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TAIPEI: Eric Chu (center), Taiwan's newly-elected main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) chairman, poses with supporters following his election victory for the party's leadership at the KMT headquarters in Taipei yesterday. - AFP n

China warns of 'grim' situation with Taiwan

TAIPEI: Eric Chu (center), Taiwan's newly-elected main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) chairman, poses with supporters following his election victory for the party's leadership at the KMT headquarters in Taipei yesterday. - AFPTAIPEI: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that relations between Beijing and Taipei were "grim" yesterday, urging the island's main opposition party to help seek "unification of the country." China views self-ruled...

SOCHI: Winner Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium after the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom circuit in Sochi yesterday. - AFPn

Hamilton claims 100th win amid high drama in Russia

SOCHI: Winner Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium after the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom circuit in Sochi yesterday. - AFPSOCHI: Lewis Hamilton finally claimed his 100th Formula One success yesterday, the peerless Mercedes driver emerging triumphant amid high drama at the rain-hit Russian Grand Prix to retake the championship lead. With a late downpour causing havoc Hamilton reached the...

LONDON: Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk (left) fights British heavyweight champion boxer Anthony Joshua at the end of their heavyweight boxing match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London on Saturday. - AFPn

Joshua wants Usyk rematch '110 percent'

LONDON: Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk (left) fights British heavyweight champion boxer Anthony Joshua at the end of their heavyweight boxing match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London on Saturday. - AFPLONDON: Anthony Joshua said he was "110 percent" likely to activate a rematch clause with Oleksandr Usyk after losing his world heavyweight titles to the Ukrainian in stunning fashion in London on Saturday. Usyk gave a boxing masterclass...

PARIS: PSG's players celebrate after winning the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Montpellier at The Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on Saturday. - AFPn

PSG, Man City to benefit from expected end to financial fair play restrictions

PARIS: PSG's players celebrate after winning the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Montpellier at The Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on Saturday. - AFPLAUSANNE: Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City go head-to-head in the Champions League tomorrow after a summer which underlined their status as the new superpowers of European football, and any possible restraints on their enormous spending could soon disappear along...

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UK to offer 10,500 post-Brexit visas to counter worker crisis

LONDON: Britain will issue up to 10,500 temporary work visas to lorry drivers and poultry workers to ease chronic staff shortages, the government announced Saturday, in a U-turn on post-Brexit immigration policy. The short-term visas, to run from next month until late December, come as ministers grapple with a huge shortfall in drivers and some other key workers that has hit fuel supplies and additional industries.A tanker drivers shortage has...

CHICHESTER, US: People attend the Goodwood Revival meeting 2021, north of Chichester in southern England. As vintage cars of all shapes and sizes spanning the last century roared around England's Goodwood Motor Circuit last weekend, one thing stood out to seasoned observers: far fewer Europe-based drivers. - AFPnn

Brexit, COVID put brakes on cross-Channel classic car sport

CHICHESTER, US: People attend the Goodwood Revival meeting 2021, north of Chichester in southern England. As vintage cars of all shapes and sizes spanning the last century roared around England's Goodwood Motor Circuit last weekend, one thing stood out to seasoned observers: far fewer Europe-based drivers. - AFPCHICHESTER, UK: As vintage vehicles of all shapes and sizes from the last century roared around England's Goodwood Motor Circuit last...

KABUL, Afghanistan: Workers carry carpets on their shoulders at Chicken Street in Kabul yesterday.-AFPnn

Kabul's carpet, antique dealers struggle after foreigners flee

KABUL, Afghanistan: Workers carry carpets on their shoulders at Chicken Street in Kabul yesterday.-AFPKABUL: Traders of carpets, antiques and souvenirs on Kabul's famed Chicken Street said yesterday business has completely dried up since the vast majority of foreigners left the Afghan capital as the Taleban took over. The once-bustling hotspot, where aid workers and adventurous tourists would shop for vintage tribal rugs, pottery and metalware,...

Faisal Malikah carries a Reticulated Python at his house in the Saudi Red Sea resort of Jeddah.-AFP photosn

Saudi masters 'live art' of python crossbreeding in palace home

Faisal Malaikah carries a Reticulated Python at his house in the Saudi Red Sea resort of Jeddah.-AFP photosSaudi Faisal Malaikah's love for non-venomous snakes has evolved from having just one when he was five to ultimately crossbreeding dozens to produce "live art" in unique colors and patterns. In the garden of his palace in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the 35-year-old businessman has a sign on the wall in green block letters that reads: "THE...

US pop band Black Eyed Peas members perform during a 'Global Citizen Live' concert in Paris.n

Stars lend voices to world-spanning concert for climate, vaccines

US pop band Black Eyed Peas members perform during a 'Global Citizen Live' concert in Paris.A "once-in-a-generation" music event circled the world Saturday, with a slew of megastars taking the stage in New York and beyond for Global Citizen Live -- 24 hours of shows across the planet to raise awareness on climate change, vaccine equality and famine. Between star-studded sets of some of the biggest names in music-including Elton John, BTS,...

Argentina's Yanina Muzyka (left) and Emmanuel Casal celebrate after winning the Tango Stage final competition in the framework of the Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires.-AFP n

Argentinian couples win top tango competition after Maradona tributes

Argentina's Yanina Muzyka (left) and Emmanuel Casal celebrate after winning the Tango Stage final competition in the framework of the Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires.-AFP photosTwo Argentinian couples won the world's biggest tango competition, held in Buenos Aires, on Saturday at the end of a festival that paid tribute to late legendary soccer player and long-time tango fan Diego Maradona. Held through a combination of in-person...

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'Blue Moon', Chastain, among San Sebastian festival winners

Romanian film director Alina Grigore receives the "Concha de Oro" (Golden Shell) award to the best film for "Blue moon" (Crai nou) during the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival closing ceremony in the northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian.-AFP photos"Blue moon", Romanian director Alina Grigore's first film, won the top prize at the San Sebastian festival Saturday, while Denmark's Tea Lindeburg another first-timer, took best director for...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (left) is welcomed upon arrival in Kuwait yesterday. - KUNAn

Kuwait's statement at UNGA session covered main regional, int'l issues: Foreign Minister

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (left) is welcomed upon arrival in Kuwait yesterday. - KUNAKUWAIT: Representative of His Highness the Amir, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah arrived in Kuwait yesterday after leading the Kuwaiti delegation in the 76th session of UN General Assembly. His Highness Sheikh Sabah was received by Acting Prime Minister and Minister...

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