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(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 12, 2020, the UN Security Council meets at the UN headquarters in New York City. - After weeks of disagreement -- especially between the US and China -- the UN Security Council will meet on April 9, 2020, to discuss the coronavirus pandemic for the first time. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)
Despite COVID-19 disruptions, UN carries on - by videoconference
NEW YORK: In this file photo, the UN Security Council meets at the UN headquarters in New York City. - AFP UNITED NATIONS: The usually buttoned-down world of the United Nations is having an unruly April as it copes with the global coronavirus pandemic in a city that is suffering terribly from it. The UN Security Council's president is stuck in the Caribbean. Closed-door meetings of ambassadors have been upheaved by news leaks. Video conferences...
Monkeys get on a motorcycle to eat fruits from a box during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi on April 10, 2020. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)
Tourists forced to write 'sorry' 500 times
NEW DELHI: Monkeys get on a motorcycle to eat fruits from a box during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi. _ AFP NEW DELHI: Ten foreigners who broke a coronavirus lockdown in an Indian town made famous by the Beatles, were forced to repent by writing "I am so sorry" - 500 times, officials said. The nationwide lockdown was imposed near the end of March, with residents...
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N Korea's Kim reshuffles the top governing body
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has carried out a major reshuffle of his State Affairs Commission, official media reported yesterday, replacing more than a third of its members. Kim has established an iron grip on the levers of authority in his nuclear-armed country since inheriting power in his late 20s in 2011.He is chairman of the SAC - the North's highest decision-making body - and five of its 13 other members were replaced at a...
Aerial view of workers burying a coffin at Maria Canals cemetery in the outskirts of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 12, 2020. (Photo by Jose S·nchez / AFP)
Ecuador's police collect 800 bodies from the epicenter
GUAYAQUIL: Aerial view of workers burying a coffin at Maria Canals cemetery in the outskirts of Guayaquil, Ecuador. - AFP GUAYAQUIL: Ecuador said police have removed almost 800 bodies in recent weeks from homes in Guayaquil, the epicenter of the country's coronavirus outbreak, after the disease overwhelmed emergency services, hospitals and funeral parlors. Mortuary workers in the Pacific port city have been unable to cope with a backlog, with...
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UK PM thanks medics as millions celebrate Easter on lockdown
LONDON: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a television address after returning to 10 Downing Street after being discharged from St Thomas' Hospital, in central London. - AFP LONDON: Virus-stricken British Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked medics for saving his life after leaving hospital on Easter Sunday, as hundreds of millions of Christians observed the holiday under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than half of...
Christians hold candles as they offer prayers during an Easter service in the rooftop of their house during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad on April 12, 2020. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)
Christians in Pakistan face the Easter vulnerable and jobless
ISLAMABAD: Christians hold candles as they offer prayers during an Easter service in the rooftop of their house during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad. - AFP ISLAMABAD: Days after the coronavirus crisis took hold in Pakistan, Aamir Gill, a cleaner and member of the country's Christian underclass, was fired with no warning or severance by the wealthy family he had...
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Kuwait PACI launches online civil ID app
By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Kuwait's Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) has launched an online civil ID app where citizens and residents can carry their civil ID on their smart phone. To obtain the mobile civil ID, users must first download the app 'Kuwait mobile ID' for iPhones or Android devicess and then enroll in the program. The application is available in Arabic and English.Requirements: Must be a citizen or resident of Kuwait with...
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PM hails cooperation between executive, judicial branches
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Chairman of Kuwait's Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) and the Cassation Court, and President of the Constitutional Court Justice Yousef Al-Mutawaa. - KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Hamad Al-Sabah received on Sunday at Seif Palace Chairman of Kuwait's Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) and the Cassation Court, and President of the...
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Bangladeshi nationals continue to avail amnesty
KUWAIT: Bangladeshi nationals arrive at a school in Farwaniya which was turned into a center to receive applications wishing to avail the amnesty. - Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: Bangladeshi nationals headed for the second day on Sunday 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 April...
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Quarantine sites prepared around Kuwait
KUWAIT: Director General of the Environment Public Authority Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sabah visited the southern quarantine site that was prepared by the Kuwait Integrated Petrochemical Industries Company (KIPIC) on Sunday. The site has a 1,700-bed capacity, and will be handed over to the Ministry of Health within days. Kuwait is preparing to repatriate tens of thousands of Kuwaitis from countries affected by the spread of the disease. Meanwhile,...
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155 stores closed in Ahmadi
KUWAIT: One hundred fifty five stores that did not abide by preventive measures laws to avoid the spread of coronavirus were closed since the past month, Ahmadi Governance Deputy Director for Municipality Affairs Fahad Al-Shtaili said yesterday. In a press release, Shtaili said inspectors of Al-Ahmadi Municipality sent 674 warnings, and warrants to shop owners, and issued 235 various violations, including a formal closure order to 20 stores.He...
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Salmiya building evacuated due to fire
By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: Fire broke out in a Salmiya building on Sunday, so Salmiya, Bidaa and Hilali fire stations responded. Firemen found the blaze was in a ground floor flat. The house was evacuated and the fire was put out. A fireman broke his foot and was taken to hospital for treatment.Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) Deputy Director General for the Fire Fighting Sector Maj Gen Jamal Al-Bulaihees and Hawally Fire Director Brig...
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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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Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care
‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns