Due to a security traffic campaign organized by the Traffic Affairs and Operations Sector, 27,923 various violations were recorded, and 31 minors were referred to the Juvenile Police Department of the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation, in preparation for their referral to the Juvenile Prosecution Office, Al Jarida reported.

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) announced that between 10,000 to 13,000 civil id cards are dispersed daily to their owners from devices, which is less than what has to be done, as the civil id cards ready in the devices are double than the number of customers, who have to receive it urgently.

TOKYO: Japan’s biggest airline ANA Holdings yesterday forecast a record $4.87 billion net loss for this financial year and announced a major restructuring as the pandemic hammers the global aviation industry. 

HONG KONG: HSBC said yesterday its third-quarter post-tax profits fell 46 percent on-year as the Asia-focused banking giant continued to take a hammering from the coronavirus pandemic and spiralling China-US tensions. 

SHANGHAI: The most essential item in aircraft engineer Tao Rui’s possession during a recent outing in Shanghai was the Alipay smartphone app from Ant Group, a company little known outside China until it unfurled plans for the biggest IPO in history. As Tao and a friend strolled the city at the weekend, he used Alipay to buy a cup of milk tea, a deep-fried octopus snack and a box of candy. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait registered 775 new coronavirus cases during the past 24 hours, raising the total number of cases to 123,092, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. 

SEOUL: South Korea’s billionaire business leaders lined up yesterday to pay respects to the late Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, for decades the country’s richest and most powerful industrialist. 

FRANKFURT: It’s been a baptism by fire for Christine Lagarde whose first year as head of the European Central Bank has been dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and the drastic action needed to keep the eurozone economy afloat. 

JOHANNESBURG/HARARE: Having fled an economic implosion in his native Zimbabwe, Brighton Takawira was able to support his mother back home with modest earnings from a small perfume business he set up in South Africa. Then the pandemic struck. Borders closed.