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Kuwait reports 4 COVID-19 deaths, 684 new infections
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced on Saturday registering 684 new infection cases with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during past 24 hours raising toll of such cases to 63,309. The ministry also reported four new deaths during the same period, putting the death toll since local outbreak of the contagion at 429.Earlier today, the ministry announced that 692 people recovered from the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the last 24 hours,...
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the meeting. n— KUNA photos
Phase three adoption does not mean end of virus threat: Minister
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the meeting. — KUNA photos KUWAIT: The reduction of curfew hours from nine hours to six, as part of phase three of the reopening plan, does not mark an end to the coronavirus pandemic threat as no vaccine has yet been officially approved, Kuwait’s health minister warned. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah underlined that...
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Deputy Amir thanks Trump for sending plane for Amir
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KUWAIT: HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday addressed a message of thanks and gratitude to US President Donald Trump for sending a US Air Force plane to fly HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to the US to complete his post-surgery treatment. In...
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) and invited guests attend Friday prayers at the Hagia Sophia during its official opening ceremony. — AFP
First Muslim prayer held in Hagia Sophia
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) and invited guests attend Friday prayers at the Hagia Sophia during its official opening ceremony. — AFP ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined thousands Friday in the first Muslim prayers in Hagia Sophia since the Istanbul landmark was controversially converted back into a mosque. Massive crowds gathered inside and outside the UNESCO World Heritage site, some draped in...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey: US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival on Friday. — AFP
Trump could lose - and US is on the edge
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey: US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival on Friday. — AFP WASHINGTON: Cratering in the polls, canceling his showcase convention event, and struggling to land punches on his opponent, Donald Trump has only 100 days from today to save his presidency - and it’s not going well. In the latest blow to momentum ahead of Nov 3, the president announced late Thursday that he was ditching the...
CHENGDU, China: A worker removes the sign at the entrance to the US consulate yesterday. — AFP
US consulate in China readies for closure
CHENGDU, China: A worker removes the sign at the entrance to the US consulate yesterday. — AFP CHENGDU, China: Workers removed the US insignia from the consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu yesterday, a day after Beijing ordered its closure as relations deteriorated in a Cold War-style standoff. The Chengdu mission was told to shut in retaliation for the forced closure of Beijing’s consulate in Houston, Texas, with both sides alleging the...
IN THE AIR: An image grab from a video released by state-run Iran Press news agency reportedly shows a passenger with blood dripping on his face, on an Iranian passenger plane after it was intercepted by a US F-15 while flying over Syria. — AFP
US fighter jets spark panic on plane
IN THE AIR: An image grab from a video released by state-run Iran Press news agency reportedly shows a passenger with blood dripping on his face, on an Iranian passenger plane after it was intercepted by a US F-15 while flying over Syria. — AFP TEHRAN: Iran protested Friday to the United Nations of a “flagrant violation” of international law after nearby US fighter jets sparked panic on an Iranian passenger plane over war-torn Syria. The...
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‘Milking their misery’: Indian migrants pay for quarantine
MUMBAI: Coronavirus quarantine charges levied by an Indian state on migrant workers who are being flown home from Gulf nations will drive many returnees further into debt and put them at risk of destitution, campaigners and laborers said on Wednesday. India in May began a drive to repatriate nearly a million citizens from around the world as the pandemic left many jobless and struggling to survive. The arrivals are quarantined in hotels,...
ESCUINTLA: A woman and her daughter walk by a coffin with a sign reading ‘You decide, at home or in this box’, in the streets of Escuintla municipality, 55 km south of Guatemala City, during a local authorities’ campaign to stop the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. —AFP
Bill Gates denies conspiracy theories ‘he created virus’
ESCUINTLA: A woman and her daughter walk by a coffin with a sign reading ‘You decide, at home or in this box’, in the streets of Escuintla municipality, 55 km south of Guatemala City, during a local authorities’ campaign to stop the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. —AFP WASHINGTON: Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has pushed back against some of the conspiracy theories spreading online accusing him of creating the coronavirus...
SYDNEY: A yacht is seen up for sale in Double Bay in Sydney. Australia warned that its economy will shrink at its fastest pace in history during the second quarter, while the budget deficit will be the biggest since the Second World War as the country battles to contain the impact of the coronavirus. —AFP
Australia rejects Beijing’s South China Sea claims, backing US
SYDNEY: A yacht is seen up for sale in Double Bay in Sydney. Australia warned that its economy will shrink at its fastest pace in history during the second quarter, while the budget deficit will be the biggest since the Second World War as the country battles to contain the impact of the coronavirus. —AFP SYDNEY: Australia has rejected Beijing’s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea in a formal declaration to the United...
PORTLAND: People gather in protest in front of the Mark O Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland as the city experiences another night of unrest on July 24, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. —AFP
In Portland, protests tackle racism, federal crackdown
PORTLAND: People gather in protest in front of the Mark O Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland as the city experiences another night of unrest on July 24, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. —AFP PORTLAND: Balloons are perhaps not a frequent sight at protests, but the two clutched by Devon Fredericksen in the streets of Portland tell the story-together, they read 57. “I think it’s crazy that it’s been 57 days and we’re still pushing...
AL QAHTANIYAH: A man drives a motorcycle past a makeshift refinery using burners to distill crude oil in the village of Bishiriya in the countryside near the town of Qahtaniya west of Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province. —AFP
Israel strikes Syria army targets after border unrest
AL QAHTANIYAH: A man drives a motorcycle past a makeshift refinery using burners to distill crude oil in the village of Bishiriya in the countryside near the town of Qahtaniya west of Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province. —AFP JERUSALEM: Israeli army helicopters struck military targets in southern Syrian on Friday in retaliation for earlier “munitions” fire towards Israel from inside Syria,...
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