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It is the weekend!
Now then, it is the weekend, and most of the day will be spent at home as Friday prayers are yet to be allowed in mosques (except for the Grand Mosque), though the five prayers a day started in a limited number of mosques under certain conditions and procedures. It is impossible to measure how happy people were to be able to pray in mosques. It was like someone who found his missing son, as described by a worshiper.Well, the novel coronavirus...
KUWAIT: Geese walk along Arabian Gulf street in Kuwait City on June 5, 2020, during a partial curfew imposed by the authorities in a bid to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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KUWAIT: Geese walk along Arabian Gulf street in Kuwait City on June 5, 2020, during a partial curfew imposed by the authorities in a bid to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Kuwait reports 609 new COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday 609 new infections with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 34,432 cases. The ministry's spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said in his daily briefing that four new deaths were also recorded during the same period, raising the toll of fatalities from the virus to 279 since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country. He added that some of the cases...
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Worshippers relieved with measures taken at mosques, hope people’s number increase
By Nawara FattahovaAfter three months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, some mosques in Kuwait reopened Wednesday starting with Dhuhur (noon) prayer. The Ministry of Awqaf has previously announced all health measures and precautions taken to allow Muslims to pray in mosques, including not allowing wudu (ablution), worshippers must bring their own prayer mats, must wear facemasks, must keep a specified distance between them, among...
Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah
Annexation dangerous threat to efforts to establish peace: Kuwait
Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah on Wednesday headed the Kuwaiti delegation in the Ministerial Executive Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) extraordinary online meeting to discuss the practices of the Israeli occupation. During his speech, Sheikh Ahmad thanked Saudi Arabia and the OIC for this invitation...
NAPIER: File photo taken on February 29, 2020 shows fans celebrating a try during the Super Rugby match between New Zealand’s Hurricanes and Japan’s Sunwolves. There will be no crowd restrictions when Super Rugby resumes in New Zealand this weekend. — AFP
Full crowds, rule tweaks and Dan Carter as Kiwi Super Rugby returns
NAPIER: File photo taken on February 29, 2020 shows fans celebrating a try during the Super Rugby match between New Zealand’s Hurricanes and Japan’s Sunwolves. There will be no crowd restrictions when Super Rugby resumes in New Zealand this weekend. — AFP WELLINGTON: Super Rugby makes a comeback in New Zealand this weekend with full crowds allowed in a major landmark for professional sport’s emergence from the coronavirus...
NEW DELHI: A man rests in the shade of a stall (R) while another walks past a mural showing images of frontline workers after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP
Exhausted Indian doctors fear virus crisis has only begun
NEW DELHI: A man rests in the shade of a stall (R) while another walks past a mural showing images of frontline workers after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP NEW DELHI: Doctors in one of India’s top private hospitals shuffle through the intensive care unit wearing full protective suits. Every bed is occupied by coronavirus patients, and...
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Europe sets sights on dud antibody tests amid COVID-19 free-for-all
BRUSSELS: The market for COVID-19 antibody tests is red-hot. It has ballooned in a matter of months as hundreds of products flood the world for people who want to find out whether they’ve already had the virus. The problem is, some of them don’t work properly. As a result, European authorities aim to tighten regulation of the new sector, to weed out tests that give consistently inaccurate results and crack down on companies that make false...
BEIRUT: Fishermen gather along Dbayeh's seaside shore, north of the Lebanese capital Beirut. - AFP
COVID-19 fallout takes a heavy toll on young workers
BEIRUT: Fishermen gather along Dbayeh's seaside shore, north of the Lebanese capital Beirut. - AFP LONDON: When Britain went into coronavirus lockdown on March 23, the management at Pierre's employer, a recruitment start-up in London, told staff not to worry about their jobs. But just hours later, the 26-year-old received an email from his boss asking him to call. "I understood right away. It was fairly brutal," he told AFP. He was then laid off...
SINGAPORE: A man rides a bicycle past commercial buildings in the financial business district in Singapore as the city state eased its partial lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. — AFP
‘50 drivers fight for 1order’
SINGAPORE: A man rides a bicycle past commercial buildings in the financial business district in Singapore as the city state eased its partial lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. — AFP SINGAPORE: Indonesian motorcycle taxi driver Aji chain-smokes and checks his smartphone constantly while waiting for orders by the roadside in downtown Jakarta on a hot June morning, but is staring at the prospect of...
In this picture taken on June 7, 2020 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) speaks during the 13th Political Bureau meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in an undisclosed location in North Korea. — AFP
North Korea warns US to stay out of inter-Korean affairs
In this picture taken on June 7, 2020 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) speaks during the 13th Political Bureau meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in an undisclosed location in North Korea. — AFP SEOUL: North Korea rebuked Washington yesterday for criticising its decision to cut communication links with Seoul, warning it to...
SHENYANG: Researchers work in a lab at the Yisheng Biopharma company in Shenyang, in China’s northeast Liaoning province on June 10, 2020. The company is one of a number in China trying to develop a vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus. —AFP
Outbreak quashed, China launches test laboratories spending spree
SHENYANG: Researchers work in a lab at the Yisheng Biopharma company in Shenyang, in China’s northeast Liaoning province on June 10, 2020. The company is one of a number in China trying to develop a vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus. —AFP BEIJING:  China is building hundreds of testing laboratories and stocking up on tests to ramp up screening for the coronavirus, even in healthy people, having all-but stamped out local transmission of...
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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
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DAMASCUS: People chat at a pub on Dec 13, 2024. - AFP
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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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