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Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play during an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas.-AFP photosn

Venezuela sets largest orchestra world record

Members of the National System of Orchestras of Venezuela play during an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest orchestra in the world, with more than 12,000 musicians, at the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army in Fuerte Tiuna Military Complex, in Caracas.-AFP photosVenezuela on Saturday locked in the Guinness record for the world's largest orchestra after thousands of local musicians performed Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic...

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Ryan Reynolds was 'in a bad place' in his 30s

Ryan ReynoldsThe 45-year-old actor - who has daughters James, six, Inez, five, and Betty, two, with wife Blake Lively and was previously married to Scarlett Johansson - is "proud" of himself for tackling his problems and "working out" his issues". He admitted: "I was in a bad place in my 30. There was just too much conflict in my head. I saw a therapist. I read some books. "That's a good time to work out your issues. I'm proud of myself for...

BRUSSELS: People take part in a demonstration against Belgium government's measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 and mandatory vaccination in Brussels yesterday. - AFPnn

Thousands rally against COVID curbs

BRUSSELS: People take part in a demonstration against Belgium government's measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 and mandatory vaccination in Brussels yesterday. - AFPTHE HAGUE: Tens of thousands took to the streets in cities across Europe and Australia as anger mounted over fresh COVID restrictions imposed against a resurgent pandemic. And Dutch police faced a second night of rioting - this time in The Hague - after the previous night's...

ATLANTA: Demonstrators gather to protest the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on November 20, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. - AFPnnn

Self-defense 'is not' illegal: Rittenhouse

ATLANTA: Demonstrators gather to protest the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on November 20, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. - AFPWASHINGTON: Kyle Rittenhouse, the US teen acquitted after fatally shooting two men during protests and riots against police brutality in Wisconsin last year, said self-defense is "not illegal" after being cleared, as the verdict reverberated across America. On Friday, a jury found the 18-year-old Rittenhouse not guilty of...

SOFIA: An electoral staff member of a mobile polling center, wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), presents a ballot box to a woman in self-quarantine to collect her vote for the second-round of the presidential election and the parliamentary elections. – AFPnn

Bulgaria presidential poll seen testing anti-graft reform appetite

SOFIA: An electoral staff member of a mobile polling center, wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), presents a ballot box to a woman in self-quarantine to collect her vote for the second-round of the presidential election and the parliamentary elections. – AFPSOFIA: Bulgarians voted yesterday to elect their president, a largely ceremonial role that the current incumbent has transformed and put at the heart of the struggle against...

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China downgrades diplomatic ties with Lithuania

VILNIUS : File photo shows the name plaque at the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania, Vilnius. China has officially downgraded its diplomatic ties with Lithuania to the "charge d'affaires" level, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: China has officially downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania, the foreign ministry in Beijing said yesterday, after Taiwan established a de facto embassy in Vilnius. China baulks...

This FBI file handout image obtained on March 27, 2008 shows the likenesses of D.B.Cooper. On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971, a nondescript, 40-something man who called himself Dan Cooper approached the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket from Portland to Seattle. - AFPnnn

Hijacker's mid-air escape fascinates Americans, 50 years on

This FBI file handout image obtained on March 27, 2008 shows the likenesses of D.B.Cooper. On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971, a nondescript, 40-something man who called himself Dan Cooper approached the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket from Portland to Seattle. - AFPWASHINGTON: On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971, a nondescript, 40-something man who called himself Dan Cooper approached the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket for...

VILNIUS: Lithuania's Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte (R) and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (L) arrive to address a joint press conference during their meeting on the migrant crisis on the Polish border with Belarus, in Vilnius yesterday. – AFPn

Border crisis 'greatest' bid to destabilize Europe

VILNIUS: Lithuania's Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte (R) and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (L) arrive to address a joint press conference during their meeting on the migrant crisis on the Polish border with Belarus, in Vilnius yesterday. – AFPBOHONIKI: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki yesterday called the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, the EU's eastern frontier, the "greatest attempt to destabilise...

RAFAH: File photo shows Egyptian workers pose for a photo by construction equipment provided by Egypt arriving at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave. - AFPnnn

Egypt makes Gaza comeback with post-war reconstruction

RAFAH: File photo shows Egyptian workers pose for a photo by construction equipment provided by Egypt arriving at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave. - AFPGAZA: Posters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi beam out over a site in the war-battered Gaza Strip where laborers and bulldozers are hard at work rebuilding. After years of retreat, Egypt is making its presence felt...

MANCHESTER: In this file photo taken on March 28, 2019 Manchester United's Norwegian manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is seen during a photo call at Old Trafford in Manchester, northwest England, after it was announced that he was appointed as the club’s full-time manager on a three-year contract. – AFPnn

Man Utd finally end Solskjaer experiment

MANCHESTER: In this file photo taken on March 28, 2019 Manchester United's Norwegian manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is seen during a photo call at Old Trafford in Manchester, northwest England, after it was announced that he was appointed as the club’s full-time manager on a three-year contract. – AFPMANCHESTER: Manchester United ended Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's three-year reign as manager at Old Trafford yesterday, but plan to wait until the end...

MANCHESTER: n this file photo taken on September 11, 2021 Manchester United's manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer embraces striker Cristiano Ronaldo after the English Premier League football match against Newcastle at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England. – AFPn

Solskjaer pays price for failing to rekindle Man Utd's golden years

MANCHESTER: In this file photo taken on September 11, 2021 Manchester United's manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer embraces striker Cristiano Ronaldo after the English Premier League football match against Newcastle at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England. – AFPLONDON: As Ole Gunnar Solskjaer trudged forlornly towards Manchester United's fans at Vicarage Road, the merciless booing that greeted the ashen-faced Norwegian served as a bitter...

MONZA: France's Sebastien Ogier (center) celebrates his 8th World title with co-driver France's Julien Ingrassia (right) as runner-up Britain's Elfyn Evans (left) looks on, on the podium yesterday after the ACI Rally Monza 2021 of the FIA World Rally Championship at the Monza racetrack, Italy. - AFPn

Ogier heads into semi-retirement with eighth WRC title

MONZA: France's Sebastien Ogier (center) celebrates his 8th World title with co-driver France's Julien Ingrassia (right) as runner-up Britain's Elfyn Evans (left) looks on, on the podium yesterday after the ACI Rally Monza 2021 of the FIA World Rally Championship at the Monza racetrack, Italy. - AFPPARIS: Sebastien Ogier heads into semi-retirement having clinched an eighth World Rally Championship title in nine years but without ever quite...

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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP

Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation

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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP

Modi renews push for common civil code for India

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Columbia president resigns months after campus Gaza demos

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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.

Pearl diving trip winds up

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Personification of Kuwait’s philanthropic legacy: Dr Al-Sumait