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Taxi drivers compete with private, unmarked taxis
KUWAIT: A man talks to a taxi driver at a street in Salmiya. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Taxis resumed services on July 28 after almost four months of hiatus, but some taxi drivers are complaining about competition from private or unmarked taxis. "I hope the government will stop the use of private cars as taxis. They have a great advantage now because they can earn more money than us, because they can carry more than one...
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Shaheed Park commemorates Kuwait martyrs
Jasem Al-NashmiSalman Al-Roshoud KUWAIT: Shaheed Park hosted an Art exhibition on August 2, 2020 to commemorate Kuwait's martyrs on the 30th anniversary of the Iraqi Invasion. The 'Consolidation' art exhibition, held at the park's multipurpose hall, featured art by artist an designer Jasem Al-Nashmi, who designed and executed an interactive artistic structure to commemorate Kuwaiti martyrs. Visitors remotely interacted with the digital monument...
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Man drowns off Sabah Al-Ahmad beach
KUWAIT: Firemen search for a person who went missing off Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City's coast. The victim's body was later located and handed over to medical emergency teams. KUWAIT: A man drowned while swimming off Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City's coast, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate confirmed. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene after receiving a report about a 37-year-old Kuwaiti man who went missing after going for a swim. Firemen were able to...
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)
Passengers from 31 countries can enter after 14-day layover
KUWAIT: Passengers arrive at Kuwait international Airport on Aug 1, 2020 after commercial flights resumed after months of shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Kuwait's civil aviation body reiterated late Sunday that non-Kuwaiti passengers from 31 countries are not allowed to enter Kuwait, whether flying directly or via other countries. However, non-Kuwaiti passengers will be allowed to fly to Kuwait if they...
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Saudi Arabia concludes hajj amid pandemic
MAKKAH: Pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba at the center of the Grand Mosque along specific pre-ordained rings on the final day of the annual hajj pilgrimage. - AFP MAKKAH: Pilgrims circled Islam's holiest site along socially distanced paths Sunday in the final ritual of the hajj, the smallest in modern history as Saudi authorities sought to prevent a coronavirus outbreak. Only up to 10,000 Muslims took part in the hajj, a far cry from the 2.5...
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SpaceX brings US astronauts safely home
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken (left) and Douglas Hurley are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after landing in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. - AFP WASHINGTON: America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The mission, carried out jointly by NASA and the private company SpaceX, demonstrated that...
(FILES) In this combination of file pictures created on July 29, 2020 shows a woman watching videos of (L to R) Egyptian influencers Haneen Hossam and Mowada al-Adham, who were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of violation public morals, on the video-sharing app TikTok in Egypt's capital Cairo. - Social media has become a new and dangerous battleground for women's rights in Egypt after young TikTok influencers were jailed while a resurgent #MeToo movement decried male sexual violence. On July 27, a court sentenced five female social media influencers, Haneen Hossam, Mowada al-Adham and three others, to two years in jail each on charges of violating public morals over content posted to video-sharing app TikTok. (Photos by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Egypt grapples with women's freedoms online
CAIRO: This combination of pictures shows a woman watching videos of Egyptian influencers Haneen Hossam (left) and Mowada Al-Adham (right) on the video-sharing app TikTok. - AFP CAIRO: Social media has become a new and dangerous battleground for women's rights in Egypt after young TikTok influencers were jailed while a resurgent #MeToo movement decried male sexual violence. Last Monday, a court sentenced five female social media influencers,...
People wearing face masks walk on a street in the central business district of Sydney on August 3, 2020. - Australia's total reported infections of the COVID-19 coronavirus reached almost 18,000 in a population of 25 million. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)
Global virus cases top 18 million
SYDNEY: People wearing face masks walk on a street in the central business district of Sydney yesterday. Australia's total reported infections of the COVID-19 reached almost 18,000 in a population of 25 million. - AFP MELBOURNE: Australia's second-largest city started a six-week curfew and the Philippine capital was ordered back into lockdown, as the number of global coronavirus cases yesterday topped 18 million. The spread of the virus is...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 15, 2020 a health professional takes a patient out of the post-COVID-19 ward of the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital (HUPE) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. - Brazil's public health care system, considered among the world's most advanced when it was launched, is being pushed to the brink by the coronavirus pandemic, which has exposed the impact of years of under-funding and mismanagement. (Photo by Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)
Coronavirus exposes cracks in Brazil's public health system
RIO DE JANEIRO: A health professional takes a patient out of the post-COVID-19 ward of the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital (HUPE) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. - AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's public health care system, considered among the world's most advanced when it was launched, is being pushed to the brink by the coronavirus pandemic, which has exposed the impact of years of under-funding and...
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Growing calls to scrap 'racist' names for Australia landmarks
BRISBANE: Like many indigenous Australians, Pat Dudgeon grew up in the shadow of a mountain range that made her feel inferior and "conquered" on her own traditional lands. The King Leopold Ranges, a mountain chain in Western Australia, were named after the Belgian ruler King Leopold II, whose regime killed and maimed millions of Congolese in the late 1800s.So, when the landmark was renamed Wunaamin Miliwundi on July 3 to honor its traditional...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 01, 2020 storm clouds are seen over the city as Hurricane Isaias approaches the east coast of Florida in Miami, Florida. - Isaias roared closer to the Florida coast August 2, 2020, threatening to bring strong winds, flash flooding and storm surges but no longer expected to regain hurricane strength.nTropical storm Isaias, downgraded from a category 1 hurricane, was packing sustained winds of 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour on Sunday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. (Photo by JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Tropical storm roars up the US east coast
Storm clouds are seen over the city as Hurricane Isaias approaches the east coast of Florida in Miami, Florida. - AFP MIAMI: Tropical storm Isaias threatened to bring strong winds, flash flooding and life-threatening storm surges to North and South Carolina as it roared up the east coast of the United States yesterday. The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of nearly 70 miles per hour and was expected to reach near-hurricane strength...
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Israeli army kills 4 planting bombs at the Syria border
ISRAEL-SYRIA BORDER: An Israeli military vehicle patrols near the Syria border in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights yesterday, near the location where the army said it killed four men laying explosives at a security fence. - AFP JERUSALEM: The Israeli army said yesterday it killed four men laying explosives at a security fence along the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights, adjacent to Syrian-controlled territory. "They were inside...
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