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A COVID-19 patient, one of 12 to be transferred in a military airplane, is assisted by medical staff at the Ponta Pelada airport in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, Friday amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. - AFPn

Brazil's Amazonas state transfers COVID patients

A COVID-19 patient, one of 12 to be transferred in a military airplane, is assisted by medical staff at the Ponta Pelada airport in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, Friday amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. - AFPMANAUS, Brazil: Facing the imminent collapse of its health system, Amazonas state in northern Brazil started transferring coronavirus patients to other regions Friday as hospitals run out of beds and oxygen. Nine patients out of 235...

MAGERE, Ugandan: Security forces are seen near the house of Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, in Magere, Uganda, yesterday ahead of Uganda's election results announcement. -AFPn

Museveni extends 35-year rule with disputed election win

MAGERE, Ugandan: Security forces are seen near the house of Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, in Magere, Uganda, yesterday ahead of Uganda's election results announcement. -AFPKAMPALA: Uganda's Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term in office with almost 60 percent of votes, in an election his main rival Bobi Wine has said was marred by fraud and violence, the electoral commission announced yesterday. The veteran...

BEIRUT: The usually bustling seaside corniche promenade in the capital is deserted as Lebanon enters its first day of strict lockdown yesterday. - AFP n

Lebanon enters full lockdown to stem virus uptick

BEIRUT: The usually bustling seaside corniche promenade in the capital is deserted as Lebanon enters its first day of strict lockdown yesterday. - AFPBEIRUT: A full lockdown started in Lebanon yesterday, with residents barred even from grocery shopping and dependent on food deliveries, in a bid to slow a surge in novel coronavirus cases. The new restrictions were only loosely respected in some areas of the country, however, after mass protests...

Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah shows the QR code in the digital vaccine certificate.

Ministers receive second dose of COVID-19 vaccine

Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah shows the QR code in the digital vaccine certificate. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received yesterday the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the national vaccination campaign at Kuwait Vaccination Center in Kuwait International Fairgrounds in Mishref. His Highness the Prime Minister was accompanied by...

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Kuwait lists 560 new COVID cases, zero deaths

KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 560 new coronavirus infections and no virus-related deaths yesterday, taking the totals to 156,434 and 946 respectively, the health ministry said. The number of people hospitalized with the virus stood yesterday at 5,427, with 49 of them in intensive care units, according to ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, who revealed that some 10,360 swab tests were taken over the same period, bringing the total up to 1,369,781....

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Company charged in KD 1.8 million money laundering case

KUWAIT: The public prosecution pressed charges in a case that was filed based on a complaint from a group of individuals who claim that they were conned by real estate fraudsters. The prosecutor's report indicated that the company in question committed money laundering crimes that amount to around KD 1.8 million. The accused company officials reportedly obtained the money by tricking victims into believing that they own residential and touristic...

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MP proposes permanent residency for children of Kuwaiti women

The National AssemblyBy B IzzakKUWAIT: MP Ali Al-Qattan yesterday submitted a draft law calling on authorities to grant children of Kuwaiti women from their foreign husbands permanent residence permits to save them trouble renewing their residencies every year. Qattan said that the measure will provide needed stability to families of Kuwaiti women married to foreign husbands.Kuwait, like a majority of Arab countries, does not grant children of...

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Pakistan ready to meet Kuwait labor market demands

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Director General of the Public Authority for Manpower Ahmad Al-Mousa met with the Ambassador of Pakistan to Kuwait Syed Sajjad Haider and Pakistan's Deputy Head of Mission Tahreem Ilyas yesterday to discuss issues related to the Pakistani workers in Kuwait, in addition to other topics of common interest. Syed Sajjad Haider hoped that the number of Pakistani laborers in Kuwait would increase in the future."Pakistan is...

Desert bashing is a popular pastime. - Photos by Shakir Reshamwala

Desert vibes: Far from the urban sprawl

Desert bashing is a popular pastime. - Photos by Shakir ReshamwalaBy Shakir ReshamwalaMutlaa Ridge and the surrounding areas of Jal Al-Zour and Khuwaisat have become popular spots for weekend outings in Kuwait. After winter camping was banned by authorities and the ever-changing restrictions on travel outside Kuwait due to the pandemic, daylong trips to the desert have become extremely popular.Barbequing - although banned - can be found...

WASHINGTON: Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark, alongside House Impeachment Managers Representatives Joe Neguse and Eric Swalwell look on as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signs the article of impeachment during an engrossment ceremony after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump at the Capitol on Wednesday. - AFP

Trump impeached for second time

WASHINGTON: Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark, alongside House Impeachment Managers Representatives Joe Neguse and Eric Swalwell look on as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signs the article of impeachment during an engrossment ceremony after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump at the Capitol on Wednesday. - AFPWASHINGTON: Donald Trump became the first US president in history to...

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E-platform facilitates domestic workers' return to Kuwait from 'high-risk' nations

KUWAIT: 'BelSalamah' is an electronic platform aims to facilitate return of domestic workers from the 'high-risk' countries, with which travel is banned, to Kuwait, in line with specific procedures and mechanisms that take into account the required health measures. The project prepared by the National Aviation Services (NAS), which operates at Kuwait International Airport, aims to decrease the cost of return that the sponsor will pay, in addition...

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Iran Guards deny losses in Israel strikes in Syria

A handout photo shows an Iranian navy helicopter landing on Iranian warship Makran in the Gulf of Oman yesterday. - AFPTEHRAN: An Iranian Revolutionary Guards official denied yesterday that recent Israeli strikes on eastern Syria led to any deaths, the Fars news agency reported. "This attack caused no human losses," Ahad Karimkhani, deputy political head of the Guards' foreign operations arm, the Quds Force, was quoted as saying. The "attacks...

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