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Iraqi paramedics in full hazmat gear pray over the coffin of a fifty-year-old victim of the COVID-19 virus before her burrial at a cemetary specifically opened for such deaths, 20 kms from the central holy city of Najaf, on March 3, 2020. (Photo by Haidar HAMDANI / AFP)

Iraqis rally to help needy families as economy falters

NAJAF: Iraqi paramedics in full hazmat gear pray over the coffin of a 50-year-old victim of the COVID-19 virus before her burial at a cemetery specifically opened for such deaths on April 3, 2020. - AFP BAGHDAD: On an abandoned sidewalk in Baghdad, under strict government curfew to contain the novel coronavirus, a handful of volunteers with masks and gloves make food packages for needy families. "What we're doing is a humanitarian duty towards...

People take their daily exercise in Greenwich Park in south London on April 4, 2020, as life continues in the city during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - Britain on Friday reported a record 684 new COVID-19 deaths in its daily update, as the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus climbed by 4,450 on the previous 24 hours. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP)

5G conspiracy: Dangerous fake nonsense

LONDON: People take their daily exercise in Greenwich Park in south London as life continues in the city during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP LONDON: A conspiracy theory that links 5G mobile telecommunications masts to the spread of the novel coronavirus is dangerous fake news and completely false, Britain said on Saturday after masts in several parts of the country were torched. When asked by a reporter about the so called...

Bodies are moved to a refrigerator truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 4, 2020 in New York. - New York state's coronavirus toll rose at a devastating pace to 3,565 deaths Saturday, the governor said, up from 2,935 the previous day, the largest 24-hour jump recorded there. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

'There's going to be a lot of death', US president warns

NEW YORK: Bodies are moved to a refrigerator truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York. - AFP WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump told Americans to brace for a big spike in coronavirus fatalities in the coming days, as the country faces what he called the toughest two weeks of the pandemic. "There's going to be a lot of death," Trump said at a briefing with reporters. He pushed back on...

A Yemeni barber cuts a customer's beard while wearing a face mask and gloves amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on April 4, 2020. (Photo by Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

What impact is coronavirus having on Mideast conflicts?

SANAA: A Yemeni barber cuts a customer's beard while wearing a face mask and gloves amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. - AFP BEIRUT: The novel coronavirus has put global trade on hold, placed half of the world population in confinement and has the potential to topple governments and reshape diplomatic relations. The United Nations has appealed for ceasefires in all the major conflicts rocking the planet, with...

TOPSHOT - This picture taken on April 4, 2020, shows a drone used by police to control people and to ask them to respect social distances at a shopping boulevard in Heerlen, the Netherlands, on April 4, 2020. - The drone with a built-in speaker was used in the parking lots and in the areas around the boulevard in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus causing the Covid-19 disease. (Photo by Marcel VAN HOORN / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT

Many residents take coronavirus surveillance into their own hands

HEERLEN, Netherlands: A drone is used by police to control people and ask them to respect social distances at a shopping boulevard on Saturday. - AFP ROME/KUALA LUMPUR: A week after Malaysia ordered a partial lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, construction supervisor Hafi Nazhan saw residents in his affluent Kuala Lumpur neighborhood jogging outside. He took photos of people flouting the stay-at-home order and published them on...

Medical staff load a patient infected with novel coronavirus, Covid-19, into a military A400M plane for transportation from Orly airport, south of the capital, to a hospital outside of the Paris region, on April 4, 2020.nnnnnnnPeople ride abike in the Montmartre district in Paris, on April 1, 2020, on the sixteenth day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). nBERTRAND GUAY / AFPnBERTRAND GUAY / AFP - Orly airport, now closed to travellers, has been turned into an evacuation hub as part of an operation aiming at relieving hospitals in the Paris region, hardly hit by the Covid-19 outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)

French coronavirus toll hits new high

ORLY: Medical staff load a patient infected with novel coronavirus, Covid-19, into a military A400M plane for transportation from Orly airport, south of the capital, to a hospital outside of the Paris region. - AFP PARIS: The total number of deaths from the coronavirus in France reached a new high on Saturday as the government included more previously unreported deaths in nursing homes. The health ministry reported 441 new deaths from COVID-19...

(FILES) In this file photo Michael Atkinson, Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, leaves a meeting in the U.S. Capitol October 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. - April 3, 2020 US president Donald has fired Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson. (Photo by MARK WILSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

'He's a total disgrace': Trump defends firing US intel watchdog

WASHINGTON: In this file photo, Michael Atkinson, Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, leaves a meeting in the US Capitol. US president Donald has fired Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson. - AFP WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his decision to fire the top watchdog of the US Intelligence Community, saying Michael Atkinson did "a terrible job" in handling the whistleblower complaint...

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MoE: E-learning optional, classes to resume in Aug

By A SalehKUWAIT: Education Minister Dr Saud Al-Harbi presided over the ministry's undersecretaries' council meeting Saturday morning to discuss a mechanism to implement the Cabinet's decision approving the resumption of the current school year (2019-2020) in foreign schools through e-learning.According to the ministerial decision issued in this regard, foreign private schools will be allowed to resume the 2019-2020 academic year using online...

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People are still getting married amid lockdown

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: As part of the government's precautionary measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus, wedding ceremonies have been banned at all ballrooms and even in private places. Yet it seems that this crisis hasn't stopped some people from getting married, especially as the justice ministry's documentation department is still operating partially. According to a statement published by the head of the documentation...

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'Second chance' for undocumented Filipinos, other nationals for amnesty on April 26-30

KUWAIT: A long line of Filipino amnesty applicants wait outside a school turned into a center to receive residency violators. - Photo by Ben Garcia By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: As the grace period for Filipino amnesty applicants concluded yesterday, they still have a 'second chance' in the last five days of the month-long amnesty period granted by the Kuwaiti government to all nationalities in April. As of Saturday, the number of amnesty takers...

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Italian FM Thanks Kuwait for helping against coronavirus

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah chairs the sixth meeting of the team tasked with arranging return of Kuwaiti nationals. - KUNA KUWAIT: Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Saturday expressed gratitude for the State of Kuwait's tangible support for the nation in combating the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that minister Di Maio expressed...

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Zain supplies Al-Zour Quarantine Center with telecom and networking digital infrastructure

KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait's Chief Enterprise Business Officer Hamad Al-Marzouq with Zain and KIPIC teams at the project's site. KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced its collaboration with the Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), to supply the quarantine center project at Al-Zour area - that is executed by KIPIC - with a telecommunications and...

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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

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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

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