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CAIRO: In this file photo taken on May 22, 2020, Egyptian youths fly handmade kites from an overpass on the capital’s Ring Road before iftar during the holy month of Ramadan. — AFP

Egypt grounds kites for safety, security reasons

CAIRO: In this file photo taken on May 22, 2020, Egyptian youths fly handmade kites from an overpass on the capital’s Ring Road before iftar during the holy month of Ramadan. — AFP CAIRO: Egyptian police have seized kites from people flying them after a ban by a northern governorate for “safety” reasons and a lawmaker’s warning they posed a “national security threat”. Police seized 369 kites in Cairo on Friday, Al-Ahram reported,...

MA’ARRATMISRIN, Syria: Photo shows an aerial view of tents at the Azraq camp for displaced Syrians near the town of Maaret Misrin in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, sheltering several hundred families displaced by conflict from the northern Hama and southern and eastern Idlib countrysides. — AFP

We face famine or COVID: Syria’s displaced alarmed at aid impasse

MA’ARRATMISRIN, Syria: Photo shows an aerial view of tents at the Azraq camp for displaced Syrians near the town of Maaret Misrin in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, sheltering several hundred families displaced by conflict from the northern Hama and southern and eastern Idlib countrysides. — AFP MAARET MISRIN: After surviving months of bombardment, Nasr Sultan now fears his 10 children may starve or catch coronavirus as a divided UN...

SANAA: Yemeni drivers wait in line to refill their cars at a nearby petrol station in the capital Sanaa amid fuel shortages.— AFP

Yemen fuel supplies ‘weaponized’

SANAA: Yemeni drivers wait in line to refill their cars at a nearby petrol station in the capital Sanaa amid fuel shortages.— AFP SANAA: A fuel shortage is blighting life in the swathes of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, cutting electricity supplies, halting water pumps and stranding people in need of medical care as warring sides trade blame. Energy scarcity is nothing new in a country ravaged by years of conflict, but queues at the pumps...

DHAKA: Workers clean the huge Arabic word ‘Allah-hu’ atop of the Baitul Mukaram national mosque in Dhaka. Leaders of a minority Muslim sect in Bangladesh on July 11, 2020 accused ‘fanatics’ of digging up the body of a baby girl from a cemetery grave just hours after being buried and dumping it by a roadside. — AFP

Body of Bangladesh newborn dug from grave and dumped

DHAKA: Workers clean the huge Arabic word ‘Allah-hu’ atop of the Baitul Mukaram national mosque in Dhaka. Leaders of a minority Muslim sect in Bangladesh on July 11, 2020 accused ‘fanatics’ of digging up the body of a baby girl from a cemetery grave just hours after being buried and dumping it by a roadside. — AFP DHAKA: Leaders of a minority Muslim sect in Bangladesh on Saturday accused “fanatics” of digging up the body of a baby...

KAIROUAN, Tunisia: Taheyya, a grandmother from the Tunisian city of Kairouan, about 160 kilometers south of the capital Tunis, is pictured with her grandchildren whose uncle was killed in Syria.

Tunisian families battling to repatriate jihadists children

KAIROUAN, Tunisia: Taheyya, a grandmother from the Tunisian city of Kairouan, about 160 kilometers south of the capital Tunis, is pictured with her grandchildren whose uncle was killed in Syria. KAIROUAN: Over WhatsApp from Tunisia, Taheyya has watched her grandchildren grow up in Syria, where her son joined a jihadist group. She hopes one day to be able to hold the three surviving siblings in her arms, but for now they are stuck in a...

ISTANBUL: People walk in front of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, a day after a top Turkish court revoked the sixth-century Hagia Sophia’s status as a museum, clearing the way for it to be turned back into a mosque. — AFP

Hagia Sophia: Erdogan rejects worldwide condemnation

ISTANBUL: People walk in front of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, a day after a top Turkish court revoked the sixth-century Hagia Sophia’s status as a museum, clearing the way for it to be turned back into a mosque. — AFP ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday rejected worldwide condemnation over Turkey’s decision to convert the Byzantine-era monument Hagia Sophia back into a mosque, saying it represented his country’s will to...

BAMAKO: Protesters set fire to barricades to block the circulation on the Martyrs bridge of Bamako. Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cisse has vowed to rapidly form a government ‘open to facing the challenges of the day’, adding that four more people had died in the country’s worst civil unrest in years. — AFP

Mali president tries to calm unrest with court dissolution

BAMAKO: Protesters set fire to barricades to block the circulation on the Martyrs bridge of Bamako. Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cisse has vowed to rapidly form a government ‘open to facing the challenges of the day’, adding that four more people had died in the country’s worst civil unrest in years. — AFP BAMAKO: Mali’s embattled president announced the dissolution of the constitutional court in an attempt to calm the major civil...

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Customers complain of ‘extra’ shipping fees during pandemic

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Thousands of customers may have been victims of overcharging by some shipping and delivery companies. During the pandemic, online shopping skyrocketed, but people have complained about paying extra amounts described as customs fees and other unclear charges. Also some customers didn’t receive an invoice or receipt for the fees charged or the invoices were fake.An inspector with the customer protection department of...

KUWAIT: PAS deputy director general Saqer Al-Mulla with the Health Ministry’s team. — KUNA

Athletes adapt to COVID-19 restrictions: PAS

KUWAIT: PAS deputy director general Saqer Al-Mulla with the Health Ministry’s team. — KUNA KUWAIT: Sports activities in Kuwait have just passed the first phase of resumption, the body overlooking the sector said on Saturday, citing athletes were subjected to rigorous testing to ensure they were free of the novel coronavirus. Athletes who have not been examined are “strictly prohibited” from resuming training, Kuwait’s Public Authority...

KUWAIT: Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah receives members of the ECMO department at Kuwait’s Adan Hospital. — KUNA

Adan Hospital’s ECMO center wins int’l excellence award

KUWAIT: Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah receives members of the ECMO department at Kuwait’s Adan Hospital. — KUNA KUWAIT: ECMO department at Kuwait’s Adan Hospital has won the Gold Level Center of Excellence Award, provided by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), in recognition of its life support application. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is one of the top new technologies in ICU units, said...

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi and other municipality officials inspect Mubarakiya Market yesterday.

Hundreds shops shut for breaching COVID-19 precaution

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi and other municipality officials inspect Mubarakiya Market yesterday. KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality said on Saturday it recently carried out its largest shop closures under phase two of coronavirus lockdown easing, with a total of 122 forced shut due to a lack of health standards and commitment to social distancing. Some nine closures included the “Friday Market, a large supermarket in...

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Fire crew controls Amghara storage facility blaze

KUWAIT: Firefighters managed to put out a blaze that erupted in a 2,000-square-metre store of blankets and bags in Jahra governorate’s district of Amghara, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said on Saturday. The firefighters, which were dispatched from five different fire stations, cordoned off the area and controlled the fire despite the active wind, the directorate’s media and public relations department added in a statement. No...

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