NEW YORK – Americans commemorated 9/11 on Friday as a new national crisis — the coronavirus pandemic — reconfigured anniversary ceremonies and a presidential campaign carved a path through the observances. In New York, victims’ relatives gathered Friday morning for split-screen remembrances, one at the September 11 memorial plaza at the World Trade Center and […]
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COVID ‘Increasing Rapidly’ Among American Youth
Cases of COVID-19 are “increasingly rapidly among young adults in the U.S.,” according to a research letter from Harvard, published at the online site of the JAMA medical journal. The study included 3,222 young adults between the ages of 18 and 34. The investigation found that the young adults “experienced substantial rates of adverse outcomes: 21% […]
19 Years On, Does a Post-9/11 Generation Remember the Attacks?
The morning of September 11, 2001, is one of Aidan Thayer’s first memories. He was just 3 years old when the terrorist group al-Qaida launched a series of four coordinated attacks against the United States using four hijacked passenger airplanes. Two of the planes crashed into the Twin Towers of New York City’s World […]
Amir Diwan: His Highness Amir’s health condition is stable
Kuwait’s Amir Diwan has dismissed as untrue circulated reports about His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, stressing that his health condition is stable. In a statement to KUNA, Minister of the Amir Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah stated that the Amir Diwan is in touch with Deputy National Guard chief Sheikh […]
EPA denies hydrogen sulfide leak
The Environment Public Authority (EPA) on Thursday denied reports about hydrogen sulfide leak in several areas in the country. In a press statement, the EPA emphasized that what has been circulated by some social media networks in this regard is untrue. No rise in hydrogen sulfide gas was detected in Al-Salam, Al-Qurain and Al-Rumaithiya, the […]
Kuwait oil price up 23 cents to USD 40.42 pb
The price of Kuwaiti oil went up by 23 cents to USD 40.42 per barrel Thursday after it was at USD 40.19 pb the day before, said the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) Friday. In global markets, Brent crude decreased by 73 cents to stand at USD 40.06 and the West Texas Intermediate was also down […]