KUWAIT: Volvo yesterday unveiled the facelift of its S90 and V90 series at Khalijia Studio in Sharq. The new S90 series (2021 model facelift) is Volvo’s premium 4-door, 5-seat flagship, built on the Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), Volvo’s advanced modular vehicle platform that underpins all Volvo cars in the 90 and 60 Series launched in recent years.

KUWAIT: Kuwait registered 903 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 133,381, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. Deaths reached 821 with the addition of five fatalities, it added. 

TBILISI: When Anna Kuznetsova saw an ad offering access to Moscow’s face recognition cameras, all she had to do was pay 16,000 rubles ($200) and send a photo of the person she wanted spying on. 

LONDON: Britain and the European Union resumed crucial negotiations in London yesterday for a post-Brexit free trade deal, with time running short and both sides saying major obstacles remain. 

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.