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Amnesty deadline ends, low turnout predicted
KUWAIT: People from different nationalities queue up Thursday outside a school in Farwaniya which was turned into a center to receive applications of violators wishing to avail the amnesty. - Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: An amnesty Kuwait provided for residency violators ended on Thursday, as people from different nationalities headed to centers in Farwaniya and Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh set up by the Ministry of Interior to receive expatriates...
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PM inspects field hospitals, quarantine facilities
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah tours a field hospital set up to receive COVID-19 patients. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah inspected, on Thursday, field hospitals and quarantine facilities constructed as part of efforts to counter the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kuwait.His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled visited first the...
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Interior Minister names three assistant undersecretaries
KUWAIT: The new assistant undersecretaries stand before Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Anas Al-Saleh, and senior ministry officials. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Anas Al-Saleh appointed on Thursday three assistant undersecretaries and promoted a brigadier to the rank of major-general. In the presence of the Ministry's Undersecretary Lt Gen Esam El-Nahham, the minister adopted the three No...
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KRCS doles out food parcels to Jleeb laborers
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) has distributed 1,000 food packages and 250 frozen chicken boxes to residents and workers in the coronavirus locked down area of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh in Farwaniya governorate. Each package contains a variety of basic foodstuff sufficient to feed a family of five members for a month, KRCS Director General Abdulrahman Al-Oun said.He pointed out that the KRCS is keen on supporting the government's...
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Bank employee tests positive
KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait announced that one of its employees in Mishref branch tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19). After contacting the Ministry of Health, the bank has taken all necessary measures, NBK said, adding that the employee is currently under close observation and is in stable condition. NBK has immediately taken all preventive measures to isolate the employees who have been in direct contact with him, and closed...
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Struggle against the soul
By Hassan Twaha Bwambale'Self' or 'Soul' is our staunchest enemy who is continuously at war with us with reason. In order to defeat the self and to control our passions, we must fight hard by strictly following the commands of Allah (SWT) and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It is very important to prevent our souls from acts that are far from worshipping Allah Almighty.There are three types of the soul, they are:a. The commanding soul that always...
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Pandemic Diaries: Human trafficking
By Jamie Etheridgegovernment amnesty offered to residency violators living in Kuwait illegally wrapped up registrations on Thursday, with unofficial counts indicating that more than 23,000 individuals signed up to be deported. Around 20,000 of these people remain in detention camps in Kuwait, their home countries refusing to allow them to return home.Imagine wanting to go home but being prevented from doing so. Imagine being stuck abroad,...
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A salute to women
By Abdellatif Sharaa2019 was the month that brought the news about the birth of a new coronavirus, and many of us, if not all, started talking about it as if we were immune or far from it and it would not reach us, bearing in mind that it was in China. But Corona was much smarter than us, and soon enough its babies were everywhere, covering the four corners of the globe. Governments had to move forcefully and declare war against the virus,...
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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far
KUWAIT: Kuwait has recorded 4,377 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Friday, in addition to 30 deaths. With the exception of 70 cases in intensive care, all infected cases are in stable condition and are recovering in quarantined locations designated by the government for this purpose, while hundreds have been discharged from quarantine after exhibiting no symptoms during their 14-day quarantine period, the Ministry of...
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Emptied by virus, Lithuanian airport turns into drive-in cinema
People sit in their cars watching a movie at a new drive-in cinema on a airport apron area, where the planes take off and land, in Vilnius, Lithuania, as regular theaters are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. -AP Hundreds of movie fans flocked to Lithuania's main international airport on Wednesday night to a drive-in cinema created in the shadow of planes grounded by the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers of the Vilnius International Film...
Self-made automobile engineer Partha Saha (L) tries his modified bike designed for social distancing as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus with his daughter Pragya Saha in front of†their house, in Aralia village on the outskirts of Agartala. (Photo by Abhisek SAHA / AFP)
Indian mechanic invents 'social distancing' motorbike
Self-made automobile engineer Partha Saha (left) tries his modified bike designed for social distancing. An Indian school drop-out has built a motorbike with a one-meter gap between the rider and the passenger to drive home the importance of social distancing in the coronavirus pandemic. Partha Saha, 39, bought an old bike from a scrap dealer, removed the engine and cut the machine in two before affixing a rod slightly longer than a meter (3.2...
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COVID-19 ends decade of US growth
WASHINGTON:A man holds a historic American flag as people participate in a "Let Us Fish" rally on Lake Union to support their right to fish during the novel coronavirus outbreak in Seattle, Washington. The pandemic ended a decade of US economic expansion but the Federal Reserve pledged to use every tool it has to help fuel a recovery.-AFP WASHINGTON: The coronavirus pandemic ended a decade of US economic expansion, but the Federal Reserve...
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Group photo of Zain interns. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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