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RENNES: In this file photo taken on August 18, 2019, Paris Saint-Germain's Qatari president Nasser Al-Khelaifi arrives prior to the French L1 football match between Rennes and Paris Saint-Germain at the Roazhon Park stadium in Rennes, northwestern France. - AFPn

Gulf derby: Prestige, pride riding on PSG v Man City clash

RENNES: In this file photo taken on August 18, 2019, Paris Saint-Germain's Qatari president Nasser Al-Khelaifi arrives prior to the French L1 football match between Rennes and Paris Saint-Germain at the Roazhon Park stadium in Rennes, northwestern France. - AFPDOHA: The Champions League semi-final between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City tomorrow is as much a clash of footballing titans as a proxy battle between competing Gulf nations and...

VENICE: A couple has coffee in a bar next to the Rialto bridge in downtown Venice yesterday. - AFP n

Italy reopens in boost to businesses

VENICE: A couple has coffee in a bar next to the Rialto bridge in downtown Venice yesterday. - AFPROME: Bars, restaurants, cinemas and concert halls were reopening across Italy yesterday in a boost for coronavirus-hit businesses, while parliament was to debate the government's €220-billion ($266-billion) EU-funded recovery plan. After months of stop-start restrictions imposed to manage second and third waves of COVID-19, Italy hopes this...

HARARE: Spiwe Tembo, an informal trader who makes her living selling buns, is handcuffed to another vendor after their arrest by police at a busy shopping complex alongside a commuter bus rank on April 15 2021. – AFP n

Zimbabwe street vendors reel under virus curbs

HARARE: Spiwe Tembo, an informal trader who makes her living selling buns, is handcuffed to another vendor after their arrest by police at a busy shopping complex alongside a commuter bus rank on April 15 2021. – AFPHARARE: For years, Zimbabwean single mother Spiwe Tembo would sell buns on the streets of central Harare, earning enough to feed her three children. But her fortunes have dived. Since authorities banned street hawkers a year ago...

SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France: In this file photo taken on June 5, 2019, US WWII veteran KT Robbins, 97, from Olive Branch, Mississippi, poses with a tourist on Omaha Beach as part of D-Day commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy. – AFP n

EU chief says vaccinated US tourists to be able to visit

SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France: In this file photo taken on June 5, 2019, US WWII veteran KT Robbins, 97, from Olive Branch, Mississippi, poses with a tourist on Omaha Beach as part of D-Day commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy. – AFPWASHINGTON: US tourists vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to visit the European Union in the coming months, European Commission chief Ursula von der...

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'Nomadland' wins big at pandemic Oscars as Zhao makes history

(From left) Producers Peter Spears, Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Mollye Asher and Dan Janvey, winners of the award for best picture for "Nomadland," pose in the press room at the Oscars at Union Station in Los Angeles. - AFP photosUS road movie "Nomadland" emerged as the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday with three major prizes, including a history-making award for director Chloe Zhao, as Hollywood celebrated its most glamorous night with a...

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China censors Oscars success of Chloe Zhao

LOS ANGELES: Chinese Director/Producer Chloe Zhao, winner of the award for Picture and Director for "Nomadland," poses in the press room at the Oscars yesterday at Union Station in Los Angeles. - AFPBEIJING: Beijing-born Chloe Zhao was scrubbed from Chinese social media yesterday as a nationalist backlash airbrushed out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first woman of color to win the best director Oscar. Zhao on Sunday night became the...

NAJAF: Iraqis transport coffins of relatives killed during a fire in a hospital in the capital, ahead of a funeral procession in the holy shrine city of Najaf yesterday.-AFPn

82 killed as fire engulfs COVID hospital in Iraq

NAJAF: Iraqis transport coffins of relatives killed during a fire in a hospital in the capital, ahead of a funeral procession in the holy shrine city of Najaf yesterday. - AFPBAGHDAD: More than 80 people died yesterday in a fire that ripped through an Iraqi COVID-19 hospital, sparking anger and prompting the suspension of top officials in a country with a long-dilapidated health infrastructure. Many of the victims were on respirators and were...

DENPASAR, Bali: Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto (front right) watches as his officer shows a diagram of the missing submarine during a press conference in Denpasar, Bali yesterday announcing the submarine that disappeared off the coast of Bali has been found cracked into pieces on the seafloor with all 53 crew killed in the disaster. - AFPnn

Indonesia finds submarine; 53 crew dead

DENPASAR, Bali: Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto (front right) watches as his officer shows a diagram of the missing submarine during a press conference in Denpasar, Bali yesterday. - AFPBALI: A missing Indonesian submarine has been found cracked apart on the seabed in waters off Bali, the military said yesterday, as it confirmed that all 53 crew perished in the disaster. Authorities said that they received signals from the location more than 800...

Smoke billowing from a tanker off the coast of the western Syrian city of Baniyas. An Iranian tanker was attacked off the Syrian coast, sparking a fire, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.-AFPn

Three killed as Iran fuel tanker attacked off Syria

Smoke billowing from a tanker off the coast of the western Syrian city of Baniyas. An Iranian tanker was attacked off the Syrian coast, sparking a fire, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. - AFPBEIRUT: At least three people died when an Iranian tanker was attacked off Syria's coast Saturday, in the first assault of its kind since the war started a decade ago, a war monitor said. "At least three Syrians were killed,...

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Opposition MPs vow no sessions without grilling

The National AssemblyBy B IzzakKUWAIT: Thirty opposition lawmakers yesterday decided to prevent Assembly sessions from taking place unless they are allowed to grill HH the Prime Minister. The decision came during a meeting of the 30 MPs on Saturday night to discuss the political developments in the country. All the lawmakers then wrote on their Twitter accounts the same message that unless the Prime Minister takes the podium to be questioned,...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. - Amiri Diwan photosn

Kuwait's Amir sends condolences to Iraqi President over hospital tragedy

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. - Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday sent a cable to Iraqi President Barham Saleh, voicing heartfelt and sincere condolences over the victims of the fire that erupted in Ibn Al-Khateeb Hospital in the Capital Baghdad and left a number of...

KUWAIT: People arrive to receive a dose of COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at the make-shift vaccination center at the Kuwait International Fairground in Mishref yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyatn

One million vaccine doses given in Kuwait

KUWAIT: People arrive to receive a dose of COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at the make-shift vaccination center at the Kuwait International Fairground in Mishref yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: More than one million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given to people in Kuwait. The Ministry of Health have not confirmed the number of vaccinated people, Al-Jarida reported yesterday. Separately, Al-Qabas Arabic daily reported that...

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