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PARIS: A nurse takes a bag of used protective face masks out of a designated recycling bin for used masks at the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris. Used to curb the spread of COVID-19, masks are exacerbating another pandemic: Plastic pollution. - AFPnn

Mask mountain sets recycling challenge
A woman wearing a face mask walks along a street in Beijing on December 23, 2020. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)

Masks block 99.9% of large COVID droplets
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Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled
Top court freezes jail term against former minister
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KUALA LUMPUR: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim witness the signing ceremony to launch free trade negotiations between the GCC Secretary General Jasem Al-Budaiwi and the Malaysian Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry Zafrul Aziz on May 26, 2025. - KUNA
ASEAN, GCC launch free trade talks
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MAKKAH: Saudi Minister of Transport and Chairman of the Roads Authority Saleh Al-Jasser checks a cooled pedestrian walkway. - AFP
Saudi expands white road project to cool hajj routes
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GAZA: Women mourn relatives killed in a Zionist strike on a school sheltering displaced people at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on May 26, 2025. - AFP
Carnage in Gaza amid truce talk; surgeon shocked
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Kuwait committed to enhancing GCC digital integration