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Kuwait reports 675 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths
Residents of the rural community of Yura, close to the city of Arequipa, in southern Peru, participate in the burial of their mayor Angel Benavente, with an outdoor mass and an animated funeral possession on August 14, 2020, during which neighbors and musicians bade farewell to their head authority who died of COVID19. - Peru is one of worst hit countries in coronavirus-epicenter Latin America after Brazil and Mexico, with more than 25,000 reported deaths and over half a million cases. (Photo by Diego Ramos / AFP)

WHO blasts 'vaccine nationalism'; pushes against hoarding
Member of the medical staff take blood sample to a court staff member during a rapid test for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Denpasar court in Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on August 14, 2020. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP)

Jakarta displays dummy coffin as COVID warning
A general view shows the city skyline in Tokyo on August 17, 2020. - Japan's economy shrank a historic 7.8 percent in the April-June quarter, the worst contraction in the nation's modern history, as the coronavirus deepens the country's economic woes. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Japan's economic plunge erases Abe era gains
(FILES) This file aerial photo taken on August 1, 2020 shows apartment buildings on the outskirts of Bangkok. - Thailand's growth contracted by 12.2 percent in the second quarter of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the steepest drop for the tourism-driven economy since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)

Virus pushes world's leading economies into record slumps
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As salons reopen, shops complain of shortages in safety equipment
A health worker collects a swab sample of a resident to test for COVID-19 coronavirus, at a screening camp in Mumbai on August 17, 2020. - India's death toll from the coronavirus hit 50,000 on August 17, with more than 900 new fatalities reported in 24 hours, health ministry data showed. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

India virus deaths hit 50,000
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media about changing the 2020 general election date during a press conference at the Parliament in Wellington on August 17, 2020. - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on August 17 delayed New Zealand's looming election by four weeks to October 17 after a renewed coronavirus outbreak hampered campaigning.nNew Zealand, whose original election date had been set for September 19, is battling a return of COVID-19 which last week forced the country's largest city Auckland into lockdown and ended 102 days without community transmission. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

Virus forces N Zealand election delay as Japan's economy sinks
Government officials wearing protective clothing stand under a white tent (centre L) to restrict access to the Sarang Jeil Church while the church's lawyer holds a press conference on its latest COVID-19 cluster infection near the church in Seoul on August 17, 2020. - Thousands of Protestant church members in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said on August 17, as the country battles virus clusters linked to religious groups. A total of 315 cases linked to the Sarang Jeil Church had been confirmed so far, officials said, making it one of the biggest clusters so far, and around 3,400 members of the congregation had been asked to quarantine. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

South Korea battles worst virus outbreak
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Mohammad Al-Wasmi, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
Kuwait’s International Quran competition announces winners
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OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais.
OPEC to COP29: Oil gift from God
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Automak’s founding members, including Group President Hussam Fawzi Al-Kharafi and CEO Ghazi Al-Omar, along with ROX Motor’s representatives, CEO and Co-founder Yan Feng, and Vice President Wu Yue, during the launch ceremony.
Automak launches ROX Motor in Kuwait with all-new ROX01 model
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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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TUNIS: President of Tunisia Kais Saied receives Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Al-Yahya. — KUNA
Tunisian president receives Kuwaiti foreign minister