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Kuwait reports 551 new COVID-19 infections, 2 deaths
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health announced Monday 551 new infections of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), raising the total to 36,431, while total deaths reached 298 with the addition of two fatalities. Official spokesperson of the Ministry of Health Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a press conference that the 551 infections included 234 Kuwaitis, 81 Indians, 53 Egyptians and the rest of other nationalities. Currently, there are 184 patients...
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Anti-Corruption Authority follows up trafficking case
KUWAIT: Kuwait Public Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) confirmed that it will follow-up with a human trafficking case currently under investigation in Kuwait, indicating its cooperation with the Public Prosecution, the judicial investigation body responsible for related cases. Nazaha spokesperson Dr Mohammad Buzber said that his authority has started examining all financial disclosure statements, analyzing them, and reviewing all data...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi reads a letter from His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, during his meeting with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah. - KUNA
Iraq keen on strong ties with Kuwait: President
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi reads a letter from His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, during his meeting with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah. - KUNA BAGHDAD: Iraq is keen to establish strong relations with Kuwait, based on the brotherly ties and historical relationships between the two peoples, Iraqi President Barham Salih said Sunday. A statement issued by the Iraqi...
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APICORP: $792bn planned investments for 2020-2024 in MENA’s energy sector
KUWAIT: The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP), a multilateral development financial institution, estimates that planned and committed investments in the MENA region will exceed $792bn over the next five years (2020–2024). As per APICORP’s MENA Energy Investment Outlook 2020-2024, which it launched today, the amount marks a $173mn decline from the $965bn in last year’s five-year outlook.The overall decline in the investment...
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem speaks during a press conference at the National Assembly yesterday. – Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
Assembly session to go ahead despite govt health warning
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem speaks during a press conference at the National Assembly yesterday. – Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh By B IzzakKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday that the Assembly sessions today and tomorrow will go ahead as scheduled to debate the questioning of two ministers and other issues related to the coronavirus. The speaker’s announcement came after a strong warning by...
ATLANTA: People use their cellphones to document a muralist painting the face of Rayshard Brooks outside a burned Wendy’s restaurant on Sunday. — AFP
Another killing of black man in US fuels tension
ATLANTA: People use their cellphones to document a muralist painting the face of Rayshard Brooks outside a burned Wendy’s restaurant on Sunday. — AFP WASHINGTON: The fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in Atlanta has poured more fuel on the raging US debate over racism, prompting another round of street protests and the resignation of the southern city’s police chief. The death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was ruled...
MANILA: Philippine journalist Maria Ressa speaks during a press conference after attending the court’s verdict promulgation yesterday. — AFP
Philippine journalist convicted
MANILA: Philippine journalist Maria Ressa speaks during a press conference after attending the court’s verdict promulgation yesterday. — AFP MANILA: The head of a Philippine news website known for its tough scrutiny of President Rodrigo Duterte was convicted of libel yesterday and faces a lengthy jail term in what is being seen as a blow to media freedom in the country. Maria Ressa, chief executive of Rappler and a former CNN journalist, was...
SAO PAULO: Suzane Valverde hugs her 85-year-old mother Carmelita Valverde through a transparent plastic curtain at a senior nursing home on June 13, 2020. —– AFP
Retirement home offers ‘hug curtain’
SAO PAULO: Suzane Valverde hugs her 85-year-old mother Carmelita Valverde through a transparent plastic curtain at a senior nursing home on June 13, 2020. —– AFP SAO PAULO: A retirement home in Brazil has come up with a creative solution to allow friends and families to enjoy personal contact with aging residents particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus: a “hugging curtain”. The large plastic curtain, installed in a retirement home in...
The pandemic has been devastating for Hawaii economically whose $18-billion tourism industry employs more than 200,000 people.
As virus hits tourism, islands seek to mend ties with nature
The pandemic has been devastating for Hawaii economically whose $18-billion tourism industry employs more than 200,000 people. WASHINGTON: Since coronavirus emptied Hawaii of tourists, seals have been lounging on beaches, fish are swimming closer to shore and the turquoise water of the US islands’ famous Hanauma Bay is 55 percent clearer, one marine biologist said.The pandemic has been devastating economically for Hawaii, whose $18-billion...
LONDON: A man pulls a wheelie on a bike as he cycles past demonstrators during a Stand up to Racism protest outside of Downing Street on Whitehall, central London in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis, US. — AFP
From crowded tubes to pedal power, London’s COVID transport challenge
LONDON: A man pulls a wheelie on a bike as he cycles past demonstrators during a Stand up to Racism protest outside of Downing Street on Whitehall, central London in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis, US. — AFP LONDON: The crowded daily commute in London has long been a source of misery for millions....
ROME: Doctor Marco (left) and nurse Manu, wearing protective gear, greet as they take care of a patient at the level intensive care unit, treating COVID-19 patients, at the San Filippo Neri hospital in Rome during the country’s lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. — AFP
‘Disinfecting non-stop’ as Italy faces two new COVID-19 outbreaks
ROME: Doctor Marco (left) and nurse Manu, wearing protective gear, greet as they take care of a patient at the level intensive care unit, treating COVID-19 patients, at the San Filippo Neri hospital in Rome during the country’s lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. — AFP ROME: Yellow police tape - a familiar sight across Italy since the coronavirus began sweeping the country in March - reappeared at the weekend...
BERLIN: A woman holds a ‘Black Lives Matter’ placard as protesters form a human chain in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, as they take part in a demonstration organised by the “#unteilbar” (indivisible) movement. — AFP
Berliners form a socially-distanced chain against racism
BERLIN: A woman holds a ‘Black Lives Matter’ placard as protesters form a human chain in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, as they take part in a demonstration organised by the “#unteilbar” (indivisible) movement. — AFP BERLIN: Thousands demonstrated in Berlin against racism and for broader fairness, including sharing the coronavirus burden, as they stretched a human chain through the German capital Sunday while keeping safe distances....
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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Crown Prince of Jordan Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II at Bayan Palace on Dec 15, 2024. - Amiri Diwan
Jordan Crown Prince visits Kuwait
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DAMASCUS: People chat at a pub on Dec 13, 2024. - AFP
Syrian pubs warily reopen
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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
Ministry of Finance, Microsoft sign deal to advance digitization
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Kuwait shivers in subzero cold
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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
‘Endless torture’: Inmate recalls hell of Syrian jails