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Kuwait sends second relief plane to Sudan
KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) sent yesterday a second plane-load of relief supplies to Sudan, carrying 40 tons of humanitarian aid meant for the victims affected by the flash floods. The plane carried foodstuffs, medicine, tents and water pumps, KRCS's emergency management director Yousef Al-Miraj said in a press statement. He expressed his wishes that this aid will alleviate the suffering of the Sudanese people.KRCS team will...
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Nearby markets still benefit from Kuwait flights ban: report
KUWAIT: The list of 32 countries from which passengers are banned from traveling directly to Kuwait still awaits the health ministry's assessment to review it, Al-Rai reported quoting informed sources, noting that the entry requirement of passengers from those countries to Kuwait via a third country after spending 14 days there is still unchanged.However, the sources described banning passengers coming directly from those countries as a...
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Two arrested for assaulting cops in Sabah Al-Salem
KUWAIT: Two Kuwaitis with criminal records were arrested in Sabah Al-Salem after one of them waved a sword at a police detective and the other tried to strangled another officer while attempting to escape from a police patrol, said security sources. Case papers indicate that based on a report about spotting two individuals acting strangely, two detectives from Mubarak Al-Kabeer rushed to the scene, where one of the suspects waved a sword...
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Let us eliminate the burning stick
By Abdellatif Sharaamust start right away by saying that smoking tobacco is harmful, dangerous and fatal in many different ways regardless of its type, form, full strength, light, etc. All tobacco is bad. Many out there will say we already know that it is harmful and many of them are smokers who might skip a meal but never a cigarette! Allow me here to say that such smokers are slaves to this burning stick and are in its control.I had a...
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Brexit impasse sends pound back to March lows
LONDON: Fears that Britain will end its post-Brexit transition period without agreeing any trading arrangements sent the pound to 5-1/2-month lows on Friday, overshadowing data showing the economy recovering and news of a new trade deal with Japan. The pound is set for its worst week against the euro and the dollar since mid-March, when the COVID-19 pandemic sell-off was at its height, having lost around 4 percent against both currencies."GBP...
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San Francisco exodus as tech giants lean in to remote work in COVID era
Levi Benjamin-Brown, 5, helps his mother Kyla Brown unpack boxes of toys at their new home in El Cerrito, California, where the family moved from San Francisco.-AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Real estate agent Kilby Stenkamp sees moving vans on San Francisco streets where she used to see building cranes and tech company hipsters. A work-from-home trend kicked into overdrive by the pandemic is disrupting a city long a haven for tech talent. "People are...
Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton drives during the third practice session at the Mugello circuit ahead of the Tuscany Formula One Grand Prix in Scarperia e San Piero on September 12, 2020. (Photo by Claudio Giovannini / POOL / AFP)
Hamilton beats Bottas to first ever Tuscan GP pole
TUSCANY: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton drives during the third practice session at the Mugello circuit ahead of the Tuscany Formula One Grand Prix in Scarperia e San Piero on September 12, 2020. - AFP MUGELLO, Italy: Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the first Tuscan Grand Prix at Italy's Mugello circuit on Saturday and dealt another blow to Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas. Red Bull's Max...
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 12: Enrique Hernandez #14 of the Los Angeles Dodgers jumps over Michael Brantley #23 of the Houston Astros, on his throw to first, on a double play attempt, during the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium on September 12, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Harry How/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Astros rally past Dodgers in 9th
LOS ANGELES: Enrique Hernandez #14 of the Los Angeles Dodgers jumps over Michael Brantley #23 of the Houston Astros, on his throw to first, on a double play attempt, during the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium on September 12, 2020. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Six consecutive Houston Astros batters reached base to open the ninth inning, starting a five-run uprising that led to a 7-5 victory over the host Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday in the opener of a...
People queue to enter Apple's third retail store during its opening at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)
Apple strives to reignite growth with line updates
SINGAPORE: People queue to enter Apple's third retail store during its opening at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. – AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is expected to spotlight its smartwatch, iPad, and subscription services tomorrow as it strives to reignite growth with a must-have holiday line-up. A keenly anticipated iPhone 5G considered vital to the company's fortunes will likely star in a separate event later in the year due to disruption in...
Filling and packaging tests for the large-scale production and supply of the University of Oxfordís COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, are being conducted on a high-performance aseptic vial filling line on September 11, 2020 at the Italian biologicsí manufacturing facility of multinational corporation Catalent in Anagni, southeast of Rome, during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. - Catalent Biologicsí manufacturing facility in Anagni, Italy will serve as the launch facility for the large-scale production and supply of the University of Oxfordís Covid-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, providing large-scale vial filling and packaging to British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)
Vaccine clinical trial resumes
ANAGNI, Italy: Filling and packaging tests for the large-scale production and supply of the University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, are being conducted on a high-performance aseptic vial filling line at the Italian biologics' manufacturing facility in Anagni, southeast of Rome. - AFP PARIS: Clinical trials of one of the most advanced experimental Covid-19 vaccines resumed yesterday after a brief safety pause, as infection...
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Iraqis dig up COVID-19 dead to rebury in family graves
NAJAF: An Iraqi family mourns around the coffin of a relative, who died of the novel coronavirus, during a reburial ceremony at the vast Wadi Al-Salam cemetery in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. _ AFP NAJAF: Mohammad Al-Bahadli dug into Iraq's hot desert sand with bare hands to reach his father's corpse. "Now he can finally be with our people, our family, in the old cemetery," 49-year-old Bahadli said, as relatives sobbed over the body, wrapped...
Relatives of 12 Hong Kong people currently detained in Guangdong province after being arrested by mainland China's coastguards for reportedly trying to flee to Taiwan, attend a press conference in Hong Kong on September 12, 2020. (Photo by DALE DE LA REY / AFP)
Families fear for 'speedboat fugitives' in China custody
HONG KONG: Relatives of 12 Hong Kong people currently detained in Guangdong province after being arrested by mainland China's coastguards for reportedly trying to flee to Taiwan, attend a press conference in Hong Kong. - AFP HONG KONG: Relatives of Hong Kongers captured by China's coastguard as they tried to flee the city by speedboat said they feared their loved ones had disappeared into the authoritarian mainland's Communist-controlled...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike
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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn