Новости за 31.01.2021

LONDON: Mohamed Salah scored twice as Liverpool muscled their way back into the Premier League title race with a 3-1 win at West Ham yesterday after Thomas Tuchel celebrated his first victory as Chelsea boss. Jurgen Klopp’s injury-hit champions appeared to have lost their way after a five-game winless spell but are back on track […]

KUWAIT: Minister of State for Housing Affairs and Minister of State for Services Affairs Abdullah Marafi inspected at Kuwait International Airport the latest regulatory and health measures following the Cabinet’s decision that airlines should conduct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on all passengers arriving to the country. In a statement to KUNA yesterday, Marafi said […]

KUWAIT: The deportation center is experiencing unprecedented overcrowding due to unavailability of flights to take inmates back to their countries, Al-Qabas Arabic daily reported yesterday. The number of those awaiting deportation is around 800 violators from five Asian and African countries. Some of them are in police station holding cells, the deportation prison, residency violators’ […]

KUWAIT: The Constitutional Court yesterday decided to adjourn hearing in the cases of appealing legality of the parliamentary elections until February 24. The rules concern pleas that had been forwarded from the first and fourth constituencies. Moreover, the tribunal also decided to examine the case of challenging election of the parliament speaker; also on February […]

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Seif Palace yesterday. His Highness the Amir also received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh […]

DUBAI: Key transport hub Dubai yesterday announced an initiative to accelerate the delivery of coronavirus vaccines, particularly to developing nations, after the WHO warned against abandoning the world’s poor. The Vaccine Logistics Alliance, which includes Dubai-based Emirates airline and global logistics giant DP World, is designed to “speed up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the […]

WUHAN, China: A team of WHO experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 yesterday went to a market in Wuhan where one of the first reported clusters of infections emerged over a year ago, with one member tweeting the visit was “critical” to understanding the virus. Members of the group arrived at Huanan seafood market – […]

NEW DELHI: India will push on with sweeping agriculture reforms, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, as he criticized last week’s deadly riot in the capital following a long-running protest campaign by farmers. Thousands flooded New Delhi on Tuesday, driving tractors from border camps where they have been holding sit-ins since Nov 26; but the […]

AZAZ, Syria: Car bombs killed 11 people including six civilians in two separate incidents in Turkish-held northern Syria yesterday, a monitoring group said. The first attack near a cultural center in the town of Azaz killed six civilians including a young girl, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. An AFP reporter at the […]