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Kuwait reports 643 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health said Tuesday 643 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus, while three people died of COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours. Ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said that total registered infections reached 77,470, while the tally of fatalities topped 505. Dr Sanad said 158 of the new cases were registered in Al-Ahmadi medical zone, 152 in Jahra, 134 in Hawally, 107 in Farwaniya, and 92 in the...
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Coronavirus crisis cost Kuwait govt KD 740 million: Lawmaker
KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s building in Kuwait City. – Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh By B IzzakKUWAIT: The coronavirus crisis has cost the government KD 740 million, including KD 240 million to support the wages of Kuwaitis in the private sector, head of the assembly budgets committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad said yesterday.Abdulsamad said the assembly is expected to approve the 2020/2021 budget which has already started on April 1 following the...
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Cabinet appeals to public to follow health measures
KUWAIT: The Cabinet called on the public to adhere to health measures, especially with the start the fourth phase of the plan to return to normal life yesterday. The Cabinet made this appeal during its weekly meeting on Monday, during which Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah updated ministers on the public health situation and the latest developments related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), including the figures of recoveries,...
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Al-Sayer joins volunteers for beach cleaning
KUWAIT: As part of its corporate social responsibility to address environment preservation and protection as a key priority, Al-Sayer volunteering team 'Al-Sayer Always With You' conducted a beach cleaning campaign in cooperation with the Kuwaiti Support and Rescue Team, a non-profit organization who actively imprinted their role of community services across Kuwait at Anjafa beach.More than two hundred volunteers including Al-Sayer volunteers,...
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Officials charged with embezzling KD 1 million
KUWAIT: The public prosecutor ordered detaining two managers working at the Public Authority for Housing Welfare over charges of embezzling KD 1 million from state funds and ordered summoning a third manager, who is in hiding, for involvement in the same case, Al-Rai reported yesterday. Informed sources said the public prosecution managed to reclaim KD 600,000 from the first and second suspects' bank accounts and ordered seizing the third...
A Kuwaiti woman wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic feeds pigeons at a square in Kuwait City, on August 16, 2020. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)
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A Kuwaiti woman wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic feeds pigeons at a square in Kuwait City, on August 16, 2020. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)
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Kuwait condemns Houthi attacks
KUWAIT: The State of Kuwait on Monday strongly condemned Houthi militia for targeting civilians and civil regions in Saudi Arabia. An official source at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Kuwait's robust denunciation of the Houthi militia for targeting civilians and civil regions in the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.The official source decried the militia ongoing unleashing of ballistic missiles in violation of all international...
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Life has changed
By Abdellatif Sharaahas changed a lot over the years. I am not talking about technological developments and how easy things have become; rather I am talking about the human aspect of it - attitudes, respecting teachers and the elderly, behavior in and out of schools - all have changed for the worst. We see how our children sit in the living room for hours playing games on their devices, while someone else sitting next to them doing is...
Cemetery workers bury the coffin of a woman who allegedly died from COVID-19 at a cemetery in Medellin, Colombia, on August 12, 2020. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)
Pandemic now driven by 20s, 30s, 40s group, many asymptomatic
MEDELLIN: Cemetery workers bury the coffin of a woman who allegedly died from COVID-19 at a cemetery in Medellin, Colombia.- AFP MANILA: The World Health Organization said yesterday it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, many of which were unaware they were infected, posing a danger to vulnerable groups. WHO officials said this month the proportion of younger people among those...
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Kushner: Kuwait taking 'very radical' pro-Palestinian view
JERUSALEM/DUBAI: The US is not pressuring Kuwait and other Gulf Arab states to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said Monday. After US President Donald Trump announced last week that Israel and the United Arab Emirates had agreed to normalize ties, Kushner said he expected more Arab countries to follow suit.But Kuwait, he said, was "out there taking a very radical view on the conflict to date...
TOPSHOT - A person watches former First Lady Michelle Obama speak during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, being held virtually amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, in Los Angeles, on August 17, 2020. - America's political convention season begins tonight with former first lady Michelle Obama addressing the Democrats' now-virtual gathering set to anoint Joe Biden, as President Donald Trump defies coronavirus concerns to rally supporters in battleground Wisconsin. (Photo by Chris Delmas / AFP)
Michelle Obama launches scathing attack on Trump
LOS ANGELES: A person watches former First Lady Michelle Obama speak during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday. - AFP MILWAUKEE: US Democrats opened their nominating convention Monday with a show of unity behind Joe Biden and former first lady Michelle Obama delivering a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump as she urged voters to reject his politics of 'division'. "Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country,"...
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 17: Visitors gather for a photo in front of an unofficial thermometer at Furnace Creek Visitor Center on August 17, 2020 in Death Valley National Park, California. The temperature reached 130 degrees at Death Valley National Park on August 16, hitting what may be the hottest temperature recorded on Earth since at least 1913, according to the National Weather Service. Park visitors have been warned, Travel prepared to survive. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Temperature in Death Valley may be highest
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, California: Visitors gather for a photo in front of an unofficial thermometer at Furnace Creek Visitor Center on Monday. - AFP WASHINGTON: A temperature of 54.4 degrees Celsius recorded in California's Death Valley on Sunday by the US National Weather Service could be the hottest ever measured with modern instruments, officials say. The reading was registered at 3:41 pm at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in the Death...
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