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Health checkups for expat labor to return on Sunday
KUWAIT: Health inspection centres for expatriate labor will reopen on Sunday with online registration now made possible, a health ministry official has said. The centres will begin operating according to a 30 percent capacity during the first phase of coronavirus lockdown easing, which will gradually increase in later phases, public health director Dr. Fahad Al-Ghimlas added. The registration process, simply by entering one's civil ID...
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Zain awards most innovative teams in ‘Company Program’ competition
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, awarded the two winning teams of the ‘Most Innovative Product/Service’ category for university and high school students at the 14th annual INJAZ Company Program Competition 2020. The competition was held online by INJAZ Kuwait with the participation of over 50 students from across Kuwait’s high schools and universities.This year’s competition came as a fully online program in...
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Working together to bring China-Kuwait strategic partnership to new level
By Li Minggang, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the State of KuwaitFrom 7th to 10th July 2018, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah paid a successful state visit to China. During the visit, the two heads of state agreed to establish a strategic partnership between the two countries to open a new chapter of China-Kuwait relationship.Over the past two...
French fashion designer Julien Fournie (L) poses with his model Michaela Tomanova during the shooting of a film designed in place of the fashion show on June 30, 2020 as France eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
Why super rich fashionistas are not crying for Paris shows
French fashion designer Julien Fournie poses with his Czech model Michaela Tomanova. One very select group of fashionistas were not crying into their cocktails when the Paris fashion shows were cancelled because of the coronavirus. The tiny group of super rich women who buy the ruinously expensive handmade creations that adorn the runways of Paris haute couture week knew that meant their favourite designers would have to come to them.“I...
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Johnny Depp denies slapping ex-wife
US actor Johnny Depp arrives on the second day of his libel trial against News Group Newspapers (NGN), at the High Court in London. - AFP photos Hollywood actor Johnny Depp on Wednesday denied claims that he slapped his ex-wife Amber Heard, as he faced a second day of questioning in his high-profile libel trial in London. The Pirates of the Caribbean star is suing British tabloid The Sun for a 2018 article which claimed he was a wife-beater....
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Liverpool boost record bid, Man City crush Newcastle
MANCHESTER: Manchester City's Algerian midfielder Riyad Mahrez (C) scores their second goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England. - AFP LONDON: Mohamed Salah kept Liverpool on track to set a new Premier League points record as the champions won 3-1 at Brighton, while Manchester City bounced back to form with a five-goal rout of...
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'Age doesn't matter': Alonso returns to F1 with Renault 'family'
SHUBAYTAH: File photo taken on January 15, 2020, shows Toyota's Spanish driver Fernando Alonso drives his car after the suspension of the race due to strong winds during the Stage 10 of the Dakar 2020 between Haradh and Shubaytah, Saudi Arabia. - AFP SPIELBERG: Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso on Wednesday insisted "age doesn't count" as it was revealed he would make a return to his Renault "family" in 2021 when he will be 39. Alonso was...
Vendors wait for customers at a vegetable market in Hyderabad on July 2, 2020. (Photo by NOAH SEELAM / AFP)
Scarcity of shade hurts Indian vendors
HYDERABAD: Vendors wait for customers at a vegetable market in Hyderabad. _ AFP BANGKOK: Street vendors in India are suffering from lower earnings and ill health as they lose access to shade in cities where trees are felled to make way for construction, researchers said yesterday. As deadly heatwaves become more frequent in tropical countries such as India, loss of shade can severely affect those who live and work on the streets, according to a...
TOPSHOT - Wang Shang-chi, 75, a mobile hats vender, rides his bike on a parking lot next to the Taipei City Zoo on July 9, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)
China bull charge drives stocks and yuan higher
NEW TAIPEI CITY: Wang Shang-chi, 75, a mobile hats vender, rides his bike on a parking lot next to the Taipei City Zoo yesterday. - AFP SINGAPORE: Surging Chinese stocks led Asia's equity markets higher yesterday, as investors looked past Sino-US tension and renewed coronavirus lockdowns and hoped stimulus washing through the world economy finds its way to company earnings. Asia's investors are riding high after a front-page editorial in...
A Palestinian medical team transports the body of person who died of the COVID-19 disease from the military hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus, on July 9, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
Global coronavirus cases soar
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian medical team transports the body of person who died of the COVID-19 disease from the military hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday. - AFP MELBOURNE: Millions in Australia's second-biggest city went into lockdown yesterday to battle another coronavirus outbreak, as spikes across the world added to the devastation already wrought by the pandemic. The number of infections and deaths has...
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Students fear deportation over Trump's visa threat
LOS ANGELES: This photo illustration shows a visa stamp on a foreign passport in Los Angeles on June 6, 2020. The United States said July 6 it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall over the coronavirus crisis. - AFP NEW YORK: Pakistani student Taimoor Ahmed is one of hundreds of thousands of foreigners enrolled in American universities now fearing for their future after...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 26, 2019, a general view of the Blue Nile river as it passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia. - As Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan struggle to resolve a long-running dispute over Addis Ababa's mega-dam project on the Nile, some of their citizens are sparring online over their rights to the mighty waterway. For nearly a decade, multiple rounds of talks between Cairo, Addis Ababa and Khartoum have failed to produce a deal over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
Nile dam dispute spills onto the social media
GUBA, Ethiopia: Photo captured a general view of the Blue Nile river as it passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia. - AFP CAIRO: As Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan struggle to resolve a long-running dispute over Addis Ababa's mega-dam project on the Nile, some of their citizens are sparring online over their rights to the mighty waterway. For nearly a decade, multiple rounds of talks between Cairo, Addis Ababa...
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