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Tokyo eye July 2021 for delayed Olympics
TOKYO: A notice which reads in Japanese "Under adjustment" is pasted on a countdown display for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo on March 25, 2020. Japan started the unprecedented task of reorganising the Tokyo Olympics after the historic decision to postpone the world's biggest sporting event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has locked down one third of the planet. - AFP TOKYO: Tokyo Olympics organisers are eyeing next July as a...
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French chefs cook up antidote to coronavirus confinement
PARIS: French chef Eric Duquenne, former team leader in the kitchens of the Elysee Palace, packs dishes he cooked in his closed restaurant "Les 3 Presidents" in Paris before a delivery to an hospital for the medical personnel on the ninth day of a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) in France. - AFP PARIS: Frustrated at stay-at-home confinement, France's celebrity chefs are cooking up an antidote to the...
Nextdoor, the hyper local social network, is seen on a computer screen in Washington, DC, on March 27, 2020. - There are offers to pick up groceries or medicine for neighbors, to share supplies, or walk people's dogs. And exchange information on where to find scarce items like toilet paper. For people forced to stay home to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network, has found itself playing an increasingly important role. (Photo by Eric BARADAT / AFP)
Nextdoor grows in age of social distancing
WASHINGTON, DC: Nextdoor, the hyper local social network, is seen on a computer screen in Washington, DC, on Friday. There are offers to pick up groceries or medicine for neighbors, to share supplies, or walk people's dogs. - AFP SAN FRANCISCO: There are offers to pick up groceries or medicine for neighbors, to share supplies, or walk people's dogs-and even intel on where to find scarce items like toilet paper. For people forced to stay home to...
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Kuwait FM meets team tasked with repatriation of citizens
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah chairs a meeting with a team tasked with repatriation of Kuwaiti citizens back home. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah met with a team tasked with arranging repatriation of Kuwaiti citizens back home, to discuss means of guaranteeing safety of nationals until their return from abroad amidst the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,...
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Rumors in coronavirus time, ruinous to society's morale, state's efforts: academics
KUWAIT: Posting and circulation of rumors and fake news in the time of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak could have detrimental impacts on people's morale and state's ability to handle and overcome the serious health challenge, a group of Kuwaiti academics have warned as judiciary pursuing rumor-mongers. Rumors harm the society and spark panic and fear among its members, Professor of Sociology at the Kuwait University (KU) Dr Ali...
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20 new cases of coronavirus in Kuwait; all cafes shuttered
Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad KUWAIT: The health ministry yesterday confirmed 20 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in Kuwait to 255. The ministry's spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said at the ministry's daily press conference that seven cases - six Kuwaitis and one Filipino - are related to travel to the UK.Sanad added that the 13 other cases include a Kuwaiti in contact with another Kuwaiti who had...
Municipal workers disinfect the streets of the Palm Island in Dubai as a preventive measure against the spread of the novel coronavirus in the Emirate city on March 28, 2020. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
First virus death in Qatar; Europe, US deaths surge
DUBAI: Municipal workers disinfect the streets of Palm Island as a preventive measure against the spread of the novel coronavirus on Saturday. - AFP DOHA/MADRID: Qatar recorded its first death from the new coronavirus on Saturday, while confirmed infections rose by 28 to 590, the health ministry said. A "57-year-old Bangladeshi national resident (in Qatar)… suffering from chronic diseases" died from the COVID-19 respiratory disease, the...
TOPSHOT - Moroccan policemen, patrolling as part of a larger combined security force, instruct people to return to and remain at home as a measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the capital Rabat's district of Takadoum on March 27, 2020. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP)
Fears of setback in liberties in Middle East
RABAT: Moroccan policemen instruct people to return and remain at home as a measure against the coronavirus pandemic in the capital's district of Takadoum on March 27, 2020. - AFP CAIRO: Armored vehicles in the streets, hundreds arrested, smartphone surveillance - sweeping measures to fight the coronavirus have raised concerns in the Middle East over the erosion of already threatened human rights. As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic,...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 20, 2020, a member of the US Airforce looks on near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan air base in Al-Kharj, in central Saudi Arabia. - Saudi air defences intercepted ballistic missiles over Riyadh and a city on the Yemen border late on March 28, leaving at least two civilians wounded in the capital that is under curfew in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Multiple explosions shook Riyadh in the attack, which the Saudi-led military coalition blamed on Yemen's Iran-aligned Huthi rebels. It was the first major assault on Saudi Arabia since the Huthis offered last September to halt attacks on the kingdom after devastating twin strikes on Saudi oil installations. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / POOL / AFP)
Saudi intercepts missiles over Riyadh, Jizan
AL-KHARJ, Saudi Arabia: In this file photo taken on Feb 20, 2020, a member of the US air force looks on near a Patriot missile battery at Prince Sultan Air Base in central Saudi Arabia. - AFP RIYADH: Saudi air defenses intercepted ballistic missiles over Riyadh and a city on the Yemen border late Saturday, leaving at least two civilians wounded in the capital that is under curfew in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Multiple...
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 28: EMS personnel outside Emergency Department, St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx on March 28, 2020 in New York City. The World Health Organization declared coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic on March 11. Misha Friedman/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
In rare case, US infant dies from COVID-19
NEW YORK: Photo shows EMS personnel outside Emergency Department, St Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx in New York City. - AFP WASHINGTON: A US infant has died from the COVID-19 illness, officials in the state of Illinois said on Saturday, marking an extremely rare case of juvenile death in the global pandemic. At a news conference, Governor JB Pritzker said "an infant" was among the fatalities linked to the new coronavirus over the previous 24...
A woman walks past a screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on March 29, 2020. - North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on March 29, the fourth such launch this month as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
N Korea fires short-range 'ballistic missiles' into sea
SEOUL: A woman walks past a screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul yesterday. - AFP SEOUL: North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast yesterday, the fourth such launch this month as the world battles the coronavirus outbreak. The string of weapons drills come as a prolonged hiatus in disarmament talks with the United States drags on, and despite...
Migrant workers and their family members lineup outsdie the Anand Vihar bus terminal to leave for their villages during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi on March 28, 2020. - Tens of thousands of migrant workers and their famiies on March 28 fought and shoved their way onto buses organised by India's most populous state to get them to their home towns amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Bhuvan BAGGA / AFP)
'Super-spreader' guru puts Indian villages on alert
NEW DELHI: Migrant workers and their family members lineup outside the Anand Vihar bus terminal to leave for their villages during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus. _ AFP NEW DELHI: At least 15,000 people who may have caught the coronavirus from a 'super-spreader' guru are under strict quarantine in northern India after the Sikh religious leader died of COVID-19. The 70-year-old...
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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