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Not that tech savvy? Remit money using LuLu Money
KUWAIT: With social distancing and other public restrictions forcing people to stay indoors, LuLu Exchange-one of Kuwait's leading remittances company, is finding an increase in takers for its easy-to-use mobile app, LuLu Money. The app enjoys a rating of 4.3 on the Playstore and has witnessed a boom in transactions in recent days, owing largely to its single-window PIN access, which makes it easy for even non tech-savvy customers to use...
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First coronavirus death in Kuwait amid 62 new cases
KUWAIT: The ministry of health announced yesterday the first death case from the novel coronavirus, while 62 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours. This brings the country's tally of confirmed virus cases up to 479, the ministry's spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad told KUNA. The ministry announced the deceased was a 46-year-old Indian man who was in the intensive care unit and had been receiving treatment for several days. Earlier in the...
A Tunisian police robot patrols along Avenue Habib Bourguiba in the centre of the capital Tunis on April 1, 2020, as a means of enforcing a nationwide lockdown to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - The locally-built robots are remotely operated and equipped with infrared and thermal imaging cameras, in addition to a sound and light alarm system. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Tunisia 'robocop' enforces lockdown
TUNIS: A Tunisian police robot patrols along Avenue Habib Bourguiba in the center of the capital on April 1, 2020. - AFP TUNIS: Tunisia's interior ministry has deployed a police robot to patrol the streets of the capital and enforce a lockdown imposed last month as the country battles the spread of coronavirus. Known as PGuard, the 'robocop' is remotely operated and equipped with infrared and thermal imaging cameras, in addition to a sound and...
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Video app Zoom rockets to fame
LONDON: A handout image taken and released by 10 Downing Street on March 31, 2020, shows a screen relaying a Zoom video conference with Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (top row left), chairing a remote session with minister of his Cabinet, whilst still self-isolating from within 11 Downing Street. - AFP SAN FRANCISCO: What does British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have in common with virtual happy hour celebrants and thousands of students...
People bow during a three-minute national memorial to commemorate those who died in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 4, 2020. - China came to a standstill on April 4 to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus, as the world's most populous country observed a nationwide three-minute silence. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
China pauses in memory of virus victims and 'martyrs'
WUHAN: People bow during a three-minute national memorial to commemorate those who died in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak yesterday. - AFP WUHAN: China came to a standstill yesterday to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus, as the world's most populous country observed a nationwide three-minute silence. At 10 am, citizens paused, cars, trains and ships sounded their horns, and air-raid sirens rang out in memory of the...
TOPSHOT - Members of the medical staff give themselves a fist bump while working at the intensive care unit (ICU) with the COVID-19 patients at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo, on April 3, 2020. - Italy's three-week lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 has been extended through at least mid-April and its economy is expected to suffer its biggest peacetime shock since World War II. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)
US, UK Spain deaths mount; virus threatens war zones
BERGAMO, Italy: Members of the medical staff give themselves a fist bump while working at the intensive care unit with the COVID-19 patients at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital on Friday. - AFP LONDON: Deaths from the global coronavirus epidemic accelerated again as the US, Spain and Britain grappled with their highest tolls yet and the world economy took a massive hit. With more than 53,000 dead, the threat has never been more stark....
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For countries in conflict, 'worst is yet to come'
NEW YORK: In this handout image, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a virtual press conference on Friday at UN headquarters. - AFP UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday renewed his call for a global ceasefire, urging all parties to conflict to lay down arms and allow war-torn nations to combat the coronavirus pandemic. "The worst is yet to come," Guterres said, referring to countries beset with fighting like...
Migrants sit under the shade of a tree as they camp at a government school during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi on April 3, 2020. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP)
Coronavirus cases in South Asia near 6000
NEW DELHI: Migrants sit under the shade of a tree as they camp at a government school during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown on Friday. - AFP MUMBAI: The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in South Asia neared 6,000 yesterday, even as authorities in some cities tightened restrictions on movement and warned lockdowns could be extended in a bid to rein in the pandemic. "If people don't obey the rules seriously and cases continue to...
A woman reacts as she receives a flue vaccine while a Gauteng Health Department Official gets ready before collecting samples during a door-to-door COVID-19 coronavirus testing drive in Yeoville, Johannesburg, on April 3, 2020. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
French scientists remarks spark a storm of criticism
JOHANNESBURG: A woman reacts as she receives a flu vaccine while a Gauteng health department official gets ready before collecting samples during a door-to-door coronavirus testing drive in Yeoville on Friday. - AFP PARIS: Two leading French doctors on Friday insisted they had been misunderstood after sparking a storm of criticism by discussing the idea of testing a vaccine for coronavirus in Africa on television. Although they later apologized...
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Second phase of Kuwaitis' repatriation starts this week
Khaled Al-Jarallah KUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah announced Friday, the implementation of the second phase of the nationals' repatriation plan this week, stressing that Kuwait will not abandon any citizen anywhere in the world. Jarallah said in a statement to Kuwait TV that the repatriation plans are carefully set up and take into account the commitment to citizens' comfort in full and those plans are govern by the...
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Municipality launches sanitization campaign
KUWAIT: Kuwait Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Waleed Al-Jassem announced the biggest sanitization campaign in the Capital Governorate in the framework of the efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). "The campaign kick-started at Al-Mubarakiyah market and will cover all areas of the Capital Governorate, following similar works in Al-Farwaniyah Governorate," Jassem told reporters on Friday.He added that this...
Filipinos who availed general amnesty granted by the Kuwaiti government are pictured gathering at the Kuwait International Airport Terminal 4, on April 3, 2020 on their home to Manila amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic crisis. - For systematic documentations, illegal expats from the Philippines, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries were at first, requested to submit themselves at a school compound in Farwaniya arranged according to nationalities. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
First batch of expatriates availing amnesty leave Kuwait
KUWAIT: Filipinos who availed general amnesty granted by the Kuwaiti government are pictured gathering at the Kuwait International Airport Terminal 4, on April 3, 2020 on their home to Manila amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic crisis. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Interior (MoI) said a first plane carrying 300 Filipinos, whose residency permits expired and were allowed to leave the country without payment of...
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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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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MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device