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Kuwait reports 710 new coronavirus cases, 4 deaths
KUWAIT: The ministry of health announced on Wednesday 710 new coronavirus cases in past 24 hours, bringing total count of cases to 29,359. The ministry’s official spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, in his daily briefing about the pandemic in the country, said four deaths were also reported in the same period, with the total number of fatalities amounting to 230 since the outbreak of the highly contagious disease in Kuwait.All the...
People eat and have drinks on restaurant and cafe terraces in Paris.
France’s cafes, restaurants reopen, but in Paris, only the terraces
People eat and have drinks on restaurant and cafe terraces in Paris. French people head back to their beloved cafes and restaurants Tuesday after weeks cooped up in coronavirus confinement, marking a further step towards normality. As thousands thronged parks and gardens reopened over the weekend, eating and drinking establishments prepared to welcome back customers in the second phase of a step-by-step lifting of lockdown. “We have spent...
Obaid Munahi Al-Osaimi
Integrated plan prepared for return of shooting sport
Obaid Munahi Al-Osaimi By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Secretary General of Arab and Kuwait Shooting Federations Obaid Munahi Al-Osaimi said an integrated plan was prepared for the return of Kuwait shooting sport following the reports of World Health Organization’s announcement that individual sports including shooting are not risky during practice.Al-Osaimi said the Higher Technical Committee at Kuwait Shooting Sport Club completed the...
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A cigarette’s ingredients
Almost all smokers that I met through the course of my practical life indicated that they wanted to quit, yet many failed to do so. I personally worked with some doctors who worked in anti-smoking clinics in Kuwait, and I met some smokers who were addicted to nicotine and seemed to be willing to stop - but only seemed to.Nicotine replacement products were being promoted in order to help smokers in their quest to free themselves from this...
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ICRC briefed on Kuwait prisoners’ conditions
By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation visited the sector of correctional institutions and law enforcement at Kuwait’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday. During the visit, the visitors were briefed on the conditions of prisoners in general, in addition to health services and rehabilitative programs provided to inmates, along with preventive and precautionary measures being taken to curb the spread...
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Early re-opening brings relief for people in need to send money home
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: After almost a month of closure due to the coronavirus, banks and remittance offices all over Kuwait have reopened with queues of customers. “We shall be strictly implementing the rules set by the ministry to maintain social distancing. [Customers] cannot transact with us without a facemask,” a remittance office manager said in Salmiya.Customers were delighted by the Cabinet decision Monday to reopen financial service...
Walid Al-Dhahi
Glucophage in Kuwait safe, not manufactured in US: Endocrinologist
Walid Al-Dhahi By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The news in US media about the withdrawal of Glucophage medicine manufactured by five US companies  does not apply to Glucophage available in Kuwait, a Kuwaiti doctor said, noting that Kuwait does not import the medicine produced by said US companies.“The Glucophage available in Kuwait is safe and manufactured by the medicine’s main producer under the name Glucophage and Glucophage XR”, said...
Marzouq Al-Ghanem
Speaker participates in int’l meeting
Marzouq Al-Ghanem KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem participated through a video conference on Tuesday in the fifth preparatory committee for the Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, set to be held next August in Vienna. Ghanem’s participation in the meeting comes as a representative of the Arab countries in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, where he previously participated in the past three meetings in Geneva and...
KOKKINOTRIMITHIA: In this file photo, Syrian refugee Ammar Hammasho, greets his children from which he was seperated due to the conflict, as they are reunite at the Kokkinotrimithia refugee camp, some 20 kilometres outside the Cypriot capital Nicosia. — AFP
Tents and razor wire: Cyprus struggles with migrant influx
KOKKINOTRIMITHIA: In this file photo, Syrian refugee Ammar Hammasho, greets his children from which he was seperated due to the conflict, as they are reunite at the Kokkinotrimithia refugee camp, some 20 kilometres outside the Cypriot capital Nicosia. — AFP KOKKINOTRIMITHIA: In the thick of the coronavirus lockdown in Cyprus, authorities gave a group of asylum seekers a stark choice: move to an overcrowded camp or go home. The Mediterranean...
CALIFORNIA: Protesters march through Hollywood during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis Police custody, in Los Angeles. –— AFP
‘Endemic racial discrimination’ exposed in US: UN rights chief
CALIFORNIA: Protesters march through Hollywood during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis Police custody, in Los Angeles. –— AFP GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic’s disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities, and protests triggered by George Floyd’s death, have laid bare “endemic inequalities” in the United States, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, urging action. Michelle Bachelet, the UN High...
PARIS: Protesters jump over the gates of the Martin Luther King park, northwest of Paris, to escape tear gas as they demonstrate near Paris courthouse against police violence. — AFP
Clashes at Paris protest against racism, police
PARIS: Protesters jump over the gates of the Martin Luther King park, northwest of Paris, to escape tear gas as they demonstrate near Paris courthouse against police violence. — AFP PARIS: Clashes broke out between police and protesters in Paris on Tuesday after around 20,000 people defied a ban to rally over the 2016 death of a black man in police custody, galvanized by US demonstrations against racism and deadly police violence. The...
In this file photo, European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (right) and the British Prime Minister’s Europe adviser David Frost pose for a photograph at start of the first round of post-Brexit trade deal talks between the EU and the United Kingdom, in Brussels. – AFP
Post-Brexit trade talks kick off
In this file photo, European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (right) and the British Prime Minister’s Europe adviser David Frost pose for a photograph at start of the first round of post-Brexit trade deal talks between the EU and the United Kingdom, in Brussels. – AFP BRUSSELS: Trade negotiators from Britain and the EU embarked on a fourth round of post-Brexit negotiations Tuesday, but no-one in London or Brussels expects a...
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