensive care in our hospitals have not had the booster jab.“I’ve...
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Indonesia to bring stranded Rohingya refugees to shore
BIREUN, Indonesia: Indonesia yesterday said it will let dozens of Rohingya refugees come ashore after protests from locals and the international community over its plan to push them into Malaysian waters. At least 100 mostly women and children aboard a stricken wooden vessel off Aceh province were denied refuge in Indonesia, where authorities on Tuesday said they planned to push them into the neighbouring Southeast Asian country after fixing...
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Chinese struggle providing food in locked down Xi’an
BEIJING: Chinese officials admitted yesterday they have faced challenges getting enough supplies to residents in locked-down Xi’an, after the city’s inhabitants took to social media to complain they didn’t have enough food and call for help. Thirteen million residents in northern Xi’an are in their seventh day of home confinement, and national health officials have called for measures to be strengthened further as China battles its worst...
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Hong Kong media outlet closes after police raid, arrests seven
HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News said yesterday it will close after a police raid and arrests of seven current and former staff members, in the latest blow to the city’s rapidly shrinking press freedoms. Suppression of the semi-autonomous Chinese city’s local press has increased in the wake of 2019’s huge and often violent democracy protests and Beijing’s subsequent imposition of a sweeping national security...
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Time capsule from Confederate statue reveals US war artifacts
A time capsule buried 130 years ago in the base of a statue of a Confederate general revealed its secrets on Tuesday - bullets, buttons and currency from the 1861-65 US Civil War along with other artifacts. The copper box was found Monday embedded in the stone pedestal of a statue of General Robert E Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the bloody conflict between the North and the South.Lee's bronze statue was erected in 1890...
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Street photography pioneer Weiss dies
Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss, who chronicled social change with a unique gaze for nearly eight decades, has died aged 97 in her Paris home, her family said yesterday. Weiss was the last of the French humanist photography school of post-World War II that reimagined the evocative powers of images, which included Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Brassai.A pioneer of what later became known as street photography, Weiss captured the...
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Turkish crisis turns books into vanishing luxuries
Turkish doctoral student Gulfer Ulas saw the first edition of her favorite Thomas Mann collection published for 33 liras. She found the second print of the same two-volume set selling months later at her Istanbul book shop for 70 liras (about $6 at the latest exchange rate).The jump exemplifies the debilitating unpredictability of Turkey's raging economic crisis on almost all facets of daily life - from shopping to education and culture....
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Inside the ECB's secret lab to sniff out fake euro bills
FRANKFURT: On the 23rd floor of the European Central Bank's towering Frankfurt headquarters, on the other side of a security door, anti-counterfeiting experts are poring over some of the best fake banknotes in the eurozone. The room, off limits to outsiders, at first glance recalls a high school science lab-an unusually well-equipped one.Lined up on the workbenches are 3D microscopes, ultra-sensitive scales and special devices designed to detect...
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Slow progress as Lebanon awaits IMF economic deal
BEIRUT: Lebanon is mired in an economic crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, but officials are yet to strike an international bailout deal. The financial meltdown began in 2019, and Lebanon defaulted on its debt last year.Politicians have failed to enact significant reforms to rescue the Mediterranean country, and many blame the ruling class and central bank policies for the crash. What is delaying progress on...
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New Cabinet includes three more MPs, nine new faces
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Dar Yamamah His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah who handed him the proposed names for the new cabinet formation.Amir receives PM, approves new Cabinet formationBy B IzzakKUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah yesterday announced his new Cabinet which includes three opposition MPs who had publicly said they were ready...
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Zionist strike sets ablaze Syrian port
BEIRUT: A Zionist air strike hit Syria’s Latakia port before dawn yesterday, sparking a fire that lit up the Mediterranean seafront in the second such attack on the key cargo hub this month, Syrian state media reported. Since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2011, the Zionist entity has routinely carried out air strikes on its strife-torn neighbor, mostly targeting Syrian government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and...
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Bollywood megastar Salman Khan survives snake bite
Bollywood "bad boy" Salman Khan has revealed how he starred in his own real-life action drama when he was bitten by a snake and spent six hours in hospital. Khan - who enjoys a cult-like status in star-obsessed India - said the serpent bit him twice when he tried to remove it from his countryside home near Mumbai ahead of his 56th birthday on Monday. Using a stick, Khan said he "picked up the snake with a lot of love and brought it out, and the...
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Crackdown on visa violators
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Kuwait expands ‘open door’ policy to virtual domain
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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
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Saudi energy minister announces discovery of multiple oil, gas fields