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Mask-clad passengers stand along the train platform at a station in Qatar's capital on September 1, 2020, as the Gulf country resumes bus and rail services for the first time since March with reduced capacity due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

Virus cases top 2m in wider Mideast
NEW DELHI: A Delhi Metro train (top) and Gurugram Rapid train cross each other at Sikandpur Metro station as Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) resumed it services on Yellow line from Samaypur Badli to Huda city centre in Gurugram. - AFP

Commuters flash victory signs; India re-opens metro despite COVID surge
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Specters of deflation and virus haunt ECB meeting Thursday
A picture shows the Manama's repurposed convention centre, in which 6,000 people are participating in a large-scale trial of a Chinese-sponsored vaccine for the Covid-19 coronavirus, on August 27, 2020 in the Bahraini capital. - Chinese drug giant Sinopharm began testing the inactivated COVID-19 jab in Bahrain earlier this month after starting a similar trial on 15,000 subjects in the nearby United Arab Emirates in July. The current phase of the study, in which the vaccine's efficacy and safety is tested in a large cross-section of the population, is due to last until July 2021. (Photo by Mazen Mahdi / AFP)

Volunteers in Bahrain sign up for vaccine trial
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Millions go back at school in Europe as cases pass 4 million
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India economic growth hit by record slump amid virus surge
This picture taken on February 9, 2019 shows Nurlina, 19, who got married in 2017, holding her daughter in the village of Galung Lombok in West Sulawesi. - Child marriage has long been common in traditional communities from the Indonesian archipelago to India, Pakistan and Vietnam, but numbers had been decreasing as charities made inroads by encouraging access to education and women's health services. (Photo by YUSUF WAHIL / AFP) / TO GO WITH Indonesia-India-Vietnam-children-health-virus-family,FEATURE by Haeril Halim, Aishwarya Kumar and Tran Thi Minh Ha

Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage
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Kuwait reports 1 death, 473 new COVID-19 cases
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a testing camp in a residential area, in Chennai on August 30, 2020. - India on August 30 set a coronavirus record when it reported 78,761 new infections in 24 hours -- the world's highest single-day rise -- even as it continued to open up the economy. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)

Global virus cases cross 25m; India sets grim record
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
Interior minister calls for uniting GCC security efforts
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Committee strips Kuwaiti citizenship of 1,647 individuals