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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti artists paint a mural of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on the wall of a bridge in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti artists paint a mural of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on the wall of a bridge in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

KUWAIT: Children play in Shadeed Park yesterday, a day before all public parks and recreational areas are set to be closed amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the country. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn

Exempting vaccinated arrivals from hotel quarantine mulled

KUWAIT: Children play in Shadeed Park yesterday, a day before all public parks and recreational areas are set to be closed amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the country. - Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhKUWAIT: Health ministry assistant undersecretary for public health Dr Buthayna Al-Mudhaf said the ministry is contemplating excluding those who have received the coronavirus vaccine from institutional quarantine upon their return to the country, and...

NAJAF: Pope Francis meets top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in this Iraqi shine city yesterday. - AFP n

Pope, Sistani call for peace

NAJAF: Pope Francis meets top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in this Iraqi shine city yesterday. - AFPBAGHDAD: Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Shiism's top clerics, told Pope Francis in a historic meeting in Iraq yesterday that the country's Christians should live in "peace". The meeting, on the second day of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, marked a landmark moment in modern religious history and in terms of Francis'...

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Rapid COVID tests sell out on first day in Germany

FRANKFURT: Germans flocked to supermarket chain Aldi yesterday to snap up the first rapid coronavirus tests to go on sale nationwide, with stocks selling out within hours. Rival discounter Lidl meanwhile saw its website crash after it started offering at-home testing kits for sale online. "We want to assure anyone who left empty-handed that new stocks are coming in the next days," an Aldi spokesman told the Bild newspaper.The German government is...

GAZA: Palestinian girl Maram and her mother Izdihar Al-Amawi get fitted with a 3D-printed transparent face mask at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Gaza City on Feb 22, 2021. - AFP n

Gaza girl dons mask to heal burnt face

GAZA: Palestinian girl Maram and her mother Izdihar Al-Amawi get fitted with a 3D-printed transparent face mask at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Gaza City on Feb 22, 2021. - AFPGAZA: The moment Maram Al-Amawi gets back from school, she slips on the 3D-printed mask that covers her face and treats her severe burns from a blaze at a Gaza bakery. But she doesn't go out in the streets for fear of being made fun of. Eight-year-old Maram...

This image was captured when NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021. - AFP n

Perseverance Mars rover goes for 'spin'

This image was captured when NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021. - AFPWASHINGTON: The Mars rover Perseverance has successfully conducted its first test drive on the Red Planet, the US space agency NASA said Friday. The six-wheeled rover travelled about 6.5 m in 33 minutes on Thursday, NASA said. It drove four meters forward, turned in place 150 degrees to the left, and then backed up 2.5 meters, leaving...

KUWAIT: People shop at a co-op society yesterday, one day before Kuwait was set to start a daily partial curfew following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn

Kuwait registers nearly 3,000 COVID-19 cases in two days

KUWAIT: People shop at a co-op society yesterday, one day before Kuwait was set to start a daily partial curfew following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. - Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhKUWAIT: Kuwait's COVID-19 cases continued to soar as health authorities announced registering 2,931 new cases over the weekend, in addition to 15 deaths. The Ministry of Health announced yesterday that 1,318 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus over the...

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Nine human remains identified and returned after 30 years

KUWAIT: Under the Tripartite Commission's umbrella, nine human remains, including a Saudi citizen, among the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia missing persons list, gone missing during the 1990-1991 Gulf War and whose relatives have remained without news since were officially buried in the State of Kuwait. Finally, after 30 years of painful uncertainty, the families now have clarity on the fate of their loved ones - and our thoughts remain with all those...

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Bohra community organizes blood donation drive

KUWAIT: The people of the Bohra community residing in the State of Kuwait launched a blood donation campaign on the occasion of the National Day and Liberation Day at the Salwa Sabah Al-Ahmad Center in the Al-Sabah Health District, in the belief of the community members to participate and provide assistance in society and in their second homeland, the State of Kuwait.The representative of the Sultan of Bohra in Kuwait, Sheikh Yahya Badri,...

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Kuwait lists further 1,318 COVID-19 cases, seven deaths

KUWAIT: Kuwait said 1,318 people were tested positive for coronavirus with seven related deaths reported on Saturday taking the total cases up to 199,428 as deaths rose to 1,120 respectively, according to the health ministry. The number of people currently being hospitalised with the virus stands at 13,077, with 168 of them in intensive care units, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, who revealed that some 7,966 swab tests were...

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KUWAIT: A shot of the Mubarakiya Market by photographer Sajid Hassan.

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Traces of life sought beyond solar system

An artistic impression of the surface of the newly discovered hot super-Earth Gliese 486b. - AFPWASHINGTON: Searching for traces of life on Mars, like NASA is doing, is one thing. But scientists are also looking further afield. Could it be found beyond our solar system? A study published on Thursday in the prestigious journal Science reveals the discovery of a new exoplanet that could be instrumental in the hunt. Researchers will try to...

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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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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

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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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ALDERSHOT: Protesters hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. — AFP

Musk fans flames of anti-Muslim riots, spars with UK govt

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Senior military officers discuss security issues