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Interior Minister visits border crossing

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh tours the Nuwaiseeb border crossing. By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: Kuwait’s Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh visited Friday the Nuwaiseeb border crossing in southern Kuwait to see first-hand citizens entering the country from Saudi Arabia, part of the government’s repatriation plan amidst spread of coronavirus. Saleh, who also visited Al-Khairan Resort that...

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Kuwait PM hopes to announce gradual return to normal life after May 30

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah attends a meeting with senior Ministry of Health officials, led by Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah. — KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah thanked the public for understanding the reasons behind the full curfew, hoping to announce after May 30 gradual return to normal life within health guidelines. His Highness...

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Rebecca Solnit writes that “Walking is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.”The streets of Kuwait are packed in the open exercise hours from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Walkers from all segments of society turn out en masse...

SAN JOSE, Argentina: Caye, 18, Sol, 15, Zillchay, 7, and Santiago, 8, of the Jofre family are helped with their homework by Nancy, their mother, in Lavalle department, Mendoza province on May 07, 2020. – AFP

Pandemic increases isolation of Argentina desert children

SAN JOSE, Argentina: Caye, 18, Sol, 15, Zillchay, 7, and Santiago, 8, of the Jofre family are helped with their homework by Nancy, their mother, in Lavalle department, Mendoza province on May 07, 2020. – AFP MENDOZA, Argentina: Argentina’s coronavirus lockdown has closed schools nationwide and driven teaching online, but nowhere are the wasted weeks felt more keenly than in Huarpe indigenous communities in the far north, which have little...

GELSENKIRCHEN: Schalke's German goalkeeper Alexander Nuebel attends a training session of German first division Bundesliga football club FC Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen. – AFP

German football returns under scrutiny

GELSENKIRCHEN: Schalke's German goalkeeper Alexander Nuebel attends a training session of German first division Bundesliga football club FC Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen. – AFP BERLIN: Football in Germany returns to the pitch as the Bundesliga becomes the first of Europe's top leagues to swing back into action since the coronavirus lockdown.The German Football League (DFL) convinced Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country's regional leaders to...

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni speaks to AFP at his office at the ministry in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday.—AFP

Lebanon says ready to end dollar peg

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni speaks to AFP at his office at the ministry in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday.—AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon is ready to terminate a 23-year-old dollar peg and float the pound, but only after it secures billions in aid, Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni said Friday. Speaking to AFP after talks started Wednesday with the International Monetary Fund on a plan to rescue Lebanon’s crisis hit economy, he...

BOCA RATON, Florida: The Town Center at Boca Raton is seen nearly empty of shoppers after re-opening two days ago on Friday in Boca Raton, Florida. Malls and other businesses shutdown in an attempt to contain the coronavirus causing the US retail sales to fall by a record 16.4 percent from March to April. – AFP

Awful data show US economy is in crisis

BOCA RATON, Florida: The Town Center at Boca Raton is seen nearly empty of shoppers after re-opening two days ago on Friday in Boca Raton, Florida. Malls and other businesses shutdown in an attempt to contain the coronavirus causing the US retail sales to fall by a record 16.4 percent from March to April. – AFP WASHINGTON: Newly released economic data showed the US economy is in a terrible state and may not rebound quickly even when the...

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Women deliver baby during Kabul hospital attack

KABUL: A newborn baby, Bibi Amena, receives treatment for the gun wound in her right leg as she has been rescued and brought to the French Medical Institute for Children after losing her mother during a gunmen attack on a maternity hospital, in Kabul on Friday. – AFP KABUL: As armed men rampaged through an Afghan hospital, shooting dead mothers and babies, a group of pregnant women hid in a room with one of them about to give birth. “The...

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Fears grow as pandemic nightmare reaches Rohingya refugee camps

Rohingya refugees gather at a market as first cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have emerged in the area, in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on Friday. Emergency teams raced to prevent a coronavirus “nightmare” in the world’s largest refugee settlement after the first confirmed cases in a sprawling city of shacks housing nearly a million Rohingya. – AFP KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Emergency teams raced Friday to prevent a coronavirus...

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Kuwait reports 6 deaths, 947 new coronavirus cases

KUWAIT: The ministry of health announced 947 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 11,975 cases, while six deaths were reported as well, bringing the fatalities' toll up to 88. In the daily press briefing, Health Ministry Spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said 175 patients are in intensive care, 95 of them in critical condition.Earlier, the ministry announced the recovery of 188 patients, bringing the...

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What day is it?

Today marks Day 5 of the full curfew in Kuwait. This week also marks 12 weeks (or 3 months) since children stopped going to school and nine weeks since the airport, mosques and other public places were closed. Eight weeks ago the government imposed a partial curfew, a decision at the time that seemed remarkable and frightening. This weekend also marks six weeks since Mahboula and Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh were isolated, their inhabitants cut off from...

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Follow instructions for your safety

A sad story from Egypt started with a well-built healthy young man, who was dismissing claims about the dangers of the coronavirus. He was saying the disease is as simple as the common cold, and that we should not have this fear, which is not necessary. He also bragged about how healthy his people are and can resist such a disease.A few days ago, the same young man was shown on television, infected with the virus, and actually the video...

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