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An employee sweeps after closing his business at Las Pasiegas Square at the end of a day's work in Granada on October 31, 2020. - The Spanish parliament on October 29 approved the extension for six months of a state of emergency declared to fight a surge in coronavirus infections. Under the state of emergency, Spain's 17 regional governments, which are in charge of health, can impose measures to restrict people's mobility, such as nighttime curfews and closing their borders. (Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP)
Embassies urge Kuwaitis abroad to take precautions
GRANADA: An employee sweeps after closing his business at Las Pasiegas Square at the end of a day's work in Granada, Spain on October 31, 2020. - AFP CAPITALS: The State of Kuwait's Embassy in the United States of America has called on citizens in the US to take all necessary safety precautions. The embassy urged, in a statement early yesterday, the Kuwaiti nationals to abide by health guidelines from the US Centers for disease Control (CDC) and...
A photo taken on October 31, 2020, shows a partial view of the Sheikh Jaber causeway in Kuwait City at sunset. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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KUWAIT: A photo taken on October 31, 2020, shows a partial view of the Sheikh Jaber Causeway in Kuwait City at sunset. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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OPEC faces dilemma over oil cuts into 2021
DUBAI/BAGHDAD: Gulf OPEC producers the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as well as Iraq, are debating whether they should roll over existing oil supply cuts into 2021, as they struggle to stick to their agreed reductions, OPEC and industry sources said. DUBAI/BAGHDAD/LONDON: Gulf OPEC producers the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, as well as Iraq, are debating whether they should roll over existing oil supply cuts into 2021, as they struggle to...
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Tech-savvy women could beat virus job blues in Arab world
DUBAI: Many women are already finding new opportunities, sometimes by putting their new-found tech skills to work in jobs where they have an innate edge over men. AMMAN: As COVID-19 swells the ranks of unemployed women in the Arab world, surging demand for digital skills could help many of them find work in a region where only one in four women has a job. The pandemic has taken an especially heavy toll on retail, tourism and hospitality jobs...
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UAE approves spending cuts in 2021 budget
DUBAI: The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates approved a smaller federal budget for 2021 in a sign that the country is curbing expenditure amid the coronavirus crisis and lower oil prices. The budget for next year was set at 58 billion dirhams ($15.8 billion), state news agency WAM reported yesterday, down from this year's 61.35 billion dirhams, which was the largest budget since the establishment of the country."The UAE economy will be among...
ALEXANDRIA, VA - OCTOBER 31: Voters fill out their ballots at an early voting center at the Mount Vernon Governmental Center on October 31, 2020 in Alexandria, Virginia. Today is the final day of early voting in Virginia, with voters waiting hours in line to cast their ballots ahead of the presidential election on Tuesday.   Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
2020 might be the COVID-19 election
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia: Voters fill out their ballots at an early voting center at the Mount Vernon Governmental Center on Saturday. - AFP WASHINGTON: At the end of January, a little after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, the New York Stock Exchange hit an all-time high, and Donald Trump's biggest concern was the impact of Boeing's woes on the economy. "The American Dream is back, bigger, better and stronger than ever...
Elderly displaced Syrian men sit in front of a tent to smoke, in an overcrowded displacement camp near the village of Qah near the Turkish border in the northwestern Idlib province, on October 28, 2020, during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis. - Humanitarian workers fear any further rise in novel coronavirus cases would be disastrous in northwest Syria, where almost 1.5 million people live in overcrowded camps or shelters, after escaping the fighting during Syria's nine-year civil war, often with poor access to running water. (Photo by Ahmad al-ATRASH / AFP)
Crammed into camps, displaced Syrians fear spread of coronavirus
QAH, Syria: Elderly displaced Syrian men sit in front of a tent to smoke in an overcrowded displacement camp near the village of Qah near the Turkish border in the northwestern Idlib province. - AFP QAH, Syria: Hassan Sweidan is terrified he will catch COVID-19 in the overcrowded displacement camp in northwest Syria he calls home, even more so as medical staff in the region have become sick. Humanitarian workers fear any further rise in novel...
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US on the edge amid fears of violence on eve of election
WASHINGTON: Workers install protections on building facades near the White House as building managers and local businesses fear violent demonstrations ahead of the coming presidential elections. -- AFP WASHINGTON: Hammers are pounding and saws are buzzing in Washington as crews board up stores amid fears that the pivotal US presidential election next week could degenerate into unrest. All around downtown Washington, near the stately White House...
Census workers use an app to collect information from a resident in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on November 1, 2020, as millions of census-takers began knocking on doors for a once-a-decade head count of the world's largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch the massive numbers. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
China kicks off once-a-decade census
QINGDAO: Census workers use an app to collect information from a resident in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province yesterday as millions of census-takers began knocking on doors for a once-a-decade head count of the world's largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch the massive numbers. -- AFP SHANGHAI: Millions of census-takers began knocking on doors across China yesterday for a once-a-decade head...
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Aide: HK tycoon Lai unaware of Biden dossier
HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai said he fears authorities are trying to shut down a critical voice in the restless city. - Reuters HONG KONG: A top aide to Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has stepped down after admitting he helped fund a contentious report alleging links between Joe Biden's son and China, but insisted yesterday his boss had no knowledge of it. The 64-page document by a fictitious author, which was circulated online and...
(FILES) In this file photograph taken on March 2, 2017, then French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron gives a speech as he unveils his full programme eight weeks from election day in Paris. - Simultaneously battling the twin crises of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and a resurgence in Islamist attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron faces a defining moment that will determine the success of his presidency and even his chances of reelection. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)
Battling two crises, Macron faces defining moment
Emmanuel Macron PARIS: Simultaneously battling the twin crises of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and a resurgence in Islamist attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron faces a defining moment that will determine the success of his presidency and even his chances of reelection. Macron came to power in 2017 on a wave of optimism that he was a transformational leader who would bring much-needed reform to France and restore its...
Electoral commission officials check the voter's roll as they count votes at a polling station in Abidjan on October 31, 2020, after Ivory Coast's presidential election. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
Ivorians await results after tense ballot
ABIDJAN: Electoral commission officials check the voter's roll as they count votes at a polling station in Abidjan on Saturday after Ivory Coast's presidential election. - AFP ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast officials prepared to tally results Sunday after a tense presidential ballot marked by an opposition boycott and protests over President Alassane Ouattara's bid for a third term. Scattered protests, clashes, vandalized voting material and...