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KUWAIT: People line up to use an ATM in Salmiya block 10 on May 29, 2020. —Photo by Fuad Al-Shaikh
Parallel markets can operate before curfew hours
KUWAIT: People line up to use an ATM in Salmiya block 10 on May 29, 2020. —Photo by Fuad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: Parallel markets will be able to operate between 6:00 am to 5:30 pm prior to the partial curfew, said the Kuwaiti Municipality Saturday. The policy began yesterday, indicated a municipality press release. The partial curfew will take place between 6:00 pm and until 6:00 am as part of the first stage of the government’s plan to resume...
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Kuwait State Audit Bureau reviews KD 883 million govt transactions
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s State Audit Bureau (SAB) said it reviewed 545 transactions with a value of around KD 883 million ($2.8 billion) since March 12 up until Saturday. Fatma Darwish, SAB’s senior auditor at prior supervision for social affairs, said in a statement to KUNA that auditing saved KD 30 million ($96 million) in public funds. She said 57 percent of the transactions were coronavirus-related, or KD 377 million ($1.2 billion). A SAB team...
Kuwaiti police officers man a checkpoint at the entrance leading to the Hawally district of Kuwait City on May 29, 2020, after the district was put on lockdown to combat the spread of the Coronavirus. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Lockdown eased; Harbi resists MPs’ calls to end school year
Pressure mounts over alleged corruption, money laundering Kuwaiti police officers man a checkpoint at the entrance leading to the Hawally district of Kuwait City on May 29, 2020, after the district was put on lockdown to combat the spread of the Coronavirus. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP) By B IzzakKUWAIT: Authorities yesterday began implementing the first of a five-stage plan to return to normal life by mid-September by easing the lockdown on...
JERUSALEM: Palestinians perform Fajr prayers inside the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City yesterday after a two-month closure. – AFP
Aqsa mosque reopens after two months
JERUSALEM: Palestinians perform Fajr prayers inside the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City yesterday after a two-month closure. – AFP JERUSALEM: Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, reopened yesterday after being closed for over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of worshippers in protective masks were let into the compound before the first prayers of the day, held in cool and windy...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: US Vice President Mike Pence and US President Donald Trump watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday. – AFP
Astronauts head to ISS on historic SpaceX flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: US Vice President Mike Pence and US President Donald Trump watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday. – AFP CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Two veteran NASA astronauts were headed for the International Space Station on Saturday after Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit,...
LOS ANGELES: Demonstrators smash a police vehicle in the Fairfax district as they protest the death of George Floyd on Saturday. – AFP (See Page 8)
Curfews, clashes as race protests escalate in US
LOS ANGELES: Demonstrators smash a police vehicle in the Fairfax district as they protest the death of George Floyd on Saturday. – AFP (See Page 8) MINNEAPOLIS: Curfews were imposed on major US cities as clashes over police brutality escalated across America with demonstrators ignoring warnings from President Donald Trump that his government would stop the violent protests "cold". Minneapolis, the epicenter of the unrest, was gripped by a...
MUMBAI: In this photograph taken on May 24, 2020, ambulance staff from HelpNow put on protective gear before starting a journey. – AFP
Ambulance start-up joins Mumbai battle
MUMBAI: In this photograph taken on May 24, 2020, ambulance staff from HelpNow put on protective gear before starting a journey. – AFP MUMBAI: With bodies piling up in wards and patients sharing beds, the coronavirus has crippled Mumbai's healthcare system. But an ambulance service launched by three 20-somethings is trying to do its bit. But even though the non-profit's services cost as little as a few dollars, many in the teeming slums of the...
Kuwaiti children, wearing protective facemasks due to the coronavirus pandemic, cycle in a street in the Salwa district of Kuwait City on May 29, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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Kuwaiti children, wearing protective facemasks due to the coronavirus pandemic, cycle in a street in the Salwa district of Kuwait City on May 29, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP) KUWAIT: Kuwaiti children, wearing protective facemasks due to the coronavirus pandemic, cycle in a street in Salwa on May 29, 2020. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
VIENNA: Two Formula One races on July 5 and 12 at Spielberg will be staged without spectators.
F1 season to open in Austria after govt backs Spielberg double act
VIENNA: Two Formula One races on July 5 and 12 at Spielberg will be staged without spectators. VIENNA:  Formula One’s truncated coronavirus-hit season will finally get underway with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 5, the Austrian government announced on Saturday. The Spielberg circuit has also been given the green light to stage a second race the following weekend. “The two Formula One races on July 5 and 12 at Spielberg will be staged...
PORTO ALEGRE: Handout picture released by Brazil’s Gremio football club player Everton Soares (Cebolinha) undergoing tests before a training session at Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre, Brazil on May 6, 2020. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has urged football clubs to begin league competition as soon as possible. —AFP
Brazil leader wants football season back despite pandemic
PORTO ALEGRE: Handout picture released by Brazil’s Gremio football club player Everton Soares (Cebolinha) undergoing tests before a training session at Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre, Brazil on May 6, 2020. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has urged football clubs to begin league competition as soon as possible. —AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: The right-wing populist president of Brazil wants the football season to resume even though the five-time...
MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s Polish forward Robert Lewandowski (R) and Fortuna Duesseldorf’s German goalkeeper Florian Kastenmeier vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Bayern Munich v Fortuna Duesseldorf on May 30, 2020 in Munich, southern Germany. —AFP
Bayern edge closer to 30th title
MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s Polish forward Robert Lewandowski (R) and Fortuna Duesseldorf’s German goalkeeper Florian Kastenmeier vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match FC Bayern Munich v Fortuna Duesseldorf on May 30, 2020 in Munich, southern Germany. —AFP BERLIN: Bayern Munich opened a 10-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday with a 5-0 drubbing of relegation-threatened Fortuna Dusseldorf...
A dentist wearing protective equipment treats a patient in Guebwiller, eastern France. – AFP
Virus forces Brits to become own dentists
A dentist wearing protective equipment treats a patient in Guebwiller, eastern France. – AFP SALISBURY,UK: When Dominic Price’s dentist told him in late March to replace a lost filling himself, the Briton was left in disbelief.“But this is the situation were in,” Price acknowledged, one of many in the UK forced to play dentist during the pandemic as the country’s surgeries shuttered. That is set to change when they reopen early next...
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