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(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 22, 2020 Sheffield United's Irish defender Enda Stevens (2nd L) celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal of the English Premier League football match between Sheffield United and Brighton and Hove Albion at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, northern England. - Sheffield United announced on April 21, 2020, that their players will defer part of their wages until the end of 2020 to help the Premier League club ride out the economic storm caused by coronavirus. The Blades manager Chris Wilder, senior members of his coaching staff and chief executive Stephen Bettis have also agreed a wage deferral for six months. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /
UEFA open to seasons ending early
LONDON: File photo taken on February 22, 2020 shows Sheffield United's Irish defender Enda Stevens (2nd L) celebrates with teammates after scoring the goal of the English Premier League football match between Sheffield United and Brighton and Hove Albion. Sheffield United announced on April 21, 2020, that their players will defer part of their wages until the end of 2020 to help the Premier League club ride out the economic storm caused by...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 01, 2020, travellers wearing face masks due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, check their flights on information displays at Hamad International Airport in the Qatari capital Doha. - Qatar has seen its airline's crews applauded and won thumbs-up from governments after repatriating thousands of travellers stranded by the coronavirus aviation shutdown. Observers say Doha is hoping that by keeping its planes in the skies, in contrast to its regional competitors, it will win diplomatic points (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)
Mideast air traffic to dive by half: IATA
DOHA: In this file photo, travellers wearing face masks due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, check their flights on information displays at Hamad International Airport in the Qatari capital Doha. Air traffic in the Middle East and North Africa is set to plummet by more than half this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, a global aviation body said. -- AFP DUBAI: Air traffic in the Middle East and North Africa is set to plummet by more than...
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Backyard cinema lights up lockdown for Berliners
The Zeibig family watches the movie ‘Loving Vincent’ projected on the wall of a neighboring building from their balcony in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district during the ongoing Covid-19 novel coronavirus pandemic. – AFP After weeks of coronavirus lockdown in the German capital Berlin with bars, restaurants, shops and cinemas all closed, movies are coming to the people with projections on bare walls in the courtyards of apartment buildings....
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Burned French chefs cook up post-COVID-19 cuisine
Two persons carry flour in the catering school of the ‘Cuisine pour l’Emploi‘ in Paris on the 38th day of a strict lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. – AFP photos French chef Alain Ducasse pleaded with President Emmanuel Macron to allow a gradual reopening of the country's restaurants Friday, with the birthplace of haute cuisine badly burned by the coronavirus lockdown. With...
TOPSHOT - A picture taken on April 24, 2020, shows sanitation workers disinfection the area arround 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)
Virus toll nears 200,000 as UN pushes vaccine effort
MAKKAH: A picture taken on Friday shows sanitation workers disinfecting the area around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. - AFP WASHINGTON: The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 yesterday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has...
A health worker stands in front of a bus driving migrant workers who have been tested positive for the COVID-19 to the Warsan neighbourhood, where people infected or suspected of being infected by the virus are quarantined, in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai, on April 22, 2020. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
Sick, stranded, broke: Crisis hits Gulf expats
DUBAI: A health worker stands in front of a bus driving migrant workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to the Warsan neighborhood, where people infected or suspected of being infected by the virus are quarantined. - AFP ABU DHABI: When all nine men in his dormitory caught coronavirus, 27-year-old Nurudhin was bused to a remote quarantine camp - becoming one of many migrant workers Gulf states are struggling to accommodate adequately. The...
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Sunlight destroys virus; remdesivir fails human trials
WASHINGTON: The new coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation. William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering...
TOPSHOT - (COMBO) This combination photograph created on April 23, 2020 shows items that are in high demand in various countries as a result of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus - (top L to R) cloves of garlic in Tunisia, semolina in Algeria, black tea in Afghanistan, (middle L to R) cans of tuna in Chile, various groceries in Mexico, sugar in Sri Lanka, (bottom L to R) salted sunflower seeds in Iraq, beer in Mexico and paper in Libya. - In the US it was toilet paper, in Mexico it's beer and in France, predictably, flour. The goods missing from stores reveal how the world is coping with coronavirus lockdowns. (Photo by AFP)
Tea, wheat, garlic: How world copes with lockdown
TUNIS: Items that are in high demand in various countries as a result of the novel coronavirus - (top left to right) cloves of garlic in Tunisia, semolina in Algeria, black tea in Afghanistan; (middle left to right) cans of tuna in Chile, various groceries in Mexico, sugar in Sri Lanka; (bottom left to right) salted sunflower seeds in Iraq, beer in Mexico and paper in Libya. - AFP BAGHDAD: In the US it was toilet paper, in Mexico it's beer and...
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Four deaths, 278 new coronavirus cases in Kuwait
KUWAIT: The ministry of health on Saturday reported 278 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the tally to 2,892, while four deaths were reported. The total number of deaths has reached 19. During its daily briefing, Health Ministry Spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said 58 patients are in intensive care, 25 of them in critical condition. Those currently receiving treatment at hospitals have reached 2,217...
TOPSHOT - An aerial view shows the Great Mosque and the Mecca Tower, deserted on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, on April 24, 2020, during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis. (Photo by BANDAR ALDANDANI / AFP)
Muslims mark somber Ramadan
MAKKAH: An aerial view shows the Great Mosque and the Makkah Tower deserted on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in this holy city on Friday. - AFP RIYADH: Mosques stood empty and fast-breaking feasts were cancelled as Muslims around the world began marking Ramadan under coronavirus lockdown on Friday, while a pushback in some countries sparked fears of a surge in infections. Makkah's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, was among...
Medical staff accompany a woman (C), who was healed from the coronavirus (COVID-19) after having spend more than a month in a coma, upon her discharge from the hospital in the city of Ariana near the capital Tunis on April 24, 2020. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Tunisia hopes novel methods will aid fight
ARIANA, Tunisia: Medical staff accompany a woman (center) who was healed from COVID-19 after having spent more than a month in a coma, upon her discharge from the hospital on Friday. - AFP TUNIS: The feared impact of coronavirus on Tunisia's fragile public health system has provoked a flurry of innovation from robotics to digitalization efforts to bolster the North African country's pandemic response. The government has even turned to students...
TOPSHOT - EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A corpse of a homeless man, suspected of having the COVID-19 coronavirus, is removed by forensic workers in Acapulco, Mexico, on April 23, 2020. (Photo by FRANCISCO ROBLES / AFP)
Coronavirus, the knockout punch for multilateralism?
ACAPULCO: A corpse of a homeless man, suspected of having the COVID-19 coronavirus, is removed by forensic workers in Acapulco, Mexico. - AFP PARIS: The coronavirus pandemic blindsided international organizations, prompted individual states to unilaterally strike out alone and heralded a new chapter in the 21st century's chief geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China. In the post-COVID-19 era, will multilateralism be dead?...
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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