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Faisal Al-Qenae: Half a century in sports media
KUWAIT: After more than 50 years in sports journalism, Kuwait has lost iconic media figure, former Kuwait Journalists Association secretary general and member of KJA’s general assembly Faisal Mubarak Ali Al-Qenae.Qenae, born in October 1950 in Sharq’s Al-Jena’at neighborhood, was a pillar of Kuwaiti and Arab media, namely in sports journalism. Starting his career in 1969, Qenae witnessed many Kuwaiti teams’ local and international...
KUWAIT: The Higher Committee for Re-operating Flights at Kuwait International Airport meeting in progress. — KUNA
Airport higher committee discusses commercial flights resumption plan
KUWAIT: The Higher Committee for Re-operating Flights at Kuwait International Airport meeting in progress. — KUNA KUWAIT: The Higher Committee for Re-operating Flights at Kuwait International Airport discussed Thursday a plan to gradually resume commercial aviation through several steps. In a statement to the press on the sidelines of the meeting, Chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Sheikh Salman Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah said...
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KRCS delivers food parcels to residents of Farwaniya, Khaitan
KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent (KRCS) handed out 1,000 food parcels and 1,000 milk cartons to residents of Farwaniya, which is currently under lockdown amid the COVID-19 precautionary measures. The campaign, undertaken in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, aims to provide food to the people there for one month, KRCS official Yousef Al-Miraj said. The campaign will continue targeting laborers and low-income families across other isolated areas...
JAL EL DIB, Lebanon: A protester holding the Lebanese flag runs as protesters block the Jounieh Tripoli highway with flaming tyres during a demonstration against dire economic conditions northeast of Beirut late on June 11, 2020. – AFP
Lebanon to inject dollars amid protests
JAL EL DIB, Lebanon: A protester holding the Lebanese flag runs as protesters block the Jounieh Tripoli highway with flaming tyres during a demonstration against dire economic conditions northeast of Beirut late on June 11, 2020. – AFP BEIRUT: Hundreds protested for a second night over the Lebanese authorities’ handling of a deepening economic crisis, despite the government pledging on Friday to inject dollars into the market to bolster the...
TRIPOLI: A fighter loyal to Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) poses for a picture while seated in the turret a technical (pickup truck mounted with turret) in the town of Tarhuna. — AFP
Conflict, division blight coronavirus response in Libya
TRIPOLI: A fighter loyal to Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) poses for a picture while seated in the turret a technical (pickup truck mounted with turret) in the town of Tarhuna. — AFP TRIPOLI: War and division are weakening Libya’s fight against the novel coronavirus, with the government struggling to deal with an outbreak deep in the desert south. The oil-rich North African nation has been mired in chaos since a...
KUWAIT: This picture taken on Friday shows signs indicating women’s beauty salons in buildings in Salmiya. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Shuttered salons deprive women of social outlet
KUWAIT: This picture taken on Friday shows signs indicating women’s beauty salons in buildings in Salmiya. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: Warda is a 37-year-old teacher whose family only allow her to go to two places: Work, and the beauty salon that was her only social outlet before coronavirus restrictions shut it down. Since salons nationwide closed their doors three months ago to curb the spread of the pandemic, she has been...
BEIJING: People carry goods out of a side entrance of the Jingshen seafood market yesterday. The market was closed for disinfection and investigation on Friday after it was found that a newly-identified coronavirus patient had visited it. — AFP
Fresh virus cluster in China raises pandemic control fears
BEIJING: People carry goods out of a side entrance of the Jingshen seafood market yesterday. The market was closed for disinfection and investigation on Friday after it was found that a newly-identified coronavirus patient had visited it. — AFP BEIJING: Lockdowns were imposed in parts of Beijing yesterday to try and prevent the spread of a new coronavirus cluster, highlighting the challenges that lie ahead even for places where outbreaks are...
RICHMOND: Hundreds of people turned out for the BLACK PRIDE RVA March to protest police killing George Floyd and racial justice in Richmond, Virginia. —AFP
African countries call for racism debate at UN rights council
RICHMOND: Hundreds of people turned out for the BLACK PRIDE RVA March to protest police killing George Floyd and racial justice in Richmond, Virginia. —AFP GENEVA: African countries called Friday on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently debate racism and police brutality amid the unrest in the US and beyond over George Floyd’s death. In a letter written on behalf of 54 African countries, Burkina Faso’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva...
KATHMANDU: Protesters maintaining social distancing hold placards during a demonstration against the government’s handling of the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kathmandu yesterday. — AFP
Lives saved or deaths postponed?
KATHMANDU: Protesters maintaining social distancing hold placards during a demonstration against the government’s handling of the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Kathmandu yesterday. — AFP PARIS: While lockdowns undoubtedly avoided large numbers of deaths from the new coronavirus, the repercussions of the pandemic response are expected to blight economies and health systems long after restrictions are lifted. So how can we...
SALT LAKE CITY: In this file photo, Union Pacific train engines face each other as they sit idle at a train yard in Salt Lake City, Utah. Despite moves to reopen businesses, another 1.54 million US workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said.—AFP
US consumer confidence rises; but unemployment crisis looms
SALT LAKE CITY: In this file photo, Union Pacific train engines face each other as they sit idle at a train yard in Salt Lake City, Utah. Despite moves to reopen businesses, another 1.54 million US workers filed for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said.—AFP WASHINGTON: US consumer sentiment perked up in early June as households cheered the reopening of businesses and a surprise rebound in hiring, though they did not...
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Markaz: Restoring mobility key to revitalizing economy
KUWAIT: As part of its ongoing interest to constantly evaluate the performance of various economic sectors to help achieve sustainable growth, Kuwait Financial Centre “Markaz” launched a special report highlighting the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on mobility in Kuwait. The report includes a set of recommendations that can be implemented by different sectors to address the challenges caused by disruptions to mobility as a result of the...
LONDON: Workers install hand sanitizer stations and signs telling pedestrians and shoppers to adhere to the British government’s current social distancing guidelines, and stay two meters (2M) apart, outside shops on Regent Street in central London on Friday as non-essential shops prepare to re-open on June 15. – AFP
British economy shrinks a 5th on lockdown
LONDON: Workers install hand sanitizer stations and signs telling pedestrians and shoppers to adhere to the British government’s current social distancing guidelines, and stay two meters (2M) apart, outside shops on Regent Street in central London on Friday as non-essential shops prepare to re-open on June 15. – AFP LONDON: Britain’s economy shrank by a fifth in size during April as the coronavirus lockdown shuttered factories, offices and...
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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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Kuwait shivers in subzero cold
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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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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