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Huawei FreeBuds 4, perfect companion this summer season
By Islam Al-SharaaKUWAIT: Huawei FreeBuds 4 has a smooth round-shaped charging case with better indicator colors and can be charged by a compatible wireless charger. It comes with a charging cable and instructions booklet. The enhanced features of this model makes it better than any other wireless earphones and to begin with you can adjust the volume by swiping up and down.  It’s easier to control-to pause or play-by only tapping twice and now...
An Iraqi herder cools off his buffaloes in the Diyala River in the Faziliah district, east of Baghdad yesterday. As Iraq bakes under a blistering summer heat wave, its hardscrabble farmers and herders are battling severe water shortages that are killing their animals, fields and way of life. - AFP n
No 'eureka moment' in climate science
An Iraqi herder cools off his buffaloes in the Diyala River in the Faziliah district, east of Baghdad yesterday. As Iraq bakes under a blistering summer heat wave, its hardscrabble farmers and herders are battling severe water shortages that are killing their animals, fields and way of life. - AFPPARIS: What if Earth's atmosphere was infused with extra carbon dioxide, mused amateur scientist Eunice Foote in an 1856 research paper that concluded...
LABIRI: Locals walk past burnt buildings at the seaside resort of Labiri (Lambiri) east of the city of Patras Sunday. — AFPn
Greece fights wildfires during 'worst heatwave' since 1987
LABIRI: Locals walk past burnt buildings at the seaside resort of Labiri (Lambiri) east of the city of Patras Sunday. — AFPLABIRI, Greece: Firefighters were battling two large wildfires in Greece yesterday as the prime minister said the country was suffering its worst heatwave in more than three decades. Fires have also raged across Turkey, Spain and Italy over the weekend with experts warning climate change was increasing both the frequency...
Rescuers of the fire and rescue department from China's eastern city of Yangzhou evacuating people from a hospital following heavy rains in Zhengzhou in China's Henan province. - AFPn
Death toll in central China floods rises to 302, dozens still missing
Rescuers of the fire and rescue department from China's eastern city of Yangzhou evacuating people from a hospital following heavy rains in Zhengzhou in China's Henan province. - AFPBEIJING: The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said yesterday, after record downpours dumped a year's worth of rain on a city in just three days. Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province...
LONDON: A mother embraces her son as he arrives from the United States at Heathrow's Terminal 5 yesterday as quarantine restrictions ease. - AFP n
Speechless and sleepless: Joy as families reunite
LONDON: A mother embraces her son as he arrives from the United States at Heathrow's Terminal 5 yesterday as quarantine restrictions ease. - AFPLONDON: After over a year of travel restrictions, the arrival of American Airlines flight LY8051 to London's Heathrow Airport yesterday from New York marked a step back to normality for families separated by the Atlantic and COVID. "It's amazing," Reece Wilson, 31, told AFP as he was reunited with his...
DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan shows a vaccination certificate after she received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from a health worker at the State House in Dar es Salaam.-AFPn
Tanzania opposition arrests dent hopes of political change
DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan shows a vaccination certificate after she received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from a health worker at the State House in Dar es Salaam.-AFPDAR ES SALAAM: When Samia Suluhu Hassan took up the reins of power in Tanzania four months ago, there was hope at home and abroad she would turn the page on the increasingly autocratic rule of her late predecessor. But with the arrest of a...
HERAT: A child lies on a bed awaiting treatment at a ward of the Central hospital in Herat Sunday after he was injured during the skirmishes between Afghan forces and Taleban. - AFPn
Afghan forces battle Taleban in fight for besieged cities
HERAT: A child lies on a bed awaiting treatment at a ward of the Central hospital in Herat Sunday after he was injured during the skirmishes between Afghan forces and Taleban. - AFPKABUL: Afghan forces battled yesterday to stop a first major city from falling to the Taleban following weekend offensives by the insurgents on urban centers in a sharp escalation. Taleban fighters assaulted at least three provincial capitals overnight-Lashkar Gah,...
TOKYO: Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who claimed her team tried to force her to leave Japan following a row during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, walks with her luggage inside the Polish embassy in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPn
Poland offers visa to Belarusian Olympic athlete
TOKYO: Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who claimed her team tried to force her to leave Japan following a row during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, walks with her luggage inside the Polish embassy in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: Poland yesterday granted a humanitarian visa to Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who claimed her team tried to forcibly send her back to her authoritarian homeland from the Olympic Games in Japan....
TOKYO: Netherlands' Sifan Hassan wins the women's 5000m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on yesterday. – AFPn
Hassan launches treble bid with gold, Puerto Rico win first
TOKYO: Netherlands' Sifan Hassan wins the women's 5000m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: Dutch runner Sifan Hassan stayed on course for a historic Olympic treble with a brilliant victory in the 5,000m yesterday as sprint hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn claimed a first track and field gold for Puerto Rico. Ethiopia-born Hassan put on a masterclass in distance running to claim...
TOKYO: Gold medalists (from left) Australia's Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell pose on the podium after the final of the women's 4x100m medley relay swimming event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on Sunday. – AFPn
McKeon humble despite historic swimming haul
TOKYO: Gold medalists (from left) Australia's Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell pose on the podium after the final of the women's 4x100m medley relay swimming event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on Sunday. – AFPTOKYO: A humble Emma McKeon yesterday downplayed her remarkable feats at the Tokyo Olympics despite winning an unsurpassed seven swimming medals to join the...
TOKYO: Second-placed USA's Raven Saunders gestures on the podium with her silver medal after completing the women's shot put event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday. - AFPn
US supports shot putter Saunders after first Olympic podium protest
TOKYO: Second-placed USA's Raven Saunders gestures on the podium with her silver medal after completing the women's shot put event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday. - AFPTOKYO: The US Olympic Committee yesterday backed shot putter Raven Saunders after she made the first protest on a medal podium at the Tokyo Games. The 25-year-old African-American athlete crossed her arms in an "X" gesture during...
TOKYO: Gold medalist USA's Jade Carey poses during the podium ceremony of the artistic gymnastics women's floor exercise during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn
Returning Biles helps Carey 'kill' the floor after Olympic flop
TOKYO: Gold medalist USA's Jade Carey poses during the podium ceremony of the artistic gymnastics women's floor exercise during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: American Jade Carey singled out Simone Biles' role in helping her to sweep her rivals off the floor for Olympic gold yesterday, 24 hours after trailing in a tearful last on the vault. As the second night of gymnastics apparatus...
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