KUWAIT: Restaurants and coffee shops opened yesterday for customers after a long period of closure. The Kuwait Cabinet has decided to reopen all eateries provided customers abide by health precautionary measures against COVID-19 and conduct temperature checks. 

WASHINGTON: First he loved them, then he doubted them, but is he manipulating them? Tesla boss Elon Musk’s tweets about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are annoying their devotees and raising eyebrows among market watchers. 

BELFAST: Five months after the UK cut ties with the European Union, the post-Brexit “protocol” governing Northern Irish trade is sowing discontent in the province. 

ENKOPING, Sweden: One after another, grocery stores are shutting down in rural Sweden, leaving villagers to travel miles to buy food. But a new type of shop has sprung up in their wake: unmanned supermarkets in mobile containers. In Veckholm, a village of a few hundred people 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Stockholm, the last grocery store closed more than a decade ago. 

LONDON: The Group of Seven wealthy nations on Friday agreed to end state financing of coal-fired power plants by the end of this year, and to “mostly decarbonize” electricity supplies in the 2030s. 

BUENOS AIRES: The grill master salts the cut of beef that will go into the fire, from where it heads to the table where a hungry family is gathered. It is an age-old ritual for Argentines to get together over a jaw-dropping “asado,” but one that has grown increasingly out of the reach of many of them. 

WASHINGTON: The IMF on Friday proposed a $50 billion plan to end the COVID-19 pandemic, with a target of vaccinating at least 40 percent of the world’s population by the end of 2021. 

VOLVIC, France: The lush volcanic hills surrounding Volvic in central France have long been a source of mineral water prized worldwide, but locals and geologists warn that too much is now being pumped out, putting the entire region at risk. 

DEARBORN, US: Ford officially unveiled the all-electric version of its bestselling F-150 truck on Wednesday, in an eco-friendly reinvention of a flagship American car brand.