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Firefighter, policeman hurt in Mubarakiya restaurant blaze
Three fire stations tackle Jabriya building fire KUWAIT: Firemen put out a blaze in a Mubarakiya market restaurant Saturday, which spread to a nearby office and traditional clothes store. A fireman suffered a wound in his hand while tackling the flames, and a policeman suffered smoke inhalation while securing the area. Both men were taken to hospital.Meanwhile, firemen from three fire stations worked together to put out a blaze reported in a...
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Hansie Cronje, flirted with greatness but succumbed to temptation
Hansie Cronje JOHANESBURG: All-rounder Hansie Cronje, who died on this day in 2002, flirted with greatness but succumbed to temptation, exposing the dark world of bribery in cricket before his tragic death in a plane crash at the age of 32.The perennially scowling South African averaged above 36 with the bat both in tests and one-dayers and was more than a handy medium pacer. But it was his inspirational skill as a leader which stood out.Under...
NEW YORK: Restaurant workers from Caffe Palermo in Little Italy pose for a photo in New York City. From baristas to hotel workers to tourism operators, people whose job requires them to show up in-person were among the hardest hit in the waves of layoffs. –AFP
US workers face an unequal future
NEW YORK: Restaurant workers from Caffe Palermo in Little Italy pose for a photo in New York City. From baristas to hotel workers to tourism operators, people whose job requires them to show up in-person were among the hardest hit in the waves of layoffs. –AFP WASHINTON: As the coronavirus worked its way across the United States, it cleaved the country’s workforce in two: those who have the ability to work from home, and those who do not....
This photo taken on May 30, 2020 shows motorcycle taxi driver, Thanapat Noidee with son Kittipat looking from the window of their home in Bangkok. - Shuffling around their tiny slum home which is too small to stand up in, a couple share donated noodles with their sons and worry about how they will pay the bills, as the coronavirus pushes Thailand's poor deeper into penury. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP) / TO GO WITH Health-virus-Thailand-economy-poverty by Pitcha DANGPRASITH
Walls close in on Thailand’s poorest; virus hits economy
This photo taken on May 30, 2020 shows motorcycle taxi driver, Thanapat Noidee with son Kittipat looking from the window of their home in Bangkok. - Shuffling around their tiny slum home which is too small to stand up in, a couple share donated noodles with their sons and worry about how they will pay the bills, as the coronavirus pushes Thailand's poor deeper into penury. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP) / TO GO WITH...
MINNEAPOLIS: Demonstrators protest the killing of George Floyd near the city’s 5th police precinct in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was taken into custody for Floyd’s death. Chauvin has been accused of kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he pleaded with him about not being able to breathe. — AFP
Chinese media use race clashes to slam US over Hong Kong
MINNEAPOLIS: Demonstrators protest the killing of George Floyd near the city’s 5th police precinct in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was taken into custody for Floyd’s death. Chauvin has been accused of kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he pleaded with him about not being able to breathe. — AFP BEIJING: Chinese state media took aim at the US government over the weekend as many American cities were...
HONG KONG: A pro-China activist steps on an effigy of US President Donald Trump during a protest outside the US consulate in Hong Kong in response to US President Donald Trump saying he would strip several of Hong Kong’s special privileges with the United States and bar some Chinese students from US universities in anger over Beijing’s bid to exert control in the financial hub.— AFP
China media, Hong Kong bristle at Trump’s pledge of curbs, sanctions
HONG KONG: A pro-China activist steps on an effigy of US President Donald Trump during a protest outside the US consulate in Hong Kong in response to US President Donald Trump saying he would strip several of Hong Kong’s special privileges with the United States and bar some Chinese students from US universities in anger over Beijing’s bid to exert control in the financial hub.— AFP HONG KONG: China’s state media and the government of...
MINNEAPOLIS: Protesters gather outside of the Fifth Police Precinct in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests continue in Minnesota and around the country after the death of George Floyd in police custody. —AFP
‘I can’t breathe’ protests heat up
MINNEAPOLIS: Protesters gather outside of the Fifth Police Precinct in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests continue in Minnesota and around the country after the death of George Floyd in police custody. —AFP MINNEAPOLIS:  Civil unrest flared and curfews were imposed in several major US cities on Saturday as demonstrators took to the streets to vent outrage at the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white Minneapolis...
VAASA: The twitter page of US President Donald Trump’s is displayed on a mobile phone in Vaasa, Finland. — AFP
With fact-checks, Twitter takes on a new kind of task
VAASA: The twitter page of US President Donald Trump’s is displayed on a mobile phone in Vaasa, Finland. — AFP WASHINGTON: In addition to disputing misleading claims made by US President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots this week, Twitter has added fact-checking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month, mostly on posts about the coronavirus. The company does not expect to need additional staff for...
LIMA: Relatives bury the coffin of a suspected COVID-19 victim at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, in the southern outskirts of Lima. — AFP
World virus cases top 6 million
LIMA: Relatives bury the coffin of a suspected COVID-19 victim at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, in the southern outskirts of Lima. — AFP BRASILIA: The number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped six million yesterday, with Brazil registering another record surge in daily infections as divisions deepened on how to deal with the pandemic. Latin American countries are bracing for difficult weeks ahead as the...
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Being nostalgic
I hope that by now everyone knows which area they reside in as far as the lockdowns are concerned after the confusion of determining the area of Maidan Hawally. I have lived in Kuwait for over 50 years and witnessed the development of this beloved country - areas were expanded and new ones were created. For example, in the early 70s Jabriya was an empty land with very few Arabic style houses mostly adjacent to the current Fourth Ring Road;...
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)
All of Maidan Hawally to be under lockdown
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 Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Acting Director General of Public Relations and Security Media at the Ministry of Interior Brig Tawheed Al-Kandari confirmed to Kuwait Times that Salmiya is not included in the isolated...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 04, 2019 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) poses with NATO leaders including US President Donald Trump (L) for the family photo at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London on December 4, 2019. - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an in-person summit of G7 leaders that US President Donald Trump has suggested he will host despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, according with German government spokesman. (Photo by PETER NICHOLLS / various sources / AFP)
Trump cuts WHO ties; Merkel to snub G7 meet
In this file photo taken on December 04, 2019 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) poses with NATO leaders including US President Donald Trump (L) for the family photo at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London on December 4, 2019. — AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he is severing ties with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the death toll from the disease...
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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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Crown Prince receives son of Bohra Sultan