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Local engineer makes ear savers for medical staff, frontliners
By Faten OmarKUWAIT: People across Kuwait are contributing their time, effort and creativity to helping frontliners do their job. One young Kuwaiti woman decided to apply her love of crochet to creating ear savers as a thank you for medical staff forced to wear masks for hours at a time. Reem Bastaki, 30, an engineer who graduated from Ohio State University and works with Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), came up with the idea of...
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Co-op workers test positive
KUWAIT: Al-Nuzha Co-op Society announced closing its central market until tomorrow after one of their employees tested positive for coronavirus. The co-op will also suspend the delivery service. Al-Nuzha's customers can shop from the branches in blocks 2 and 3, or at the closet co-op in other areas. Meanwhile, a cashier working for Family Supplies Center at Al-Rumathiya Co-op Society was infected with coronavirus. The co-op announced closing...
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Pandemic Diaries: Cabin Fever
By Jamie Etheridgethe last few days we've seen the numbers of curfew breakers grow, as many as 23 people arrested in one night for being outside their homes during the curfew hours. As the Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah has warned, staying home is an absolute necessity and especially in this critical period when the infection rate is spiking.At the same time, we are now completing our ninth week of 'stay at home'. Nine weeks of...
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Eid in isolation
By Nawara Fattahovathis year is completely different from any other Ramadan ever. The most important habit of gathering was banned in this year's holy month. Taraweeh and qiyam prayers in mosques are not possible this year, and even group iftar and suhour in mosques around Kuwait are not happening due to the closure of mosques.All other social activities usually practiced in Ramadan are not happening this year. Ghabqa, the most popular event...
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Being Positive
By Abdellatif Sharaa was about 10 years old when my late father, may Allah bless his soul, decided to go for Hajj, (pilgrimage to Makkah). Then when it was time to travel, he decide to take the bus because many of his friends and extended family members were taking the bus also. Pilgrims got ready and went to the station in Amman, Jordan in waiting for the bus, which came from the city of Nablus on the West Bank of the River Jordan.The waiting...
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Kuwait has 20,000+ hospital beds, will import remdesivir
By B Izzak KUWAIT: The National Assembly's health and labor committee discussed with Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah and ministry officials the latest developments on the coronavirus and the Chinese medical team visit. MP Mohammad Al-Huwailah said ministry officials informed the committee that they have struck a deal with a US company to import sufficient quantities of the new coronavirus drug. The lawmaker was referring to remdesivir,...
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Virus mis-info fuels hate against India's Muslims
NEW DELHI: In this picture taken on May 4, 2020, a Muslim prays in front of closed shops in a market during the holy month of Ramadan under a government-imposed nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. - AFP NEW DELHI: Gayur Hassan's Hindu neighbors came at night, throwing stones at his family's home in a northern Indian village and setting his workshop on fire. All because his son "liked" a social media post. The Facebook post...
TOPSHOT - People stand on a bridge and watch a fire that erupts in A 48-Storey Residential Tower in Sharjah on May 5, 2020. (Photo by - / AFP)
Fire breaks out at UAE residential tower, 7 injuried
SHARJAH: People stand on a bridge and watch a fire that erupted in a 48-storey residential tower on Tuesday. - AFP DUBAI: Firefighters brought under control a fire that broke out at a residential tower in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday night, Sharjah's government media office said. Seven people were treated for minor injuries from the fire in the tower in Sharjah's Al Nahda area and taken to hospital for treatment, the media...
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Women hail victory as Sudan moves to ban genital cutting
CAIRO: An Egyptian doctor gives medical advice to women and girls about female genital mutilation (FGM) during an awareness campaign in Giza on Feb 18, 2020. – AFP KHARTOUM: Hakam Ibrahim was seven when, like most Sudanese girls, she became a victim of female genital mutilation - an age-old practice decried as horrific that the post-revolution government is now banning. A mother-of-four in her 40s, Ibrahim vividly recalls the traumatic...
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Ramadan in ruins for Idlib family
ARIHA: Members of the displaced Syrian family of Tareq Abu Ziad, from the town of Ariha in the southern countryside of the Idlib province, break their fast together for the sunset 'iftar' meal, in the midst of the rubble of their destroyed home upon their return to the town after fleeing during the previous military assault by Syrian government forces and their allies. - AFP ARIHA: As dusk settles on the forest of gutted buildings around them,...
Women carry grass for cattle above their head as they walk on a street on the outskirts of Srinagar on May 6, 2020. (Photo by Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)
No meat? Climate-smart vegetables keep Kashmir fed amid COVID crisis
KASHMIR: Women carry grass for cattle above their head as they walk on a street on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday. - AFP SRINAGAR: As a population of enthusiastic meat eaters, Kashmiris have felt the impact of India's coronavirus lockdown at almost every meal. Kashmir's meat supply, most of which comes from outside the Indian-administered region, has dropped sharply since a nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of the new coronavirus...
A general view shows the ABS-CBN network headquarters in Quezon City, Manila on May 5, 2020. - The Philippines' top broadcaster ABS-CBN on May 5 was ordered off the air over a stalled operating licence renewal, drawing fresh charges that authorities were cracking down on press freedom. (Photo by Maria TAN / AFP)
Philippines forces media network ABS-CBN off air
MANILA: A general view shows the ABS-CBN network headquarters in Quezon City, Manila. The Philippines' top broadcaster ABS-CBN on May 5 was ordered off the air over a stalled operating license renewal, drawing fresh charges that authorities were cracking down on press freedom. - AFP MANILA: The Philippines' top broadcaster ABS-CBN was forced off air on Tuesday over a stalled operating license renewal, drawing fresh accusations that the...
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