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MINSK: Law enforcement officers detain participants of a rally to support detained opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova in Minsk. - AFP

'Masked men' detain Belarus' high-profile opposition lawyer

MINSK: Law enforcement officers detain participants of a rally to support detained opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova in Minsk. - AFP MINSK: Masked men detained one of the last high-profile opposition figures still free in Belarus yesterday, his colleagues said, the latest in a series of detentions and expulsions of those leading mass protests. Maxim Znak, who had worked as a lawyer for jailed presidential hopeful Viktor Babaryko, had been due...

ULSAN: People look at an electric pole downed by Typhoon Maysak in the southeastern port city of Ulsan. - AFP

59 bridges, 2,000 houses destroyed by Korea typhoon

ULSAN: People look at an electric pole downed by Typhoon Maysak in the southeastern port city of Ulsan. - AFP SEOUL: A typhoon that struck North Korea wrecked nearly 60 bridges and destroyed or inundated more than 2,000 houses, state media reported yesterday, with leader Kim Jong Un saying the damage had disrupted central planning for the rest of the year. Typhoon Maysak brought days of heavy downpours to the country's east coast last week even...

TAIPEI: Mohamed Hagi, Somaliland's Taiwan representative, bumps elbows with Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu during the opening ceremony of the Somaliland representative office in Taipei yesterday. - AFP

Strategic Somaliland touts its oil and gas; opens Taiwan office

TAIPEI: Mohamed Hagi, Somaliland's Taiwan representative, bumps elbows with Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu during the opening ceremony of the Somaliland representative office in Taipei yesterday. - AFP TAIPEI: The strategically located, self-declared African nation of Somaliland touted potential oil, gas and tourism resources for investment as it opened a de facto embassy in Taiwan yesterday, a relationship that has angered China and...

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Kuwait registers 857 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health said yesterday 857 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the past 24 hours while two persons died of COVID-19. Ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said that total deaths reached 548 and registered infections increased to 91,244. He said distribution of cases over health zones was as follows: 226 in Hawally, 208 in Ahmadi, 156 in Farwaniya, 152 in the Capital and 115 in Jahra.The ministry had...

NEW YORK: In this September 9, 2014 file photo, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon honors His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a 'Humanitarian Leader' and Kuwait as a 'Humanitarian Center'. - KUNA

Kuwait marks anniversary of Amir, country's UN honoring amid pandemic

NEW YORK: In this September 9, 2014 file photo, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon honors His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a 'Humanitarian Leader' and Kuwait as a 'Humanitarian Center'. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait marks today the sixth anniversary of the UN honoring of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a 'Humanitarian Leader' and Kuwait as an 'International Humanitarian Center'....

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (center) chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNA

Cabinet congratulates Amir on anniversary

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (center) chairs the Cabinet's meeting. - KUNA KUWAIT: The Cabinet held its weekly session at Seif Palace on Monday under chairmanship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Following the session, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh stated that the ministers...

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Tenants can't be evicted during lockdown

KUWAIT: A decree was issued amending some provisions of law number 35/1978 pertaining real estate rent, adding a new clause to section 1 of article 20, stating that: "Tenants will not be evicted in any case if they fail to pay the rent during a lockdown declared by the Cabinet of all public facilities. The court will later decide how to pay the overdue rent as per each case's circumstances," Al-Anbaa reported quoting legal sources.The sources...

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GCC countries work together to protect environment

KUWAIT: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are working together to protect the environment which is part of the Gulf bloc's common action, Kuwait's top environment official said yesterday. Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad Al-Sabah, Board Chairman and Director General of Environment Public Authority (EPA), made the remarks after a virtual meeting of the GCC ministers responsible for environmental affairs.Kuwait's delegation was chaired by Maryam...

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Trio arrested with large drug shipments in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Drugs Control Department officers arrested three persons who smuggled illicit tablets into Kuwait, then sealed them in blister packs for sale, reported Al-Qabas. The three were arrested in a Salwa flat where the packing machine and 50,000 tablets were found. 70 gm of shabu and chemical were also found. Tips were received about the three - a Kuwaiti, a bedoon and a Gulf national - who received the drugs in postal parcels and via land...

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Coronavirus: The obnoxious guest

By Abdellatif Sharaathe novel coronavirus surfaced, we wondered whether it will reach us from that far part of the world, but then and all of a sudden it was with us; maybe sooner than expected. It then appeared in Latin America among other parts of the Americas - in other words, this novel virus covered the entire globe in lightning speed.We must thank the authorities, NGOs, Red Crescent, volunteers and others for their hard work day and...

KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly budgets committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad speaks during a session of the parliament yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

KD 945m spending cut from budget as funds exhausted

By B Izzak KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly budgets committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad speaks during a session of the parliament yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Kuwait has cut nearly a billion dinars in expenditure from its budget for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, the head of the National Assembly budgets committee said yesterday, adding workers' rights, benefits and subsidies would not be affected. MP Adnan Abdulsamad said the state...

An Egyptian medical staff works on plasma received from a man who recovered from Covid-19 at the National Blood Transfusion centre in Cairo on July 22, 2020. - Egypt, like the United States and a handful of other countries, is trying to fight the pandemic in part by using convalescent plasma, the watery fluid in the blood of recovered patients that is teeming with antibodies. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)CAIRO: An Egyptian medical staff works on plasma received from a man who recovered from COVID-19 at the national blood transfusion center on July 22, 2020. - AFP

Plasma therapy tried as Egypt cases top 100K

An Egyptian medical staff works on plasma received from a man who recovered from Covid-19 at the National Blood Transfusion centre in Cairo on July 22, 2020. - Egypt, like the United States and a handful of other countries, is trying to fight the pandemic in part by using convalescent plasma, the watery fluid in the blood of recovered patients that is teeming with antibodies. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)CAIRO: An Egyptian medical staff works...

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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

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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

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