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PARIS: The global COVID-19 death toll passed three million yesterday as the pandemic continues to speed up despite vaccination campaigns, leading countries like India to impose new lockdowns to fight spiraling infection numbers. It is the latest grim milestone after the novel coronavirus surfaced in central China in December 2019 and went on to infect […]

WINDSOR, UK: Queen Elizabeth II yesterday bid farewell to her late husband, Prince Philip, at a royal funeral like no other, restricted by coronavirus rules but reflecting his long life of military and public service. The Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 at age 99, was interred in the Royal Vault at St […]

JERUSALEM: Thousands of Palestinians streamed to Al-Aqsa mosque in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the largest such gathering since the coronavirus pandemic. Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, head of the Waqf Islamic affairs council, told AFP an estimated 70,000 worshippers came in from Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West […]

INDIANAPOLIS, US: A former FedEx employee fatally shot eight people and wounded several others at the delivery company’s facility in the US city of Indianapolis before killing himself, authorities said Friday after the latest mass shooting to jolt the country. Four of the dead were followers of the South Asian Sikh religion, a Sikh organization […]

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, shared the blessings of the holy month of Ramadan with the Ministry of Interior’s frontliners at traffic checkpoints by visiting them on the field. The company recognized the efforts of police officers by presenting them with Ramadan gifts as a sign of gratitude for their sacrifices […]

KUWAIT: The first week of Ramadan witnessed intense Kuwaiti activity in providing aid to the needy, as part of the continuous efforts of Kuwait on the humanitarian level. The Kuwait Food Bank launched a charity campaign, which aims to distribute about 23,000 meals to the needy in Ramadan, in cooperation with the General Secretariat of […]

KUWAIT: Expatriates and people who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 have the highest numbers among hospitalized and ICU patients in Kuwait, head of the higher COVID-19 committee Dr Khaled Al-Jarallah said yesterday. The number of positive results from field swab tests have dropped except in investment residential areas and among expats, he added. The number […]

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JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said yesterday it had conducted airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip following a rocket attack from the Palestinian enclave, in the second such exchange in as many days. The strikes hit what the military described as “terror targets” operated by Gaza’s Islamist ruling party Hamas. They included a “training facility, […]

N’DJAMENA, Chad: In one hand Idjele grips a heavy hammer, in the other a block of concrete that she smashes into pieces with heavy blows that narrowly miss her fingers, her gaze towards the horizon. She has been crushing gravel for so long that the gestures of the job have become second nature. In the […]

ABIDJAN: The three million African farmers who supply most of the world’s cashew nuts aren’t cashing in on the booming demand due to a lack of processing facilities, a UN body said on Friday. World production and trade in raw cashew nuts have more than doubled since 2000 with African producers, led by Ivory Coast, […]

HAVANA:  The all-powerful Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) opened a historic congress Friday to rubber-stamp the transfer of power to a new generation as outgoing leader Raul Castro committed it to “respectful” talks with the United States. In an address to a few hundred party delegates, Castro emphasized that Cuba would not renounce “the principles […]

LOS ANGELES: Joel Embiid scored 36 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as the NBA East-leading Philadelphia 76ers snapped the Los Angeles Clippers’ seven-game winning streak with a 106-103 win on Friday. Embiid became the first Philadelphia player since 2006 to score 35-plus points in three straight games as the Cameroonian center has carried the offensive […]