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Britain's COVID lending schemes risk widening divides
LONDON: In the northern English seaside resort of Blackpool, the family-run Elgin Hotel is preparing to reopen in August after four months' enforced closure. The Elgin had a profitable 2019, but bookings so far suggest that the 89-room hotel yards from the seafront will be less than half full this summer, as coronavirus concerns deter older holidaymakers and social distancing reduces capacity.To help cover lost revenue, the hotel tried to...
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Kuwait reports 4 COVID-19 deaths, 464 new infections
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced on Sunday recording 464 new infection cases with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during the past 24 hours, raising the toll of contaminations to 63,773. The ministry also reported four new deaths with the pathogen, putting the whole count of mortalities at 433. The ministry had announced earlier that 766 people recovered from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total recoveries to...
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Kuwait secures deal with GAVI on COVID vaccine
KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah told local daily Al-Jarida that an agreement had been made with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to provide Kuwait with 1.6 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine once it is produced, adding that this amount will be enough for 800,000 people, as each person receives two shots."This is a very good amount as a first shipment and will be enough for 20 percent of Kuwait's...
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Draft law on expat quotas exempts domestic helpers
1,000 iqamas of expats stranded abroad canceled daily KUWAIT: Workers remove barbwire as authorities ended a lockdown imposed in Farwaniya at 5 am yesterday. Farwaniya was the last area to be effectively isolated in Kuwait. - Photos by Foaud Al-Shaikh By B IzzakKUWAIT: A draft law proposing specific percentages for expat communities in the country, which has been cleared by the legal and legislative committee, exempts domestic helpers, Gulf...
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Some shipments cannot be delivered
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Some products ordered from abroad cannot be delivered to your doorstep. If you order banned items, food supplements, some skincare products, medicines, precious stones or jewelry, or other products that need approval of the health ministry, the shipping company is unable to deliver the shipment to the client's address, who will be obliged to personally go to the customs department at the airport.The health ministry,...
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Kuwait aviation authority launches app to assist travelers
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday launched a new application to serve all passengers to and from Kuwait, coinciding with the airport commercial flights resumption starting next month. The application includes guidelines approved by the DGCA, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Interior. The new app, called 'Kuwait Mosafer,' makes Kuwait a leader among the region's airports in applying this...
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Farwaniya residents thankful after two months of isolation
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Farwaniya, the last area under isolation, reopened yesterday after 57 days of lockdown. Mahboula and Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh had earlier endured nearly 100 days of lockdown after being identified by the ministry of health as having too many cases of COVID-19. Two more areas - Khaitan and Hawally - were only briefly isolated for around 20 days. The lockdowns were implemented by the Cabinet as part of measures to try to stop the...
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Kuwait Ports' chief elected as CEO of AASTMT
CAIRO: The Director General of Kuwait Ports Association (KPA) and President of the Arab Sea Ports Federation Sheikh Yousef Abdullah Sabah Al-Nasser Al-Sabah won the CEO role of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) on Saturday, in the elections held by the academy. AASTMT said in a press statement that this came at its general assembly meeting via video conferencing, with the participation of the Assistant...
SEATTLE, WA - JULY 25: A demonstrator kneels in front of police during protests in Seattle on July 25, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Police and demonstrators clash as protests continue in the city following reports that federal agents may have been sent to the city. David Ryder/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Seattle protestors clash with police over federal agents
SEATTLE: A demonstrator kneels in front of police during protests on Saturday. - AFP SEATTLE: US police used flashbang grenades, pepper spray and tear gas as protestors marched in cities across the country amid a wave of public anger over Donald Trump's planned "surge" of federal agents into major metropolises. The demonstrations against racism and police brutality - sparked by the death in Minneapolis of unarmed African-American George Floyd -...
In a photo taken on July 25, 2020 Korean war veteran delegates of the Korean People's Army (KPA) attend the 6th National Conference of War Veterans on the occasion of 67th anniversary of what North Korea refers to as the 'people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War', at a hotel in Pyongyang. - The Korean peninsula is preparing to mark the anniversary of the signing of the armistice agreement on July 27 that ended hostilities between North and South Korea during the Korean war, which lasted from 1950-1953. (Photo by KIM Won Jin / AFP)
Global coronavirus cases top 16 million
PYONGYANG: Korean war veteran delegates of the Korean People's Army (KPA) attend the 6th National Conference of War Veterans on the occasion of 67th anniversary of what North Korea refers to as the 'people's victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War', at a hotel in Pyongyang. _ AFP SEOUL: North Korea declared its first suspected coronavirus case yesterday, becoming one of the last countries to do so as the number of people infected...
In this picture taken on July 22, 2020, migrant workers bind iron rods at a construction site in Mumbai. - Spurning free air tickets, accommodation and higher pay, millions of migrant workers who fled India's cities when the COVID-19 coronavirus hit are too scared to return, with grim implications for the already crumbling economy. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP) / TO GO WITH Virus-health-India-economy-labour,FOCUS by Vishal Manve
Indian firms struggle to lure workers back
MUMBAI: In this picture taken on July 22, 2020, migrant workers bind iron rods at a construction site. - AFP MUMBAI: Spurning free air tickets, accommodation and higher pay, millions of migrant workers who fled India's cities when coronavirus hit are too scared to return, with grim implications for the already crumbling economy. Migrant laborers form the backbone of Asia's third-biggest economy toiling in every sector from making consumer goods...
Tunisian craftsman Mohamed Ghassen Nouira tests a purple dye he extracted from Murex shells at his workshop in the capital Tunis, on July 11, 2020. - A symbol of power and prestige, the celebrated purple colour was traditionally used for royal and imperial robes, and its production, which is part of a secret guarded so closely that it disappeared hundreds of years ago, was among the main sources of wealth for the ancient Phoenicians, and then for the Carthaginian and Roman empires. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Passion for purple revives ancient dye
TUNIS: Tunisian craftsman Mohamed Ghassen Nouira tests a purple dye he extracted from murex shells at his workshop in the capital on July 11, 2020. - AFP TUNIS: A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: How to make a prized purple dye using the guts of a sea snail. "At the beginning, I didn't know where to start," said Mohamed Ghassen Nouira, who heads a consulting firm. "I would crush the whole shell...
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Sheikha Jawaher Ibrahim Duaij Al-Sabah and other officials take a group photo after the 54th session of the Permanent Arab Committee for Human Rights. – KUNA photos
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