KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health announced yesterday registering 735 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 132,478. Deaths reached 816 with the addition of five fatalities. 

SAN FRANCISCO: A victory for the “gig economy” in California is likely to echo across the US, in a boon for app-based services while igniting fear that big business is rewriting labor laws. 

CAIRO: Despite the pandemic and tourism collapse, Egypt is projecting healthy economic growth this year, even as one third of the Arab world’s most populous country remains mired in poverty. 

WASHINGTON: When Joe Biden walks in to the White House as president in January, he will have the opportunity to reshape the world’s largest economy, but first he will have to get it back on its feet. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 538 to 131,743 in the past 24 hours, while three patients passed away, raising the death toll to 811, the health ministry said yesterday. 

BEIJING: China’s exports posted strong growth again last month, extending an upward trend on the back of a consumption rebound among its major trading partners, official data showed yesterday. 

LONDON: Britain’s business community has long hoped for a post-Brexit free trade deal-but government failures mean there will still be “significant” disruption when it is fully free of the European Union next year, an official watchdog warned Friday. 

ISTANBUL/ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan fired central bank governor Murat Uysal on Saturday and replaced him with ex-finance minister Naci Agbal, acting after a 30 percent plunge in the lira currency’s value to record lows this year. 

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health announced yesterday registering 795 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 129,638. Deaths reached 799 with the addition of five fatalities.