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Tens of thousands flee as California fires rage

LOS ANGELES: Some of California's largest-ever fires raged across the state Saturday, forcing tens of thousands from their homes as forecasters warned of further blazes sparked by lightning. Several thousand lightning strikes in recent days ignited fires that left thick smoke blanketing the region. The total area burned for all the fires in California this week is "close to 1 million acres (400,000 hectares)," according to CalFire public...

Staff members prepare a broadcast of an opening ceremony inside an empty cinema, as the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival launches a nationwide programme to bring its films to cinemas around the country after cancelling its main events following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, July 3, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny

Masks, gel, empty seats for Venice Film Festival

Staff members prepare a broadcast of an opening ceremony inside an empty cinema, as the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival launches a nationwide programme to bring its films to cinemas around the country after cancelling its main events following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, July 3, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny The Venice Film Festival issued virus safety guidelines on Friday, as organizers...

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Kuwait COVID-19 cases near 80,000 mark, 688 new infections recorded

KUWAIT: Kuwait registered 688 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 79,957, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. Meanwhile, two people having succumbed to the pandemic within the same period, as the death toll reached 513, a health ministry official confirmed.The new infected cases include people who have come into contact with infected individuals,...

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Kuwait braces to end five long months of curfew next week

KUWAIT: This March 22, 2020 file photo shows empty streets on the first day of partial curfew Kuwait imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet has decided to lift a countrywide partial curfew as of August 30, but some activities will remain restricted. The decision was announced by the Kuwaiti government's Spokesman Tareq Al-Mezrem on Thursday...

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Zain main partner of Kuwait Virtual Graduation 2020

KUWAIT: Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah with Haya Al-Mana and the initiative's partners during the press conference. KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced its main partnership with the Kuwait Virtual Graduation 2020, a unique online event that will be streamed online and via Kuwait TV to celebrate the graduation of over 40,000 students from the class of 2020, including high school, university, and vocational college...

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Fire department inspects Husseiniyas

KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Service Directorate's public relations and media department said that the prevention sector's inspection teams have inspected Husseiniyas in various governorates around Kuwait to make sure they all followed safety and security precautions in order to ensure the safety of their visitors.The department explained that KFSD teams would take part in quick intervention checkpoints formed by the prevention and firefighting sectors...

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KRCS distributes aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon

BEIRUT: The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) continued on Friday distributing clothes, food and medical supplies to 350 Syrian refugee families in Beqaa Valley, east of Lebanon. Head of the society's delegation to Lebanon Musaed Al-Enezi said the society's continued support to Syrian refugees in Lebanon came within the framework of humanitarian projects to the Syrian people that are carried out by the society since the beginning of the crisis...

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Firemen battle Amghara scrap yard blaze

KUWAIT: Firemen from four different fire stations battled a blaze that broke out yesterday morning in Amghara scrap yard. Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said firemen form Tahrir, Jahra industrial, Sulaibikhat and the backup fire stations rushed to the scene in response to an emergency call, and managed to contain the flames before they could spread to adjacent sites. The fire was controlled without reporting any casualties, KFSD...

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Assembly bill on demography eyes expat quotas, visa curbs

KUWAIT: The parliamentary human resources committee recently finalized a draft bill regulating and administering Kuwait's demography pending voting on it after receiving the government's responses. According to the bill, the Cabinet, within six months of putting the law into practice, will issue a decision on setting a maximum limit for expatriate workers according to certain ratios compared to the population of citizens as well as per...

German medics carry out Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on a stretcher on August 22, 2020 after he arrived by air ambulance to Berlin's Tegel airport following a suspected poisoning. - After a day-long standoff over his medical evacuation, Navalny is in a stable condition after arriving in Berlin the German NGO that chartered the flight told AFP. The Cinema for Peace foundation arranged for a medical plane to fly out of Germany, with the aim of collecting Navalny from hospital in the city of Omsk and transferring him to Berlin's Charite hospital for treatment. (Photo by Michael Kappeler / DPA / AFP) / Germany OUT

Kremlin critic Navalny 'stable' in Berlin clinic

BERLIN: German medics carry out Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on a stretcher yesterday after he arrived by air ambulance at Tegel airport. - AFP BERLIN: Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has suffered a suspected poisoning, was in a stable condition in hospital yesterday after being flown to Berlin following a standoff over his medical evacuation from Russia. An air ambulance carrying Navalny, chartered by the...

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Turkey makes biggest gas find in Black Sea

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey had made a historic discovery of gas in the Black Sea, but would still speed up contentious exploration in the Mediterranean that has pitted it against Greece and the EU. Turkey hopes the discovery can help wean it off imported energy, including from Russia, which comes at a high cost at a time when the local currency is weakening and the economy is more fragile because of the...

Libyan men, wearing traditional costumes, ride horses during a popular equestrian festival near the capital Tripoli on August 21, 2020. (Photo by Mahmud TURKIA / AFP)

Warring Libya rivals announce surprise truce

TRIPOLI: Libyan men, wearing traditional costumes, ride horses during a popular equestrian festival near the capital on Friday. - AFP TRIPOLI: Libya's warring rival administrations announced separately on Friday that they would cease all hostilities and hold nationwide elections, drawing praise from the UN, the EU and several Arab countries. The surprise announcement followed multiple visits by top foreign diplomats to Libya in recent weeks, and...

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