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Benefits of volunteering
By Abdellatif Sharaawas a pleasant scene when young men who found themselves at home due to lockdowns volunteered their time and effort to help authorities carry out their duties during the fight against COVID-19. Volunteers are found in hospitals, carrying out organizational duties, sterilizing equipment, and making sure patients coming in follow instructions put out by the health ministry.Volunteers are seen in co-ops as requested by the...
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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far
KUWAIT: Kuwait has recorded 3,440 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Tuesday, in addition to 23 deaths. With the exception of 67 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...
Oil-storage tanks are seen from above in Carson, California, April 25, 2020 after the price for crude plunged into negative territory for the first time in history on April 20. - Although oil prices have stabilized somewhat since the unprecedented dive, the world remains in the throes of a glut of crude oil caused by a precipitous fall in demand due to the global coronavirus pandemic coupled with a lack of storage capacity for crude already in transit or still being produced. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
Oil firms face hedging, debt tests
CARSON: Oil-storage tanks are seen from above in Carson after the price for crude plunged into negative territory for the first time in history. – AFP LONDON: Independent international oil producers can cope with plunging oil prices better than higher-cost US shale firms but persistent low prices may still leave them struggling to repay debts and renew hedging facilities needed to protect revenues.The drop in Brent crude to $20 a barrel and...
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Next year's Olympics may be cancelled: Mori
TOKYO: A man runs in front of the construction site of the National Stadium, a venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in Tokyo on April 20, 2020. A Japanese expert who has criticised the country's response to the coronavirus warned that he is "pessimistic" that the postponed Olympics can be held even in 2021. - AFP TOKYO: The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have to be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn't brought under control by next year,...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 13, 2016 Pakistan's Umar Akmal pads up as he takes part in a training session ahead of the World T20 cricket tournament match at The Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata. - Akmal has been banned from all forms of cricket for three years for failing to report spot-fixing offers, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on April 27, 2020. Umar, who turns 30 next month, pleaded guilty to not reporting the fixing offers which led to his provisional suspension on February 20 this year. (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)
Pakistan's Umar Akmal gets three-year ban
Umar Akmal LAHORE: Controversial Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal was banned Monday from all forms of cricket for three years after pleading guilty to failing to report match-fixing approaches, the country's cricket board announced. Umar, who turns 30 in May, last month withdrew a challenge to the charges. The batsman's ban is effective from February 20, when he was provisionally suspended by the board under its anti-corruption code, which states a...
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Nokia clinches $1bn deal with India's Airtel
With a population of 1.3 billion, India is the world’s second largest telecoms market, which Nokia predicts will grow to 920 million unique mobile customers within five years as online demand soars. HELSINKI: Finnish network equipment maker Nokia has secured a multi-year contract to boost the capacity of one of India's largest mobile operators, the firm announced yesterday. The deal, which an industry source told AFP is valued at almost $1...
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Hayef demands list of MPs intervening for visa traders
By B IzzakKUWAIT: MP Mohammad Hayef yesterday asked Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh over reports that a number of MPs have mediated to secure the release of people suspected of visa trading. The lawmaker asked the minister if any MPs have tried to mediate for visa traders or obstructed the interior ministry's plans to refer such cases to the public prosecution. If the reports are true, Hayef demanded names of these lawmakers and names of...
Israeli Arab doctor Khitam Hussein, head of the COVID-19 response division at the Rambam Hospital near Haifa in northern Israel, talks to a member of staff at the medical center, on April 16, 2020. - Each morning since February, Israeli Arab doctor Khitam Hussein has woken up before dawn to rush to a job on the frontline of the country's fight against the novel coronavirus. Hussein, 44, has emerged as a prominent member of Israel's often marginalised Arab community which is now playing an essential role in confronting an unprecedented health crisis. She heads the outbreak response at the Rambam Hospital near Haifa, the largest hospital in northern Israel, and has been working 12 hour days for months. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
Arab doctor leads Israeli hospital's anti-virus fight
HAIFA: Israeli Arab doctor Khitam Hussein, head of the COVID-19 response division at the Rambam Hospital near Haifa in northern Israel, talks to a member of staff at the medical center. - AFP HAIFA: Each morning since February, Israeli Arab doctor Khitam Hussein has woken up before dawn to rush to a job on the frontline of the country's fight against the novel coronavirus. Hussein, 44, has emerged as a prominent member of Israel's often...
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Inside Connecticut 'ground war' against virus at nursing homes
CONNECTICUT: A 'prone team', wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), turns a COVID-19 patient onto his stomach in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit (ICU) in Stamford, Connecticut. - AFP BRIDGEPORT: On Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, across the road from a hospital grappling with the coronavirus crisis, a nondescript brick building is playing a key role in the state's plan to free up acute-care beds and protect its ailing...
Iranian taxi drivers wait for passengers at Aryashahr station, a transport hub in west Tehran on April 26, 2020, as their services have been among the hardest hit since the country's coronavirus outbreak. - Usually Tehran's tens of thousands of taxi drivers have to battle maddening traffic but now the coronavirus is driving them around the bend. Since it first emerged in Iran in mid-February, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease has claimed 5,700 lives and infected 90,000, according to Iran's government. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Virus drives Tehran cabbies around the bend
TEHRAN: Iranian taxi drivers wait for passengers at Aryashahr station, a transport hub in west Tehran as their services have been among the hardest hit since the country's coronavirus outbreak. - AFP TEHRAN: Usually Tehran's tens of thousands of taxi drivers have to battle maddening traffic but now the coronavirus is driving them around the bend. Since it first emerged in Iran in mid-February, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease has...
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US downplays Iranian military satellite as 'tumbling webcam'
This file handout photo shows an Iranian military satellite-dubbed the Nour-which the Revolutionary Guards said was launched from the Qassed two-stage launcher in the Markazi desert, a vast expanse in Iran's central plateau, amid tensions with US. - AFP WASHINGTON: The head of the US Space Command said the Pentagon believes that Iran's first successful launch of a military satellite into space does not pose any intelligence threat. The Nour...
People wear face protection masks at the Bahnhof Zoo subway station in Berlin on April 27, 2020 in Berlin, amid the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - Protective masks will be required on public transport in most parts of Germany, with capital Berlin joining on April 27, 2020 a wave of federal states in ordering the measure to stem contagion of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
Germans don masks to ward off COVID-19
BERLIN: People wear face protection masks at the Bahnhof Zoo subway station in Berlin, amid the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP BERLIN: Germany made wearing masks on public transport and in most shops mandatory on Monday, even offering them in vending machines, as the country became the latest to cover up in the fight against the coronavirus. "It's warm, slippery, you can't breathe well, but if it's to avoid infection, I'm fine with...
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation
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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP
Mideast seethes amid carnage
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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