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A picture shows the closed compound of the Dubai Mall amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on March 23, 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
Shutdowns to hit Dubai's economic lifeline
A picture shows the closed compound of the Dubai Mall amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on March 23, 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. - Giuseppe CACACE / AFP DUBAI: Dubai is closing its famous malls and halting all passenger flights, capping a series of shutdowns on once-thriving sectors that serve as its economic lifeline but which have been sacrificed to curb coronavirus. A few days after barring foreigners, including those with...
Buddhist monk Chamnanwej Sutthiyano inscribes spiritual incantations on masks made from recycled plastic bottles, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Wat Chak Daeng Buddhist temple in Samut Prakan on March 23, 2020. - The plastic wastes are sent to a separate recycling facility processing it into thread materials and woven as special fabric for monks. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) / TO GO WITH Thailand-health-virus-religion-environment, PHOTO ESSAY by Lillian Suwanrumpha
Thailand monks make virus masks from recycled plastic
SAMUT PRAKAN: Buddhist monk Chamnanwej Sutthiyano inscribes spiritual incantations on masks made from recycled plastic bottles, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Wat Chak Daeng Buddhist temple in Samut Prakan. - AFP SAMUT PRAKAN: A Buddhist monk scrawls a prayer on an orange face mask beseeching "an end to the suffering" caused by the deadly coronavirus - a finishing touch to the facial covering weaved out of...
An athlete lights the Olympic torch during the olympic flame handover ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, on March 19, 2020 in Athens. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / various sources / AFP)
IOC urged to make quick Olympic decision
ATHERNS: File photo shows an athlete lights the Olympic torch during the olympic flame handover ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, on March 19, 2020 in Athens. - AFP TOKYO: The International Olympic Committee came under pressure to speed up its decision about postponing the Tokyo Games yesterday as athletes criticised the four-week deadline and the United States joined calls to delay the competition. After Canada and Australia withdrew...
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Assembly hails Amir's efforts, cooperation
KUWAIT: MPs are seen during a session of the National Assembly yesterday. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem expressed thanks yesterday to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for his directives and successful management of the coronavirus outbreak crisis. During a National Assembly session held yesterday, Ghanem voiced great appreciation of the tremendous efforts exerted by HH the...
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Kuwait withdraws medicines containing chloroquine from pharmacies
KUWAIT: The health ministry has decided to withdraw all quantities of medicines containing hydroxylchloroquine or chloroquine from private pharmacies and limit them to hospitals and health centers only. In a statement to KUNA, the ministry's Undersecretary of Health for Drug and Food Control Affairs Dr Abdullah Al-Bader said Tuesday that the decision stipulated to obligate pharmacies to provide the drug inspection department with a detailed...
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Amir praises joint efforts to fight coronavirus outbreak
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah heads the Cabinet's extraordinary session at Dar Salwa on Monday. - KUNA KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah headed on Monday the Cabinet's extraordinary session at Dar Salwa. "I can only at the beginning of this meeting express my sincere thanks and appreciations to my brother the Prime Minister, and all ministers, for their kind suggestion, out of concerns,...
A priest (L) reads prayers from the book of funeral rites by the coffin of a deceased person in the cemetery of Grassobbio, Lombardy, on March 23, 2020, as pallbearers stand by during a funeral ceremony in the absence of quarantined relatives. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)
Windows of hope: Life in Europe under lockdown
GRASSOBBIO, Italy: A priest (left) reads prayers from the book of funeral rites by the coffin of a deceased person in the cemetery of Grassobbio, Lombardy yesterday, as pallbearers stand by during a funeral ceremony in the absence of quarantined relatives. - AFP ROME: From the elderly Italian woman who routinely lines up the glasses of water she sets herself to drink every day, to the British composer leading a virtual orchestra, life for...
TOPSHOT - A deserted Westminster Bridge is pictured looking north around Monday lunch time, in central London, March 23, 2020, as governments scramble to defend their own economies against the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in order to ward off a long-term global recession and future waves of infections. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)
China coronavirus epicenter to open up as world locks down
LONDON: A deserted Westminster Bridge is pictured looking north around in central London as governments scramble to defend their own economies against the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in order to ward off a long-term global recession and future waves of infections. - AFP BEIJING: China announced yesterday an end to travel curbs at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, as governments around the world tightened lockdowns affecting 1.7...
TOPSHOT - A government worker that is part of a combined taskforce tackling COVID-19 coronavirus fumigates a neighbourhood as part of safety precautions, in Yemen's capital Sanaa on March 23, 2020. (Photo by Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)
Hand-washing: Luxury Yemenis cannot afford
SANAA: A government worker fumigates a neighborhood in the Yemeni capital on Monday. - AFP AL HAJJAH, Yemen: Hand-washing to combat the spread of coronavirus is the order of the day, but it's an unaffordable luxury for millions in war-ravaged Yemen where clean water is dangerously scarce. Yemen's broken healthcare system has yet to register any cases of the disease, but if the pandemic does hit, the impact will be unimaginable in a country...
Security personnel wearing facemasks patrol on the streets in Shaheen Bagh area after removing demonstrators continuously protesting against a new citizenship law, while the government imposed a lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in New Delhi on March 24, 2020. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)
Indian police clear anti-govt protest sit-in
NEW DELHI: Security personnel patrol on the streets in Shaheen Bagh after removing demonstrators yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: Police in India's capital broke up the longest-running protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's citizenship law yesterday, citing a ban on public gatherings because of the coronavirus outbreak. Dozens of people, many of them women, have been staging a sit-in protest since early December on a street in the Shaheen...
TOPSHOT - Iranian workers set up a makeshift hospital inside the Iran Mall, northwest of Tehran, on March 21, 2020 amid the coronavirus outbreak. - Iran said that 123 more people had died from coronavirus, raising the official death toll to 1,556 in the Islamic republic, one of the world's worst affected countries. (Photo by - / AFP)
How serious is virus crisis in Iran?
TEHRAN: Iranian workers set up a makeshift hospital inside the Iran Mall, northwest of Tehran, amid the coronavirus outbreak. - AFP PARIS: Even according to official figures, the coronavirus epidemic has killed over 1,800 people in Iran, prompting unprecedented measures that have included closing holy Shiite shrines. But could the authorities in the Islamic republic be underplaying the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic and the challenge in...
Children continue their school curriculum online via a computer screen at their home in Kuwait City on March 23, 2020. - Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf monarchies, in the time of nouvel coronavirus millions of schoolchildren around the Arab world are now learning lessons at home. Governments across the region have shuttered schools forcing pupils to stay away in a bid to combat the virus, but at the risk of deepening an already worrying educational divide. Across the region, as elsewhere in the world, in many countries already afflicted by poverty and patchy internet access, teachers, parents and pupils have been left scrambling not to lose the rest of the school year. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Arab kids told 'turn on TV' for home lessons
KUWAIT: Children learn online via a computer screen at their home on Monday. - AFP TRIPOLI: Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf, in the time of novel coronavirus millions of schoolchildren around the Arab world are now learning lessons at home. Governments across the region have shuttered schools forcing pupils to stay away in a bid to combat the virus, but at the risk of deepening an already worrying educational...
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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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‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns
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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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The image shows a finger directing attention to A PET CT scan image shows comprehensive views of organs and tissues isolated on white background. Clipping path.
MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device