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Mexico street artists and vendors worry about virus-hit future
Street musician Luis Valdovinos is seen in Mexico City, where increasingly empty streets are making it harder for him to make a living. - ÑAFP Before the coronavirus pandemic struck, Luis Valdovinos was earning about $12 a day playing his barrel organ in the streets of Mexico City. Now, it's taking him a lot longer to make that much money. The streets of the Mexican capital are emptying out with each passing day, as residents become more and...
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (C) leaves the offices of Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) as negotiations continue into the night on a $2 trillion economic stimulus in response to the coronavirus pandemic at the U.S. Capitol March 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. After days of tense negotiations -- and Democrats twice blocking the nearly $2 trillion package -- the Senate and Treasury Department appear to have reached important compromises on legislation to shore up the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP
US Senate, W House agree on $2tn stimulus
WASHINGTON, DC: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (center) leaves the offices of Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) as negotiations continue into the night on a $2 trillion economic stimulus in response to the coronavirus pandemic at the US Capitol on Tuesday in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: The Senate and White House have reached agreement on a $2 trillion stimulus package for the US economy and millions of Americans ravaged by the...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 28, 2015 rats eat grains of puffed rice in Allahabad. - Like people, rats cooperate with one another and give food to those in need, but how can they be sure that other rats are being truthful about how hungry they are?nThe answer may lie in smell-based cues that signal a rat's appetite more reliably than its begging gestures and squeaks, a study said March 24, 2020. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia / AFP)
Smelling a rat: How rodents sniff out fake beggars
ALLAHABAD, INDIA: In this file photo taken on July 28, 2015 rats eat grains of puffed rice in Allahabad, India. - AFP WASHINGTON: Like people, rats cooperate with one another and give food to those in need, but how can they be sure that other rats are being truthful about how hungry they are? The answer may lie in smell-based cues that signal a rat's appetite more reliably than its begging gestures and squeaks, a study said Tuesday.The paper's...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 30, 2018 Cameroon jazz saxophonist Manu Dibango performs during a concert at the Ivory Hotel in Abidjan. - Veteran Cameroon jazz star Dibango dies after contracting coronavirus, said his entourage en March 24, 2020. (Photo by Sia KAMBOU / AFP)
Afro-jazz star Manu Dibango dies after contracting coronavirus
In this file photo taken on June 30, 2018 Cameroon jazz saxophonist Manu Dibango performs during a concert at the Ivory Hotel in Abidjan.- AFP Veteran Afro-jazz legend Manu Dibango died Tuesday after contracting the new coronavirus, one of the first worldwide stars to succumb to the disease. The 86-year-old Cameroonian, best known for the 1972 hit "Soul Makossa", "died early this morning in a hospital in the Paris region," his music publisher...
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Olympic delay puts Japan in a spin
TOKYO: People wearing face masks, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, walk past a countdown display for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games with notices which read in Japanese "Under adjustment" in Tokyo yesterday. - AFP TOKYO: Japan's media and athletes reacted with disappointment yesterday to the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but expressed relief the Games had not been cancelled altogether over...
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Kuwait psychology association sets up free hotline for help during lockdown
By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: The Kuwait Psychological Association (KPA) is providing consultation through the phone for people suffering during these uncertain times. KPA has set up a rapid intervention team to help those suffering from the psychological impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19), as well as the lockdown imposed as a countermeasure to prevent the disease's spread."As part of our social responsibility, we formed a rapid intervention team...
This picture taken on March 24, 2020 from al-Hamra Tower, tallest business building in Kuwait, shows a view of the empty streets in Kuwait City during a government-imposed curfew as a measure to prevent further spread of COVID-19 coronavirus disease. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
One third of humanity under virus lockdown
KUWAIT: This picture taken on Tuesday from Hamra Tower shows a view of the empty streets of Kuwait City during a curfew imposed to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT/NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: India's billion-plus population went into a three-week lockdown yesterday, with a third of the world now under orders to stay indoors, as US politicians agreed to spend $2 trillion to counter the economic damage of...
(L-R) US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx, US Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump take part in a Fox News virtual town hall meeting with anchor Bill Hemmer, from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Trump declares virus fight close to end
WASHINGTON: (From left) US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Response Coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx, US Vice President Mike Pence and US President Donald Trump take part in a Fox News virtual town hall meeting with anchor Bill Hemmer from the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump declared the beginning of the end of the coronavirus crisis in the United States on...
A health volunteer wearing a protective mask, due to fears of COVID-19 coronavirus spread, hands out pamphlets warning people about the disease along a market street in Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on March 22, 2020. - Deprived of cross-border aid and already low on medical supplies, northeast Syria is grappling with the threat of a virus outbreak that aid groups and officials fear could ravage the region. Home to sprawling displacement camps hosting some 100,000 people, including the families of the Islamic State group, the Kurdish-held northeast has yet to declare a single infection. But with the region severely under-equipped, local officials have started to sound the alarm after Damascus announced the country's first coronavirus case on Sunday. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP)
Aid-deprived and under-equipped, northeast Syria faces virus threat
QAMISHLI, Syria: A health volunteer wearing a protective mask hands out pamphlets warning people about the coronavirus along a market street on March 22, 2020. - AFP QAMISHLI, Syria: Deprived of cross-border aid and already low on medical supplies, northeast Syria is grappling with the threat of a virus outbreak that aid groups and officials fear could ravage the region. Home to sprawling displacement camps hosting some 100,000 people,...
Indonesian medical staff take part in a mass test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Patriot stadium in Bekasi, West Java on March 25, 2020. (Photo by REZAS / AFP)
Indonesia's health system on the brink as coronavirus surge looms
Indonesian medical staff take part in a mass test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Patriot stadium in Bekasi, West Java yesterday.-AFP JAKARTA: Indonesia has a significant deficit in hospital beds, medical staff and intensive care facilities as health experts warn that it is primed to become a new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data reviewed by Reuters. Health experts say Indonesia faces a surge in coronavirus cases after a...
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Loss of smell could reveal hidden coronavirus cases
PARIS: From a mother unable to smell her baby's nappy to a lawmaker who suddenly could not taste food, some coronavirus patients have described a loss of olfactory senses - and experts say this might be a new way to detect the virus. Ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists in Britain, the United States and France have noted a growing number of patients in recent weeks with anosmia - the abrupt loss of smell - and have said this could be a sign...
The Zaandam ship cruise, sailing under the Dutch flag and operated by the Holland America (Carnival) group, with 1,800 people on board, is seen in Punta Arenas, in southern Chile, on March 16, 2020. - The cruise ship -- with 42 passengers complaining of flu-like symptoms -- is still looking on March 24 for a place for its sick passengers to disembark before continuing on to its final destination in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, via the Panama Canal. (Photo by Claudio MONGE / AFP)
Cruise passengers hold hopes of reaching land
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile: The Zaandam cruise ship with 1,800 people on board is seen on March 16, 2020. - AFP SANTIAGO: More than 1,800 people stuck onboard a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of South America, with 42 complaining of flu-like symptoms, are desperately hoping to be allowed to dock -somewhere. "Testing times," Australian couple Dimiti and Neal Bates wrote on Facebook. "Please don't forget us." The Zaandam liner run by Holland America...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones