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Minister refers roads' damages report to Nazaha
KUWAIT: This December 31, 2020 file photo shows a damaged road near the Friday Market. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Rana Al-Fares referred a report to Public Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) about damages in roads caused by rain fall and amongst recommendations was improving designing criteria of rain drainage networks in future projects.Ministry Spokesman Abdullah Al-Ajmi said Fares, also Minister of State...
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Minister receives Fire Force guide
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh received Kuwait Fire Force Chief Lt Gen Khaled Al-Mekrad, who presented to him a copy of the structural guide of Kuwait Fire Force for 2020. Deputy General Director for Human Resources Development Maj Gen Mohammad Al-Shatti accompanied Mekrad in the visit.
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Firemen battle two blazes
KUWAIT: Firemen put out a blaze reported in an Industrial Shuwaikh garage yesterday, and another that gutted a heavy duty vehicle in Dhajeej. No injuries were reported in both incidents, and investigations went underway to reveal the causes of the fires.
Stray cats wander as people are seen in the background in a market in Kuwait City on December 9, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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KUWAIT: Stray cats wander as people are seen in the background in a market in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
82-year-old Brian Pinker receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, southwest England on January 4, 2021. - Britain today began the mass rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a cheap and easy to distribute shot that experts hope will help crush the pandemic. (Photo by Steve Parsons / POOL / AFP)
Britain rolls out AstraZeneca shots
OXFORD: 82-year-old Brian Pinker receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at Churchill Hospital yesterday. - AFP LONDON: Britain yesterday began rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a possible game-changer in fighting the disease worldwide, while China raced to inoculate millions with a domestically made jab. Britain started the new drive with 530,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine,...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 US President Donald Trump arrives for the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House in Washington, DC. - The US Congress on January 1, 2021 dealt Donald Trump a humiliating blow, voting in his final weeks in office to override his veto of a sweeping defense bill -- the first time lawmakers have done so during his presidency. nWith more than 80 of the 100 senators voting to override, well more than the two-thirds required, the Republican-controlled Senate approved the $740.5 billion National Defense Authorization Act to fund the military for fiscal 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
US officials reject Trump claims on toll, defend vaccine rollout
WASHINGTON, DC: In this file photo, US President Donald Trump arrives for the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: US officials on Sunday rejected Donald Trump's claim that the national COVID-19 death toll of more than 350,000 has been exaggerated, but defended the stumbling campaign to vaccinate millions of Americans. Some 4.2 million...
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French-Irish teen's Malaysia death ruled misadventure
In this file handout from the Royal Malaysia Police taken and released on August 10, 2019, Meabh Jaseprine Quoirin (center) and Sebastien Marie Philipe (right), the parents of missing 15-year-old Franco-Irish teenager Nora Quoirin, stand with the police as they continue to search for her in Seremban. - AFP KUALA LUMPUR: A French-Irish teenager with learning difficulties died by misadventure after disappearing in the Malaysian jungle on a family...
Members of the house depart after the first session of the 117th Congress in the House Chamber at the US Capitol on January 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis / POOL / AFP)
Under dark clouds, lawmakers kick off new US Congress
WASHINGTON: Members of the house depart after the first session of the 117th Congress in the House Chamber at the US Capitol on Monday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Sporting a black mask, Democrat Nikema Williams is well aware of Washington's toxic political divisions and the challenges of a deadly pandemic - the newly elected African American congresswoman is a COVID survivor. "It's a new day in Congress," Williams said as she walked the halls of Capitol...
(FILES) This file photo taken on February 29, 2012 shows Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (C) escorted by elite Indonesian police commandos upon his arrival at hospital in a wheelchair to undergo cataract surgery in Jakarta. - Bashir, a radical Indonesian cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings, will be released from prison this week, authorities said on January 4, 2021, after an earlier bid to free him early was axed following a public uproar. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP)
Indonesia to free radical cleric linked to Bali bombing
JAKARTA: This file photo taken on February 29, 2012 shows Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (center) escorted by elite Indonesian police commandos upon his arrival at hospital in a wheelchair to undergo cataract surgery in Jakarta. - AFP JAKARTA: A radical Indonesian cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings will be released from prison this week, authorities said yesterday, after an earlier bid to free him early was axed following a public...
Mourners from the Shiite Hazara community react as they gather with the coffins of the miners who were killed in an attack by gunmen in the mountainous Machh area, during a sit-in protest at the eastern bypass, on the outskits of Quetta on January 4, 2021. - Thousands of mourners from Pakistan's minority Shiite community on January 4 protested alongside the bodies of miners killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. (Photo by Banaras KHAN / AFP)
Scores mourn miners killed in Pakistan attack
QUETTA, Pakistan: Mourners from the Shiite Hazara community react as they gather with the coffins of the miners who were killed in an attack by gunmen in the mountainous Machh area, during a sit-in protest at the eastern bypass, on the outskirts of Quetta yesterday.-AFP QUETTA: Thousands of mourners from a minority community in Pakistan on Monday protested alongside the bodies of miners killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The...
Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (C) shoots to score the opening goal despite Udinese's Italian defender Kevin Bonifazi (L) and Udinese's French defender Sebastian De Maio during the Italian Serie A football match Juventus vs Udinese on January 3, 2021 at the Juventus stadium in Turin. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)
Ronaldo's double lifts Juventus
TURIN: Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (center) shoots to score the opening goal despite Udinese's Italian defender Kevin Bonifazi (left) and Udinese's French defender Sebastian De Maio during the Italian Serie A football match Juventus vs Udinese on January 3, 2021.- AFP MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as champions Juventus bounced back from their first Serie A defeat of the season by beating Udinese 4-1 on Sunday to move...
TOPSHOT - Mainz's German defender Daniel Brosinski (Bottom) fouls Bayern Munich's French midfielder Corentin Tolisso during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Bayern Munich v Mainz 05 on January 3, 2021 in Munich, southern Germany. (Photo by G¸nter SCHIFFMANN / various sources / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Lewandowski nets twice; Bayern Munich roar back to stun Mainz
MUNICH: Mainz's German defender Daniel Brosinski (Bottom) fouls Bayern Munich's French midfielder Corentin Tolisso during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Bayern Munich v Mainz 05 on January 3, 2021. - AFP BERLIN: Robert Lewandowski netted twice as Bayern Munich roared back from two goals down to earn a 5-2 home win over Mainz on Sunday which put the European champions back at the top of the Bundesliga. Mainz's 2-0...
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