ahmadomar | kuwaittimes

ahmadomar

Dortmund's German forward Karim Adeyemi (R) celebrates scoring the opening goal with his teammates during the UEFA Champions League, first-leg, round of 16 football match BVB Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea FC, in Dortmund, western Germany, on February 15, 2023.

Dortmund beat Chelsea 1-0 in first leg of Champions League last 16

Dortmund: Karim Adeyemi scored a breakaway solo goal to give Borussia Dortmund a 1-0 home victory over Chelsea in the Champions League round of 16 first leg on Wednesday.The 21-year-old Germany international raced up the left on a 63rd minute counter-attack, beat record signing Enzo Fernandez and rounded goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga before sliding the ball home from an angle.Dortmund survived a late siege from the visitors as Gregor Kobel made a...

Benfica's Portuguese midfielder Joao Mario (L) celebrates after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen first leg football match between Bruges (Club Brugge) and Benfica Lisbon at Jan-Breydel Stadion in Bruges, on February 15, 2023.

Benfica beat Club Brugge 2-0 in Champions League last 16, first leg

Bruges: Benfica closed in on a place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 2-0 win away to Club Brugge in Belgium in the first leg of their last-16 tie on Wednesday.Joao Mario opened the scoring for the Portuguese league leaders from the penalty spot six minutes into the second half and substitute David Neres sealed the victory two minutes from time.The second leg will be played in Lisbon on March 7.

No Image

Slick Man City sink Arsenal to seize top spot in title race

LONDON: Written off at times during an unusually erratic season, resurgent Manchester City delivered a resounding statement as they moved to the top of the Premier League with a 3-1 victory at title rivals Arsenal on Wednesday. As City's players celebrated in front of their travelling fans in one corner of the Emirates Stadium at the final whistle, Pep Guardiola's face was wreathed in smiles, and perhaps tinged with a little relief.Just a few...

No Image

Syria's Assad welcomes 'positive stance' from Arab nations

Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday welcomed "any positive stance" from Arab nations, including many that severed ties with Damascus since the outbreak of its civil war.His remarks came during a meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Damascus, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria on February 6, leaving a combined death toll of nearly 40,000 people.Safadi's visit is the second by a top Arab...

No Image

EU targets Iran drones, Russian tech in new Ukraine sanctions

Strasbourg: The European Union's executive arm proposed Wednesday new sanctions on Russia that would cut off goods worth 11 billion euros and target Iran's drone producers over the war in Ukraine.European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said she hoped the EU's 27 member states would agree to the new package as part of a joint battery of G7 sanctions on the one-year anniversary of the invasion on February 24."We are targeting many industrial...

No Image

Frankfurt airport halts most landings amid Lufthansa IT problems

Frankfurt: Frankfurt airport said Wednesday it has stopped almost all arriving planes from landing, after German airline Lufthansa was forced to cancel dozens of flights over an IT problem."Due to a low availability of positions for aircraft, no landings took place at Frankfurt airport" for some time on Wednesday morning, said Fraport, adding that "sporadic landings are currently taking place again".

Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Ahmad Al-Saadoun receives Saudi President of the General Court of Audit Dr. Hussam Al-Angari

Kuwait parliament speaker welcomes top Saudi auditor

Kuwait: Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Ahmad Al-Saadoun on Wednesday received visiting President of the General Court of Audit Dr. Hussam Al-Angari, in presence of Kuwait's State Audit Bureau (SAB) Chairman Faisal Al-Shaya.The Saudi official's accompanying delegation and senior SAB officials were present at the meeting.

Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations at the British Foreign Office Tariq Ahmad

UK Min.: Britain, Kuwait partners in defending joint security, interests

Kuwait: The State of Kuwait and the United Kingdom are partners in defending their joint security and interests, said a British official on Wednesday.In an interview with Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) and Kuwait Television, Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations at the British Foreign Office Tariq Ahmad commended the deep-rooted relations between the two countries.The UK is keen on the security of Kuwait...

No Image

Diaz fires AC Milan to Champions League win over Tottenham

Milan: Brahim Diaz shot AC Milan to a 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday which gave the seven-time European kings control of their Champions League last-16 tie.Diaz bundled in the only goal of the game in the seventh minute at a packed San Siro to give Milan the advantage before next month's second leg in London.The Spaniard's strike was the first and one of very few real chances of a scrappy game which highlighted the far from sparkling...

No Image

Coman scores winner as Bayern edge PSG in first leg of Champions League tie

Paris: Kingsley Coman scored the only goal of the game as Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday, with substitute Kylian Mbappe denied a late equaliser by a marginal offside call.The unmarked Coman swept in an Alphonso Davies cross eight minutes into the second half at the Parc des Princes, just as Mbappe was preparing to enter the fray on his return from injury after PSG had...

No Image

UN appeals for nearly $400 mn for Syria quake victims

United Nations: The United Nations launched an appeal for $397 million on Tuesday to help earthquake victims in Syria, where the disaster has killed thousands of people and left millions more in desperate need of aid.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world body was in the "final stages" of a similar appeal for Turkey.

Al Adwani with Al Kharafi and Al Musaibeeh at the event.

Zain supports Kuwaiti and Arab innovators and inventors

Kuwait: Zain, Kuwait’s leading digital service provider, announces its strategic partnership with the 13th International Invention Fair in the Middle East, which comes back after a halt of two years. The event, organized by the Kuwait Science Club with support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), is held under the patronage of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah.Zain joined the event’s...

most read

1

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

Stampede at India religious event kills 116

2

No Image

Travelers and experts explore best options

3

Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman

Saudi energy minister announces discovery of multiple oil, gas fields

4

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

Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott

5

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

Zionist jamming disrupts Lebanon ground, air traffic