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Migrants take boats near Edirne while other migrants wait at Greece side, as they attempt to enter Greece by crossing the Maritsa river, on March 1, 2020. - Thousands more migrants reached the Turkish border with Greece on March 1, 2020, AFP journalists said, after President threatened to let them cross into Europe. At least 2,000 people including women and children arrived on the morning from Istanbul and walked through a field towards the Pazarkule border gate, a correspondent said. The group included Afghans, Syrians and Iraqis. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)
Turkey opens 'migrant floodgates'
EDIRNE: Migrants take boats near Edirne while other migrants wait at Greece side, as they attempt to enter Greece by crossing the Maritsa River yesterday.- AFP PAZARKULE: Greece said yesterday it has blocked nearly 10,000 migrants at its border with Turkey, which opened its gates to Europe as tensions mount over its deepening conflict in Syria. Migrant numbers have swelled along the rugged frontier after Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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Netanyahu pledges 'immediate' annexation steps if re-elected
RAMAT GAN: People walk along a pedestrian overpass beneath a giant Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) alliance electoral billboard showing the face of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) flanked by Justice Minister Amir Ohana (left) and Education Minister Rafi Peretz, with text in Hebrew reading 'Blue and White or Erdogan' (implying Netanyahu mimicking the behavior of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan), in the central Israeli city...
Mask-clad pedestrians walk through Tajrish Bazaar in the Iranian capital Tehran on February 29, 2020. - Iran reported nine new deaths from the novel coronavirus and 205 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall tolls to 43 dead and 593 infected. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
What is the real size of the coronavirus epidemic in Iran?
TEHRAN: Mask-clad pedestrians walk through Tajrish Bazaar in the Iranian capital Tehran. _ AFP PARIS: International experts are questioning the scale of the new coronavirus epidemic in Iran, where the official death toll is second only to China and risks creating a regional epicenter of contagion. While Iran has acknowledged 43 deaths among 593 confirmed infections nationwide - with a vice-president and deputy health minister among those...
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Vatican opens archives on controversial pope
ROME: Pope Francis wipes his nose during mass which opens Lent - the forty-day period of abstinence and deprivation for Christians before Holy Week and Easter at the Santa Sabina church in Rome. - AFP VATICAN CITY: The Vatican unseals the archives of history's most contentious popes today, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust. Two hundred researchers have already...
Brazilian self-avowed flat-Earth conspiracy theorist Anderson Neves holds a model of the flat earth surrounded by a dome during an interview with AFP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 13, 2020. - Eleven million people in Brazil, 7% of its population, believe that the Earth is flat, according to Datafolha polling institute. (Photo by Florence GOISNARD / AFP)
To 11 million Brazilians, the Earth is flat
SAO PAULO: Brazilian self-avowed flat-Earth conspiracy theorist Anderson Neves holds a model of the flat earth surrounded by a dome during an interview with AFP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Eleven million people in Brazil, 7 percent of its population, believe that the Earth is flat, according to Datafolha polling institute. - AFP SAO PAULO, Brazil: Sitting by a model of the Earth shaped like a pancake, Brazilian restaurant-owner Ricardo lets out an...
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Huawei releases new 5G products and solutions
Ryan Ding, Executive Director of the Board and President of Huawei's Carrier BG KUWAIT: Ryan Ding, Executive Director of the Board and President of Huawei's Carrier BG, has recently released Huawei's new 5G products and solutions while also launching the company's new 5G Partner Innovation Program. These efforts aim to build a thriving 5G ecosystem and make 5G a commercial success.5G has developed beyond imagination in terms of deployment,...
TOPSHOT - Medical staff treating a critical patient infected by the COVID-19 coronavirus with an Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 1, 2020. - China on March 1 reported 35 more deaths from the new coronavirus, taking the toll in the country to 2,870. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
China's coronavirus cases rise again as Trump urges calm after US death
WUHAN: Medical staff treating a critical patient infected by the COVID-19 coronavirus with an Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province yesterday.- AFP BEIJING: China reported a fresh spike in coronavirus infections yesterday, as President Donald Trump urged calm after the first death on US soil and Australia registered its first fatality. The virus has spread to more than 60...
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Gatherings banned, travel restricted as coronavirus cases grow worldwide
HONG KONG: Customers wearing face masks amid concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus give their orders inside a 'Cha Chaan Teng', a king of local restaurant, in Hong Kong yesterday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Leaders in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas rolled out bans on big gatherings and stricter travel restrictions as cases of the new coronavirus spread around the world. The United States on Saturday reported its first...
Activists of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam Nazryate party shout as they celebrate the signing agreement between the US and the Taliban during a rally in Quetta on March 1, 2020.† †nn† - The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on February 29, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest war. (Photo by Banaras KHAN / AFP)
Tough talks ahead as president objects to Taleban prisoner swap
QUETTA: Activists of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam Nazryate party shout as they celebrate the signing agreement between the US and the Taleban during a rally in Quetta yesterday.- AFP KABUL: Afghanistan's weakened government protested yesterday against a key component of a deal between the US and the Taleban, setting the scene for fractious talks when Kabul and the insurgents meet to strike a separate agreement. President Ashraf Ghani, who faces a...
Muslim men wearing protective masks during Friday prayers in Kuwait City on February 28, 2020. Kuwait's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs set the Friday prayer sermon to not exceed 10 minutes, and discuss precautions against coronavirus infection.
Teachers traveling during break must provide health report before resuming work in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Muslim men wearing protective masks perform Friday prayers at a mosque in Kuwait City on February 28, 2020. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By A Saleh KUWAIT: Teachers who leave Kuwait during the schools' impromptu coronavirus-related suspension will not be allowed to show up to work after the end of the break on March 15 unless they provide reports from the Ministry of Health (MoH) certifying they are clear of any infection. This...
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Kuwait calls on citizens to avoid travel; no new coronavirus cases
KUWAIT: Director of the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO EMRO) Dr Ahmad Al-Mandhari speaks during a press conference held by the health ministry yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait called on its citizens to avoid traveling over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, a health ministry official said at a media conference yesterday. The state has not registered any new coronavirus infections over the...
Chelsea's Spanish defender Marcos Alonso (2R) misses a chance at goal during the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on February 29, 2020. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /
Chelsea stumble again at Bournemouth
BOURNEMOUTH: Chelsea's Spanish defender Marcos Alonso (2R) misses a chance at goal during the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England yesterday. - AFP LONDON: Chelsea needed a double from Marcos Alonso to salvage a 2-2 draw at struggling Bournemouth as West Ham boosted their chances of survival with a 3-1 win over Southampton yesterday. After a 3-0 thrashing...
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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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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones