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SHARJAH: Fans of Bangladesh's team cheer during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah on Friday. - AFPn

Scaffolding to Sachin's storm: Sharjah's 40-year love of cricket

SHARJAH: Fans of Bangladesh's team cheer during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup cricket match between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah on Friday. - AFPSHARJAH: Sharjah's love affair with cricket extends into the Twenty20 World Cup as memories of Javed Miandad's last-ball six and Sachin Tendulkar's "desert storm" linger at the famed venue. Businessman Abdul Rahman Bukhatir brought the game to the United Arab...

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Olympic team players celebrate yesterday after beating Saudi Arabia and advancing to the AFC U-23 Asian Cup. - KUNAn

Kuwait qualifies for AFC U-23 Asian Cup

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Olympic team players celebrate yesterday after beating Saudi Arabia and advancing to the AFC U-23 Asian Cup. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait qualified for the AFC U-23 Asian Cup after beating Saudi Arabia 2-1 yesterday; its second win in as many matches in their qualifying group stage. The win gives Kuwait six points after they beat Bangladesh 1-0 in the first match on Wednesday. Eid Al-Rashidi and Yousef Al-Rashidi scored for Kuwait,...

Meta: Facebook's high-stakes bet to save itself

MENLO PARK: People visit a newly unveiled logo for 'Meta' - the new name for Facebook's parent company, outside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. - AFPWASHINGTON: Facebook's name change offers a convenient diversion as scandal plagues the platform, but the new handle is also key to the firm's costly effort to save itself from very real threats, experts said. Jokes and vitriol poured in after CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new corporate...

HUMERA: A damaged tank stands abandoned on a road near Humera, Ethiopia. - AFP n

Ethiopia's war hits one-year mark

HUMERA: A damaged tank stands abandoned on a road near Humera, Ethiopia. - AFPADDIS ABBAB: Nearly a year ago, as the world awaited the outcome of the US presidential elections, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed deployed troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Abiy promised that the operation, launched November 4, 2020, would be swift and targeted. Instead, it has devolved into a prolonged war marked by massacres, mass rapes and a looming threat of...

KABUL: A man rides a motorcycle with a boy and three girls along a street in Kabul city. - AFP n

How influencer and army veterans raised $7 million to rescue Afghans

KABUL: A man rides a motorcycle with a boy and three girls along a street in Kabul city. - AFPENGLEWOOD: When Instagram influencer Tommy Marcus read that Kabul had fallen to the Taleban he sprang into action, without knowing that like-minded US veterans were also desperate to do something. "I was more horrified and disgusted and just wanted to help," recalls the 26-year-old New Yorker, who is known to his 800,000 followers as "Quentin...

JIMMA: In this file photo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is offered a bouquet of flowers by a child as he disembarks the plane upon his arrival in Jimma during his visit to the city. - AFP n

Ethiopia PM: From peace laureate to wartime ruler

JIMMA: In this file photo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is offered a bouquet of flowers by a child as he disembarks the plane upon his arrival in Jimma during his visit to the city. - AFPADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power vowing sweeping reforms that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, before becoming mired in a brutal internal conflict that threatens to destabilize the entire Horn of Africa region. As the war in...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a private audience at The Vatican. - AFP n

Modi invites Pope to India

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a private audience at The Vatican. - AFPROME: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday asked Pope Francis to visit India, a significant opening towards the head of the Catholic Church who has long sought an official invitation to the Hindu-majority country. Modi, 71, invited Francis during a meeting at the Vatican on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome. "Had a very...

OMDOURMAN: Sudanese anti-coup protesters attend a gathering in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman yesterday, to express their support for the country's democratic transition which a military takeover and deadly crackdown derailed. - AFP n

Defiant Sudanese march against the bloody coup

OMDOURMAN: Sudanese anti-coup protesters attend a gathering in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman yesterday, to express their support for the country's democratic transition which a military takeover and deadly crackdown derailed. - AFPKHARTOUM: Thousands of Sudanese anti-coup protesters took to the streets yesterday to support the country's democratic transition which a military takeover and deadly crackdown derailed. The protests...

LOS ANGELES: The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared for administration at a vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California. The United States has authorized the Pfizer COVID vaccine for children aged five-to-11 after a committee of experts found its benefits outweighed risks. - AFP n

US authorizes Pfizer vaccine for children

LOS ANGELES: The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared for administration at a vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California. The United States has authorized the Pfizer COVID vaccine for children aged five-to-11 after a committee of experts found its benefits outweighed risks. - AFPWASHINGTON: The United States on Friday authorized the Pfizer COVID vaccine for children aged five-to-11, paving the way for 28 million young Americans to soon get...

ARIZONA: F-16's fly over Phoenix International Raceway during the national anthem before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in Avondale, Arizona. The US is discussing Turkey's request to buy F-16 fighters after a deal for more advanced F-35s was scrapped due to Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system. - AFP n

Turkey pressing US for F-16 after F-35 plan killed

ARIZONA: F-16's fly over Phoenix International Raceway during the national anthem before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in Avondale, Arizona. The US is discussing Turkey's request to buy F-16 fighters after a deal for more advanced F-35s was scrapped due to Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system. - AFPWASHINGTON: The United States is discussing Turkey's request to buy F-16 fighters after a deal for more advanced F-35s was scrapped due to...

DUBAI: Zain Kuwait's Chief Executive Officer Eaman Al-Roudhan (second left) and President of Huawei Digital Power Global Marketing & Sales Services Charles Yang, among others, during the Huawei Digital Power Summit in Dubai.n

Zain participates in Global Digital Power Summit 2021

DUBAI: Zain Kuwait's Chief Executive Officer Eaman Al-Roudhan (second left) and President of Huawei Digital Power Global Marketing & Sales Services Charles Yang, among others, during the Huawei Digital Power Summit in Dubai.KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, participated in the Global Digital Power Summit 2021, organized by Huawei on the sidelines of GITEX in Dubai, with the aim of enabling organizations to seize the...

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Alghanim Industries breaks ground on major steel expansion in India

Kirby factory in HyderabadKUWAIT: Alghanim Industries, one of the largest privately-owned companies in the region, recently broke ground with a new pre-engineered steel buildings (PEB) manufacturing facility located in Gujarat, India's fifth largest state. The facility will increase the manufacturing capacity of Kirby Building Systems in India from 200,000 metric tons (MT) to 300,000 MT per year. The new plant is expected to be fully operational...

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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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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

Protests sweep India over rape and murder of doctor

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

Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan

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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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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