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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 25: People enjoy Central Park during the coronavirus pandemic on April 25, 2020 in New York City. COVID-19 has spread to most countries around the world, claiming over 202,500 lives with more than 2.8 million infections reported. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP
New York plans how to return to business
NEW YORK: People enjoy Central Park during the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday in New York City. New York City, the financial, cultural and tourism capital of the United States, is gingerly preparing to get back to business after more than a month of coronavirus shutdown.-AFP NEW YORK: Banks are considering letting some employees keep working from home indefinitely, and staggering the shifts of those who do come into the office. Hotels are...
(FILES) This combination of file pictures created on July 05, 2018 shows the first Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplane (top) at the Boeing factory in Renton, Washington, on March 7, 2017; and Embraer's new passenger jet, the ERJ 170 during a ceremony at the company's manufacturing plant in Sao Jose de los Campos, Brazil, 29 October, 2001. - Boeing announced on April 25, 2020, it was pulling out of a $4.2 billion deal to acquire the commercial plane division of its Brazilian rival Embraer. The companies had planned to form a joint venture in which Boeing would take an 80 percent stake in that division. The deal had been due to be finalized no later than April 24. (Photos by Jason Redmond and MAURICIO LIMA / AFP)
Embraer hits out after Boeing scraps $4.2 billion tie-up
This combination of file pictures shows the first Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplane (top) and Embraer's new passenger jet, the ERJ 170.-AFP SAO PAULO/PARIS: Boeing Co on Saturday pulled out of a $4.2 billion deal to buy Embraer's commercial jets division, sparking a furious response from its jilted partner and leaving plans for a US-Brazil alliance from regional jets to jumbos in tatters.The collapse, first reported by Reuters, came hours after a...
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Belarusian football wins fans abroad
MINSK: Belarusian football team in action. The Belarusian Liga is the only division in Europe defying coronavirus pandemic. MINSK: As Belarus resists imposing a lockdown to combat the coronavirus, its football league has stumbled into the international limelight as Europe's only remaining top-flight competition. But players are worried about the health risks and only diehard fans are braving matches. FC Slutsk fan Yahor Khavanski, 26, is "a bit...
September 2, 2018 - Ashleigh Barty in action against Karolina Pliskova at the 2018 US Open.
'Tricky' for Barty to maintain training intensity in shutdown
Ash Barty MUMBAI: Ash Barty is finding it tricky to maintain high intensity in training during the shutdown but the women's world number one is hoping she will be back to her usual self with the flick of a switch when tennis resumes after the COVID-19 pandemic. Like other sports around the world, professional tennis screeched to a halt in early March as the virus spread quickly around the world. It will not restart until at least mid-July.While...
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As earnings loom, Big Tech to highlight pandemic efforts
WASHINGTON, DC: Quarterly updates are due this week from Google parent Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, all of which will see an impact from the pandemic. -- AFP WASHINGTON, DC: Big Tech firms set to report quarterly results in the coming days are facing the challenge of spotlighting their roles battling the coronavirus pandemic without seeming as though they are cashing in on upheaval from the health crisis. The normal talk on...
AFP presents a photo essay of 32 images by photographer Ariana DREHSLER on pet adoptions and fostering amid the novel coronavirus pandemic in San Diego, California. - Animals shelters across the United States are emptying out thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, as people confined to their homes are adopting or fostering animals in droves. (Photo by Ariana DREHSLER / AFP)
Pet adoptions, fosters skyrocket in US amid coronavirus pandemic
CALIFORNIA: A photo essay on pet adoptions and fostering amid the novel coronavirus pandemic in San Diego, California. Animals shelters across the United States are emptying out thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, as people confined to their homes are adopting or fostering animals in droves. - AFP LOS ANGELES: Animals shelters across the United States are emptying out thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, as people confined to their homes are...
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Minister: Kuwait could ease virus restrictions after Eid
By B IzzakKUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah expressed hope that coronavirus restrictions could be eased after the Eid Al-Fitr holidays, a month from now. But the minister said he cannot be absolutely certain that some of the restrictions will be lifted. Neighboring countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have eased massive shutdowns on the occasion of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, with UAE allowing shopping...
Inmates sew protective masks at Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility in Santee, California, on April 22, 2020. - Inmates and Sheriff's deputies at the prison are practicing COVID-19 measures including wearing masks, staying keeping a safe distance and doing more frequent cleaning at the facility. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker / AFP)
In 4 US state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for COVID-19
SANTEE: Inmates sew protective masks at Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility in Santee, California. Inmates and Sheriff's deputies at the prison are practicing COVID-19 measures including wearing masks, staying keeping a safe distance and doing more frequent cleaning at the facility. - AFP OHIO: When the first cases of the new coronavirus surfaced in Ohio's prisons, the director in charge felt like she was fighting a ghost. "We weren't always...
People wear face masks amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus as they walk to a subway station in Beijing on April 23, 2020. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
Beijing bans 'uncivilized' behavior to improve hygiene amid COVID-19
BEIJING: People wear face masks amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus as they walk to a subway station in Beijing. - AFP BEIJING: Beijing has banned "uncivilized" behavior such as not covering the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing, the city government said yesterday, in a new set of regulations to improve public hygiene amid the coronavirus outbreak. The laws aim to promote "civilized behavior" and relate to combating the pandemic...
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Crisis deepens as Yemen separatists declare self-rule
DUBAI: Yemeni separatists early yesterday declared self-rule of the country's south as a peace deal with the government crumbled, complicating a long and separate conflict with Houthi rebels who control much of the north. The Southern Transitional Council (STC) accused the government of failing to perform its duties and of "conspiring" against the southern cause, and said self-governance had begun at midnight.The government condemned the move...
FILE PHOTO: Anil Salunkhe, a farmer, feeds strawberries to his cow during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Darewadi village in Satara district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Rajendra Jadhav/File Photo
Indian agricultural workers broke, uncertain as rural lockdown eased
DAREWADI, India: Anil Salunkhe, a farmer, feeds strawberries to his cow during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 in this village in Satara district in the western state of Maharashtra on April 1, 2020. - Reuters MUMBAI: As India eased its tough coronavirus lockdown for farmers, some agricultural workers said they were unaware they could return to the fields after weeks without income during the peak harvest season....
Iraqi children play at their window amid confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the southern city of Basra, on April 25, 2020. (Photo by Hussein FALEH / AFP)
Domestic abuse: Iraq's new pandemic
BASRA: Iraqi children play at their window amid confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the southern city of Basra. - AFP BAGHDAD: "More morphine!" Malak's mother cried, her 20-year-old daughter hospitalized after a marital dispute left her severely burned-the latest victim of domestic violence exacerbated by confinement in Iraq. The nationwide lockdown since mid-March is meant to keep coronavirus cases down in the country, but it has led...
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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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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP
The impact of oil discoveries