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Death of an elephant
Muna Al-Fuzai What kind of a human loses the sense of humanity and places a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers that caused the death of an innocent pregnant female elephant? I am so angry because of this horrific and evil crime. I am not the only one, but many people in and out of India are horrified as well.The female elephant entered a village near a park in Kerala looking for food, but ate a pineapple containing firecrackers that led to...
HARARE: A woman arrives to collect groceries from a Malaicha warehouse during a nationwide lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Harare, Zimbabwe.—Reuters
Africa goes online for groceries
HARARE: A woman arrives to collect groceries from a Malaicha warehouse during a nationwide lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Harare, Zimbabwe.—Reuters JOHANNESBURG/BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: I n between her shifts, Zimbabwean nurse Sinothando Mpofu used to go to Bulawayo’s open-air markets to buy tomatoes and cabbages for her family of nine - until the country’s coronavirus lockdown closed all stalls. Mpofu...
ARLINGTON: In this file photo, a man wearing a face mask walks past a sign “Now Hiring” in front of a store amid the coronavirus pandemic in Arlington, Virginia. The US economy regained 2.5 million jobs in May as coronavirus pandemic shutdowns began to ease, sending the unemployment rate falling to 13.3 percent.—AFP
US shows surprising employment recovery in May despite virus
ARLINGTON: In this file photo, a man wearing a face mask walks past a sign “Now Hiring” in front of a store amid the coronavirus pandemic in Arlington, Virginia. The US economy regained 2.5 million jobs in May as coronavirus pandemic shutdowns began to ease, sending the unemployment rate falling to 13.3 percent.—AFP WASHINGTON: The US economy regained 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment rate dropped as coronavirus pandemic...
In this file photo, EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (left) talks with an advisor as he arrives prior to a meeting on the steering of European Parliament on Brexit at the European Parliament in Brussels. — AFP
EU, Britain to step up Brexit talks
In this file photo, EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (left) talks with an advisor as he arrives prior to a meeting on the steering of European Parliament on Brexit at the European Parliament in Brussels. — AFP BRUSSELS: Brussels and London pledged Friday to step up the pace of Brexit trade talks to try to strike a deal by the end of October, after the latest round of negotiations ended with no major breakthrough.EU chief negotiator Michel...
SHANGHAI: File photo shows a worker shoveling building material around a soon-to-be torn down and empty residential building in Shanghai. —AFP
China targets land grabs, evictions in new law
SHANGHAI: File photo shows a worker shoveling building material around a soon-to-be torn down and empty residential building in Shanghai. —AFP BEIJING: Farmers in China have faced forced evictions and illicit land grabs for decades - sources of social unrest that the government is finally trying to address in a major shake-up of its property law. Millions of hectares of rural land were taken away from farmers in the past three decades and...
CALIFORNIA: Supporters of ‘Black Lives Matter’ sit and listen as activists speak during a protest to commemorate Breonna Taylor on what would have been her 27th birthday in Hollywood, California on June 5, 2020. Breonna Taylor, a black woman, medical worker, was shot dead by Louisville, Kentucky police when they stormed her home March 13, 2020 as part of a drug investigation. — AFP
Democratic US politicians urge police reform; protesters march for 11th day
CALIFORNIA: Supporters of ‘Black Lives Matter’ sit and listen as activists speak during a protest to commemorate Breonna Taylor on what would have been her 27th birthday in Hollywood, California on June 5, 2020. Breonna Taylor, a black woman, medical worker, was shot dead by Louisville, Kentucky police when they stormed her home March 13, 2020 as part of a drug investigation. — AFP WASHINGTON: Prominent Democratic politicians on Friday...
DOVER: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Delaware State University’s student center in Dover, Delaware. — AFP
Biden clinches nomination for 2020 race
DOVER: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Delaware State University’s student center in Dover, Delaware. — AFP WASHINGTON: Joe Biden said Friday he had secured the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination and face Donald Trump in November’s US presidential election. “Folks, tonight we secured the 1,991 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination,” the former vice...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Eliane Lima, 56, prays as she is been treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward where patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, are being treated at the Doctor Ernesto Che Guevara Public Hospital in Marica city, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — AFP
Brazil threatens to quit WHO, US beating pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO: Eliane Lima, 56, prays as she is been treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward where patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, are being treated at the Doctor Ernesto Che Guevara Public Hospital in Marica city, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: President Jair Bolsonaro threatened Friday to pull Brazil from the WHO over “ideological bias,” as his counterpart Donald Trump said the US...
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Kuwait reports 723 new coronavirus infections, 8 deaths
KUWAIT: The health ministry on Friday reported 723 new coronavirus infections, bringing the tally to 30,644 cases, while deaths reached 244 after recording eight new cases.In a statement to KUNA, the ministry's spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said the new cases are related to people who were in close contact with other patients.Sanad said the new cases include 262 Kuwaitis, 139 Indians, 101 Bangladeshis and 94 Egyptians, with others of...
Muna Al-Fuzai
Racism a reality in Arab societies
Muna Al-Fuzai The year 2020 does not seem very promising to anyone, whether they are in the United States or the Middle East. At a time when the world is still suffering severely from the repercussions of COVID-19, a major spark suddenly exploded in the US at a very bad time, which is five months before the American presidential election and in the midst of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The international media have not stopped...
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Heed the danger
There is no doubt that everyone knows about the measures and precautions to be taken during our current circumstances, especially advice given by the health authorities through all types of media.Yet, when I went on Wednesday morning to service my car at the dealership, I was surprised by the number of people waiting ahead of me, although I arrived at 7:00 am, while the place opens at 8:00 am! When the center finally opened and numbers were...
A mask-clad vendor waits for costumers at a fish market in Kuwait City on June 3, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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A mask-clad vendor waits for costumers at a fish market in Kuwait City on June 3, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP) A mask-clad vendor waits for costumers at a fish market in Kuwait City on Wednesday. – Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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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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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