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Parveen (C) sits with relatives and other families at Al-hind Hospital where they have taken shelter with other families after losing their homes following sectarian riots over India's new citizenship law, in New Delhi on February 28, 2020. - Muslims in India's capital held regular Friday prayers on February 28 under the watch of riot police, capping a week which saw 42 killed and hundreds injured during the city's worst sectarian violence in decades. (Photo by Xavier GALIANA / AFP)

In Delhi, two tales of one deadly riot

NEW DELHI: Parveen (center) sits with relatives and other families at Al-Hind Hospital where they have taken shelter with other families after losing their homes following sectarian riots over India's new citizenship law, in New Delhi on Friday.-AFP NEW DELHI: Mehtab Ali and Rahul Thakur, a Muslim and a Hindu both 23, lived in adjacent streets. Both died this week in Delhi's worst religious riots in decades. As the accounts of family and friends...

An Afghan refugee (R) distributes sweets to celebrate the 'reduction in violence' agreed earlier between Taliban, US and Afghan forces, in the Khurasan refugee camp on the outskirts of Peshawar on February 22, 2020. - More than 10,000 civilians were killed or wounded in Afghanistan'swar last year, the United Nations announced Saturday, as a historic partial truce kicked in across the country. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP)

For grieving families, Afghan peace deal brings doubt as well as hope

An Afghan refugee (right) distributes sweets to celebrate the 'reduction in violence' agreed earlier between Taleban, US and Afghan forces, in the Khurasan refugee camp on the outskirts of Peshawar. - AFP KABUL: For mother-of-four Nasima, the prospect of lasting peace in Afghanistan is almost too good to be true. The 45-year-old, whose husband Nasir Ahmad was killed in a massive truck bomb in Kabul blamed on Taleban insurgents, is one of...

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Cabinet cancels Kuwait national days' festivals due to virus fears

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet's meeting yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: The Cabinet decided yesterday to cancel all festivals marking the National Days sine die, urging the public to understand the measures taken to face the novel coronavirus and embody purposeful cooperation for the safety of citizens and expats. The Cabinet highlighted that this is an exceptional situation, which...

A picture taken on on February 24, 2020, shows a view of a hotel in the Kuwaiti capital where Kuwaitis returning from Iran are quarantined and tested for coronavirus COVID-19. - Kuwait confirmed three cases who tested positive for novel coronavirus, a 53-year-old Kuwaiti man, a 61-year-old Saudi citizen, and a 21-year-old stateless Arab (Bidoon), after returning from Iran's holy city of Mashhad. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)

National celebrations canceled as coronavirus reaches Kuwait

KUWAIT: A picture taken yesterday shows a view of a hotel in Mangaf where Kuwaitis returning from Iran are quarantined and tested for the coronavirus. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B Izzak and A SalehKUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday reported its first three cases of novel coronavirus among hundreds of people returning from Iran, causing panic and triggering strong criticism of the government. The ministry of health said a 53-year-old Kuwaiti man, a...

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pose as they visit the Taj Mahal in Agra on February 24, 2020. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Trump hails Modi at huge India rally

AGRA, India: US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pose as they visit the Taj Mahal yesterday. - AFP AHMEDABAD, India: US President Donald Trump got a rapturous and romantic welcome to India yesterday, addressing a huge rally and holding hands with his wife at the Taj Mahal, in a maiden official visit big on photo opportunities but short on concrete results. Casting a cloud over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's welcome however, a...

Kuwaiti women wearing protective masks walk inside the Mubarakiya Market in Kuwait City on February 24, 2020.

Kuwait's chest hospital director demands 'immediate decision to set things right'

KUWAIT: Women wear protective masks at the Mubarakiya Market in Kuwait City yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat By A Saleh KUWAIT: Director of the Chest Diseases Hospital Dr Reem Al-Assoussi stressed all returnees from Iran and those who had contact with them in their respective homes, including domestic helpers, should be re-quarantined, and those who refuse should be legally held accountable. In a tweet, Assoussi stressed the need for what...

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Everything you should know about the coronavirus

KUWAIT: In early 2020, a new kind of virus began generating headlines all over the world because of the unprecedented speed of its transmission. From its origins in a food market in Wuhan, China in December 2019 to countries as far-flung as the United States and the Philippines, the virus (officially named COVID-19) has infected tens of thousands, with a rising death toll now over 2,500.What are the symptoms? Doctors are learning new things...

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Kuwaiti farmers back measures to ban imports

By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: Chairman of Kuwait Farmers Union Abdullah Al-Dammak said the union's board of directors fully approves the measures taken by the government to ban imports of fruits and vegetables from Iran after detection coronavirus infections there. He added that the ban also includes a number of other Asian countries and others around the world were the disease has been detected. Dammak stressed that Kuwaiti farmers are ready to...

India's Ishant Sharma plays a shot during day four of the first Test cricket match between New Zealand and India at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on February 24, 2020. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

New Zealand restore pride by thrashing India in first Test

WELLINGTON: India's Ishant Sharma plays a shot during day four of the first Test cricket match between New Zealand and India at the Basin Reserve in Wellington yesterday. – AFP WELLINGTON: With a dark cloud hanging over New Zealand cricket since last month's humiliating 3-0 defeat in Australia, Kane Williamson's side delivered the perfect response to their critics with a 10-wicket win over India in the first Test yesterday. The victory was New...

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Amir receives congratulatory cables on Kuwait's National Day

KUWAIT: Children wave Kuwaiti flags during a previous National Day celebration. - KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday congratulatory cables marking the 59th National Day and 29th anniversary of the Liberation Day from His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness the Amir received cables from National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem, Chief of...

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Zain family celebrates Kuwait's national holidays

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, held a special event for its staff to celebrate Kuwait's national holidays in the company's main headquarters in Shuwaikh. The celebration, which featured the presence of the company's top executive management and the stars of Zain's latest televised national production TVC, witnessed the broadcasting of a live episode of the Diwaniya radio show from Zain's main HQ over 90.4 Marina...

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Volunteer group organizes visit to 'Bait Al-Qurain'

KUWAIT: Al-Qurain Martyrs House Museum (Bait Al-Qurain). By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The 'Kuwait in Our Hearts' volunteer group, in cooperation with the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), organized a tour of Al-Qurain Martyrs House Museum (Bait Al-Qurain) yesterday. Twenty-eight volunteer teams participated in this tour, in addition to some school students, to commemorate the martyrs who died during the battle at Bait...

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