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New iPhone may be coming
Despite a pandemic-induced global economic crisis, Apple is widely believed to be set to release a reduced-priced handset that aims to fill a gap in its lineup.—AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Is now the time to launch a new iPhone?Despite a pandemic-induced global economic crisis, Apple is widely believed to be set to release a reduced-priced handset that aims to fill a gap in its lineup, as early as this month.Google could also follow a similar path,...
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Ahead of the curve: S Korea's evolving strategy to prevent a virus resurgence
SEOUL: A smartphone tracking app for new airport arrivals. A "smart city" database of thousands of people infected by the new coronavirus and their contacts. Electronic bracelets that track people breaking quarantine laws. South Korea, among the first countries to bring a major coronavirus outbreak under control, is now taking steps to control the disease well into the future, relying heavily on technology and its hyper-connected society.The...
TOPSHOT - Medical staff are seen in the newly-inaugurated intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients at the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital in Riffa, on April 14, 2020. - Bahrain converted in seven days the third floor of the BDF Hospital parking lot into a large intensive care unit (ICU) accommodating beds equipped with respiratory and reanimation equipment. (Photo by Mazen Mahdi / AFP)
Trump freezes WHO funds as world weighs easing lockdown
RIFFA, Bahrain: Medical staff are seen in the newly-inaugurated intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients at the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital on Tuesday. - AFP KUWAIT/WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on funding for the World Health Organization for "mismanaging" the coronavirus crisis, as world leaders weighed easing lockdowns that threaten to tip the global economy into a second Great Depression. The death toll from the...
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Social distancing needed until 2022
WASHINGTON: A one-time lockdown won't halt the novel coronavirus and repeated periods of social distancing may be required into 2022 to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, Harvard scientists who modeled the pandemic's trajectory said Tuesday. Their study comes as the US enters the peak of its COVID-19 caseload and states eye an eventual easing of tough lockdown measures.The Harvard team's computer simulation, which was published in a...
Family members of a victim of the COVID-19 coronavirus walk past burial sites at a cemetery in Jakarta on April 15, 2020. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP)
Virus 'tracing' by smartphone
JAKARTA: Family members of a victim of the COVID-19 coronavirus walk past burial sites at a cemetery in Jakarta yesterday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Can an app contain the pandemic? Interest is growing in smartphone technology as a potential key to ending lockdowns and reopening economies around the world. Digital "contact tracing" would allow mobile systems to log instances where people have been in proximity with an infected person and send alerts...
A full moon is pictured in the sky over Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip on April 8, 2020. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Row in Gaza over arrests for Zoom chat with Israelis
RAFAH: A full moon is pictured in the sky over Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip.- AFP GAZA: A fierce dispute has divided the Palestinian community after Gaza's rulers, Hamas, arrested six local activists for chatting by video conference with left-leaning campaigners in Israel. Islamist group Hamas bans all communications with Israel and last week arrested the six members of the Gaza Youth Committee on charges of "treason" and...
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Anger in Africa over coronavirus 'stigma' in China amid concerns
GUANGZHOU: File photo shows people gathering on a street in the 'Little Africa' district in Guangzhou, the capital of southern China's Guangdong province. - AFP ABUJA: African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling stigma and discrimination in China over the coronavirus pandemic, apparently linked to a cluster of cases in the Nigerian community in the southern city of Guangzhou. The African residents say they have...
Indonesian doctors wearing protective gear hold newborn babies wearing face shields as protective measures amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at a clinic in Bireuen, Aceh province on April 15, 2020. (Photo by AMANDA JUFRIAN / AFP)
Heartbreak, struggle, fear for staff on the COVID-19 frontline
BIREUEN, Indonesia: Indonesian doctors wearing protective gear hold newborn babies wearing face shields as protective measures amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at a clinic in Bireuen, Aceh province. _ AFP ROME: Doctors, nurses and healthcare workers have become the unwitting heroes ofthe coronavirus pandemic, winning applause from balconies and streets around the world. From Yaounde to Rome to New York, the pandemic has infected more than...
A pick-up truck carries coffins as its drives past the IESS Hospital Los Ceibos in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 13, 2020 during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - With hundreds of bodies left decaying in homes for days due to lack of space in the city's overwhelmed morgues and hospitals, the coronavirus has struck a blow to Ecuador's economic capital Quayaquil, now a symbol of the chaos the pandemic can unleash among Latin America's poor. (Photo by Jose S·nchez / AFP)
COVID-19 hits 'like a bomb' as toll rises in Ecuador 's business capital
GUAYAQUIL: A pick-up truck carries coffins as its drives past the IESS Hospital Los Ceibos in Guayaquil, Ecuador during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP GUAYAQUIL: Ecuador's economic capital Guayaquil is reeling from the most aggressive outbreak of COVID-19 in Latin America after the pandemic hit the city "like a bomb," its mayor said. Cynthia Viteri has emerged from her own bout with the virus to battle the worst crisis the port...
A man searches in a bag for his clearance document at the main gate to Omole Estate, whose occupants were attacked by armed bandits capitalising on the lockdown in Lagos, on April 14, 2020. - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on April 13, 2020, ordered a two-week extension to a lockdown in largest city Lagos, neighbouring Ogun state and capital Abuja, aimed at halting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
Unrest fears rise as Lagos extends COVID lockdown
LAGOS: A man searches in a bag for his clearance document at the main gate to Omole Estate, whose occupants were attacked by armed bandits capitalizing on the lockdown in Lagos. - AFP LAGOS: Bus driver Christian did not sleep at all last night after Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari ordered an extension to the lockdown in his sprawling home city Lagos to halt the coronavirus. A few hours before the announcement on Monday evening, word spread...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 12, 2017, US Vice President Joe Biden wipes away tears as he walks past President Barack Obama after he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a tribute to Biden at the White House in Washington, DC. - Former US President Barack Obama is set to endorse Biden as a the Democratic nominee running against US President Donald Trump, sources close to ex-president said on April 14, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)
Obama endorses Biden for president to 'heal' America
WASHINGTON: In this file photo, US Vice President Joe Biden wipes away tears as he walks past President Barack Obama after he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. - AFP WASHINGTON: Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden's White House bid on Tuesday, saying his longtime vice president can unify and "heal" a nation struggling through some of its darkest moments. The formal backing by perhaps the most popular politician in America is the latest...
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Govt insists on debt law as MPs provide alternatives
By B IzzakKUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly's budgets committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad said the government still insists on passing legislation allowing it to borrow up to KD 20 billion, while most MPs are opposed to this and have offered alternatives. Abdulsamad was speaking following an expanded meeting by the committee, which also discussed measures by the government to rationalize spending and safeguard sovereign wealth funds, and proposed...
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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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
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation