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CORRECTION - EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Military personnel and civilians (L) stretcher away a soldier after an improvised bomb exploded next to a military vehicle in the town of Jolo on Sulu island on August 24, 2020. - At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded -- many of them soldiers or police -- in a twin bombing on August 24 on a southern Philippine island that is a stronghold of Islamist militants, officials said. (Photo by Nickee BUTLANGAN / AFP) / ìThe erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by Nickee BUTLANGAN has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [Sulu island] instead of [Mindanao island]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require.î

15 killed in twin bombing in Philippines

JOLO: Military personnel and civilians stretcher away a soldier after an improvised bomb exploded next to a military vehicle in this town on Sulu island yesterday. - AFP MANILA: Twin blasts including a suicide bombing killed 15 people and wounded 75 others on a restive southern Philippine island yesterday, among them security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants suspected of being behind the attack. The bombs went off within an hour of...

Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant attends his first day in court in Christchurch on August 24, 2020. - Tarrant, who murdered 51 Muslims in last year's New Zealand mosques shooting showed no emotion as his sentencing hearing opened August 24, with horrific details of an atrocity prosecutors said was meticulously planned to inflict maximum casualties. (Photo by JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON / POOL / AFP)

NZ mosque survivors face gunman

CHRISTCHURCH: Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant attends his first day in court yesterday. - AFP CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: The white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in last year's New Zealand mosques shooting showed no emotion yesterday as distraught survivors confronted him in court with harrowing accounts of the atrocity. At the opening of the sentencing hearing in a Christchurch courtroom, prosecutors revealed chilling details...

In this picture taken on August 23, 2020, a general view of a swimming pool that has been turned into a fish farm is pictured at Aveda Resort in Kumarakom, in Kerala state. - A luxury resort in southern India has turned its swimming pool into a fish farm to stop the business sinking amid the pandemic economic crisis. Normally the 150 metre (500 feet) long swimming pool at the Aveda Resort in Kerala state is packed with European tourists. Now thousands of pearl spot fish are causing the splash. (Photo by Arun CHANDRABOSE / AFP)

Indian resort turns pool into fish farm

KUMARAKOM, India: A general view of a swimming pool that has been turned into a fish farm is pictured at Kerala's Aveda Resort on Sunday. - AFP KOCHI, India: A luxury resort in southern India has turned its swimming pool into a fish farm to stop the business sinking amid the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Normally the 150-m pool at the Aveda Resort in Kerala state is packed with European tourists. Now thousands of pearl spot...

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After Beirut blast, workers beg to leave

BEIRUT: Kenyan domestic workers gather next to the Kenyan consulate on Aug 20, 2020 as they demand to be repatriated back to their country. - AFP BEIRUT: After struggling first through Lebanon's economic crisis and then the coronavirus pandemic, Ethiopian worker Tarik Kebeda said the deadly blast that ripped through her Beirut home was the final straw. Inside the small house she shares with four friends, she pointed to the window frames covered...

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Gyms, shops 80% observing measures against COVID-19

KUWAIT: Gyms and shops' adherence to health guidelines set to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is at about 80 percent nationwide, said chief of Kuwait's municipality yesterday. Speaking to the press while inspecting several establishments in Sharq, Director General of Kuwait Municipality Ahmad Al-Manfouhi indicated that the municipality was keen on following up health guidelines throughout the country to positively...

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KRCS chief applauds "generous" Kuwaiti donations for Lebanon

KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society's team in a group picture in front of an aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to Lebanon. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent (KRCS) Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer on Sunday commended donors in Kuwait - including citizens, expatriates and businesses alike - for their donations to the organization's fundraisers for Lebanon. In a press statement, Sayer said Kuwaitis contributed generously to support Lebanon,...

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Quarantine hurts Kuwait's economy while neighbors recover: report

KUWAIT: The strict measures taken by the government towards aviation and travel, the latest of which was imposing a 14-day quarantine on arriving passengers, came as a precious opportunity with high economic revenues for neighboring countries that were more flexible in dealing with COVID-19, a local daily argued in a report published yesterday.The report claims that these countries are "taking advantage of the situation in Kuwait to revive...

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KIB launches 'For Kuwait' initiative in collaboration with EPA

KUWAIT: Kuwait International Bank (KIB) announced the launch of a new environmental initiative entitled 'For Kuwait', which includes printing 500 carton trash bins for the disposal of used face masks and gloves, in collaboration with the Environment Public Authority (EPA).These eco-friendly trash bins are to be distributed to all the ministries of Kuwait, as well as government agencies, shopping malls and government and private hospitals. The...

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Kuwait funds COVID-19 campaign in Iraq's Kurdistan

IRBIL: The World Health Organization in cooperation with the Ministry of Health in Iraq's Kurdistan launched a nine-day awareness campaign, financed by Kuwait, against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Al-Sulaimaniyah Governorate, targeting 800,000 people.Al-Sulaimaniyah witnessed a hike in COVID-19 cases since the early stages of the disease due to many factors, especially its adjacent long boarders with Iran, WHO said in a statement .In...

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Child drowns in Wafra

KUWAIT: A child died after he drowned while swimming in a pool in Wafra, said security sources. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress.21 kg of drugsA Chinese woman was arrested with a mail parcel she received that contained drugs, said security sources. Case papers indicate that air customs inspectors suspected a parcel arriving from China, and on opening it, they found 21 kg of 'chemical'; a street name used for a common...

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Timid restart for US cinemas

The United States had its first real weekend back at the movies with the reopening of theater heavyweights AMC and Regal-but film fans made only a timid return in a country which continues to register more than 40,000 new cases of coronavirus a day. Leading theater operator AMC reopened 100 cinemas last week, and expects to open a further 300 within the next two weeks while Regal also opened its doors Friday but did not release figures. The...

A hoard of gold coins dating to the Abbasid Caliphate is pictured during a press presentation of the discovery at an archeological site near Tel Aviv in central Israel, on August 18, 2020. - Israel's Antiquities Authority unveiled a trove of 425 gold coins said to be some 1200 years old, discovered in what was an industrial area during the Byzantine Period. (Photo by Heidi Levine / POOL / AFP)

Trove of 1,000-year-old gold coins unearthed in Israel

A hoard of gold coins dating to the Abbasid Caliphate is pictured during a press presentation of the discovery at an archeological site near Tel Aviv in central Israel.-AFP photos Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years. The treasure was discovered on Aug 18, the Israel Antiquities Authority said yesterday, by teenagers volunteering at an excavation in central Israel where...

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