Новости за 18.05.2021

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By B Izzak KUWAIT: The Cabinet decided yesterday to allow restaurants and cafes to receive people for dine-in services with the implementation of health safety precautions. The decision will go into effect on Sunday, May 23. The Cabinet’s decision came after a number of lawmakers called on the government yesterday to abolish or ease health […]

GAZA CITY: Heavy air strikes and rocket fire in the Zionist-Gaza conflict claimed more lives yesterday as tensions flared in Palestinian “day of anger” protests in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The UN Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting amid a diplomatic push to end the fighting, as Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

BEIJING: One of China’s tallest skyscrapers was evacuated yesterday after it began to shake, sending panicked shoppers scampering to safety in the southern city of Shenzhen. The near 300-m-high SEG Plaza inexplicably began to shake at around 1 pm, prompting an evacuation of people inside while pedestrians looked on open-mouthed from the streets outside. The […]

MAHUVA, India: At least 33 people died and more than 90 were missing yesterday after a monster cyclone slammed India, compounding the country’s woes as it posted a new record number of coronavirus deaths in 24 hours. The swirling system dubbed Cyclone Tauktae is the latest in what experts say is a growing number of […]

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah yesterday inquired in an audio-visual contact about status of the Kuwaiti forces partaking in the “Operation Restore Hope” in Saudi Arabia and Kuwaiti Army personnel in the joint forces in Bahrain. The kingdom security has remained inseparable from security and stability of […]

KUWAIT: Amiri Hospital, one of Kuwait’s most established medical facilities, has leveraged new network architecture from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to pioneer new innovations and standards in digital health, telemedicine and in-patient care in Kuwait. The implementation has resulted in 99.9 percent network availability, enabled introduction of remote healthcare, staff mobility, and other […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait Fire Force Chief Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Mekrad oversaw the launching of 15 advanced mobile water pumps during a visit to the KFF workshop in Rai yesterday. The pumps come in two sizes; each with a pumping power of 8,000 and 3,000 liters per hour respectively, and will be used to pump rainwater and […]

KUWAIT: Health workers in Kuwait have administered COVID-19 vaccine shots to 29,979 people on Monday, as the Ministry of Health scrambled to vaccinate mall workers around the country. Meanwhile, the ministry announced Monday recording 861 new coronavirus infections and three related deaths in the previous 24 hours. The figures took the total cases in the […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s foreign minister and representative of His Highness the Amir said on Monday his country stands ready to finance continued development in Sudan at debt-restructuring talks in Paris that aim to lure foreign investment into Khartoum, a measure needed to resuscitate its ailing economy. Commending Sudan’s transitional government, formed under a military-civilian power-sharing deal, […]