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Pandemic Diaries: Be careful
By Jamie Etheridgewe were kids, after my father died and left us broke and bereft in Alabama, my mother took on the role of family worrier. Each time one of her seven children left the house to go to school or work or even just up the street to the corner market or over to a friend's house, she'd call out "Be careful" as we walked out the door. Wrapped inside her plea were also all the words that she didn't say: "Stay safe. Come home. I love...
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An integral part of society
By Abdellatif Sharaadoctor called me early in the morning and asked me for some products used to clean sensitive skin, and told me she will be waiting for me at Gate 5 of Jaber Hospital. I immediately realized that the place is the coronavirus quarantine site. I did my best to get the required products, and rushed to the hospital to deliver what the doctor wanted, and what I saw there made me happy, or to be more accurate, satisfied, because...
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Kuwait Minister calls OPEC+ deal historic
Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel KUWAIT: Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel on Sunday confirmed that OPEC and non-OPEC oil producing states had worked out a deal to slash crude output by 10 million barrels per day in May and June. The agreement is historic and the greatest in the oil history, said the minister in a statement to Kuwait TV, affirming that it had been endorsed by the stakeholders in the sector.Oil markets have been negatively affected by...
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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far
KUWAIT: Kuwait has so far recorded 1,300 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in addition to two deaths. With the exception of 26 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...
AC Milan's Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (C) talks with fans as he leaves the Arsta IP training ground in Stockholm, on Apil 9, 2020 after participating in a training session of the Swedish footboll league club Hammarby's. (Photo by various sources / AFP) / Sweden OUT
Sponsors worry they are paying for nothing
STOCKHOLM: AC Milan's Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (C) talks with fans as he leaves the Arsta IP training ground in Stockholm, on Apil 9, 2020 after participating in a training session of the Swedish football league club Hammarby. - AFP PARIS: With stadiums dark, match shirts folded in closets and most players confined at home, football's sponsors have lost all visibility and are growing restless. European clubs are struggling to offer...
Alexandra Recchia of France, five-time karate world champion, trains in the garden of her house on April 3, 2020, in L'Hay-les-Roses, near Paris, on the 18th day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
Sports events around the world hit by coronavirus pandemic
PARIS: Alexandra Recchia of France, five-time karate world champion, trains in the garden of her house, in L'Hay-les-Roses, near Paris, on the 18th day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). - AFP NEW YORK: Major sports events around the world that have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic:OLYMPICS The postponed Olympic Games will now begin on July 23, 2021 and run until Aug. 8.World Athletics...
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'Friends' reunion delayed by coronavirus
In this file photo taken on September 21, 2002 cast members from "Friends," which won Outstanding Comedy, series pose for photogarpher at the 54th Annual Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles . - AFP The much-anticipated "Friends" reunion has been delayed and will not be available at the launch of HBO Max, the new streaming platform said Friday, as the global coronavirus pandemic shuts down productions across Hollywood. News of the...
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Meghan dress designer Clare Waight Keller leaves Givenchy
The designer Clare Waight Keller at her Givenchy couture show in January.-- Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times British fashion designer Clare Waight Keller, who created the wedding dress for Meghan Markle when she married Prince Harry, is stepping down from her role as artistic director of French fashion house Givenchy, the company said in a statement Friday. Clare Waight Keller, 49, became Givenchy's artistic director in 2017, the first...
A floating accomodation facilities, which will be used as temporary housing for healthy foreign workers as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, is docked at Tanjong Pagar terminal port in Singapore on April 12, 2020. - Thousands of migrant workers are being moved out of crowded dormitories in Singapore after a surge in new coronavirus cases linked to the sites, authorities said on April 9. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)
Pandemic a 'perfect storm' for South Asia
SINGAPORE: A floating accommodation facilities, which will be used as temporary housing for healthy foreign workers as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, is docked at Tanjong Pagar terminal port in Singapore yesterday. Thousands of migrant workers are being moved out of crowded dormitories in Singapore after a surge in new coronavirus cases linked to the sites, authorities said.-AF NEW DELHI: South Asia is...
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Oil prices, virus, instability put Algeria on edge
ALGIERS: Algeria faces economic and social turmoil if crude prices continue to collapse, experts have warned, with the oil-dependent country reeling from a year of popular protests, political turmoil and now, coronavirus. The North African country is an example of how hydrocarbon economies are likely to face unrest if oil prices remain at near two-decade lows due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a price war between key players Saudi Arabia and...
The chief of a telemedicine centre Andrei Tyazhelnikov talks to the media in Moscow on April 7, 2020. - The city of Moscow opened a telemedicine centre to treat and support coronavirus patients who are well enough to stay home. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
Amid pandemic, a turning point for telemedicine
MOSCOW: The chief of a telemedicine center Andrei Tyazhelnikov talks to the media in Moscow. The city of Moscow opened a telemedicine center to treat and support coronavirus patients who are well enough to stay home. - AFP WASHINGTON: For a follow-up visit after her recent cancer surgery, Gail Rae-Garwood opted for a video consultation with her specialist, avoiding a long journey-and potential exposure to COVID-19 in medical offices. "I am so...
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UK death toll nears 10,000
BOURTON ON THE WATER: A sign reads 'Village Closed' on the side of the road leading into the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water, central England as life in Britain continues over the Easter break, during the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. - AFP LONDON: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson was making "very good progress" in his recovery in hospital from coronavirus, officials said, as the country's deaths...
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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