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One dead, two injured in Shuhada fire
By Meshaal Al-EneziKUWAIT: A woman died and two others were injured in a fire reported in a Shuhada area apartment on Sunday. Subhan and Mishref firemen responded to the scene and found out that the apartment had already been engulfed in flames by the time they arrived.Rescuers managed to evacuate the three women, but one of them (Asian) died on the scene while the two others (African) were rushed to hospital, one of them in critical condition....
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Police, medical staff assaulted
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti and a Saudi were arrested at Adan Hospital for assaulting a receptionist, two policemen stationed at the hospital, an Egyptian doctor and a patient while under the effect of drugs, said security sources. Case papers indicate that the assailants started assaulting the receptionist without any provocation, and when the two policemen tried to stop them, they also assaulted and insulted them, before they barged into the doctor's...
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No work permits for expats over 60; no visa extensions
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The Public Manpower Authority said yesterday it will stop issuing work permits for expats aged 60 years and above and who do not hold a university degree from Jan 1, 2021, while the interior ministry is not likely to extend the validity of residencies and visas beyond Aug 31. The decision is expected to impact tens of thousands of expats who work in the private sector and who must obtain work permits to be able to renew their...
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Bahrain woman charged after damaging idols
Video grab shows a woman breaking idols at a store in Bahrain. MANAMA: A woman in Bahrain seen smashing statues of the Hindu deity Ganesha in a video published online has been charged with intentional damage and publically insulting a religious symbol. The police said on Sunday that the 54-year-old woman was summoned after the video on social media showed her "intentionally damaging a shop… and breaking religious idols" in the Juffair area in...
A health worker collects a swab sample of a resident to test for COVID-19 coronavirus, at a screening camp in Mumbai on August 17, 2020. - India's death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 on August 17, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, health ministry data showed. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)
India virus deaths hit 50,000
MUMBAI: A health worker collects a swab sample from a resident to test for COVID-19 at a screening camp yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: India's official coronavirus death toll soared past 50,000 yesterday as the pandemic rages through smaller cities and rural areas where health care is feeble and stigmatization rife. Many experts say the real numbers may be far higher due to low testing rates and because deaths are often not properly recorded in the...
Israeli and United Arab Emirates flags line a road in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, on August 16, 2020. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
Israel-UAE deal 'a killer' for 2-state
Israeli and United Arab Emirates flags line a road in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, on August 16, 2020. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) JERUSALEM: The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize ties would kill the two-state solution, strengthen "extremists" and undermine the "possibility of peace", chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said. The fractured Palestinian leadership-from the Palestinian Authority led by...
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media about changing the 2020 general election date during a press conference at the Parliament in Wellington on August 17, 2020. - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on August 17 delayed New Zealand's looming election by four weeks to October 17 after a renewed coronavirus outbreak hampered campaigning.nNew Zealand, whose original election date had been set for September 19, is battling a return of COVID-19 which last week forced the country's largest city Auckland into lockdown and ended 102 days without community transmission. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)
Virus forces N Zealand election delay as Japan's economy sinks
WELLINGTON: Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media about changing the 2020 general election date during a press conference at the Parliament in Wellington yesterday. - AFP WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday postponed the nation's election to focus on fighting a coronavirus second wave, as data showed Japan's economy had endured a historic contraction. With more than 21.5 million cases...
TOPSHOT - Diggers remove earth at the blast site next to the silos at the port of Beirut on August 16, 2020, in the aftermath of the massive explosion there that ravaged Lebanon's capital. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Lebanon faces 'biggest danger', needs elections, says patriarch
BEIRUT: Diggers remove earth at the blast site next to the silos at the port of Beirut in the aftermath of the massive explosion there that ravaged Lebanon's capital. _ AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon's top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling "political class" after the vast explosion in Beirut's port threw the nation into turmoil. The now-caretaker cabinet...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 12, 2019 Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris speak on in Houston, Texas, after the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. - This week the eyes of US voters turn to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democratic convention -- unless they swivel first to Republican distracter-in-chief Donald Trump. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
Turkey condemns Biden's criticism of 'autocrat' Erdogan
HOUSTON: Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris speak on in Houston, Texas. - AFP ISTANBUL: Turkey has condemned remarks made by US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and calling for support for the Turkish leader's opponents. Biden made the comments in an interview filmed by the New York Times in December but a video of the remarks only appeared on Saturday before going...
Government officials wearing protective clothing stand under a white tent (centre L) to restrict access to the Sarang Jeil Church while the church's lawyer holds a press conference on its latest COVID-19 cluster infection near the church in Seoul on August 17, 2020. - Thousands of Protestant church members in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said on August 17, as the country battles virus clusters linked to religious groups. A total of 315 cases linked to the Sarang Jeil Church had been confirmed so far, officials said, making it one of the biggest clusters so far, and around 3,400 members of the congregation had been asked to quarantine. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
South Korea battles worst virus outbreak
SEOUL: Government officials wearing protective clothing stand under a white tent (centre left) to restrict access to the Sarang Jeil Church while the church's lawyer holds a press conference on its latest COVID-19 cluster infection near the church in Seoul yesterday. - AFP SEOUL: South Korea warned yesterday of a looming novel coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the...
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Facebook faces heat from India lawmakers on content practices
NEW DELHI: Indian politicians are trading barbs over a media report that Facebook Inc's content policies favored Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, putting the social network at the centre of a political storm in its biggest market by users. Lawmakers of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have accused the social media giant of censoring nationalist voices, after the opposition Congress seized on a Wall Street Journal report to seek a...
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As pandemic lingers, one DJ tests virtual 'tours'
In these file photos DJ Michael Brun poses for a picture during an interview with AFP in Brooklyn, New York.-AFP photos Livestreamed concerts are now a common feature of the coronavirus age, with musicians vying for a spot on the overcrowded virtual stage even when they're doing it for free. This weekend, Haitian DJ Michael Brun hopes to find a way to make streams more profitable, with plans to test a model rarely used in music. The practice is...
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