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Police enter a shopping mall to disperse people attending a lunchtime rally in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, as China passed a sweeping national security law for the city. - China passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, a historic move that critics and many western governments fear will smother the finance hub's freedoms and hollow out its autonomy. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
China passes national security law
HONG KONG: Police enter a shopping mall to disperse people attending a lunchtime rally in Hong Kong yesterday, as China passed a sweeping national security law for the city. - AFP HONG KONG: China's parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong yesterday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony's way of life since it returned to Chinese rule 23 years ago. State media is expected to publish...
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Racism in UK: The effects of a 'hostile environment'
LONDON: Performers in costume enact a Windrush-inspired performance on the main Parade day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London. - AFPLONDON: A protester makes a Black Lives Matter fist at a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in central London. - AFP LONDRES: Ijeoma Moore came to Britain from Nigeria as a toddler and is now 25. "I have lived here since I was two. I feel very much British," she said. But two years after a scandal involving...
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More domestic flights, interstate trains; India eases virus lockdown
NEW DELHI: India will allow more domestic flights and interstate train services to operate but keep schools shut as the nation of 1.3 billion further eases its lockdown despite growing concern about rising coronavirus cases. The South Asian nation recorded almost 550,000 virus infections on Monday, including 16,475 deaths, making it the fourth worst-hit in terms of case numbers after the US, Brazil and Russia. But with the economy struggling...
(FILES) This file photo taken on June 4, 2019 shows a Uighur woman waiting with children on a street in Kashgar in China's northwest Xinjiang region. - Chinese authorities are carrying out forced sterilisations of women in an apparent campaign to curb the growth of ethnic minority populations in the western Xinjiang region, according to research published on June 29, 2020. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
China sterilizing Uighurs to control population: Report
XINJIANG: A Uighur woman waits with children on a street in Kashgar in China's northwest Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities are carrying out forced sterilisations of women in an apparent campaign to curb the growth of ethnic minority populations in the western Xinjiang region. Ð AFP BEIJING: Chinese authorities are carrying out forced sterilizations of Uighur and other ethnic minority women in an apparent campaign to curb the population, a...
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'Golden State Killer' suspect pleads guilty to 13 murders, rapes
In this file photo Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected ÔGolden State KillerÕ, appears in court for his arraignment on April 27, 2018 in Sacramento, California. - AFP SACRAMENTO: An elderly ex-policeman confessed on Monday to being the violent serial prowler known as the "Golden State Killer," pleading guilty to 13 murders and admitting to dozens of rapes and break-ins that terrorized California during the 1970s and '80s. Joseph James...
Mourners carry the coffin of a private security guard, killed in a gunmen attack at the Pakistan Stock Exchange building, during his funeral in Karachi on June 29, 2020. - Baloch separatists opened fire and hurled a grenade at the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi on June 29, authorities said, killing four people including a policeman. Three security guards were killed in the melee, while local police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon said all four assailants were shot dead. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)
Stock exchange attack targeted China, Pakistan
KARACHI: Mourners carry the coffin of a private security guard, killed in a gunmen attack at the Pakistan Stock Exchange building, during his funeral in Karachi. - AFP KARACHI: Separatists from Pakistan's Balochistan province attacked the national stock exchange in Karachi on Monday, killing four people in a brazen daylight assault the breakaway group said also targeted Chinese interests. Four gunmen drove up to the entrance gate of the Pakistan...
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Population density caused rapid COVID-19 spread in isolated areas
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah attends the meeting. - KUNA KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet held its weekly session via videoconference on Monday under chairmanship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, discussing the country's health conditions in the shadow of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), namely in some isolated districts. Following the session, Deputy...
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Living Aid links families in need with sponsors in Kuwait amid COVID-19
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The damage caused by the COVID-19 crisis has affected thousands of people in Kuwait, so various organizations groups, and even individuals have taken the initiative of finding different ways to help people in need.Living Aid Kuwait is a humanitarian charitable project based on bringing together families in need and people desiring to help them by sponsoring them. Two Kuwaiti sisters, who prefer to stay anonymous, set...
KUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem speaks during a National Assembly session yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Hashem claims expats sending death threats to her
By B Izzak MP Safa Al-Hashem KUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem, an outspoken critic of expats, claimed yesterday she received a death threat via email from an expat, allegedly for repeatedly calling to replace foreigners with Kuwaitis. The lawmaker said it was the ninth death threat she has received by email, all from expats belonging to one nationality. Although she did not reveal the nationality, she released the email, which refers to it.Hashem said...
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Final decision on school year after July 15
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education (MOE) announced Monday that the final decision on concluding the school year for all grades will be made after July 15. In this regard, MOE's assistant undersecretary for educational research and curriculums affairs Salah Dabshah said that the recently launched online platform for grade 12 students had only cost KD 400 (around $1,320) and that it is supervised by 7,267 educationists with the aim of continuing...
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Audit Bureau approves KD 1.102 billion contracts
KUWAIT: Kuwait's State Audit Bureau (SAB) said Monday it approved 545 out of 849 contracts since March 12 with a value of some KD 1.101 billion ($3.5 billion). Auditing process taking place at the start of the contracts contributed to saving around KD 44 million ($141 million) for the State's Treasury, said Fatma Darwish, SAB's senior auditor for social affairs, said in a statement. She said 37 percent of contracts, or 307, were related to...
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Kuwait, ICRC High-Level Policy Dialogue explores COVID-19 humanitarian challenges
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister SheikhDr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah attends the meeting. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS), and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Monday held the third edition of the annual High-Level Policy Dialogue to exchange insights on trends in the humanitarian environment and...
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman endorses Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. - KUNA
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