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By Abdellatif SharaaMuslim lunar calendar is characterized with a month during which practicing Muslims fast during daylight hours for as long as 14 to 16 hours on average - it is the month of Ramadan. This practice, although a religious ritual, has many health benefits in general and can help any person -Muslim or otherwise - to have a healthy lifestyle. I would like to write about certain common habits that should not be followed when...

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Wellbeing Amidst Pandemic: Reframing perception

By Sadie Hussainabout the pandemic are perfectly normal. However, to those that experience intense anxiety or unhelpful thoughts that impact their day to day lives, try to focus on issues that are in your control, such as how you act, who you speak to and where you get information from.It is fine to acknowledge that some things are outside of your control, but if constant thoughts about the pandemic and its effects are leading to overwhelming...

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Paparazzi vie for scraps as Hollywood celebrities hide from virus

Ben Affleck and new girlfriend Ana de Armas. With Hollywood A-listers self-quarantined in their sprawling mansions due to the novel coronavirus, Los Angeles' notorious paparazzi have almost nobody to shoot -- despite soaring demand for celebrity pictures. The trendy nightclubs, restaurants and movie sets which are typically surrounded by photographers at all hours have been closed since California went into pandemic lockdown a month ago. This...

Irish dancer from the Moulin Rouge, Isabelle, practices at home in Paris on April 14, 2020, on the 29th day of a strict lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)

In virus lockdown, Moulin Rouge dancers go through their paces

Irish dancer from the Moulin Rouge, Isabelle, practices at home in Paris. Dancers from the Moulin Rouge in Paris, used to strutting their stuff before large, enthusiastic audiences, now have just the mirror, or sometimes a cat to perform for, as they combat lockdown stagnation with a strict exercise regime at home. Alone. Dancers of the famed cabaret who usually perform French cancans twice a day, six days a week, suddenly find themselves...

Pedestrians walk past a quotation board displaying share prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on April 17, 2020. - Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index rallied more than 3.1 percent on April 17 as investors welcomed a pledge by President Donald Trump to press ahead with reopening the US economy. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Oil prices collapse on storage fears

TOKYO: Pedestrians walk past a quotation board displaying share prices of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo. -AFP HONG KONG: Oil prices collapsed to more than two-decade lows yesterday as traders grow concerned that storage facilities are reaching their limits, while signs that the coronavirus may have peaked in Europe and the United States were unable to help Asian equities extend their recent advances.US crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate...

Commuters walk past closed shops in an underground shopping mall in Tokyo railway station on April 15, 2020. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Japan boosts stimulus to $1.1tn as virus threatens deeper recession

TOKYO: Commuters walk past closed shops in an underground shopping mall in Tokyo railway station.—AFP TOKYO: Japan is boosting its new economic stimulus package to expand cash payouts to its citizen as the coronavirus fallout threatens to push the world's third-largest economy deeper into recession. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled the new stimulus less than two weeks after his cabinet approved an earlier plan to spend 108.2 trillion yen ($1...

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COVID-19 a 'test run' for greener lifestyles?

LONDON: Participants in the Climate Assembly UK said on Sunday that working from home and other measures to help stem the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in Britain show how quickly the country could change its ways to address climate change too. -- Reuters LONDON: Working from home and other measures to help stem the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in Britain show how quickly the country could change its ways to address climate change...

A design image is pictured on a board during the ground-breaking ceremony of Guangzhou Evergrande's new stadium in Guangzhou in China's southern Guangdong province on April 16, 2020. - Chinese champions Guangzhou Evergrande on April 16 began building a new stadium costing 12 billion yuan (1.7 billion USD) and boasting a 100,000 capacity -- one of the world's largest arenas. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION

Chinese Super League to start by July

GUANGZHOU: A design image is pictured on a board during the ground-breaking ceremony of Guangzhou Evergrande's new stadium in Guangzhou in China's southern Guangdong province on April 16, 2020. Chinese champions Guangzhou Evergrande began building a new stadium costing 12 billion yuan (1.7 billion USD) and boasting a 100,000 capacity -- one of the world's largest arenas. – AFP SHANGHAI: The coronavirus-delayed Chinese Super League (CSL) season...

epa08251597 Visitors wearing face masks walk past the Olympic Rings monument in front of the Japan Olympic Committee headquarters near the new National Stadium, venue of the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Japan, 27 February 2020. Preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, scheduled to start on 24 July 2020, continue as planned despite the spreading Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, organizers confirmed. EPA-EFE/KIMIMASA MAYAMA

Olympics organisers must be flexible if coronavirus vaccine not ready in time

TOKYO: Visitors wearing face masks walk past the Olympic Rings monument in front of the Japan Olympic Committee headquarters near the new National Stadium. TOKYO: The Tokyo Olympics next July will be a "uniquely risky" event, demanding flexibility from organisers amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly if a vaccine has not been rolled out by then, medical experts say.Japan and the International Olympic Committee made the...

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Muslims face a Ramadan like never before amid pandemic

CAIRO: Egyptians look at traditional lanterns known in Arabic as "fawanees" sold for the holy month of Ramadan in the Sayeda Zainab neighborhood on Sunday. - AFP ALGIERS/CAIRO/JAKARTA/RIYADH: Days before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of the new coronavirus pandemic: Enforced separation at a time when socializing is almost sacred. The holiest month in the Islamic calendar is one...

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Recovery from coronavirus may not confer immunity

CAIRO: A picture taken on April 18, 2020 show the Great Pyramids lit up with blue light and reading with a laser projection the message "Stay Home" on the Giza plateau outside the Egyptian capital on World Heritage Day. - AFP PARIS: Even as virologists zero in on the virus that causes COVID-19, a very basic question remains unanswered: Do those who recover from the disease have immunity? There is no clear answer to this question, experts say,...

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) forensic identification unit photographs the body of a deceased man after a deadly shooting rampage, at the Big Stop near Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Canada, on April 19, 2020. - A gunman killed at least 10 people in an overnight shooting rampage across rural Nova Scotia, before being found dead following an hours-long manhunt, Canadian federal police said April 19. Earlier identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, the suspect had been on the run since Saturday night, when police were alerted to shots being fired in the small community of Portapique, around 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Halifax, capital of the Atlantic province. (Photo by Tim KROCHAK / AFP)

Gunman in mock-up police car kills 16

ELMSDALE, Canada: A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) forensic identification unit photographs the body of a deceased man after a deadly shooting rampage, at the Big Stop near Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Canada. - AFP MONTREAL: A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in an Atlantic Canada shooting rampage, federal police said Sunday, the worst case of its kind in Canadian history. The shooter, identified as...

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