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Kuwaiti women irked over curbs to join army

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti women are angry after the military, having allowed female soldiers in combat roles, decided they need the permission of a male guardian and banned them from carrying weapons. Activists have decried the policy as "one step forward, two steps back" after the defense ministry also decided that women in the armed forces, unlike civilians, must wear head coverings.The moves have sparked an online backlash in Kuwait, usually regarded as...

CAIRO: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem addresses the 32nd conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union in Cairo yesterday.-AFP

Arab gatherings important step towards unified visions: Speaker

CAIRO: Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem said that every Arab meeting, conference, and gathering that focuses on the values of Arab solidarity is an important step towards unified visions. This came during Al-Ghanem's participation in the 32nd conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union. In his speech, Al-Ghanem pointed out that Arab history is full of examples that Arab solidarity has happened repeatedly towards common...

TRIPOLI: Libyans gather in Martyrs' Square yesterday as they commemorate the 11th anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime strongman Muammar Gaddafi. - AFP

11 years since revolt, Libya far from democracy

TRIPOLI: Libyans yesterday marked 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but the democracy many hoped for seems as elusive as ever, and many fear a return to conflict. The anniversary comes as the country, for years plagued by divisions between east and west, finds itself with two rival prime ministers based in the capital Tripoli.Just weeks after national elections planned for Dec 24 were indefinitely postponed, the...

LOS ANGELES: Fans celebrate as double decker busses carry the team outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the Rams NFL Super Bowl LVI victory parade on Wednesday. - AFP

Boozy Rams celebrate Super Bowl triumph

LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Rams celebrated their Super Bowl triumph in a blizzard of blue and gold confetti on Wednesday as the team took a boozy victory parade before thousands of cheering fans. Quarterback Matthew Stafford swigged tequila and defensive star Aaron Donald quaffed beer and champagne as the NFL champions marked Sunday's victory over the Cincinnati Bengals with an open-top bus tour.Hordes of fans thronged the route to salute the...

BEIJING: Russia's Kamila Valieva reacts after competing in the women's single skating free skating of the figure skating event during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Capital Indoor Stadium yesterday. - AFP

Broken Valieva falls out of medal places

BEIJING: Teenager Kamila Valieva finished fourth in the women's figure skating at the Beijing Olympics yesterday as a doping scandal engulfing the pre-Games favourite appeared to take its toll. Her Russian team-mate Anna Shcherbakova took gold after the 15-year-old Valieva produced an error-filled performance and was left distraught at the end of her free program. Another Russian, Alexandra Trusova, took silver, and Japan's Kaori Sakamoto won...

MARANELLO: This handout picture released by Ferrari press office yesterday shows Ferrari's driver Carlos Sainz posing with the new Ferrari F1-75 following its online official presentation. – AFP

Ferrari unveil sleek new car to end title drought

MARANELLO, Italy: Charles Leclerc said "expectations are very high" as Ferrari yesterday unveiled their new F1-75 car which they hope can challenge Mercedes and Red Bull for the Formula One world title this year. Ferrari have not won the constructors' title in 14 years, with the Scuderia finishing third last season and sixth in 2020.The most successful Formula One team won the last of their record 16 constructors' titles in 2008, with Finland's...

SYDNEY: A fisheries boat patrols the site of a fatal shark attack off Little Bay Beach in Sydney yesterday, as authorities deployed baited lines to try to catch a giant great white shark that devoured an ocean swimmer, the city's first such attack in decades. – AFP

Hunt on for great white shark that killed swimmer

SYDNEY: Sydney authorities yesterday deployed baited lines to try to catch a giant great white shark that devoured an ocean swimmer, as beach communities in Australia's largest city were rocked by the first such attack in decades. Drones scoured the ocean from the air, spotters launched on boats and six drum lines were set to try to catch the creature, which is believed to be at least three metres (10 feet) in length.Police believe they have...

TOKYO: Members of the media raise their hands to ask a question as Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (top C) takes part in a press conference to update the country about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and certain border restrictions, in Tokyo yesterday. – AFP

Japan eases virus border rules for workers, student

TOKYO: Japan will ease its strict virus border rules to allow students and businesspeople into the country from March, but tourists will still be barred, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday. The move comes with growing pressure on Japan from the business community and academics to loosen the border restrictions, which are the toughest in the G7 but have broad support from Japanese voters. Japan has barred tourists since the early days of...

TARHUNA, Libya: Libyan Ashraf Jaballah (R), 35, speaks during an interview at his home in the western town Tarhuna. For years a brutal family clan that kept caged lions to sow fear killed hundreds of people in the Libyan town of Tarhuna, then dumped their bodies in mass graves. - AFP

Libyan town awaits justice over family militia's reign of terror

TARHUNA, Libya: For years, a family clan that kept lions to sow terror in the Libyan town of Tarhuna tortured and killed hundreds of people, then dumped their bodies in mass graves. Now, the six Kani brothers and their militiamen are gone, either dead or in hiding, but the survivors in this western town are still waiting for justice. Eleven years after the toppling of dictator Muammar Gaddafi plunged the North African country into chaos, they...

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Police issue ultimatum to protesters to leave Canada capital

OTTAWA: Canadian police issued an ultimatum Wednesday to protesters who've been choking Ottawa streets for 20 days to leave the capital, as provincial and US state leaders called for an end to the cross-border vaccine requirement that sparked the trucker-led movement. Officials, meanwhile, announced a negotiated peaceful end to the last of several recent blockades by protesters of border crossings between Canada and the United States."You must...

PARIS: France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) speaks with Senegal's President Macky Sall prior to a meeting on the Sahel at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris yesterday. - AFP

France, allies announce Mali withdrawal

PARIS: France announced yesterday that it was withdrawing troops from Mali due to a breakdown in relations with the country's ruling junta, after nearly 10 years of fighting a jihadist insurgency. The Mali deployment has been fraught with problems for France-of 53 French soldiers killed serving in West Africa's Sahel region, 48 of them died in Mali."Multiple obstructions" by the military junta that took power in August 2020 meant that the...

PETROPOLIS, Brazil: Residents look out over a scene of destruction during the second day of operations at the scene of a mudslide in Petropolis, Brazil yesterday. - AFP

Despair, solidarity for Brazil storm victims

PETROPOLIS, Brazil: Holding the few possessions they are able to carry, families stream down the slopes of the hillside neighborhood of Alto da Serra, many in tears, fleeing the devastation left by deadly landslides in the Brazilian city of Petropolis. Their modest neighborhood was one of the hardest hit by Tuesday's storms, which dumped a month's worth of rain on this scenic tourist town in a matter of hours, triggering flash floods and torrents...

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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP

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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP

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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP

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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP

Ambanis celebrate son’s nuptials with mass wedding