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Tractors are seen along a new wall on the Israeli-Lebanese border near the Rosh Hanikra border crossing. — File photo

July 8, 2020

Hezbollah opens new illegal border crossing with Syria

BEIRUT — Hezbollah has opened a new illegal border crossing along Lebanon’s eastern border with Syria, a recent report said.The Iran-backed group has developed the border crossing, previously used to facilitate the entry and exit of its fighters, to be used by civilians as well, according to a report in Asharq Al-Awsat.The report says that a newly paved road used for the crossing is outside the scope of the watchtowers ...

Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit chairs an earlier virtual meeting in Cairo in this file photo.

July 7, 2020

Israel annexation will worsen situation, warn Arab FMs

CAIRO — Israel’s annexation of Palestinian lands will worsen the Mideast conflict and feed extremism, Arab foriegn ministers said on Monday.In a statement, foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine, the UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, Oman, and Kuwait reinstated their support for Palestine to get its full legal rights.The statement, issued after the foreign ministers had a virtual meeting with Arab League Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abul Gheit, ...

An aerial view of the Pearl-Qatar island in Doha through the morning fog. — Courtesy photo

July 7, 2020

Qatar reports 600 new COVID-19 cases, 1,005 recoveries

DOHA — The Qatari health ministry on Tuesday reported 600 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, along with 1,005 recoveries.One new death was also reported.With this, 94,903 cases have recovered in the country, while total deaths stand at 134.As many as 4,886 new COVID-19 tests have been carried out in the country, taking the total number of tests to nearly 400,000.There are as many as 5,908 active cases in the ...

The number of recoveries in UAE rose to 41,714 after 993 people recovered from coronavirus. — Courtesy photo

July 7, 2020

UAE conducts over 44,000 tests, detects 532 new cases

ABU DHABI — After conducting over 44,000 COVID-19 tests, the United Arab Emirates recorded 532 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Prevention announced.This brings the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 52,600.Two people died of due to complications caused by COVID-19 in the UAE, bringing the total number of virus-related deaths in the country to 326.Meanwhile the number of recoveries rose ...

Commercial activities have been allowed to resume with some restrictions as part of Kuwait’s second phase of reopening. — Courtesy photo

July 7, 2020

601 new COVID-19 cases detected in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY — The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus rose to 51,245 after 601 new COVID-19 cases were detected in the last 24 hours, the ministry of health said on Tuesday.A total of 402 Kuwaiti citizens tested positive, while 199 expatriates tested positive for the virus.Four people died due to complications caused by the coronavirus, which brings the virus-related death toll in Kuwait to 377.In a statement ...

The number of recoveries in Oman rose to 31,000 on Tuesday after 1,854 people recovered from the virus in the past 24 hours. — Courtesy photo

July 7, 2020

1,262 more attract COVID-19 in Oman

MUSCAT — Oman registered 1,262 new cases of the deadly coronavirus, mostly detected in Omani citizens, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 48,997, the ministry of health announced on Tuesday.A total of 968 Omani citizens tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, while 294 non-Omani expatriates tested positive.Six people died of the virus, which brings the coronavirus death toll in the country to ...

Sailboats taking part in a race catch the wind with the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, seen in the distance in Dubai. — File photo

July 7, 2020

Thermometers, face masks, hand sanitizers greet tourists in Dubai

DUBAI — By instilling the idea that Dubai is safe, authorities are hoping to fuel interest in the sheikhdom ahead of its crucial winter months for tourism.From French soccer jerseys to slick online campaigns, Dubai on Tuesday trumpeted the fact that it has reopened for tourism on Tuesday.With travel uncertain and the coronavirus still striking nations Dubai relies on for tourists, this city-state has reopened for people to come back ...

Scheduled for commissioning in 2023, the Fujairah F3 IPP project will be UAE’s biggest independent thermal power plant. — File photo

July 7, 2020

TAQA to finance UAE’s biggest gas power plant

DUBAI — The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, TAQA, will finance for the United Arab Emirates’ largest gas-fired power plant, which is expected to cost approximately 4.2 billion dirhams ($1.14 billion), the company said on Tuesday.The Fujairah F3 Independent Power Producer (IPP) project will have a generating capacity of 2.4 gigawatts, enough to power the equivalent of 380,000 UAE households, and is expected to start production by summer 2022.TAQA and ...

Protestors in Tyre in southern Lebanon demonstrate against government corruption and austerity measures in this file photo.

July 7, 2020

Lebanon situation is slipping out of control

BEIRUT — Driven by currency collapse that’s decimating businesses and plunging families into destitution, Lebanon’s economic crisis is fast slipping out of control. While politicians and bankers trade blame on the airwaves, the country’s pound has lost nearly 60 percent of its value on the black market in the past month, threatening to suck the economy into a hyper-inflation spiral. Food prices are rising so fast that the army took ...

Minister of Health Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Owais had said in mid-June that the UAE ranks first globally in COVID-19 screening per capita. — Courtesy photo

July 7, 2020

UAE plans 2mn COVID-19 tests in next two months

ABU DHABI — The UAE plans to conduct two million coronavirus tests over the next two months, Dr. Amna al-Shamsi, the government spokesperson was quoted by state news agency WAM.Al-Shamsi said the increased screening should allow for testing a large segment of the population nationwide, with a focus on those working in the services and public sectors, and includes public transportation and taxi drivers, employees in hotels and mall, in ...

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