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Could the new coronavirus weaken 'anti-vaxxer' group?
BERLIN: People sit in the sun along the banks of the Landwehr Canal in Berlin amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for ‘patience’ in the coronavirus crisis, saying that society will have to ‘live with the virus’ until a vaccine becomes available. – AFP LISBON: An American mother-of-three is a long-time member of "anti-vaxxer" groups online: a small but vocal global community that...
A man watches a television news broadcast showing file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on April 14, 2020. - North Korea fired several suspected cruise missiles on April 14 towards the sea, according to the South's military, with analysts saying Pyongyang was demonstrating the breadth of its arsenal. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
North Korea fires multiple suspected cruise missiles
SEOUL: A man watches a television news broadcast showing file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul yesterday. – AFP SEOUL: North Korea yesterday fired several suspected cruise missiles towards the sea, the South's military said. The "multiple projectiles" fired from Munchon in the east of the country were believed to be "short-range cruise missiles," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The test comes...
A jogger runs on a empty boulevard past the Paris' Cathedral Notre Dame at the sunrise on the eve of the first anniversary of the violent fire who destroyed a large part of the monument, on April 14, 2020, on the twenty-nineth day of a lockdown in France to stop the spread of the COVID-19, (the novel coronavirus). - One year ago, on April 15, 2019, a fire erupted in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, partly destroying the nearly millenium old building and its precious artworks visited by millions of people a year. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP)
Lockdown stalls the Notre-Dame rebirth one year after fire
PARIS: A jogger runs on an empty boulevard past the Paris' Cathedral Notre Dame at the sunrise on the eve of the first anniversary of the violent fire that destroyed a large part of the monument. - AFP PARIS: Perched over the gaping roof of Notre-Dame, a crane stands idle above the silent Paris cathedral, where repair work has ground to a halt one year after the monstrous blaze that nearly destroyed one of the world's most revered monuments....
View of patients being treated for COVID-19, at the field hospital of the IESS Hospital Los Ceibos in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 13, 2020 during the novel coronavirus 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 Enrique Ortiz / AFP)
COVID-19: Failures in Ecuador a warning for Latin America
GUAYAQUIL: View of patients being treated for COVID-19, at the field hospital of the IESS Hospital Los Ceibos in Guayaquil, Ecuador during the novel coronavirus pandemic. - AFP GUAYAQUIL: 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...
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Grand repatriation plan for Kuwaitis begins April 19: PM
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting on Monday. - KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said Monday that the grand repatriation plan for Kuwaiti nationals abroad will begin on Sunday April 19. This plan will be carried out under the directives set by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and hopefully...
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Kuwait small business owners hit hard by pandemic, face bankruptcy
KUWAIT: This file photo shows empty streets in Kuwait City during curfew hours. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The coronavirus crisis has hit almost all businesses in Kuwait and the entire world. But small businesses have been the most affected, as for most entrepreneurs it's the only source of livelihood, and most of them will not be able to survive several months of closure. Some businesses are able to somehow operate...
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Amnesty: Today final day for Bangladeshi nationals, Indian applicants start tomorrow
KUWAIT: Bangladeshi nationals queue up outside a school in Farwaniya which was turned into a center to receive applications wishing to avail the amnesty. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Bangladeshi nationals headed for the third day on Monday to centers set up by the Ministry of Interior to receive expatriates without valid residencies who are wishing to avail an amnesty allowing residency violators to leave the country between April 1 and...
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Kuwaiti students in US are part of great tradition of educational cooperation: Envoy
US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina Romanowski KUWAIT: US Ambassador to Kuwait Alina Romanowski said her country attached great importance to the safety of the approximately 12,000 Kuwaitis at US universities who could continue their study online from Kuwait. "To those students, I send them my greetings and best wishes, and would like them to know that we are thinking of them during these challenging times," she said, referring to the global combat...
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Airlines plan flights for expats to return home
KUWAIT: The Department General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced through its circular no (2020/45) that it would receive the requests of airlines to conduct flights for evacuation from Kuwait. Cabinet ministers accepted on April 9 the operation of all airline flights for expats who are wishing to return back to their countries.Lufthansa German Airlines planned for a commercial flight tomorrow, leaving Kuwait to four cities: Frankfurt, Chicago,...
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Illegal workers arrested in Wafra crackdown
By Meshaal Al-EneziKUWAIT: Upon instructions from Manpower Authority Director Ahmed Al-Moussa the joint committee following up the status of expat laborers led by deputy director for manpower protection affairs Mubarak Al-Azmi inspected several farms in Wafra agricultural area.The inspection campaign resulted in arresting a number of illegal laborers who had been accommodated inside farms, filing a number of citations against citizens...
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'Infected' building fire an arson: KFSD
By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: Investigations into a fire reported recently in Mirqab was an arson, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) announced yesterday. A fire was reported last week in a building that was evacuated due to suspicions of cases infected with the novel coronavirus being there. The fire was put out by Madina and Hilali fire stations' men, KFSD said.Separately, Airport customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle nearly two...
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Pandemic Diaries: Returning home
By Jamie Etheridgeweek Kuwait will begin the process of bringing home the more than 40,000+ citizens stranded abroad. Many of these are students or young professionals, but there are also those who were on holiday when all this started and others who had work commitments or family outside Kuwait.That the government is organizing such a massive airlift is admirable and commendable. Many governments do little to help citizens abroad; some have...
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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