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Drivers can receive licenses
KUWAIT: Citizens and residents who renewed their driving licenses online from March 11 to March 29, can receive their licenses from Mubarak Al-Kabeer Traffic Department from 8 am till 1 pm starting today. The department will receive people according to the first letter of their names in the Arabic alphabet.Online shoppingKUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce added six more areas to the co-ops' grocery shopping website www.moci.shop. Now people can...
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Pandemic Diaries: Protect them all
By Jamie Etheridgereality is so shocking, so impossibly unjust, that it's hard to even believe. That is how I felt when I read the news this week that 10 nurses in Santa Monica, California had been suspended for refusing to work with COVID-19 patients without being provided N95 masks. The hospital claimed that the masks were in low supply, but CNN, which reported the story, confirmed that other medical staff including doctors, nurses and lab...
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Wages under fire
By Muna Al-FuzaiCOVID-19 crisis has revealed to us how governments and companies around the world are handling the issue of salaries. This subject is not only a local concern, but a global one. I believe it can be resolved with some compromises. There are several successful models of companies as well as bad examples, but the dilemma can be resolved.I know this issue is very sensitive and the first victim is often the junior employee. I think...
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Zwara tradition interrupted
By Abdellatif Sharaaweekend has traditionally witnessed an almost "sacred tradition", as people gather at their parents' home for lunch and visits, known in the Kuwaiti dialect as "zwara". But this tradition has been abruptly interrupted by an unwanted visitor - COVID-19 - which kept everyone captive in their homes. Thanks to social media applications that allow people to communicate safely and away from the possibility of being infected with...
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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far
KUWAIT: Kuwait has so far recorded 1,751 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in addition to six deaths. With the exception of 34 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 Health...
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DiCaprio and De Niro seek 'co-star' in virus charity drive
Photo shows DiCaprio (right) and De Niro(left). Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro have rallied fellow Hollywood A-listers in a new coronavirus fundraising campaign by offering a walk-on role in their upcoming film to one lucky donor. The actors are set to star in "Killers of the Flower Moon," one of next year's most hotly anticipated movies, which is directed by Martin Scorsese and tells the true story of Native American killings in 1920s...
In this photograph taken on April 8, 2020, workers of an all-female robotic team build a ventilator in preparation for COVID-19 coronavirus patients, at a workshop, in Herat. - A team of robot-designing girls in Afghanistan is trying to build a low-cost medical ventilator from car parts, as health authorities look to boost critical-care capabilities for coronavirus patients in the impoverished country. If the teenagers succeed and can get government approval for their prototype, they say it could be replicated for as little as $300, where normally ventilators sell for around $30,000. (Photo by Ahmad Idres Naderi / AFP)
Afghan girls try building ventilator from used car parts
In this photograph workers of an all-female robotic team build a ventilator in preparation for COVID-19 coronavirus patients, at a workshop, in Herat. - AFP photo A team of robot-designing girls in Afghanistan is trying to build a low-cost medical ventilator from car parts, as health authorities look to boost critical-care capabilities for coronavirus patients in the impoverished country. If the teenagers succeed and can get government approval...
Labourers sort raw mangoes after an auction at the Gaddiannaram fruit market during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on April 16, 2020. (Photo by Noah SEELAM / AFP)
G20 agrees to debt relief for poorest countries
HYDERABAD: Laborers sort raw mangoes after an auction at the Gaddiannaram fruit market during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, on the outskirts of Hyderabad yesterday.-AFP RIYADH: With the global economy plunged into the worst recession in a century, the Group of 20 nations on Wednesday announced a one-year debt standstill for the world's poorest nations as they struggle to deal...
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Reeling states leave jobless Americans waiting for help
WASHINGTON: At least 17 million Americans pushed out of their jobs since mid-March by the coronavirus pandemic. WASHINGTON: After losing his job last month, Nashawn Cooper waited more than four weeks as the bills piled up and his bank account dwindled to four dollars before the US state of Georgia approved his claim for unemployment benefits. "I didn't know what I was going to do," Cooper, 36, told AFP in a phone interview from his home in...
(FILES) This file photo taken on March 10, 2020 shows the empty Borussia-Park football stadium in Mˆnchengladbach, western Germany, amid the new coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. - Football fans and concert-goers could be barred from seeing their favourite teams and bands play live in Germany for 18 months due to the corokpnavirus, according to a science expert on April 13, 2020. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)
Sports can come back but without fans: Fauci
MONCHENGLADBACH: This file photo shows the empty Borussia-Park football stadium in Monchengladbach, western Germany, amid the new coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. Football fans and concert-goers could be barred from seeing their favorite teams and bands play live for 18 months due to the coronavirus. – AFP LOS ANGELES: The top US health and infectious disease specialist says the key to reopening professional sports leagues in America is to...
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India seal women's World Cup berth
NEW DELHI: India have qualified for the 2021 women's World Cup after the International Cricket Council declared that the points from a cancelled series against Pakistan would be shared. The series, part of the ICC Women's Championship, was unable to be played after India's governing body, the BCCI, said it could not get government clearance to host Pakistan with tensions rising between the neighbors over the disputed Kashmir region.The ICC...
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Kuwait steps up pressure on visa traders amid coronavirus
By B Izzak KUWAIT: The government has stepped up measures to crackdown on visa traders, already arresting two major traders and sending them to court while other agencies have launched search campaigns to improve living conditions of low-paid expat workers.Head of the Public Manpower Authority Ahmad Al-Mousa said yesterday that a high-level government committee headed by Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh has been assigned to combat visa traders,...
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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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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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation
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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