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Bahrain :  During the press conference held today , Dr. Waleed Al-Manea said , after obtaining the approval of the Coordination Committee, it was proactively decided that, the yellow level would be the minimum for the traffic light mechanism until the completion of the vaccination of 80% of adults 40 years and over with the booster dose for those who meet the conditions of the booster dose and the transition to the yellow level starting from Sunday, August 1, 2021. Dr. Manaf Al-Qahtani said, there were no death was recorded and no hospitalization was required among those who completed 14 days…

Malaysia:   Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin faced calls to resign on Thursday from the opposition and the biggest bloc in the ruling coalition, after a rare rebuke by the king over the government’s handling of emergency ordinances. Muhyiddin’s government said earlier this week that on July 21 it had revoked all ordinances that had come into effect since a national state of emergency was imposed in January. King Al-Sultan Abdullah imposed the emergency on the advice of Muhyiddin, who had said it was needed to curb the spread of COVID-19. But critics have slammed the move and accused the premier…

DAKAR :  Idrissa Lo rushed back to Senegal from the United States when family members started falling sick with COVID-19 and dying. On Wednesday, he mourned a fifth family member lost to the virus – one of nearly 150 Senegalese to die this month as a third wave sweeps through the capital Dakar, leaving its hospitals nearly overrun. “The one I lost two hours ago is my really close cousin. He was young, he was like 40 years old,” said Lo, a U.S.-based transport worker, standing in the sun-baked yard of the hospital in Dakar’s Yoff neighbourhood. Senegal, which until…

SYDNEY : Australia’s military will help enforce a lockdown in Sydney after the city of 6 million posted a record daily rise in COVID-19 cases on Thursday and state authorities said the outbreak was likely to get worse. The lockdown of Australia’s biggest city has increased pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is now trailing in opinion polls, and heightened concern that Australia’s A$2 trillion ($1.5 trillion) economy could slide into recession. Despite an extended lockdown in Sydney since an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant, 239 new locally acquired coronavirus cases were recorded in the city over…

TOKYO : Two people attending the Tokyo Olympics from overseas have been admitted to hospital with COVID-19, a Tokyo 2020 spokesperson said on Thursday, as daily cases in the host city and Japan as a whole hit new highs. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga denied there was any link between the games and the simultaneous rise in cases in the country. He said the government will decide on Friday whether to extend a state of emergency, already imposed on Tokyo and Okinawa, to additional regions, without saying where. Such a declaration lets the authorities take extra measures such as shutting bars,…

UAE : The ‘Double Moon’ campaign, which was organised in the run-up to Hope Probe’s arrival to Mars, bagged an Outdoor Silver Lion at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The campaign, which brought Mars’ twin moons Phobos and Deimos to the skies of Dubai earlier in February using new technologies for the first time in the Middle East, was selected from 29,000 entries across 90 countries by a jury panel of leading advertising and media professionals. Organised by the UAE Government Media Office, the creative campaign aimed to engage UAE citizens and residents and generate excitement a…

Peru : Peru’s new president Pedro Castillo, a village school teacher, took office on Wednesday following a narrow election victory over right-wing populist candidate Keiko Fujimori. The 51-year-old took his oath of office in Congress in Lima, promising “a new constitution and a new Peru” on the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence. “We are a government of the people,” Castillo, from the Marxist-Leninist Peru Libre party, said. “Peru is now ruled by a peasant,” according to Deutsche press agency (dpa). Castillo pledged to create jobs, provide government aid for poor families, and invest in education, saying his administration will…

Saudi Arabia : Chairman of the Board of Directors of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Abdullah Amer Al-Sawahah announced the inauguration of the 4th Industrial Revolution Center in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF). This was on the sidelines of the first Saudi Forum for the 4th Industrial Revolution, which is organized by KACST at its headquarters with the participation of the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Economic Forum, Professor Klaus Schwab, a number of ministers and officials, and a group of local and international speakers, Saudi Press Agency (SPA)…

Bahrain : Shura Council Chairman Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh affirmed on the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the efforts of the government headed by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister on achieving progress in the protection of human rights in Bahrain, and implementing many initiatives that specialize in combating trafficking persons and establishing modern human rights concepts. Shura chairman stressed that Bahrain continues fighting human trafficking, noting that the Kingdom has topped countries in the success in fighting the trafficking in persons per a report by the US Department of State for two years. In addition to many initiatives,…

Bahrain: Works Ministry announced that the maintenance works of Isa Town Underpass on Sh. Salman Highway necessitate closure of one lane on stages in both directions and one lane will be provided for traffic movement in both directions. The closure will be effective from Friday for a period of 36 days.