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LONDON: In this file photo taken on March 11, 2021 Tottenham Hotspur's Portuguese head coach Jose Mourinho walks the touchline during the UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Dinamo Zagreb at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. - AFP n
Tottenham sack Mourinho after 17 months in charge
LONDON: In this file photo taken on March 11, 2021 Tottenham Hotspur's Portuguese head coach Jose Mourinho walks the touchline during the UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Dinamo Zagreb at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. - AFPLONDON: Jose Mourinho was sacked by Tottenham yesterday just six days before they play Manchester City in the League Cup final as the Portuguese boss paid the...
IMOLA, Italy: Winner Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium after the Emilia Romagna Formula One Grand Prix at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari race track on Sunday. - AFP n
Verstappen wins at Imola as Hamilton rues rare mistake
IMOLA, Italy: Winner Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium after the Emilia Romagna Formula One Grand Prix at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari race track on Sunday. - AFPIMOLA, Italy: Max Verstappen kept his cool to claim a chaotic rain-hit Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday as seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton recovered from a rare mistake to sneak in second. Red Bull driver Verstappen...
LIVERPOOL: An aerial photo shows Anfield stadium (right), home of English Premier League football club Liverpool, and Goodison Park, home of Premier League club Everton (left), in Liverpool, north west England yesterday. - AFPn
English football counts cost of foreign investment as 'big six' plan breakaway
LIVERPOOL: An aerial photo shows Anfield stadium (right), home of English Premier League football club Liverpool, and Goodison Park, home of Premier League club Everton (left), in Liverpool, north west England yesterday. - AFPLONDON: English football is reeling after plans by six of its biggest clubs to join forces with top Spanish and Italian sides to form the basis of a breakaway European Super League (ESL). The plans put forward by Manchester...
MIAMI: Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat shoots the ball against the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday at American Airlines Arena. - AFP n
Adebayo's step-back at buzzer propels Heat to win over Nets
MIAMI: Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat shoots the ball against the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday at American Airlines Arena. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Bam Adebayo hit a thrilling game winner at the buzzer on Sunday to lift the Miami Heat to a 109-107 victory over the Brooklyn Nets, who lost superstar Kevin Durant to another injury. American Adebayo nailed a step-back 14-footer from the baseline as the Heat snapped a three-game losing skid.Both teams were...
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Elite football? Elite money? Or both?
By Ahmad Jabr of top football teams in Europe forming their own breakaway league has rocked the sports world. The widespread condemnation of the move has led many to question the motives behind it, since most of these teams already participate in the world's richest football club competition - the Champions League, in addition to domestic tournaments that are followed with much fanfare around the world. It does not need an expert to...
(Left) A woman hugs a family member before his departure for New Zealand at Sydney International Airport yesterday as Australia and New Zealand opened a trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel bubble. (Right) Families are reunited as travelers arrive on the first flight from Sydney in Wellington yesterday. - AFP n
Australia-New Zealand travel bubble opens
A woman hugs a family member before his departure for New Zealand at Sydney International Airport yesterday as Australia and New Zealand opened a trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel bubble. - AFP photosQUEENSTOWN, New Zealand: Families reunited in emotional scenes yesterday as Australia and New Zealand launched a quarantine-free travel bubble that opened the border almost 400 days after its pandemic-enforced closure. There were group hugs and...
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US bank JPMorgan financing football Super League
LONDON: US investment bank JPMorgan yesterday confirmed it is financing the breakaway Super League featuring 12 of Europe's top football clubs, which threatens to shake-up the world's biggest sport. "I can confirm that we are financing the deal, but have no further comment at the moment," a bank spokesman said in a statement to AFP. Each of the clubs from England, Italy and Spain will receive a one-off payment of €3.5 billion ($4.2 billion).Six...
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ABN Amro to settle €480m criminal probe
THE HAGUE: The Netherlands' third-largest bank ABN Amro is to pay a €480-million ($575 million) settlement to prosecutors after a probe found the bank failed to comply with anti-money laundering laws. The bank's announcement follows a 2019 investigation by prosecutors who said the Amsterdam-based bank failed to sufficiently monitor bank accounts and did not report "unusual transactions" or reported them too late."Between 2014 to 2020, ABN...
A shoe seller at Souk al-Marj arranges his products on April 13, 2021. - Xinhua photosn
Lebanon's popular markets thrive amid economic crisis
A shoe seller at Souk al-Marj arranges his products on April 13, 2021. - Xinhua photosBEIRUT: During the first days of Ramadan, Lebanese citizens and Syrian refugees flocked to east Bekaa's Souk al-Marj market to shop, a tradition followed by local Muslims to mark the holy month. Dozens of booths scattered on both sides were filled with goods and foodstuffs, most of which were imported from Syria at affordable prices amid the current economic...
People gather by an overturned train carriage at the scene of a railway accident in the city of Toukh in Egypt's central Nile Delta province of Qalyubiya Sunday.-AFPn
11 dead, 100 hurt in Egypt train accident
People gather by an overturned train carriage at the scene of a railway accident in the city of Toukh in Egypt's central Nile Delta province of Qalyubiya Sunday. - AFPCAIRO: A train accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 11 people dead and 98 others injured, Egypt's health ministry said, in the latest rail calamity to hit the North African country. The ministry, in an updated toll, said that "11 people were killed and 98 others injured in a...
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Kidnapped French girl, 8, rescued in Switzerland
A general view of a closed down factory housing a "self-managed community" in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, where Mia Montemaggi, an 8-year-old girl kidnapped on April 13 in the French Vosges was found with her mother.NANCY: An eight-year-old girl was rescued in Switzerland on Sunday, five days after being kidnapped from her grandmother's French home in a "military" style operation with the alleged involvement of her mother. After a massive search,...
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Johnson visit to India cancelled due to COVID-19
Boris JohnsonLONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cancelled his delayed trip to India next week, his first major foreign visit since taking power in 2019, his office said yesterday, as coronavirus cases surge in India. "In the light of the current coronavirus situation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be able to travel to India next week," it said. The statement added that the two countries' leaders would instead speak later...
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GAZA: Palestinians surround bodies lying on the ground at the Al-Maamadani hospital after they were killed in a Zionist strike on a school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Aug 8, 2024. - AFP
Iran says Zionists seeking war
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Digital nomads: New-age employees freely roaming around ever-changing job market
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Minister of Information and Bahrain's Minister of Tourism sign an executive program of tourism cooperation agreement for 2024, 2025, and 2026. – KUNA photos
Kuwait and Bahrain ink executive program for tourism cooperation
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DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (center) takes the oath of office as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's new interim government, administered by President Mohammed Shahabuddin (left) on August 8, 2024. - AFP
Yunus sworn in as Bangladesh leader
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Kuwaiti Ambassador to China Jasem Ibrahem Al-Najem with Standing Committee of National Committee of Political Consultative Conference member Cai Guanxin.
China highlights growing investment opportunities in Kuwait