GUANICA, Puerto Rico: Abigain Sebastian is delighted to make $7.25 an hour toiling under Puerto Rico’s hot sun tying the stalks of tomato plants. Back home in Mexico, he got even dollars for an entire day’s work. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait registered 26 COVID-related deaths over the weekend in addition to 2,438 new cases as the country scrambles to contain an outbreak of the disease that forced a partial lockdown that nears its fourth week and could extend for the foreseeable future.

YONGIN, South Korea: Decades before the race to build a self-driving car became a multi-billion-dollar contest between tech giants such as Tesla and Google, a South Korean professor built an autonomous vehicle and test-drove it across the country – only for his research to be consigned to the scrapheap. 

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden celebrated a massive rebound in US jobs Friday as a sign of hope “at long last” that the end of the pandemic is within sight, with. New Labor Department data showing the economy regained 916,000 jobs in March come as a boon to millions of Americans facing financial ruin – but also lay bare the deep scars left by more than a year of shutdowns and restrictions due to COVID-19.

GOLEMO SELO, Bulgaria: With its belching smokestacks, Bulgaria’s Bobov Dol coal plant symbolizes the type of industry the EU aims to eliminate – and the hurdles it faces in its green transition. Environmental issues barely made a blip ahead of elections taking place today, while critics fear that €10 billion ($11.8 billion) in EU green transition funds could fall prey to Bulgaria’s widespread corruption.

NEW YORK: Facing boycott threats over their earlier public neutrality on a new voting rights law in Georgia, Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola on Wednesday publicly slammed the state measure and vowed to work to ensure better ballot access. 

CAIRO: The near week-long shutdown of the Suez Canal threw an uncomfortable international spotlight on Egypt, but experts see limited overall fallout for its commercial shipping reputation. 

PITTSBURGH: President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan aimed at modernizing America’s crumbling transport network, creating millions of jobs and delivering a “once-in-a-generation” investment that will enable the country to best China on the global economic stage. 

KUWAIT: Ministry of Health (MoH) Spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad on Wednesday announced a noticeable decrease of coronavirus infections among Kuwaitis compared with previous months.