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Female prisoner dies of virus; global cases top nine million

By B Izzak and AgenciesKUWAIT: The interior ministry said yesterday that a female prisoner died of coronavirus, becoming the first incarcerated victim of the deadly disease in Kuwait. Meanwhile, global coronavirus infections topped nine million as the World Health Organization warned the pandemic was accelerating.The interior ministry said in a statement the 59-year-old woman was taken to hospital in stable condition around 10 days ago, but her...

MAKKAH: A picture taken yesterday shows a few worshippers performing Fajr prayers in the Grand Mosque complex. – AFP

Saudi to hold ‘limited’ hajj, outsiders barred

MAKKAH: A picture taken yesterday shows a few worshippers performing Fajr prayers in the Grand Mosque complex. – AFP RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has announced it will hold a “very limited” hajj this year, with pilgrims already in the kingdom allowed to perform the annual ritual as it moves to curb the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the Gulf. The decision marks the first time in Saudi Arabia’s modern history that Muslims outside the kingdom...

KOBE: This picture taken on June 16, 2020 shows Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer at the Riken Center for Computational Science. — AFP

Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer world’s fastest

KOBE: This picture taken on June 16, 2020 shows Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer at the Riken Center for Computational Science. — AFP TOKYO: Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer, built with government backing and used in the fight against coronavirus, is now ranked as the world’s fastest, its developers announced Monday. It snatched the top spot on the Top500, a site that has tracked the evolution of computer processing power for more than two...

JERICHO: Palestinians wave flags during a rally on Monday to protest against Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. —AFP

Palestinians rally against Trump’s Middle East plan

JERICHO: Palestinians wave flags during a rally on Monday to protest against Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. —AFP JERICHO: Thousands of Palestinians on Monday demonstrated against US President Donald Trump’s plan for the Middle East that includes Israel’s annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank. The protest in Jericho, in the south of the Jordan Valley, came in response to a call by Fatah, the party of...

GAZA: Palestinian youths, using the traditional keffiyeh scarves as masks due to COVID-19, march during a demonstration against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, in Gaza City. — AFP

Baby dies after Palestinians cut ties with Israel

GAZA: Palestinian youths, using the traditional keffiyeh scarves as masks due to COVID-19, march during a demonstration against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, in Gaza City. — AFP JERUSALEM: Baby Omar Yaghi was eight months old when he died, unable to travel from Gaza to Israel for life-saving heart surgery after Palestinian officials cut coordination. The baby’s mother Raneen has been unable to speak or eat since...

TRIPOLI: A boy looks out from a balconey along an alley in the Bab Al-Tabbaneh neighbourhood of Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli. Thousands of residents of Lebanon’s northern Tripoli struggle to put food on the table, as the country’s worst economic crisis in decades has picked up in speed in recent weeks, with food prices rising by more than 70 percent since the autumn. – AFP

Jobless Sudanese in Lebanon risk life on the Israel border

TRIPOLI: A boy looks out from a balconey along an alley in the Bab Al-Tabbaneh neighbourhood of Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli. Thousands of residents of Lebanon’s northern Tripoli struggle to put food on the table, as the country’s worst economic crisis in decades has picked up in speed in recent weeks, with food prices rising by more than 70 percent since the autumn. – AFP BEIRUT: Cowering in a pipe after fleeing Lebanon, a man...

BARCELONA: On-demand delivery service Glovo said on Monday it will offset all its carbon emissions by the end of 2021. — Reuters

Zero-carbon goal? Spanish delivery start-up Glovo targets greener future

BARCELONA: On-demand delivery service Glovo said on Monday it will offset all its carbon emissions by the end of 2021. — Reuters BARCELONA: On-demand delivery service Glovo, whose riders with distinctive yellow bags have continued to carry meals, medicine and other goods to city residents under lockdown, said on Monday it will offset all its carbon emissions by the end of 2021. The Barcelona-based company runs an app that lets its users in 22...

READING: Police forensics officers dressed in Tyvek protective PPE (personal protective equipment) suits and wearing masks, conduct a search of a drain near to Forbury Gardens park in Reading, west of London - the scene of the June 20 stabbing spree. –— AFP

Britain reels from latest terror-linked stabbing, American among the dead

READING: Police forensics officers dressed in Tyvek protective PPE (personal protective equipment) suits and wearing masks, conduct a search of a drain near to Forbury Gardens park in Reading, west of London - the scene of the June 20 stabbing spree. –— AFP READING: The English town of Reading held a minute’s silence on Monday for the victims of a stabbing that killed three people, in an attack that police called a terrorist incident....

WASHINGTON, DC: US home sales dropped to their lowest level in more than 9-1/2 years in May, strengthening expectations for a sharp contraction in housing market activity in the second quarter following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. – Reuters

US home sales hit 9-1/2-year low as price growth cools

WASHINGTON, DC: US home sales dropped to their lowest level in more than 9-1/2 years in May, strengthening expectations for a sharp contraction in housing market activity in the second quarter following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. – Reuters WASHINGTON: US home sales dropped to their lowest level in more than 9-1/2 years in May, strengthening expectations for a sharp contraction in housing market activity in the second quarter...

NEW YORK CITY: People wait in line outside an Apple store on Monday in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. Apple Inc on Monday said it will switch to its own chips for its Mac computers, saying the first machines will ship this year.—AFP

Apple switches to own chips for Mac computers

NEW YORK CITY: People wait in line outside an Apple store on Monday in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. Apple Inc on Monday said it will switch to its own chips for its Mac computers, saying the first machines will ship this year.—AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc on Monday said it will switch to its own chips for its Mac computers, saying the first machines will ship this year and ending a nearly 15-year reliance on Intel Corp to supply...

TULSA: US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. — AFP

Trump looking to reverse fortunes after Tulsa fiasco

TULSA: US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. — AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is in desperate need of a political boost after a fiasco of a campaign rally in Tulsa left him looking like a leader detached from the multiple crises gripping the United States. In addition to the poor attendance, Trump’s performance at the Oklahoma rally on Saturday had the air of a tired showman...

BOSTON: A healing team makes a shrine and offerings to their ancestors during a Juneteenth Protest and march in honor of Rayshard Brooks and other victims of Police Violence in Boston, Massachusetts on June 22, 2020.— AFP

Anti-racism protests turn spotlight on icons of US history

BOSTON: A healing team makes a shrine and offerings to their ancestors during a Juneteenth Protest and march in honor of Rayshard Brooks and other victims of Police Violence in Boston, Massachusetts on June 22, 2020.— AFP WASHINGTON: As the wave of anti-racism protests rocking the United States brings down monuments to figures linked to the country’s history of slavery, the spotlight is shifting to historic characters long considered...

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SEATTLE: Kuwait's Undersecretary of Finance Aseel Al-Munifi and Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Public Sector Angela Heise sign a memorandum of understanding during a meeting in the presence of officials. — KUNA

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DAMASCUS: People react as they search for their missing relatives among bodies recovered at the Saydnaya prison, at the morgue of the Damascus Hospital, also known as the Mujtahid Hospital, on Dec 15, 2024. - AFP

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