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MAKASSAR, Indonesia: An anti-terror policeman stands guard as police seal the area after an explosion outside a church yesterday. - AFP n

Suicide attack on cathedral in Indonesia

MAKASSAR, Indonesia: An anti-terror policeman stands guard as police seal the area after an explosion outside a church yesterday. - AFPJAKARTA: The suicide bombing at an Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday was carried out by two members of a pro-Islamic State extremist group blamed for other church blasts, including a deadly 2019 attack in the Philippines, police said. About 20 worshippers were injured by the powerful explosion outside the...

NEW YORK: Elizabeth Medina smells her hand after using hand sanitizer during an interview outside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on March 22, 2021. - AFP n

Taste and smell gone: Anguish of COVID survivors

NEW YORK: Elizabeth Medina smells her hand after using hand sanitizer during an interview outside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on March 22, 2021. - AFPNEW YORK: Three days after testing positive for COVID-19, "everything tasted like cardboard", recalls 38-year-old Elizabeth Medina, who lost her sense of taste and smell at the start of the pandemic. A year later, she fears she will never get them back. Medina consulted ear, nose and throat...

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KUWAIT: A picture taken on Saturday shows heavy traffic on the Fourth Ring Road. Main highways in Kuwait were heavily congested on the weekend, which has become the main gateway for people to meet their needs since the partial curfew started. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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Kuwait reports 7 deaths, 1,121 new COVID cases

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Curfew may continue through Ramadan

KUWAIT: Head of the Coronavirus Higher Advisory Committee Dr Khaled Al-Jarallah said that COVID-19 transmission is still high in all governorates, while the curfew and social distancing are allegedly "not being observed." As a result, it is possible that the curfew may continue during Ramadan. He added that supplies of vaccines are being controlled by manufacturing companies which is allegedly "slowing the vaccination process."

LONDON: A picture shows London landmark The London Eye before being submerged into darkness for the Earth Hour environmental campaign.-AFP n

Cities turn off lights to mark Earth Hour

LONDON: A picture shows London landmark The London Eye before being submerged into darkness for the Earth Hour environmental campaign. - AFPBUENOS AIRES: From Singapore to Buenos Aires, cities around the world turned off their lights Saturday to mark Earth Hour, with this year's event highlighting the link between the destruction of nature and increasing outbreaks of diseases like COVID-19. After starting in Asia, the call to action on climate...

This satellite imagery released by Maxar Technologies shows tug boats and dredgers on Saturday attempting to free the Taiwan-operated MV Ever Given lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal. - AFPn

Optimism amid salvage efforts as megaship still stuck in Suez

This satellite imagery released by Maxar Technologies shows tug boats and dredgers on Saturday attempting to free the Taiwan-operated MV Ever Given lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal. - AFPSUEZ, Egypt: Hope rose yesterday salvage efforts would free a mammoth container ship blocking the Suez Canal for six days, crippling international trade and causing losses worth millions of dollars. The MarineTraffic and...

MONYWA: This photo taken and received from an anonymous source via Facebook yesterday shows protesters taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Monywa, Sagaing region. - AFPn

Defense chiefs condemn bloodiest day since Myanmar's military coup

MONYWA: This photo taken and received from an anonymous source via Facebook yesterday shows protesters taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Monywa, Sagaing region. - AFPYANGON: Defense chiefs from a dozen countries yesterday jointly condemned the bloodbath in Myanmar a day earlier, when at least 90 people-including several children-were killed after security forces opened fire on anti-coup protesters. Myanmar has been in...

NEW YORK: People walk outside of the Goldman Sachs New York headquarters in New York City. -AFPnn

Goldman Sachs dustup hits nerve as pandemic blurs work-life line

NEW YORK: People walk outside of the Goldman Sachs New York headquarters in New York City. -AFPNEW YORK: A revolt by junior Goldman Sachs' bankers over work weeks that can stretch to as long as 105 hours has inspired both schadenfreude over discontent at the storied investment bank and wider debate about the future of work after the COVID-19 pandemic. The erosion between office and home boundaries during the pandemic means many white-collar...

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Conservative Alabama could become home to Amazon's first union in US

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: A person holds "Vote Union Yes!" signs during a protest in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate and the unionization of Amazon.com, Inc. fulfillment center workers at Kelly Ingram Park. - AFPBIRMINGHAM, US: Poor and conservative, the state of Alabama seemed like the perfect place for companies to do business without having to deal with labor unions. That is, until a handful of Amazon employees stood up to the...

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Pandemic upsurge hits Europe's hopes for return to recovery

A graffiti reading "The Future is Europe" is pictured in front of the European Commission Headquarters in Brussels on Friday. - AFPPARIS: An upsurge in new coronavirus cases is forcing governments across Europe into new, damaging lockdowns that threaten to delay a much hoped-for return to growth, economists say. The plan was that mass vaccination programs would turn the tide on the pandemic, allowing locked-down consumers free rein after months...

DHAKA: Police personnel march towards activists from Hefazat-e Islam as they block a road during a nationwide strike following deadly clashes with police over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit, in Narayanganj yesterday.-AFP n

Violence breaks out in fresh Bangladesh protests

DHAKA: Police personnel march towards activists from Hefazat-e Islam as they block a road during a nationwide strike following deadly clashes with police over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit, in Narayanganj yesterday.-AFPNARAYANGANJ: At least a dozen people were reported injured in clashes between police and Islamist demonstrators in Bangladesh yesterday, the third day of protests against the visit of India's Prime Minister Narendra...

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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA

Kuwait army alert, govt prepared

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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.

A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates

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WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP

No end in sight for UK riots

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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP

Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh

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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP

Hamas names Sinwar new chief