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PHOENIX: Anthony Davis #3 of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts to a play during the game against the Phoenix Suns during Round 1, Game 2 of the 2021 NBA Playoffs on Tuesday at Phoenix Suns Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. – AFPn

Davis scores 34 as Lakers beat Suns to level series, Nets thump Celtics

PHOENIX: Anthony Davis #3 of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts to a play during the game against the Phoenix Suns during Round 1, Game 2 of the 2021 NBA Playoffs on Tuesday at Phoenix Suns Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. – AFPLOS ANGELES: Anthony Davis and LeBron James delivered down the stretch on Tuesday as the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers bounced back to beat the Phoenix Suns 109-102 and knot their playoff series at one game apiece. Davis had...

TOKYO: Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee (left), President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic games Seiko Hashimoto (center) and Canon CEO and honorary chairman Fujio Mitarai (right) attend a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPnn

Japan newspaper sponsoring Olympics joins cancellation chorus

TOKYO: Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee (left), President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic games Seiko Hashimoto (center) and Canon CEO and honorary chairman Fujio Mitarai (right) attend a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting in Tokyo yesterday. – AFPTOKYO: Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, an official Tokyo Olympics sponsor, called for the Games to be cancelled...

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Moroccan painters reflect Islamic heritage in (Painting of Hope) Expo

The Plastic Arts Exhibition (Painting of Hope) currently held in the Islamic World Organization for Education, Science and Culture (ISESCO) reflects the Moroccan painters' inspiration with more than 100 paintings as part of ISESCO's celebration of the Heritage Month in the Islamic World under the slogan (United for Art). The Expo's income will be allocated in favor of Ibn Sina Hospital in Rabat to treat children with cancer in a beautiful...

This photo shows Vicky Lau, the only female chef in Asia with a double Michelin star, posing with her award during a portrait session at her restaurant Tate Dining Room in Hong Kong. – AFP photosn

How Hong Kong chef Vicky Lau embraced her 'role model' label

This photo shows Vicky Lau, the only female chef in Asia with a double Michelin star, posing with her award during a portrait session at her restaurant Tate Dining Room in Hong Kong. – AFP photosDespite the institutional status bestowed by her double Michelin star, Vicky Lau says the battle to improve gender parity in the male-dominated world of professional kitchens is a long way from won-but small victories bring her hope. In the fiendishly...

A man pulls camels at the beach in the Tunisian Mediterranean resort of Sousse.—AFP photosn

Tunisia pins tourism hopes on 'unafraid' Russians

A man pulls camels at the beach in the Tunisian Mediterranean resort of Sousse. — AFP photosWith its economy hit hard by the pandemic, Tunisia is counting on Russians and eastern Europeans to salvage its tourist sector whose employees fear hunger more than COVID-19. "The need to work is stronger than the fear of being contaminated," said lifeguard Aymen Abdallah, glancing at a half-empty beach in the Mediterranean resort of Sousse where...

In this file photo Orsay's national museum director Laurence des Cars poses in the museum in Paris. — AFP n

Laurence des Cars to head Louvre, first woman boss in its history

In this file photo Orsay's national museum director Laurence des Cars poses in the museum in Paris. — AFPFrance yesterday appointed Laurence des Cars, known for promoting social issues through art, as the new head of the Louvre-the first time a woman will be in charge of the world's biggest museum more than two centuries after it first opened. Des Cars currently runs the Musee d'Orsay, the Paris landmark museum dedicated to 19th-century art,...

Members of Vienna’s Philharmonic Orchestra perform during their rehearsal at Musikverein music hall in Vienna, prior to their appearance in front of an audience since November 2020, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic.—AFP photosn

Vienna's musicians find their voice after months of silence

Members of Vienna’s Philharmonic Orchestra perform during their rehearsal at Musikverein music hall in Vienna, prior to their appearance in front of an audience since November 2020, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. — AFPClassical musicians in Vienna are preparing to return to live performances after long months without audiences which have severely tested their motivation and, for some, even thrown their careers into question....

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Chimps learn 'handshakes' according to social group

Chimpanzees develop specific handshake-like gestures depending on their social group, according to the results of a 12-year observational study published yesterday that sheds light on the animals' complex social structures. Chimps are often referred to as being the most "humanlike" non-human species, given their propensity to perform complicated tasks, such as tool use, which were long thought to be the sole preserve of mankind. Edwin van...

KUWAIT: Taxis stop at a traffic light in Salmiya in this file photo. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn

Kuwait taxi drivers still can barely make ends meet

KUWAIT: Taxis stop at a traffic light in Salmiya in this file photo. - Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhBy Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Several taxi drivers in Kuwait are yet to recover from a hiatus of almost five months without work last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The government banned taxis from operating from March to July 2020 to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the country during the early months of pandemic.According to some taxi drivers, they can...

NEW DELHI: Oxygen containers donated by Kuwait seen after their arrival to India. - KUNAn

More aid ships from Kuwait arrive in India: Envoy

NEW DELHI: Oxygen containers donated by Kuwait seen after their arrival to India. - KUNANEW DELHI: Kuwait's Ambassador to India Jassem Al-Najem said yesterday another shipload of relief supplies has arrived in Indian port as part of the sea bridge and that more ships are arriving in Indian ports loaded with medical oxygen to fight the spread of the coronavirus.Ambassador Najem said on arrival of the Indian navy ship carrying 210 tons of oxygen...

Ministry of Health Spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad

Kuwait's COVID recovery rate up to 95.3 percent

Ministry of Health Spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-SanadKUWAIT: Kuwait's recovery rate of COVID-19 was recorded at up to 95.3 percent along with drop of daily casualties, a senior government official said on Monday. Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Humoud Al-Sabah made that statement while briefing ministers during the Cabinet's weekly meeting on the latest developments related to the coronavirus at the local, regional and global levels.In this...

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Kuwait's Cabinet applauds Gaza truce accord

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Government on Monday acclaimed the Gaza cease-fire agreement that had been worked out between the Zionist entity and Palestinians. In a statement declared after the weekly session, the Cabinet lauded the good-will efforts that had been exerted by Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi resulting in the truce accord. The Cabinet affirmed the State of Kuwait's unwavering stance on the side of the brotherly Palestinian people so...

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