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TOPSHOT - A healthcare worker collects a self-administered coronavirus test at a testing site in Los Angeles, California on November 30, 2020 following the Thanksgiving holiday. - Los Angeles County's new stay-at-home restrictions took effect on November 30, 2020, one day after the county reported more than 5,000 new Covid-19 cases. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
Vaccine hopes given a new boost
LOS ANGELES, California: A healthcare worker collects a self-administered coronavirus test at a testing site on Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday. - AFP WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's controversial coronavirus adviser resigned Monday, while hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 received a further boost with an announcement from US firm Moderna. Scott Atlas, a favored coronavirus adviser of the US president,...
TOPSHOT - An Azerbaijani soldier fixes a national flag on a lamp post in the town of Lachin on December 1, 2020. - Azerbaijani soldiers and military trucks on December 1 rolled into the final district given up by Armenia in a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. (Photo by Karen MINASYAN / AFP)
Azerbaijan forces raise flag in last district handed back by Armenia
LACHIN, Azerbaijan: An Azerbaijani soldier fixes a national flag on a lamppost in this town yesterday. - AFP LACHIN: Azerbaijani soldiers yesterday hoisted their country's flag in the final district given up by Armenia under a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. A column of Azerbaijani military trucks entered the Lachin district overnight, taking over the last of three regions around Karabakh handed...
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Lebanese students abroad fall prey to financial crisis at home
BEIRUT: A woman withdraws money from an ATM machine at the entrance of a bank yesterday. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanese medical student Lara Mustafa faces eviction from Russia and the end of her dream of becoming a doctor if her parents, hit by Lebanon's worst financial crisis in decades, cannot send her money to pay for rent and expenses. Another medical student, Wassim Hachem, 24, had to drop out from his fourth year of university in Russia to return...
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Syrian graduate doctors battle COVID in rebel hub
MAREA, Syria: This picture taken on Nov 26, 2020 shows Syrian students from the "Aleppo University in Liberated Areas" sitting with microscopes at a laboratory facility in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Aleppo. - AFP AZAZ: Mohammed Mostafa Al-Mohammed started studying medicine in rebel-held northern Syria to help the victims of war, but instead he has graduated into a world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 29-year-old...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 07, 2020, aerial view of a deforested area close to Sinop, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. - Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged again over the past year, hitting a 12-year high, according to official figures released on November 30, 2020 that drew a chorus of condemnation of President Jair Bolsonaro's government. (Photo by Florian PLAUCHEUR / AFP)
Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high
SINOP, Brazil: This file photo taken on Aug 7, 2020 shows an aerial view of a deforested area. - AFP SAO PAULO: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged again over the past year, hitting a 12-year high, according to official figures released Monday that drew a chorus of condemnation of President Jair Bolsonaro's government. A total of 11,088 square kilometers of forest was destroyed in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest in the...
TOPSHOT - Farmers offer bananas and jaggery to the Indian security personnel at a road block stopping farmers from marching to New Delhi to protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur on December 1, 2020. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)
Govt meets with farmers after days of Delhi protests
GHAZIPUR, India: Farmers offer bananas and jaggery to the Indian security personnel at a roadblock stopping farmers from marching to New Delhi at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: India attempted to calm nearly a week of raucous protests by meeting with farmers yesterday after rallies against agricultural reforms sparked violent clashes with police on the outskirts of the capital. The plight of farmers is a major...
A billboard featuring a candidate running for Kuwait's parliamentary elections is seen in Kuwait city, on November 22, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
In Kuwait, lavish election campaign events off menu
KUWAIT: A billboard featuring candidate Alia Al-Khaled, who is running for Kuwait's parliamentary elections, is seen in Kuwait City on November 22, 2020. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Lavish banquets served in opulent marquees are nowhere to be seen this election season in oil-rich Kuwait, where the coronavirus pandemic has forced a ban on traditional over-the-top campaign events. Lambs on spits, mountains of rice, and platters of sweets...
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Cabinet examines financial observer office report
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's weekly meeting. - KUNA KUWAIT: The Cabinet examined the recommendations of the Economic Affairs Committee meeting regarding the financial observer office report for the fiscal year 2019-2020. This came during the Cabinet's weekly meeting Monday, chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.The Economic...
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Kuwait sees 357 new COVID-19 cases, one death
KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 357 new coronavirus infections yesterday, in addition to one death which increased the country's COVID-19 death toll to 881. The new cases, which the ministry said yesterday were recorded over the previous 24 hours, raise total infections since the outbreak of the disease to 142,992. Meanwhile, the ministry confirmed 554 recoveries over the same period, increasing total recoveries to 137,625.The number of hospitalized...
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Kuwait's Foreign Minister meets GCC Secretary General
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Minister of Information Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah received yesterday Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf. The two officials discussed during the meeting issues pertaining to the GCC in the upcoming...
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New blood donation branch opens in Farwaniya Hospital
KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary at MoH for Medical Services Dr Mohammad Al-Khashti inaugurates the new blood transfusion branch in Farwaniya Hospital yesterday. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: The Blood Transfusion Services Department at the Ministry of Health (MoH) inaugurated yesterday a subsidiary blood donation bank in Farwaniya Hospital, as part of its strategic plan to provide new branches in every health area and increase the overall...
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Grieving mother seeks help receiving deceased baby from Kuwaiti hospital
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: A grieving mother has been refused the right to bury her baby back in the Philippines due to an absconding case against her in Kuwait. Melba, a 45-year-old Filipina, gave birth to a baby girl on Oct 25, 2020 at Sabah Maternity Hospital. Sadly, the baby died 22 days later due to birth complications. Melba and her husband Toti would like to bury the child in their home country, but due to the absconding case, the hospital is...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
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