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stc welcomes Ramadan with its 'Ramadan Lives On' campaign
Danah Al-Jasem KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, launched its "Ramadan Lives On" campaign with a dedication to the people of Kuwait and the Arab world, wishing a blessed and fulfilling Holy Month of Ramadan.In a statement released by the Company, stc announced that it released a Ramadan advertisement...
Reindeer herder Yeiko Serotetto cuts frozen fish for breakfast at his family's camp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia, February 15, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Alec Luhn
Arctic gas push threatens reindeer herders
Reindeer herder Yeiko Serotetto cuts frozen fish for breakfast at his family's camp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia.-Reuters YAMAL-NENETS, Russia: The flare stack at the Yarudeiskoye gas well burns brightly through the long Arctic night, lighting up the treeless tundra in northern Russia as compressors fill the air with an incessant whine. Indigenous Nenets reindeer herders say oil and gas operations in the Yamal region -...
TOPSHOT - An official in a hazmat suit waits inside a high school entrance as a student arrives in Beijing on April 27, 2020. - Senior students returned to class for the first time since schools were closed down in January as part of efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
Some countries to repatriate their workers soon: Jarallah
BEIJING: An official in a hazmat suit waits inside a high school as a student arrives yesterday. - AFP By B Izzak and AgenciesKUWAIT/BEIJING: A number of countries will start "very soon" to repatriate thousands of their nationals stranded in Kuwait who benefited from an amnesty offered by the government to illegal expats, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said yesterday. The workers have been living in temporary shelters set up by the...
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Saudi eliminates death penalty for crimes by minors
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will no longer impose the death sentence on individuals who committed crimes while still minors, the state-backed Human Rights Commission (HRC) said in a statement, citing a royal decree by King Salman. "The decree means that any individuals who received a death sentence for crimes committed while he or she is a minor can no longer face execution. Instead, the individual will receive a prison sentence of no longer than 10...
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North Korea's Kim 'alive and well': Seoul
MOUNT PAEKTU, North Korea: This undated file picture released on Oct 16, 2019 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse amongst the first snow on Mount Paektu. - AFP SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "alive and well", a top security adviser to the South's President Moon Jae-in said, downplaying rumors over Kim's health following his absence from a key anniversary. Conjecture over Kim has grown since his conspicuous...
A picture taken on April 24, 2020, shows Saudi policemen standing guard next to the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, amid unprecedented bans on family gatherings and mass prayers due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo by STR / AFP)
COVID-19: Asia's mosques deserted
MAKKAH: Saudi policemen stand guard next to the Kaaba in Makkah's Grand Mosqueduring the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, amid unprecedented bans on family gatherings and mass prayers due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. - AFP JAKARTA: It is a Ramadan like never before for Muslims across Asia as mosques that would normally be packed for prayers are deserted and in some places locked up as governments enforced measures to stem the spread of...
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a statement in Downing Street in central London on April 27, 2020 after returning to work following more than three weeks off after being hospitalised with the COVID-19 illness. - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returns to work on Monday more than three weeks after being hospitalised with the novel coronavirus and spending three days in intensive care. Johnson, one of the highest-profile people to have contracted the virus, returned to 10 Downing Street on Sunday evening. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)
UK reports lowest virus toll in weeks as Johnson returns
LONDON: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a statement in Downing Street in central London yesterday after returning to work following more than three weeks off after being hospitalised with the COVID-19 illness. - AFP LONDON: Britain has reported its lowest daily rise in coronavirus deaths in nearly four weeks as officials confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson had returned to Downing Street after recovering from the virus. The number...
Fighters with Yemen's separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) stand guard at the entrance of the Ministry of Finance's premises in the southern city of Aden, on April 26, 2020, after the council declared self-rule in the south. - The declaration comes as a peace deal with the government crumbled, complicating a long and separate conflict with Huthi rebels who control much of the north. (Photo by Saleh Al-OBEIDI / AFP)
Coalition rejects declaration of self-rule in south Yemen
ADEN: Fighters with Yemen's separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) stand guard at the entrance of the ministry of finance's premises in this southern city on Sunday after the council declared self-rule in the south. - AFP RIYADH: The Saudi-led military coalition yesterday rejected Yemen separatists' declaration of self-rule over the country's south and demanded "an end to any escalatory actions". The separatists' move complicates a long...
Students wearing face masks arrive at the Huayu Middle School in Shanghai on April 27, 2020. - Students returned to class on April 27 for the first time since schools were closed down in January as part of efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
Students return to class in Shanghai and Beijing
SHANGHAI: Students wearing face masks arrive at the Huayu Middle School in Shanghai yesterday. Students returned to class yesterday for the first time since schools were closed down in January as part of efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. - AFP BEIJING: Tens of thousands of students returned to school in Shanghai and Beijing yesterday after months of closures intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as China's major...
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Virus breaks funeral traditions in Italy
REVELLO: Owner of funeral home company 'Palmero' Giampiero Palmero pulls a coffin at his company's offices in Revello, near Cuneo, northwestern Italy, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection. - AFP REVELLO: The coffins are sealed directly at the hospital morgue near the tiny Italian town of Revello on the French border. Everyone in Revello understands it is safer that way since so many of those who...
Health workers disinfect themselves after taking swabs tests of patients inside a COVID-19 coronavirus ward that houses suspected cases in Pikine Hospital in Dakar on April 23, 2020. - As COVID-19 coronavirus cases slowly increase in Senegal, hospitals are preparing to receive and test suspect cases whilst safely treating their normal patients. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
Faces from Africa's anti-virus frontlines
DAKAR: Health workers disinfect themselves after taking swabs tests of patients inside a COVID-19 coronavirus ward that houses suspected cases in Pikine Hospital in Dakar. - AFP DAKAR: Across Africa, obscure or forgotten health and government officials have been propelled into the public eye because of their role in fighting coronavirus. Some are unsung veterans of previous efforts to stop epidemics, such as Ebola or AIDS. Others are from a...
Labourers pluck tea leafs after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Kiranchandra Tea Garden, some 20 kms from Siliguri on April 26, 2020. (Photo by DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP)
India's rural poor lose out as drones map village land
SILIGURI: Laborers pluck tea leafs after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Kiranchandra Tea Garden, some 20 kms from Siliguri. - AFP BANGKOK: A government plan to map residential areas in rural India and issue title deeds could benefit hundreds of millions of people, but exclude lower-caste communities and those traditionally denied land, human rights...
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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