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Kuwaiti football coach takes Nepal to new heights

By Nawara FattahovaKuwaiti coach Abdullah Al-Shallahi, who is coaching Nepal's national football team, assisted the South Asian country in reaching the final qualifiers of the East Asian Football Championship (EAFF E-1) for the first time in its history. Shallahi spoke to Kuwait Times via telephone from Doha. Some excerpts:Kuwait Times: When did you start coaching? Which was the first team you trained?Abdullah Al-Shallahi: I took up coaching in...

DUBAI: Pakistan's Shaheen Shah Afridi reacts as Australia's Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade run between the wickets during the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup semifinal match at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday. – AFP n

Wade, Stoinis power Australia past Pakistan and into World Cup final

DUBAI: Pakistan's Shaheen Shah Afridi reacts as Australia's Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade run between the wickets during the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup semifinal match at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday. – AFPDUBAI: Matthew Wade and Marcus Stoinis stood unbeaten in a six-hitting feast to lead Australia into the Twenty20 World Cup final with a five-wicket win over Pakistan yesterday. Chasing 177 for victory, Australia...

SYDNEY: Saudi Arabia's Fhad Mosaed Almuwallad and Australia's Aziz Behich fight for the ball during the World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying football match at CommBank Stadium yesterday. – AFP n

Saudi Arabia spoil Australia's homecoming in wet 0-0 draw

SYDNEY: Saudi Arabia's Fhad Mosaed Almuwallad and Australia's Aziz Behich fight for the ball during the World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying football match at CommBank Stadium yesterday. – AFPSYDNEY: Saudi Arabia dampened Australia's much-anticipated homecoming yesterday with a scoreless draw in a World Cup qualifying clash in Sydney - the Socceroos' first home game in more than two years. Defying a rowdy crowd of 23,314, the visitors spoilt the...

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Gerrard returns to Premier League as Aston Villa boss

Steven GerrardLONDON: Steven Gerrard will get his first taste of management in the Premier League after the Liverpool legend was appointed Aston Villa boss yesterday. Gerrard has left his role as Rangers manager to take charge at Villa, who sacked Dean Smith on Sunday after five successive league defeats. Considered one of the greatest players in Premier League history, former England midfielder Gerrard made a promising start to his managerial...

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Verstappen hoping to avoid more sprint weekend heartache

Max VerstappenSAO PAULO: Max Verstappen is hoping to avoid any 'sprint weekend heartache' and move within sight, if not reach, of claiming the Formula One world championship at this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix. After winning last Sunday's Mexican race, Red Bull's series leader has a 19-point advantage ahead of defending seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, but he knows that lead can be overturned if he fails to finish. He knows, too, that at...

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Rossi's reign ends in Spain as busy 'retirement' beckons

Valentino RossiVALENCIA: A sporting icon rides into retirement on Sunday at the Valencia MotoGP where nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi's name will grace the grid for the very last time. The charismatic Italian, 42, bows out with his place assured as one of the true greats of his or any other sport. For much of a career spanning three decades he was the master of the art of eking out every last unit of energy from his 157 kg metal charge...

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China holds a lackluster 'Single's Day' shopping fest

BEIJING: Workers sort packages for delivery at a JD.com distribution center on "Singles' Day", also known as the Double 11, the biggest shopping day of the year, in Beijing yesterday. - AFPBEIJING: China yesterday held a subdued version of its annual "Single's Day" shopping spree, shorn of the usual boasting on sales volume as the country's chastened e-commerce sector kept a lower profile amid a government crackdown on platforms such as those...

LONDON: Britain’s economic recovery from pandemic fallout slowed sharply in the third quarter as global supply disruptions hurt businesses. - AFPn

UK recovery slows sharply on global supply disruptions

LONDON: Britain’s economic recovery from pandemic fallout slowed sharply in the third quarter as global supply disruptions hurt businesses. - AFPLONDON: Britain's economic recovery from pandemic fallout slowed sharply in the third quarter as global supply disruptions hurt businesses, official data showed yesterday. Gross domestic product grew 1.3 percent in the July-September period, down from 5.5 percent in the second quarter, the Office for...

SINGLETON, Australia: This picture taken on November 4, 2021 shows a train transporting coal through the valleys of Singleton, some 70km (43 miles) from Newcastle, the world's largest coal exporting port. - AFPnn

Australia's coal country looks to a less sooty future

SINGLETON, Australia: This picture taken on November 4, 2021 shows a train transporting coal through the valleys of Singleton, some 70km (43 miles) from Newcastle, the world's largest coal exporting port. - AFPNEWCASTLE, Australia: Australia's conservative leaders have defied calls for urgent climate action, boasting they will sell coal for as long as anyone is buying. But in the country's carbon heartland, locals are already preparing for life...

BRUSSELS: European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni addresses media representatives as he gives a press conference on Autumn 2021 Economic Forecast at EU headquarters in Brussels yesterday.—AFPnn

Eurozone boosts growth forecast despite new wave of COVID cases

BRUSSELS: European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni addresses media representatives as he gives a press conference on Autumn 2021 Economic Forecast at EU headquarters in Brussels yesterday.—AFPBRUSSELS: The EU increased its growth forecast for 2021 yesterday, as the eurozone economy holds strong against higher energy prices, supply chain bottlenecks and a fresh wave of COVID cases. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm,...

SAN FRANCISCO, US: In this file photo, a customer shops for meat at a Safeway store in San Francisco, California. - AFPnn

Biden vows to tackle inflation 'head on' as price surge hits 30-year high

SAN FRANCISCO, US: In this file photo, a customer shops for meat at a Safeway store in San Francisco, California. - AFPBALTIMORE, US: President Joe Biden acknowledged Wednesday that US shoppers were paying too much for everyday goods, vowing to tackle inflation "head on" after government data showed it had reached a 30-year peak last month. The sharp spike in the consumer price index (CPI) reported by the Labor Department surprised economists...

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NBK-Egypt provides EGP 850 million finance to Madkour for Projects Co

During the signing of the financing agreement.KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait - Egypt (NBK-Egypt) provided a finance of EGP 850 million to Madkour for Projects Company, one of the leading national companies in the field of energy and infrastructure projects, for the purpose of carrying out the works assigned to the company by the Ministry of Housing to replace and upgrade medium and low voltage electricity networks in some villages of Markaz...

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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

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VARANASI: Medical students shout slogans and hold posters as they protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, in Varanasi on August 15, 2024. -- AFP

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Kuwait Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos

Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan

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Columbia president resigns months after campus Gaza demos