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Kuwait Minister greets youth on anti-COVID-19 efforts
Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri KUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri said Wednesday the Kuwaiti youth have proven their competence in the novel coronavirus pandemic. "The COVID-19 pandemic, which shook the world and has affected countries' economies and negatively impacted sustainable development and international trade, through which...
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Ministry announces 2020-2021 academic year's calendar
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education (MOE) on Wednesday approved the 2020-2021 academic year's calendar for staff and students in all educational stages at public and Arabic private schools, during which classes will remain online pending updates from the ministry. According to the calendar, the new year will begin on October 4, 2020 for all stages and end on May 6 for kindergarten, on June 13 for primary stage, on June 13 for intermediate stage...
A woman with her boy contemplate the damaged grain silos at the port of Beirut following a huge explosion that disfigured the Lebanese capital, on August 12, 2020. - Survivors of Beirut's August 4 blast are still in shock over a disaster that disfigured their city. The earth-shaking explosion killed 171 people and wounded more than 6,000, a sickening blow to a country already in crisis. (Photo by Anwar AMRO / AFP)
Lebanon and learning from history to overcome tragedy
BEIRUT: A woman with her boy contemplate the damaged grain silos at the port of Beirut following a huge explosion that disfigured the Lebanese capital, on August 12, 2020. - AFP By Ahmad JabrSpecialists at UK's University of Sheffield Blast and Impact Engineering Research Group described Beirut's blast as "unquestionably one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history." The explosion was the equivalent of 1,000 to 1,500 tons of TNT, which...
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Police investigates Jleeb woman's 'mysterious' death
KUWAIT: A firefighter is seen inside the Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh apartment where a woman was found dead and another person seriously injured. KUWAIT: An Asian woman died and another person was hospitalized after suffering from severe suffocation inside an apartment in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh on Wednesday, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said. Firemen from Jleeb Fire Station and Mubarak Al-Kabeer hazardous substances unit had rushed to the scene in...
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Pandemic fatigue and the gap year 2020
By Jamie EtheridgeFebruary 25, I planned to take my daughters to see the Al-Farsi kite festival in Bnaider. We go almost every year and spend the day playing games, flying kites and enjoying the desert winter weather and the colorful kites. Unfortunately, the coronavirus showed up in Kuwait just before the holiday and we ended up heeding the government's advice to stay at home and avoid going out.Nearly six months later, we continue to follow...
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KUWAIT: Al-Maqsab Gate is one of the five main gates that used to provide access to Kuwait City in its early days along with the gates of Bneid Al-Qar, Shamiya, Shaab and Jahra. It is located in Kuwait City near the Holy Family Cathedral, positioned on one end of Soor Street which once encircled early Kuwait City. Al-Maqsab Gate has been refurbished and serves as a historical monument to Kuwait's trading past. -- Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
A locust clambers on a daylily flower leaf in a garden outside Moscow on August 8, 2020. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)
An irresistible scent makes locusts swarm, study finds
MOSCOW: A locust clambers on a daylily flower leaf in a garden outside Moscow. - AFP TOKYO: The coronavirus isn't the only plague making headlines this year-locusts are devastating crops in several parts of the world, and now scientists are discovering why the pest forms destructive swarms. On its own, a locust is fairly harmless. But so-called solitary locusts can undergo a metamorphosis, changing color and joining together with millions of...
TOPSHOT - A Lebanese man talks on the phone while seated by the rubble of a destroyed traditional building in the Gemmayzeh neighbourhood, on August 12, 2020, following last week's cataclysmic port explosion which devastated the capital Beirut. (Photo by - / AFP)
Beirut blast conspiracy tales abound
BEIRUT: A Lebanese man talks on the phone while seated by the rubble of a destroyed traditional building in the Gemmayzeh neighborhood, following last week's cataclysmic port explosion which devastated the capital Beirut. - AFP BEIRUT: Within hours of the Beirut mega-blast, conspiracy theories on what caused the disaster in the Lebanese capital spread like wildfire on social media. The August 4 detonation of an abandoned shipment of ammonium...
A shelter booth designed to protect passengers from monsoon rains, summer heat and the COVID-19 coronavirus is seen at a bus stop in Seoul on August 12, 2020. - Automatic temperature checks before entry, sliding doors and an air-conditioning system equipped with ultraviolet disinfection lamps -- welcome to high-tech South Korea's latest front in the battle against coronavirus: the bus shelter. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Bus stop - the newest front in South Korea's coronavirus battle
SEOUL: A shelter booth designed to protect passengers from monsoon rains, summer heat and the COVID-19 coronavirus is seen at a bus stop in Seoul. - AFP SEOUL: South Korea has opened a high-tech new front in the battle against coronavirus, fortifying bus shelters with temperature-checking doors and ultraviolet disinfection lamps. Ten advanced facilities have been installed in a northeastern district of Seoul, offering protection from monsoon...
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Three dead in Scottish passenger train crash
STONEHAVEN: Emergency services personnel are seen at the scene of a train crash near Stonehaven in northeast Scotland. - AFP STONEHAVEN: Three people died when a passenger train derailed in northeast Scotland on Wednesday, police said, following heavy rains and severe flooding across parts of the region overnight. The crash occurred in the morning close to the town of Stonehaven, around 25 kilometers south of Aberdeen. Smoke could be seen rising...
A medical staff wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit (R) shifts a patient in a wheelchair near a COVID-19 coronavirus ward at a hospital in New Delhi on August 12, 2020. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
Last doctor standing: Pandemic pushes Indian hospital to brink
NEW DELHI: A medical staff wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit (right) shifts a patient in a wheelchair near a COVID-19 coronavirus ward at a hospital. - AFP BHAGALPUR: Guards armed with rifles escort Dr Kumar Gaurav as he makes the rounds at his hospital on the banks of the Ganges River. The guards are there to protect him from the relatives of patients, including those suffering from COVID-19. The relatives keep barging into the...
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Philippines eyes clinical trials for Russian COVID-19 vaccine
MOSCOW: A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus disease walks in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower on Red Square in downtown Moscow. - AFP MANILA: The Philippines plans to launch clinical trials for a Russian coronavirus vaccine in October, with President Rodrigo Duterte expected to be inoculated as early as May next year, the presidential spokesman said yesterday. Harry Roque, Duterte's spokesman, made the...
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