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MP against return of expats from virus-hit countries
MP Saleh Ashour By B IzzakKUWAIT: MP Saleh Ashour yesterday criticized a decision by the government to allow people from coronavirus-infected and banned countries to enter Kuwait if they stayed in a third country for 14 days. The lawmaker charged that the decision is yet another proof that the government has failed to manage the coronavirus crisis and that it has been making random decisions before carefully studying their impacts.After...
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Kuwait Amir's health improving, Prime Minister tells Cabinet
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's virtual meeting. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's health is "noticeably improving," His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said Monday. His Highness the Prime Minister was assuring the ministers, while chairing a Cabinet meeting, about the health condition of...
Travellers arrive at Kuwait international Airport, in Farwaniya, about 15kms south of Kuwait City, on August 1, 2020. - Commercial flights resumed at Kuwait International Airport today after months of shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Last minute flight ban decisions cause confusion in Kuwait, abroad
KUWAIT: Travellers arrive at Kuwait international Airport on August 1, 2020. Commercial flights resumed at Kuwait International Airport after months of shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: The total number of flights in the two days after commercial flights resumed at Kuwait International Airport dropped to 25 out of a projected 100 after aviation authorities expanded Kuwait's flight ban list to include 31...
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High school teachers back to work
KUWAIT: Around 11,000 high school teachers returned to work yesterday for the first time in five months, where they started preparing to give online classes to grade 12 students in public and Arabic private schools. Teachers were trained on the online platform that will be used to give online classes to grade 12 students for the 2019/2020 second semester starting next week until September 17.The Ministry of Education had announced on July 16,...
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Municipality shuts down 46 shops for precaution breaches
KUWAIT: A Kuwait Municipality inspector stands outside an Ahmadi restaurant that was closed for providing dine-in services. KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality said on Monday it closed down 46 shops during the Eid Al-Adha holidays for breaching precautionary health guidelines issued by authorities. Some 1,142 warnings were handed out amid inspection visits to 1,197 shops, read a statement. These rounds aimed to fend off street vendors, unlicensed...
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Manila orders millions to stay home as global virus cases soar
MANILA: Armed police stop motorists at a checkpoint as they conduct identity checks during a new round of lockdown measures for the COVID-19 outbreak along a road in the Philippine capital yesterday. - AFP MANILA: Millions of people in the Philippines were ordered to stay home yesterday as global coronavirus infections kept soaring, with the World Health Organization warning against relying on a vaccine "silver bullet" to end the pandemic. More...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 29, 2020 a Boeing 737 MAX jet comes in for a landing following a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington. - Boeing reported a bigger-than-expected loss on July 29, 2020 and said it would further trim its plane production because of weak demand in the wake of the coronavirus. The aerospace giant suffered a $2.4 billion second-quarter loss, reflecting the hit from much lower commercial plane deliveries as airlines suspend purchases due to falling consumer demand. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP)
Alafco reaches deal with Boeing in MAX dispute
SEATTLE: In this photo taken on June 29, 2020, a Boeing 737 MAX jet comes in for a landing following a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test flight at Boeing Field. - AFP DUBAI: Kuwaiti aircraft leasing company Alafco will buy fewer aircraft from Boeing after reaching an agreement to end its legal claim over a cancelled 737 MAX order, it said yesterday. Alafco was suing the US planemaker for $336 million over accusations it wrongly refused...
TOPSHOT - A waiter carries 'Covid Curry' and 'Mask Naan,' two Covid-19 coronavirus-themed dishes, to serve to customers at their restaurant in Jodhpur on August 3, 2020. (Photo by SUNIL VERMA / AFP)
Eatery offers 'COVID curry' to customers
JODHPUR, India: A waiter carries 'Covid Curry' and 'Mask Naan,' two coronavirus-themed dishes, to serve to customers at a restaurant on Monday. - AFP JODHPUR, India: An Indian restaurant is hoping to win back customers afraid of eating out during the pandemic with a special "COVID Curry" and "Mask Naans". "This has been a really tough time for us and for our entire sector," Yash Solanki, owner of the vegetarian Vedic eatery in the western city...
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Beach SOS leads to rescue on isle
PIKELOT ISLAND, Micronesia: An Australian army helicopter lands near the letters "SOS" on a beach where three men were found in good condition after being missing for three days. - AFP SYDNEY: Three Micronesian sailors stranded on a tiny island in the remote Western Pacific were rescued after Australian and US warplanes spotted a giant "SOS" they had scrawled on the beach, officials said. The Australian Defense Force said it found the men Sunday...
TOPSHOT - In this picture taken on July 30, 2020, a woman inspects the rubbles of the houses of her relatives that where blasted by mortars fired by Indian soldiers during a firefight with rebels, at Sopore north of Srinagar. - The year-long clampdown in Indian-administered Kashmir imposed to tighten New Delhi's grip on the disputed region has shattered its economy and deepened the desperation of its people. The Muslim-majority Himalayan territory, scarred by conflict for decades, is a flashpoint between bitter nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, which control parts of it but claim it in full. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'India-Kashmir-conflict-politics',STORY by Parvaiz BUKHARI
Desperation, misery in Indian Kashmir
SOPORE: A woman inspects the rubbles of the houses of her relatives that where blasted by mortars fired by Indian soldiers during a firefight with rebels, at Sopore north of Srinagar. The year-long clampdown in Indian-administered Kashmir imposed to tighten New Delhi's grip on the disputed region has shattered its economy and deepened the desperation of its people. - AFP SRINAGAR: The year-long clampdown in Indian-administered Kashmir imposed to...
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti is pictured wearing a face mask due to the coronavirus in his office in the capital Beirut, on August 3, 2020. - Hitti announced his resignation today due to the government's mishandling of the country's worst crisis in decades, as premier Hasan Diab's under-fire cabinet struggles to secure international support. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Lebanon foreign minister resigns in protest at crisis management
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti is pictured wearing a face mask due to the coronavirus in his office in the capital Beirut. Hitti has announced his resignation due to the government's mishandling of the country's worst crisis in decades, as premier Hasan Diab's under-fire cabinet struggles to secure international support. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon's foreign minister Nassif Hitti has resigned in protest at the government's failure to...
Afghan soldiers arrives with their Humvee vehicle outside a prison during an ongoing raid in Jalalabad on August 3, 2020. - At least 20 people have been killed in a raid claimed by the Islamic State group on an Afghan prison, officials said on August 3, shattering a ceasefire between the Taliban and government forces marking the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. (Photo by NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / AFP)
Prison raid mars relative calm in Afghanistan after ceasefire
JALALABAD: Afghan soldiers arrive with their Humvee vehicle outside a prison during an ongoing raid in Jalalabad on August 3, 2020. - AFP JALALABAD: At least 29 people were killed in a raid on an Afghan prison claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said Monday, as the country waited to see if a government ceasefire with the Taleban would rupture after its formal expiration. Fighting finally ended at mid-afternoon at the jail in the...
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