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TOKYO: Performers and delegations take part in the opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn
Tokyo Paralympics open after year's virus delay
TOKYO: Performers and delegations take part in the opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Japan's emperor declared the Tokyo Paralympics open in a nearly empty stadium yesterday, with athletes ready to defy stereotypes and shatter records despite a year-long pandemic delay. Emperor Naruhito made the announcement surrounded by banks of vacant multicolored seats at Tokyo's...
LONDON: A fire display and 'Welcome Home' signs greet West Ham fans as they take their seats ahead of the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Leicester City at The London Stadium, in east London on Monday. - AFPn
European football giants to take two billion euro COVID hit: KPMG report
LONDON: A fire display and 'Welcome Home' signs greet West Ham fans as they take their seats ahead of the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Leicester City at The London Stadium, in east London on Monday. - AFPLONDON: Matchday revenues across the five major European football leagues took a nearly 2 billion euro hit last season ($2.35 billion) after spectators were largely barred from attending matches due to the...
BILBAO: The captain of Afghanistan's women's wheelchair basketball team Nilofar Bayat poses in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on Monday. - AFPn
Safe in Spain, Afghan women's basketball star hopes to play again
BILBAO: The captain of Afghanistan's women's wheelchair basketball team Nilofar Bayat poses in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on Monday. - AFPBILBAO: As captain of Afghanistan's wheelchair basketball team and a women's rights activist, Nilofar Bayat fled for her life when the Taleban took over, seeking safety in Spain where she hopes to soon be back on the court. Speaking to reporters in the northern city of Bilbao just days after arriving on...
NAIROBI: Kenyan Men's National Basketball team head coach Liz Mills (center) talks with the national team after the training session at the Nyayo national stadium gymnasium in Nairobi on August 20, 2021. - AFPn
Australian coach blazes trail for women in African basketball
NAIROBI: Kenyan Men's National Basketball team head coach Liz Mills (center) talks with the national team after the training session at the Nyayo national stadium gymnasium in Nairobi on August 20, 2021. - AFPNAIROBI: When she was growing up in Australia's biggest city of Sydney, Liz Mills dreamt of one day becoming a professional basketball coach. Little did she know that she would end up having fame thrust upon her thousands of kilometers away...
KUWAIT: Members of the Kuwait women's handball team, management and coaching staff. - KUNAn
Kuwait women's handball team heads for Bosnia training camp
KUWAIT: Members of the Kuwait women's handball team, management and coaching staff. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait women's handball team leaves today to Bosnia for a training camp in preparation for the 18th Asian Women's Handball Championship, due to be hosted by Jordan on September 15-25. The 'Blue' team will be within Group B along with Jordan, Afghanistan, India, Iran and Japan, as this championship is a qualification for World Cup scheduled to be...
KUWAIT: This July 27, 2021 file photo shows a nurse administrating a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to a man at a vaccination center in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh in Kuwait. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn
Kuwait approves 'Ronapreve' antibody drug for COVID-19
KUWAIT: This July 27, 2021 file photo shows a nurse administering a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to a man at a vaccination center in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh in Kuwait. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Kuwait's pharmaceutical regulator yesterday granted emergency use approval for an artificial antibody drug known as 'Ronapreve' to treat COVID-19, the health ministry said. The antibody drug, developed by the US biotech company Regeneron, has been...
KUWAIT: This handout photo released by Kuwait's Environment Public Authority yesterday shows bleaching on coral reefs near the Qaruh Island. - KUNAn
Coral reefs around Kuwait's Qaruh island bleached: EPA
KUWAIT: This handout photo released by Kuwait's Environment Public Authority yesterday shows bleaching on coral reefs near the Qaruh Island. - KUNAKUWAIT: Coral reefs skirting the Kuwaiti island of Qaruh have been bleached, largely due to the waters' upper layers overheating and altering environment related to climatic change, the Environment Public Authority said yesterday. "EPA's teams found out during surveys of locations around the island...
KUWAIT: Medical personnel admit the Lebanese patients at Al-Babtain Center for Burns shortly after their arrival from Lebanon. - KUNA photosn
Kuwait treats six Lebanese injured in Akkar explosion
KUWAIT: Medical personnel admit the Lebanese patients at Al-Babtain Center for Burns shortly after their arrival from Lebanon. - KUNA photosKUWAIT: Six Lebanese people who were injured in a recent fuel tank explosion in northern Lebanon are being treated at Al-Babtain Center for Burns and Plastic Surgery, the health ministry announced yesterday. In a statement to the press, ministry spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said the move came upon...
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets Ambassador of Senegal to Kuwait.n
Kuwait's Foreign Minister receives credentials of new ambassadors
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets Ambassador of Senegal to Kuwait.KUWAIT: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah received yesterday at the Foreign Ministry Headquarter copies of credentials of the new ambassadors of Senegal, Mauritania and Qatar. The Minister wished the new diplomats success in their missions, and further...
Kuwait's Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabahn
Defense Minister receives call from US counterpart
Kuwait's Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-SabahKUWAIT: Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah received a phone call from the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. During the call, both sides discussed issues of joint interest, a host of topics regarding the regional and international arenas, according to a statement released by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense yesterday.Minister Sheikh...
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Kuwait looks to regulate local used car trade market
KUWAIT: Kuwait's traffic authorities are studying the possibility of setting a limit for the maximum number of cars non-Kuwaiti residents in the country can own, in an effort to regulate the local used car market. According to a local report, authorities became alerted of a situation where people in Kuwait have up to 50 vehicles registered in their names at the same time, as they trade in used cars without a proper license, taking advantage of...
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Domestic help offices cautiously optimistic on costs' cut calls
KUWAIT: Several owners of domestic help offices in Kuwait expressed optimism regarding a senior diplomat's recent calls to reconsider the costs that employers in Kuwait pay in order to recruit domestic helpers from India. Nevertheless, the owners explained in statements to a local Arabic daily that a majority of the money paid goes on fees and charges inside and outside Kuwait.Indian Ambassador to Kuwait Sibi George was recently quoted by...
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