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TOKYO: Gold medal winner China's Yang Qian celebrates on the podium after winning the women's 10m air rifle final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Asaka Shooting Range in the Nerima district of Tokyo yesterday. – AFPn
China claim early Olympic golds, Carapaz wins cycling crown
TOKYO: Gold medal winner China's Yang Qian celebrates on the podium after winning the women's 10m air rifle final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Asaka Shooting Range in the Nerima district of Tokyo yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: China claimed three gold medals on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics yesterday and cyclist Richard Carapaz became just the second competitor in Ecuador's history to top the podium, with victory in the road race....
TOKYO: Syria's Hend Zaza hits a shot against Austria's Liu Jia during their women's singles preliminary round table tennis match at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn
Syrian table tennis player, 12, content despite Olympic defeat
TOKYO: Syria's Hend Zaza hits a shot against Austria's Liu Jia during their women's singles preliminary round table tennis match at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Syria's Hend Zaza -- the youngest athlete at the Tokyo Olympics at just 12 -- said just reaching the Games was "an achievement" despite bowing out in the preliminary round yesterday. Zaza, who shot to fame overnight...
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Kuwaiti rower moves to E/F semifinals
TOKYO: Kuwaiti rower Abdulrahman Al-Fadhel finished fourth in the repechage of the Men's Single Sculls yesterday with a time of 9:04.73, moving into today's E/F semifinals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Zimbabwe's Peter Purcell-Gilpin won the Repechage 3 at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo.Tokyo Olympic organizers had brought forward rowing events as a "protective measure" yesterday as a tropical storm headed towards the Japanese capital....
TOKYO: Japan's Kohei Uchimura reacts after competing in the horizontal bars event of the artistic gymnastics men's qualification during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPnn
Japan's Uchimura out of Olympics after horizontal bar flop
TOKYO: Japan's Kohei Uchimura reacts after competing in the horizontal bars event of the artistic gymnastics men's qualification during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: Japanese gymnastics star Kohei Uchimura crashed out of the Tokyo Games on day one yesterday when he was eliminated from the horizontal bar competition to dash his dream of ending his decorated career with a fourth...
TOKYO: Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns a shot to Bolivia's Hugo Dellien during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men's singles first round tennis match at the Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPnn
Djokovic, Medvedev urge schedule rethink to avoid Tokyo heat
TOKYO: Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns a shot to Bolivia's Hugo Dellien during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men's singles first round tennis match at the Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev called on organizers to delay the start times of Olympic tennis matches as players labored in the sweltering Tokyo summer heat on the opening day of the tournament. World number one Djokovic encountered...
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Man Utd's Solskjaer 'delighted' to sign new three-year deal
Ole Gunnar SolskjaerLONDON: Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has signed a new-three year deal, the Premier League club announced yesterday. The Norwegian, who took over from Jose Mourinho in 2018, will stay at Old Trafford until at least 2024, with the option of an extra year. "Everyone knows the feeling I have for this club, and I am delighted to have signed this new contract," Solskjaer told the club website. "It is an exciting...
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Two Thousand Dinars: A Lamentable Legacy
By Nejoud Al-Yagout we heard that residents above the age of 60 would not be allowed to renew their residencies if they did not hold a college degree. Then, after outrage on social media (by locals, to be sure, since any outrage by a resident would lead to arrest or deportation), there was talk that the rule may not be implemented; instead, we heard that those who came up with the decree would, at least, reconsider the age bracket,...
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister Mohammad Al-Faris takes part in the OPEC+ meeting yesterday. - KUNA nn
OPEC+ agrees on modest output boost from August
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister Mohammad Al-Faris takes part in the OPEC+ meeting yesterday. - KUNAVIENNA: The world's leading oil producers agreed yesterday to continue to modestly boost output from August, after the United Arab Emirates blocked a deal earlier this month. An OPEC+ meeting agreed to raise output by 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) each month from August to help fuel a global economic recovery as the pandemic eases, the Vienna-based...
MINA: Pilgrims rest at their camp in Mina near the holy city of Makkah yesterday. - AFP n
Saudi stages second hajj of COVID era
MINA: Pilgrims rest at their camp in Mina near the holy city of Makkah yesterday. - AFPMAKKAH: Hajj pilgrims streamed out of the holy city of Makkah and into the Mina valley yesterday, launching the rituals of the great pilgrimage which Saudi Arabia is holding in a scaled-down form for a second year. Only 60,000 fully vaccinated citizens and residents of the kingdom are allowed to take part, far from the vast crowds that descend on Makkah in...
JERUSALEM: Members of the Zionist security forces stand guard as a group of Orthodox Jews enters the Al-Aqsa mosque compound yesterday. - AFP n
Tensions over Aqsa incursions by Zionists
JERUSALEM: Members of the Zionist security forces stand guard as a group of Orthodox Jews enters the Al-Aqsa mosque compound yesterday. - AFPJERUSALEM: Zionist police clashed with Muslim protestors yesterday at a flashpoint Jerusalem Old City shrine as Jews were headed there to mark a religious holiday, police said. The tensions and the Jewish pilgrimage to the highly sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound were condemned by the Palestinians.The...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is greeted upon his arrival back home. - Amiri Diwan photon
Crown Prince congratulates Amir on return to Kuwait
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is greeted upon his arrival back home. - Amiri Diwan photoKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday received a letter from His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, on the occasion of his return to Kuwait. In the letter, His Highness the Crown Prince congratulated His Highness the Amir on his safe return after...
KUWAIT: People queue up for COVID-19 vaccine doses at a vaccination center in Kuwait yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyatnn
No COVID-19 vaccine without appointment, health ministry says
KUWAIT: People queue up for COVID-19 vaccine doses at a vaccination center in Kuwait yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The Ministry of Health urged people in Kuwait yesterday to make sure that they arrive to take their COVID-19 vaccine only after they receive a text message detailing the time and place of their vaccination. The ministry statement came in response to rumors which circulated on social media yesterday and claimed that...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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BELFAST: Protestors attend a "unity over division" protest called to oppose an anti immigration demonstration in Northern Ireland on Aug 9, 2024. - AFP
N Ireland violence shocks Muslims amid sectarianism
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DHAKA: A Hindu shopkeeper (left) helps a woman put on a traditional conch shell bangle at a shop selling traditional prayer items in Shakhari Bazar, a Hindu majority area, in Dhaka on August 9, 2024. — AFP
Misinformation from India, vandalism frighten Hindus in Bangladesh
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
US orders nuclear submarine to Mideast
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah