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Vitor Gaspar, Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department, speaks during a Fiscal Monitor briefing at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings Washington, DC. —AFP

IMF warns cutting spending too soon could derail recovery

Vitor Gaspar, Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department, speaks during a Fiscal Monitor briefing at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings Washington, DC. —AFP WASHINGTON: As governments rushed out funding to prevent an economic collapse amid the coronavirus pandemic, global public debt swelled to the highest in history, but the IMF warned Friday that cutting back too soon could undermine the recovery. Continuing to...

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By Abdellatif Sharaathe pandemic started, my car registration expired, so I went to a company that inspects vehicles and issues new registration papers for a reasonable fee while you are waiting comfortably in their lounge. I was told that everything will be done right there, except for issuing the title because the government is shut down, and the insurance papers will be enough for the time being. I agreed with him and everything was...

DUBAI: An aerial view of the Sheikh Rashid salik (toll road) as it passes by the Dubai Golf Academy Golf Course in the Gulf emirate, during a government-organized helicopter tour. —AFP

Dubai counts on pent-up tourism demand

DUBAI: An aerial view of the Sheikh Rashid salik (toll road) as it passes by the Dubai Golf Academy Golf Course in the Gulf emirate, during a government-organized helicopter tour. —AFP DUBAI: After a painful four-month tourism shutdown that ended this week, Dubai is betting pent-up demand will see the industry quickly bounce back, billing itself as a safe destination with the resources to ward off coronavirus. The emirate, which had 16.7...

NEW DELHI: Health workers wearing protective gear carry the dead body of a victim, who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus, before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi. — AFP

WHO probes into coronavirus origin

NEW DELHI: Health workers wearing protective gear carry the dead body of a victim, who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus, before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi. — AFP GENEVA: A two-member advance team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts has left for China to organize an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus behind a pandemic that has killed more than 550,000 people globally, the UN agency said on Friday. The...

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Prime Minister and secretary-general of the ruling People’s Action Party Lee Hsien Loong (center) and his wife Ho Ching (right) leave the party’s office after delivering the speech live on facebook to citizens yesterday. — AFP

Singapore ruling party, stung by poll setback, faces succession questions

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Prime Minister and secretary-general of the ruling People’s Action Party Lee Hsien Loong (center) and his wife Ho Ching (right) leave the party’s office after delivering the speech live on facebook to citizens yesterday. — AFP SINGAPORE: Singapore’s ruling party, stung by its worst ever election results, yesterday signaled a possible delay to its meticulous succession plans, and analysts foresaw other policy...

FANA: The family of Bakary Sangare is seen in a courtyard in Fana. On June 10, 2020, the headless body of Bakary Sangare, a former soldier, was found. — AFP

Mystery beheadings spark fear in remote Mali town

FANA: The family of Bakary Sangare is seen in a courtyard in Fana. On June 10, 2020, the headless body of Bakary Sangare, a former soldier, was found. — AFP FANA: Boubou Sangare, his face blank, points at a patch of ground beneath the entrance to an adobe house. It was here that he discovered his brother Bakary’s severed head, on the morning of June 10, lying next to his body. The 40-year-old former soldier had become the latest victim in a...

SREBRENICA: Photo shows caskets with the remains of 9 newly identified victims of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica in a deserted factory. — AFP

Srebrenica massacre, 25 years on, Muslims still face Serb denial

SREBRENICA: Photo shows caskets with the remains of 9 newly identified victims of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica in a deserted factory. — AFP SREBRENICA: Relatives of the Bosnian Muslims killed in the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II marked 25 years since the Srebrenica massacre yesterday, but for many Serbs the episode remains a myth. “It’s not easy to live here next to those who 25 years on deny that a genocide was...

CHITTAGONG: Photo shows empty beds at a COVID-19 coronavirus ward in a hospital set up by Al Manahil Welfare Foundation Bangladesh in Chittagong. — AFP

Bangladeshi coronavirus sufferers shun hospitals

CHITTAGONG: Photo shows empty beds at a COVID-19 coronavirus ward in a hospital set up by Al Manahil Welfare Foundation Bangladesh in Chittagong. — AFP DHAKA: Thousands of beds for coronavirus patients in Bangladesh are lying empty despite the country struggling with a rising caseload as people are too scared to enter hospitals, officials and sufferers say. Some patients have bluntly told health workers they would “rather die at home than...

BEIRUT: Lebanese anti-government protesters take part in a symbolic funeral for the country in the downtown area of the capital Beirut during demonstrations over a deepening economic crisis. — AFP

Lebanon ‘spiraling out of control’: UN rights chief warns

BEIRUT: Lebanese anti-government protesters take part in a symbolic funeral for the country in the downtown area of the capital Beirut during demonstrations over a deepening economic crisis. — AFP GENEVA: Lebanon’s economic crisis is getting out of hand, the UN rights chief warned Friday, calling for urgent internal reforms coupled with international support to prevent further mayhem. Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner...

PRETORIA: Photo shows a stick measuring the depth of a newly dug grave at the Honingnestkrans cemetery, in Pretoria, for victims of the COVID-19. — AFP

Graves dug for COVID-19 victims spook S Africans

PRETORIA: Photo shows a stick measuring the depth of a newly dug grave at the Honingnestkrans cemetery, in Pretoria, for victims of the COVID-19. — AFP PRETORIA: South Africa authorities seek to calm fears over coronavirus deaths after health officials in the country’s most-populated province said they were ready to bury more than a million people. Excavators have this week sprung into action to dig long rows of graves in cemeteries...

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Kuwait COVID-19 cases rise by 478 to 54,058

KUWAIT: Kuwait registered 478 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 54,058, with three people succumbing to the disease as the death toll reached 386, the health ministry said on Saturday. Of those infected, Kuwaiti nationals (310) occupy 64.85 percent alongside non-Kuwaitis (168) at 35.15 percent, ministry spokesman Abdullah Al-Sanad said. The figures include people, who have come into contact with infected...

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Largest number of shops forced shut for COVID-19 precaution breaches

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 Mirqab and a famous furniture company at a mall," Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi said in a statement. They come after 113...

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