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Carroll Fife, the director of the Oakland office for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment walks outside a homeless encampment in Oakland, California on January 28, 2020. - When Dominique Walker moved back from Mississippi to her native California last year, she planned to pursue a nursing degree while caring for her two small children.nBut she and other moms and their children ended up living as squatters in a bold, high-profile protest against homelessness. According to city officials, an estimated 4,071 people were living on the street, in shelters or in their cars in 2019 in Oakland, a 47 percent increase in two years. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP)
California's moms on frontline of battle against homelessness
OAKLAND: Carroll Fife, the director of the Oakland office for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment walks outside a homeless encampment in Oakland. - AFP OAKLAND: When Dominique Walker moved back from Mississippi to her native California last year, she planned to pursue a nursing degree while caring for her two small children. But she and other moms and their children ended up living as squatters in a bold, high-profile protest...
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China turns to AI, data in fight against virus
LES CONTAMINES-MONTJOIE: This picture shows a general view of Les Contamines-Montjoie, where five British nationals including a child have tested positive for the new coronavirus in France. - AFP BEIJING: A man who had travelled to Wuhan - the central city at the heart of China's coronavirus crisis - was surprised when police showed up at his door after he returned home, asking to check his temperature. The man, who had quarantined himself at...
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UN: South Sudan violence and rights abuses on the rise
JUBA: Violence and rights abuses are on the rise in South Sudan as a new deadline approaches for the country's two rival factions to form a power-sharing government under a peace deal, a UN commission said on Friday. President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, who fought a civil war in 2013, signed a peace accord two years ago but missed two deadlines to form a government. South Sudan won independence in 2011, but its territory was...
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Pangolin Suspect #1 as direct source of coronavirus outbreak
SINGAPORE: In this file photo taken on June 30, 2017, a juvenile Sunda pangolin feeds on termites at the Singapore Zoo. - AFP PARIS: Chinese researchers investigating the animal origin of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China said Friday the endangered pangolin may be the "missing link" between bats and humans, but other scientists said the search may not be over. An earlier study -- since discredited -- pointed to snakes, and there remain...
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KUWAIT: Horizontal symmetry photography technique used in this photo taken at Boulevard Park. - Photo by Ahmad Al-Failakawi (KUNA)
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 25, 2019 People stand in a Tesla showroom at a shopping mall in Los Angeles. - Tesla shares dived around 20 percent in early afternoon trading on February 5, 2020, giving back some of the gains the electric-car maker racked up since October. Shares stood at $723.92, down 18.3 percent around 1835 GMT, reversing a nearly unbroken trend over the last four months that accelerated this week when the stock jumped more than 36 percent in a two-day surge. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP)
Tesla's surge inspires fans to buy, skeptics to dig in, drives fear of missing out
LOS ANGELES: People stand in a Tesla showroom at a shopping mall in Los Angeles. - AFP NEW YORK: Pretty much everyone on Wall Street has an opinion about Tesla. The electric vehicle maker's stupendous rally in recent months has given shareholders something to cheer about, cost short sellers billions of dollars and vindicated legions of retail investors who have long adored Elon Musk's company.Tesla shares have soared by nearly 320% since early...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 5, 2019 a woman works at a fulfillment center at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. - American companies hired at a stunning pace in January, adding the most jobs in five years, according to data on February 5, 2020 from payrolls firm ADP. Private companies added 291,000 new hires last month -- surpassing the consensus forecast in spectacular fashion -- to post the biggest gain since December 2014, according to ADP's monthly report. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)
US job creation surges in Jan, adds 225,000 new positions
STATEN ISLAND: A woman works at a fulfillment center at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. - AFP WASHINGTON: The US economy saw an explosion of new hiring in January, possibly helped by mild weather but nonetheless getting the year off to an impressive start, according to key government data released Friday. The surprising gain will be a boon to President Donald Trump,...
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Deployment ban on Filipino skilled, semi-skilled workers lifted; domestic helper ban remains
Philippines Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) Governing Board has approved a partial lifting of the deployment ban for Filipino workers seeking employment in Kuwait. This means all skilled, semi-skilled and professional workers may now return to working in Kuwait. This includes workers who were temporarily stopped at the airport in Manila and were...
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Kuwait still looking for other countries to recruit domestic helpers
By A SalehKUWAIT: Kuwait is eyeing more countries to start allowing workers to come to Kuwait from in order to work as domestic helpers in addition to India, Sri Lanka and Eritrea, which are the only three remaining countries that export domestic workers to Kuwait following the Philippines' ban last month. Eritrea's market had joined India's and Sri Lanka's in sending domestic helpers to Kuwait in November 2019, Finance Minister and Acting...
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Ministry bans sheep, Arabic coffee exports
MOCI - Ministry of the Commerce and Industry By Meshaal Al-EneziKUWAIT: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued a decision yesterday to ban the export of domestic and imported sheep and goats starting March 1, 2020, and another decision to ban the export and re-export of cardamom and Arabic coffee for three months. The two decisions were made following inspection tours at local markets, the ministry said, explaining that they would help the...
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Kuwait fire department executes drill on catastrophes at Arifjan
KUWAIT: Marine and fire rescue teams train on rescuing people trapped in a lake accumulated from rainwater during the drill. - KUNA photos KUWAIT: Patronized by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) carried out the 'Shamel 6' drill titled 'the joint command for managing crises and catastrophes' in Arifjan, southeast of Kuwait City yesterday. The exercise was attended by...
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Sculptor transforms media of wire into works of art
Khaled Hamdan creates art by sculpting wire into various shapes - sometimes in exquisite detail and other times representative forms. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat By Faten OmarMany artists use interesting materials to create. Wire - the tough can slim hardness of a string - hardly seems like a creative medium and yet, manipulated in the right way, it can be. In 3000 BC, ancient Egyptians were using various materials including wires in their...
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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