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African community targeted in China virus crackdown
GUANGZHOU: People gather on a street in the 'Little Africa' district in Guangzhou, the capital of southern China's Guangdong province. - AFP BEIJING: Africans in southern China's largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as Beijing steps up its fight against imported infections, drawing US accusations of xenophobia.China says it has largely curbed...
A rickshaw driver carries a load along a deserted road during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi on April 12, 2020. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)
Pandemic spells death sentence for India's non-COVID-19 patients
NEW DELHI: A rickshaw driver carries a load along a deserted road during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: Liver patient Shahjahan's family feared the worst when a New Delhi public hospital told her to leave because her bed was needed in a coronavirus unit. The 40-year-old mother had been on a ventilator with an acute infection for almost...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 07, 2020 Hart Island in Long Island Sound is viewed in New York. - Unclaimed victims of the new coronavirus are being buried in unmarked mass graves by contract laborers on an island in New York, officials confirmed April 10, 2020. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
In grim milestone, US records highest COVID-19 death toll
NEW YORK: Hart Island in Long Island Sound is viewed in New York. Unclaimed victims of the new coronavirus are being buried in unmarked mass graves by contract laborers on an island in New York. - AFP NEW YORK: The United States surpassed Italy on Saturday as the country with the highest reported coronavirus death toll, recording more than 20,000 deaths since the outbreak began, according to a Reuters tally. The grim milestone was reached as...
People walk on a deserted street amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at shopping district Ameya-Yokocho, located next to Ueno Station in Tokyo on April 11, 2020. - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on April 10 that the metropolitan government will request many businesses, including night clubs, karaoke parlors and pachinko pinball parlors to suspend operations from April 11 in light of the state of emergency over the coronavirus epidemic. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
Traditional Japanese seal system hampers telework for some
TOKYO: People walk on a deserted street amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at shopping district Ameya-Yokocho, located next to Ueno Station in Tokyo. - AFP TOKYO: Some Japanese office workers are facing a small, but insurmountable hurdle to staying home under the state of emergency declared in parts of the country over the virus: personal signature stamps. A reliance on paper filing systems in parts of Japan's business...
Egyptian men wearing masks wait outside a centre of non-governmental organisation Egyptian Food Bank to receive cartons with foodstuffs on April 05, 2020, as the charity distributes aid to people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis, in the Egyptian capital Cairo. - The large Cairo-based charity organisation EFB has been at the forefront of a public relief effort in the most populous Arab country, where one third of the population of over 100 million lives in poverty, surviving on about $1.50 or less a day. virus. Egypt so far has recorded 85 deaths out of 1,322 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 illness. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)
Coronavirus: Burial of Egyptian doctor triggers protest
CAIRO: Egyptian men wearing masks wait outside a centre of non-governmental organization Egyptian Food Bank to receive cartons with foodstuffs as the charity distributes aid to people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis. _ AFP CAIRO: Egyptian police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse a crowd of people who gathered in a village near the Nile Delta to prevent the burial of a doctor who died of coronavirus, according to...
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Joe Biden wins Alaska primary
Supporters check their phones as they wait for Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden to arrive at a town hall event in Charleston, South Carolina. - AFP WASHINGTON: Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was declared winner of the Alaska primary late Saturday after the state shifted to postal voting due to the coronavirus pandemic. The state's ballots were sent out before Biden's rival Bernie...
People sit on the banks of the Landwehr canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district as the sun shines on April 11, 2020 amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by David GANNON / AFP)
Germany condemns anti-French insults in the border zone
BERLIN: People sit on the banks of the Landwehr canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district as the sun shines amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Saturday condemned aggression towards French people travelling into border areas, which has flared amid the coronavirus pandemic. "Coronavirus knows nothing of nationality. It's the same for human dignity. It hurts to see how some of our French...
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15-member Indian medical team arrives in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Members of the Indian team seen on arrival at the airport. By Sajeev K PeterKUWAIT: A 15-member Indian medical team consisting of doctors and healthcare professionals arrived in Kuwait on Saturday. The rapid response team from India arrived here on a special Indian air force flight to offer support to Kuwait government's efforts in combating the spread of coronavirus in the country.During its stay in Kuwait for a period of two weeks, the...
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Kuwait Audit Bureau approves contracts for 12 quarantine sites
KUWAIT: The State Audit Bureau (SAB) approved Saturday 12 contracts for sites to be used as quarantine for Kuwaitis returning from abroad. Speaking to the press, SAB's undersecretary and head of the bureau's emergency team Suleiman Al-Busairi said that they were in contact with officials from several locally based and international-brand hotels to discuss using their facilities for quarantine.The contracts varied in daily expenses and services...
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Interior Minister examines center for residency violators
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh tours the center for harboring violators of residency law in Kabad. - Interior Ministry photos KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh toured on Saturday the center for harboring violators of residency law in Kabad. He examined precautionary and security precautions at the...
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Bangladeshi nationals avail amnesty
KUWAIT: Bangladeshi nationals line up outside 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 yesterday 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 30 without...
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Farm owners fined for housing company workers
KUWAIT: Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources inspectors toured Abdali on Saturday and took action against agricultural landholders who failed to use their lands for agricultural purposes. By A SalehKUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri fined a number of agricultural landholders for housing company workers in farms used to provide food security, adding all violators will...
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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