Arab Times - 2020-05-17

• U.S. BEGINS ‘WARP SPEED’ PUSH Vaccine studies ramp up
• Rater outlook on 2 Kuwait banks from positive to stable
• Simulation sees 26,000 cases
• School year, fees link to certificat­es queried
• COVID-19 and the future of globalizat­ion
• KPC ‘rationaliz­es expenses’ and revises priorities for fiscal ’20/21
• Holding Assembly sessions electronic­ally requires parliament­ary proposal or govt draft law: Dr. Faili
• Authoritie­s solve bread shortage crisis in groceries ... in bachelors’ housing areas
• Golden opportunit­y for Kuwait to develop its local tourism projects
• Online payment of Zakat Al-Fitr permitted through charitable societies, says ministry
• Vaccine studies
• Rater outlook
• ‘Onus on us to eliminate virus’
• Quality education & lifelong learning chances eyed for all
• Call for transfer of knowhow to less developed member states
• Sponsor catches family driver trying to murder cook with a ‘knife’ in outhouse
• Use of COVID-19 testing kits brought from China stopped
• Clean water projects
• Corona fight bares a battered system
• Hundreds die in Yemen of suspected coronaviru­s outbreak
• French boy first death from likely COVID-linked illness
• US short on testing
• India overtakes China in cases
• Jordan warns of ‘massive conflict’
• Missouri lawmakers pass bill against boycotting Israel
• Nakba continues
• US retail sales fall a record 16%
• Fitch revises Arab Banking Corporatio­n’s outlook to negative
• Turkish pilots, others, to stand trial over Ghosn escape
• SWFs and institutio­nal investors maintain exposure to risk assets in face of Covid-19
• Lebanon cbank official detained
• Germany’s tax revenue seen declining sharply
• US stocks manage modest gains but still end lower for the week
• Risk of reopening US economy too fast: A W-shaped recovery
• Musk restarts California factory amid ‘lockdown’
• Air Canada to lay off more than 20,000 because of pandemic
• US economy in crisis: more virus aid or wait and see?
• How a business credit card fits gig work
• Google facing onslaught of antitrust cases in US
• UAE jiu-jitsu athletes return to action in refresher tournament
• Tennis tours extend breaks
• Club Brugge crowned Belgian champions
• Messi says pandemic stoppage can benefit Barcelona
• FIFA to pick 2023 Women’s World Cup host next month

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