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Workers remove items left behind after police cleared the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) and retook the department's East Precinct in Seattle, Washington on July 1, 2020. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP)
Seattle protest zone sparks the property rights debate
SEATTLE: Workers remove items left behind after police cleared the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) and retook the department's East Precinct in Seattle, Washington on July 1, 2020. _ AFP SEATTLE: As Seattle authorities moved on Wednesday to dismantle the city's "autonomous zone", protesters and residents are squaring off over a question that has become integral to the Black Lives Matter movement: Who do a city's streets belong to? Police...
Staff of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in protective suits transport the body of 47-year-old Palestinian COVID-19 victim Nassra Abu Hussein for burial in the West Bank city of Hebron, on June 29, 2020. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)
Outside Europe, countries floundering in virus wave
HEBRON: Staff of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in protective suits transport the body of 47-year-old Palestinian COVID-19 victim Nassra Abu Hussein for burial in the West Bank city of Hebron. - AFP PARIS: As Europe begins its cautious reopening after weathering the pandemic's first wave in lockdown, many developing and middle-income countries continue to be battered by skyrocketing numbers of COVID-19 cases. With infections still growing...
Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020, on the 23rd anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China. - Hong Kong police arrested more than 300 people on July 1 -- including nine under China's new national security law -- as thousands defied a ban on protests on the anniversary of the city's handover to China. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
HK Bar Association 'gravely concerned' by security law
HONG KONG: Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong. _ AFP HONG KONG: A sweeping new security law imposed on Hong Kong (HK) by Beijing undermines the semi-autonomous city's independent judiciary and stifles freedoms, the city's influential Bar Association has warned. In a scathing critique, the group detailed how the new law dismantles the legal firewall that has existed between Hong...
Aerial view showing the burial of a victim of COVID-19 at the General Cemetery in Santiago, on June 23, 2020 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. - Chile nearly doubled its reported coronavirus death toll to more than 7,000 under a new tallying method that includes probable fatalities from COVID-19. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP)
Global infections soar; US virus cases smash record
Aerial view showing the burial of a victim of COVID-19 at the General Cemetery in Santiago, on June 23, 2020 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. - Chile nearly doubled its reported coronavirus death toll to more than 7,000 under a new tallying method that includes probable fatalities from COVID-19. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) LOS ANGELES: New daily coronavirus cases in the United States soared past 50,000 for the first time Wednesday, as...
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Kuwait Planning Council approves set of reports on budget, health
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Supreme Council for Planning and Development meeting on Wednesday. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait's Supreme Council for Planning and Development approved Wednesday a set of reports dealing with state budget, health care, reforming the government sector's management as well as structure of the population. Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of State for...
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30 US military personnel tested positive for COVID-19
KUWAIT: Almost 30 US military personnel in Kuwait have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a Defense Department official. Navy Captain William Urban, a CENTCOM spokesman, would not release specific numbers, but confirmed the existence of a cluster of COVID-19 cases at Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Base, reported the US government publications, Air Force Times and military.com.The US military are employing social distancing and contact tracing in a...
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Maintenance to affect water supply in various areas
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water announced conducting maintenance works on the water network on the crossing of Seventh Ring Road and Fahaheel Express Road. The works started yesterday at 8:00 pm and are scheduled to finish at 8:00 am today.In this regard, the ministry announced that the maintenance works would cause weak water flow in the following areas: Fahaheel, South Sabahiya, Mangaf, Abu Halifa, Mahboula,...
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Friday Market still closed, pet market back in business
KUWAIT: Pictures taken from outside the Friday Market yesterday. - Photos by Ben Garcia By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: The Friday Market in Rai is still closed and there is no indication when it will be allowed to reopen to the public. The Friday Market is popular with expats looking for used items and cheap goods. On March 13, the Municipality closed the market until further notice as a precautionary measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus.Also,...
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PACI to receive public Sunday with prior bookings
KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) announced Wednesday that it will welcome the public at its premises as of Sunday from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. PACI, however, said it will be open for collection of new civil IDs till 05:00 pm. Visitors will have to book an appointment at the PACI website, it stressed, noting that the booking will be available on Saturdays only and for a specific number to avoid crowdedness at PACI...
Kuwaitis wearing face masks walk inside the re-opened Avenues Mall, the country's largest shopping centre, on June 30, 2020 in Kuwait City after almost a four-months shutdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19 in the country. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Kuwait malls back in business
Kuwaitis wearing face masks walk inside the re-opened Avenues Mall, the country's largest shopping centre, on June 30, 2020 in Kuwait City after almost a four-months shutdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19 in the country. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)Kuwaiti security check a visitor's temperature at the entrance of the re-opened Avenues Mall, the country's largest shopping centre, on June 30, 2020 in Kuwait City after...
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Hawally traffic open
KUWAIT: Hawally Traffic Department started receiving people applying to renew their automobiles registrations, in addition to issue and renew driver's licenses and pay fines, the departments director Colonel Mubarak Al-Hajri announced. The department is open between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm on weekdays, he said, adding that applicants won't be allowed inside the building without wearing face masks.21 flightsKUWAIT: The Directorate General of Civil...
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Security men in shootout with gunman who killed himself
By B IzzakKUWAIT: A Kuwaiti gunman who exchanged gunfire with security men and refused to surrender after hiding in a house in Umm Al-Haiman yesterday shot and killed himself before special forces stormed the house.Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh and top ministry officers were at the scene as officials tried for six hours trying to convince the man to give himself up but eventually he killed himself. The dramatic night began when a Kuwaiti...
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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