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(FILES) In this file photo people walk through a Manhattan shopping mall on January 30, 2020 in New York City. - US retailers projected solid sales in 2020 on February 26, 2020 despite uncertainty over the coronavirus that has thrashed global equity markets in recent days. Global markets have gyrated this week as the virus has spread to additional countries and raised concerns about the economic hit from the sorts of lockdown measures that have limited travel and industrial production in China. (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Economy wavers as world comes to standstill
NEW YORK: In this file photo, people walk through a Manhattan shopping mall in New York City. The dreaded coronavirus is putting the global economy at the greatest risk of recession since the 2008 financial crisis. - AFP WASHINGTON: The world is coming to a standstill as the new coronavirus spreads: schools have closed in Japan, rallies are banned in Switzerland and flights are canceled worldwide. That is putting the global economy at the...
A museum employee poses next to kimonos displayed during the press preview of the 'Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London on February 26, 2020. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)
From samurais to Jedi knights, kimono stars in London show
A museum employee poses next to kimonos displayed during the press preview of the ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London. - AFP Photos Freddie Mercury, Yves Saint Laurent and George Lucas were all seduced by the charms of the kimono, whose evolution from medieval times in Japan will be on show at a major exhibition in London. The kimono has been worn by Jedi knights in Lucas's "Star Wars"...
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Minorities attack 'stereotypical' bit parts in French films
Photo shows the poster of the last movie ‘J’accuse’ of French movie director Roman Polanski displayed on a cinema in Paris. – AFP Some of France's top stars of color have slammed the French film industry, accusing it of confining black, North African and Asian-origin performers to stereotypical bit parts. In an open letter on the eve of the Cesars - the French Oscars - they lambasted the "invisibility" of minorities both in front of the...
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AVEVA announces software update for ship design and engineering
DUBAI: AVEVA, global leader in engineering and industrial software, announced an important update to its AVEVA E3D(tm) design software that addresses the specific needs of the marine sector. Designed with the most up-to-date user interface principles and best practices, intuitive and easy to use AVEVA E3D(tm) Design software combines the latest three-dimensional graphics and user interface technologies with state-of-the-art data management....
TOPSHOT - South Korean soldiers wearing protective gear move to spray disinfectant as part of preventive measures against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at Dongdaegu railway station in Daegu on February 29, 2020. - South Korea confirmed 594 more coronavirus cases on February 29, the biggest increase to date for the country and taking the national total to 2,931 infections with three additional deaths. (Photo by - / YONHAP / AFP) / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT NO ARCHIVES RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE
South Korea coronavirus cases surge; death toll mounts
DAEGU, South Korea: South Korean soldiers wearing protective gear move to spray disinfectant as part of preventive measures against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Dongdaegu railway station yesterday. - AFP SEOUL: South Korea reported its biggest surge in new coronavirus cases yesterday as concerns grew of a possible epidemic in the United States and the World Health Organization raised its risk alert to its highest level. The virus...
Malaysia's former interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin (C) and his family wave to the press shows outside his home in Kuala Lumpur on February 29, 2020. - Muhyiddin was named as Malaysia's new prime minister on February 29, royal officials said, signalling the end of Mahathir Mohamad's rule and return to power of a scandal-plagued party. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP)
Mahathir rejects new premier
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's incoming prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin (center) and his family wave to the press outside his home yesterday. - AFP KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's political crisis deepened yesterday after 94-year-old Mahathir Mohamad rejected a decision by the king to pick his rival as the next prime minister, insisting he had enough backing to return to the role. Ex-interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin was earlier named for the job by the...
Members of a family of internally displaced Syrians eat together in an underground shelter where several families from Aleppo and Idlib provinces are taking refuge, in the village of Taltunah about 15 kilometres northwest of Idlib in the northwestern Idlib province, on February 23, 2020. (Photo by Aref TAMMAWI / AFP)
Fleeing Syrians set up camp underground
TALTUNAH, Syria: Members of a family of internally displaced Syrians eat together in an underground shelter in this village on Feb 23, 2020. - AFP TALTUNAH: In a field dotted with olive trees in embattled northwestern Syria, Shamseddeen Darra steps down into the gloomy underground shelter he and his family now call home. After fleeing a deadly offensive by government forces on their home region of Idlib, they found nowhere else to go.Beyond...
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Trump nominates controversial ally as intel chief
US President Donald Trump announced Republican lawmaker John Ratcliffe as his intelligence chief Friday. -AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced Republican lawmaker John Ratcliffe as his intelligence chief Friday, sparking fresh controversy over a crucial position that has lacked a permanent office holder for months. The 53-year-old Trump loyalist was nominated as director of national intelligence after Dan Coats stepped down in...
Likitu Merdasa holds a portrait of her son Desta Garuma, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, allegedly killed by security forces, while at her home in Nekemte, West Oromia, on February 26, 2020. - The killing is one of an array of abuses that residents, opposition politicians and rights groups accuse soldiers of committing in and around Nekemte, a market town in Ethiopia's Oromia region, as part of a crackdown on rebels that has intensified this year. (Photo by SOLAN KOLLI / AFP)
Ethiopia's Abiy faces outcry over crackdown on rebels
NEKEMTE, Ethiopia: Likitu Merdasa holds a portrait on Feb 26, 2020 at her home of her son Desta Garuma, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, allegedly killed by security forces. - AFP NEKEMTE, Ethiopia: Desta Garuma, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, never showed much interest in politics, so his family has no idea how soldiers concluded he was involved in a rebel movement active in Ethiopia's Oromia region. But one day in January, five truckloads of...
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KUWAIT: Early morning view of the Boubiyan Bridge. - Photo by Sadath Kunjumoideen (KUNA)
Travellers wearing masks use their mobile phones at OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, on February 28, 2020 amid fear of Covid-19 epidemic. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)
Vulnerable continent: Africa and the coronavirus
PRETORIA: Travellers wearing masks use their mobile phones at OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, on February 28, 2020 amid fear of Covid-19 epidemic. - AFP PARIS: The first detected case of coronavirus in Africa highlights the vulnerability of the world's poorest continent to outbreaks of contagious diseases. Much of Africa struggles with conflicts, poor health infrastructure, crowded cities with inadequate sanitation, rickety...
Local residents gather near the wreckage of a bus following a collision between a train and a passenger bus in Sukkur district on February 29, 2020. - At least 18 people were killed and dozens more injured when a passenger train rammed into a bus on February 28 in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials said. (Photo by STR / AFP)
Train-bus collision kills at least 18 in Pakistan
KARACHI: Local residents gather near the wreckage of a bus following a collision between a train and a passenger bus in Sukkur district yesterday. - AFP KARACHI: At least 18 people were killed and dozens more injured when a passenger train rammed into a bus on Friday in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials said. The incident took place in Sukkur district, where the incoming Pakistan Express-on its way from Karachi to Lahore-hit the bus,...
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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