Arab Times - 2020-04-05

• Weekend virus surge puts total at 479
• Perhaps COVID-19 pandemic has a silver lining
• Coronaviru­s cases spike in region
• basketball
• ‘Citizens’ repatriati­on 2nd phase starting next week’
• Kuwait proposes GCC food security net to secure basic food supplies
• ‘Strictly-enforced safety measures aim at protecting, saving everyone’
• MP calls for accelerati­on of citizens’ evacuation process
• Central Bank instructs banks to conduct all local transactio­ns of Bedoun residents
• ‘Need to keep communal cohesion’
• Letters to Sattam Al-Jarallah
• 12 shops sealed as Municipali­ty inspectors conduct raids in City to avert virus spread
• ‘Let go of me, I let go off you’
• ‘No divorce cases registered in corona crisis’
• 2 held at parlour:
• Face masks urged as key steps to fight virus roll out
• UN to decide on world meet:
• Trump fires impeachmen­t-tied watchdog
• Biden to name VP vetting team:
• NHS gears up for virus peak
• Prince Charles opens new London hospital
• France’s key ‘Bac’ exam canceled:
• Docu sheds new light on ‘Atlanta murders’ By Jonathan Landrum Jr
• ‘Modern Family’ promises satisfying end to its 11-season run
• ‘Lean on Me’ singer Withers dies
• Quibi aims for bite of digital entertainm­ent
• What’s on today
• horoscope
• Virtual volunteers offer help to strangers amid virus stress
• Renovation­s hit bump when mother moves in
• High-tech growing systems bring joy of gardening indoors
• School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students
• Not that tech-savvy? Remit money using LuLu Money
• Plague as art: Over the centuries, many kinds of stories
• ‘In my blood, there may be answers’
• The race is on to avoid hidden virus carriers
• Polio vaccine suspended:
• Virus cost may top $4 trillion
• White House convenes oil CEOs as bust threatens US boom
• Saudi rebukes Russia over oil collapse
• Coronaviru­s impacts developing Asia growth: ADB
• Shipping tycoon helps Venezuela in quest for gas
• Brokerage worker loses paternity leave appeal in Japan
• Virus crisis threatens to devastate developing countries: UN
• Pandemic brings Mideast economies to ‘temporary’ standstill, says ICAEW
• Tourism & hospitalit­y sector severely hit by COVID-19
• World Bank ramps up support to combat virus in MENA
• 8.3 million people will fall into poverty in Arab region due to COVID-19: ESCWA
• COVID-19 and low oil prices threaten GCC insurers: S&P
• Stocks drop as virus rattles job market
• US long-term mortgages fall; 30-year at 3.33%
• Kosovo lifts 100 percent tariff on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovin­a
• WNBA postpones start of season this month because of pandemic
• Big league vets with minor league deals get up to $50K
• US Women’s Open in Houston reschedule­d
• By Tales Azzoni
• Captain to chief negotiator: Chiellini works out salary cuts
• EPL suspended indefinite­ly
• FIFA extends men’s age limit for Tokyo Olympics due to virus
• Tour of Flanders goes virtual

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