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Cutting employees' salaries due to store closure illegal: Lawyer
KUWAIT: A number of shops closed in Kuwait City. By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Many employees working in stores closed due to the instructions of the Cabinet as a precautionary measure against the spread of the coronavirus have been informed by their employers that their salaries will be deducted for this period of closure. Kuwait Times contacted the public relations department of the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) to ask how can the workers...
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KNPC pursues extra measures against virus
KUWAIT: Workers tested at a Kuwait National Petroleum Company building. KUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said Sunday that it was taking additional preventive measures in order to fend off looming coronavirus ramifications. KNPC's Deputy CEO for Projects Abdullah Al-Ajmi said all workers of Mina Abdullah and Mina Al-Ahmadi refineries were checked for the novel coronavirus before entering their workplace. He added that the company...
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LuLu charters flight to import Indian fruits and vegetables
KUWAIT: LuLu Hypermarket, the region's leading retailer, has chartered special flights to bring in tons of Indian fruits and vegetables to Kuwait in order to meet the urgent needs of the market.The first chartered flight with 16.5 tons of fruits and vegetables touched down at Kuwait International Airport on 15 March at 2.15pm. The 'Spicexpress' jet cargo included all major categories of Indian fruits and vegetables and is intended to increase...
Women wearing facemasks, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, walk in a market as they shop for groceries in New Delhi on March 14, 2020. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)
In Indian capital, deadly riots deepen Hindu-Muslim divide
NEW DELHI: Women wearing facemasks, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, walk in a market as they shop for groceries in New Delhi. _ AFP NEW DELHI: For years, Hindus and Muslims lived and worked peacefully together in Yamuna Vihar, a densely populated Delhi district. But the riots that raged through the district last month appear to have cleaved lasting divisions in the community, reflecting a nationwide trend as...
A Lebanese man sits next to a closed store in the northern city of Tripoli on February 25, 2020. (Photo by Ibrahim CHALHOUB / AFP)
Lebanon announces two-week lockdown over coronavirus
TRIPOLI: A Lebanese man sits next to a closed store in the northern city of Tripoli. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon has urged people to stay at home for two weeks and prepared to close its main airport to stem a novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed three people in the country. The COVID-19 virus has officially infected 99 people in the Mediterranean nation. Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad ordered "citizens to remain at home and not go out...
Journalists gather outside the Yokohama district court on March 16, 2020, after the court sentenced Satoshi Uematsu, accused of murdering 19 disabled people at a care facility in the town of Sagamihara in 2016, to death. - A court in Japan on March 16, 2020 sentenced Satoshi Uematsu to the death penalty for the murder of 19 people in a stabbing attack at the care home for disabled people in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)
Japanese sentenced to death for murder of 19 at care home
YOKOHAMA: Journalists gather outside the Yokohama district court yesterday after the court sentenced Satoshi Uematsu, accused of murdering 19 disabled people at a care facility in the town of Sagamihara in 2016, to death. - AFP YOKOHAMA: A Japanese man was sentenced to death yesterday for the stabbing murder of 19 disabled people at a care home, in one of the country's worst mass killings. Satoshi Uematsu never disputed his involvement in the...
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KUWAIT: A man wearing a protective mask looks at his phone while standing outside closed stores in Kuwait City on March 15, 2020. Kuwait announced closing all malls and shopping centers, except for grocery stores, until further notice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Expatriate workers returning from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon arrive at a Kuwaiti health ministry containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Kuwait City on March 15, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Speaker says no plans for curfew, but not ruled out
KUWAIT: Expatriate workers returning from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon arrive at a health ministry containment and screening zone for COVID-19 at the Mishref fairgrounds yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: National Assembly speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem yesterday quoted the defense minister as telling MPs that there are no immediate plans to impose a curfew now, but nothing is ruled out. "MPs asked the defense minister if there is...
A waiter who is a foreign worker in Saudi Arabia, wearing a protective mask as a precaution against COVID-19 coronavirus disease, serves a Saudi family at a restaurant along Tahlia street in the centre of the Saudi capital Riyadh on March 15, 2020. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP)
Virus changes Gulf habits; Arabs treat panic with humor
RIYADH: A waiter wearing a mask serves a Saudi family at a restaurant along Tahlia Street in the center of the Saudi capital yesterday. - AFP DUBAI: No shisha pipe sessions, deserted streets, mosques and shopping malls, drones in the sky broadcasting public health warnings - the new coronavirus has turned life upside down in Gulf societies. More than 800 cases of the COVID-19 have been recorded so far across the six nations of the Gulf...
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Iran closes shrine as 113 more die; Aqsa Mosque shut
TEHRAN/JERUSALEM: Iran shut a key Shiite tomb and appealed yesterday to its citizens to stay at home to halt a coronavirus outbreak it said has claimed over 700 lives and infected nearly 14,000 people. The new overall tolls announced by the health ministry included another 113 deaths and 1,209 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection. People "should cancel all travel and stay at home so that we may see the situation improving in the coming...
TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a press briefing about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) alongside members of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, March 14, 2020. - President Donald Trump says he has taken coronavirus test, no result yet. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)
Trump tests negative for virus as US expands travel ban
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a press briefing about the coronavirus in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Sunday. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has tested negative for the novel coronavirus, his physician said, following concerns over his exposure to a disease that has paralyzed the globe. Trump agreed to the test after coming in contact with several members of a Brazilian...
The beachside boulevard of Jumeirah Beach Residence is seen empty amid coronavirus fears in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on March 12, 2020. - Dubai Financial Market dived more than 7.0 percent at the open on the last trading day of the week and Abu Dhabi shares dropped 6.0 percent following worldwide losses amid fears over the coronavirus pandemic and an oil price war. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
Virus prompt lockdowns, self-isolation
DUBAI: The beachside boulevard of Jumeirah Beach Residence is seen empty amid coronavirus fears in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. - AFP MADRID: France and Spain joined Italy in imposing lockdowns on tens of millions of people, Australia ordered self-isolation of arriving foreigners, and Argentina and El Salvadore extended entry bans as the world sought to contain the spreading coronavirus. Panic buying in Australia, the United States and Britain saw...
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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's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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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