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(FILES) In this file photo Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures during the unveiling of the Tesla Model Y in Hawthorne, California on March 14, 2019. - US electric car maker Tesla on July 1, 2020 became the world's most valuable auto company by market value, surpassing Japan's Toyota after earlier overtaking conventional Detroit giants.Tesla's value reached $207.2 billion, according to Bloomberg, compared with Toyota's value of $201.9 billion.. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Tesla becomes world's richest auto group
HAWTHORNE: In this file photo Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures during the unveiling of the Tesla Model Y in Hawthorne, California. US electric carmaker Tesla on Wednesday became the world's most valuable auto company by market value, surpassing Japan's Toyota after earlier overtaking conventional Detroit giants. - AFP NEW YORK: Tesla engineered its latest coup Wednesday, becoming the world's richest car company while two of Detroit's old guard,...
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Small business owners hold their breath post-confinement
DHAKA: Laborers working at a reopened garment factory after being closed during a COVID-19 lockdown in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka.-AFP PARIS: After months of economic turmoil triggered by the long coronavirus lockdown, battered small and medium-sized businesses are attempting to pick up the pieces. The post-confinement world remains a deeply uncertain one, with many business owners battling for survival and hoping they can hang on long...
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Record US job growth likely in June, but masks labor market weakness
ARLINGTON: A man wearing a face mask walks past a sign "Now Hiring" in front of a store amid the coronavirus pandemic in Arlington, Virginia. Industries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic showed signs of life in June, hiring 2.4 million workers, payroll services firm ADP said.-AFP WASHINGTON: The US economy likely created jobs at a record clip in June as more restaurants and bars resumed operations, which would offer further evidence that the...
A woman enjoys Athens cityscape on sunset on June 29, 2020 as tourists travelling to Greece will be required from July 1 to complete an online questionnaire 48 hours in advance to determine whether they need to be tested for coronavirus on arrival. (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP)
‘Happy to be here’: Tourists relieved to start Greek vacation
A woman enjoys Athens cityscape on sunset on June 29, 2020 as tourists travelling to Greece will be required from July 1 to complete an online questionnaire 48 hours in advance to determine whether they need to be tested for coronavirus on arrival. (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP)a group of tourists walk in an empty hallway of the Stoa of Attalos at the Ancient Agora, in Athens, on June 30, 2020, as the country opens up to tourism follwoing a...
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Kuwait's MoH reports 919 new coronavirus infections, one death
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 919 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, raising the country's caseload to 47,959. Health authorities recorded one related fatality during the same period, putting overall count of fatalities due to infection with the pathogen at 359 since its outbreak in the country months ago. Official spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, Dr Abdullah...
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Ministry launches system to book clinic appointments
By A SalehKUWAIT: Ministry of Health (MoH) Information Technology Director Ahmad Al-Ghareeb announced launching the online appointment booking system to visit polyclinics in collaboration with the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) and MoH's central department for primary healthcare. "The online booking system is available for all areas at all times at MOH's official websitewww.moh.gov.kw or through the following link...
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Assembly legal panel studies expat quotas in Kuwait
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The national assembly legal and legislative committee was scheduled to discuss yesterday if a draft law submitted by five MPs and calling for imposing a quota system on expats, is in line with the constitution. The bill, submitted a few weeks ago, states that no foreign community in the country can exceed 15 percent of the number of Kuwaiti citizens and sets specific percentages for those communities.It limits the number of...
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WHO: Mideast at 'critical threshold' in virus numbers
CAIRO: The World Health Organization warned Wednesday the Middle East was at a decisive moment in the fight against the novel coronavirus, with cases surging as countries ease lockdown measures. "We are at a critical threshold in our region," the WHO's Middle East head, Ahmed al-Mandhari, said in an online press conference. According to figures published by the global health body on Wednesday, the 22 countries from Morocco to Pakistan had...
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Over 100 killed in Myanmar landslide
KACHIN: Photo shows rescuers attempting to locate survivors after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state. _ AFP YANGON: The bodies of at least 100 jade miners were pulled from the mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar yesterday, in one of the worst ever accidents to hit the perilous industry. Scores die each year while working in the country's lucrative but poorly regulated jade industry, which uses low-paid migrant workers to...
Palestinian protesters use slingshots to throw back tear gas canisters at Israeli security forces during clashes following a demonstration against Israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Ramallah near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, on July 1, 2020. - Thousands of Palestinians protested across the Palestinian territories against Israel's West Bank annexation plans, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said talks were ongoing on the controversial project facing intensifying international opposition. Demonstrations were held in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Jericho, attended by a handful of left-wing Israeli politicians opposed to annexation. (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
Vatican summons US and Israeli envoys over annexation moves
WEST BANK: Palestinian protesters use slingshots to throw back tear gas canisters at Israeli security forces during clashes following a demonstration against Israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. - AFP VATICAN: The Vatican, in a highly unusual move, summoned both the US and Israeli ambassadors to express the Holy See's concern about Israel's moves to extend its sovereignty to Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a press conference after the Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on June 29, 2020. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP)
Erdogan vows social media 'control' after family insulted
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a press conference after the Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. - AFP ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed to tighten government control over social media after he said his family was insulted online. Erdogan over the years has made no secret of his dislike for social media, once comparing them to a "murderer's knife" and previously...
ST PAUL, MN - JULY 01: Demonstrators hold up signs as members of the Oromo community shutdown the westbound lane of Interstate 94, near Lexington Ave, during a protest after the death of musician and activist Hachalu Hundessa on July 1, 2020 in St Paul, Minnesota. Hundessa was shot and killed in Addis Ababa on June 29, 2020. His death has sparked ongoing protests around the world. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP
Ethiopia military deployed after more than 80 killed in protests
ST PAUL: Demonstrators hold up signs as members of the Oromo community shutdown the westbound lane of Interstate 94, near Lexington Ave, during a protest after the death of musician and activist Hachalu Hundessa on July 1, 2020. _ AFP ADDIS ABABA: The military was deployed in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday, as armed gangs roamed neighbourhoods in a second day of unrest that has claimed more than 80 lives and deepened political divisions in...
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman endorses Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. - KUNA
Prince Mohammed endorses Saudi FIFA World Cup 2034 bid