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BILBAO: This file photo taken on February 10, 2020 shows an interior view of San Mames stadium in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao. - AFPnn
Dublin, Bilbao Euro 2020 games in doubt as UEFA extends fan deadline
BILBAO: This file photo taken on February 10, 2020 shows an interior view of San Mames stadium in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao. - AFPPARIS: Euro 2020 matches in Dublin and Bilbao are in doubt after Irish and Spanish football chiefs said Wednesday they were unable to give assurances over the presence of spectators, as UEFA extended to April 28 a deadline for host cities to submit fan number estimates. Dublin was one of 12 cities that had...
SEVILLE: Chelsea's English midfielder Mason Mount (left) vies with FC Porto's Nigerian defender Zaidu Sanusi during the UEFA Champions League first leg quarter final football match between FC Porto and Chelsea FC at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville on Wednesday. - AFPn
Chelsea punish Porto to put one foot in semis
SEVILLE: Chelsea's English midfielder Mason Mount (left) vies with FC Porto's Nigerian defender Zaidu Sanusi during the UEFA Champions League first leg quarter final football match between FC Porto and Chelsea FC at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville on Wednesday. - AFPSEVILLE: A classy goal from Mason Mount on Wednesday helped Chelsea to a 2-0 first-leg win over Porto, whose wasteful finishing could have scuppered their hopes of...
PARIS: In this file photo taken on October 4, 2020, groundstaff members remove covers across the Suzanne Lenglen court surface after the rain, on Day 8 of The Roland Garros 2020 French Open tennis tournament in Paris. - AFPn
French Open delayed one week in hope more spectators can attend
PARIS: In this file photo taken on October 4, 2020, groundstaff members remove covers across the Suzanne Lenglen court surface after the rain, on Day 8 of The Roland Garros 2020 French Open tennis tournament in Paris. - AFPPARIS: The French Open was yesterday delayed by a week to May 30-June 13 in the hope that heightened COVID-19 restrictions in France will have eased by then to allow the maximum number of fans to attend the event. The French...
Polish teen Krysia Paszko, creator of a website supporting domestic violence victims, poses at her family house in a suburb of Warsaw.-AFP photosn
Polish teen's fake beauty site helps lockdown abuse victims
Polish teen Krysia Paszko, creator of a website supporting domestic violence victims, poses at her family house in a suburb of Warsaw. - AFPWorried about reports of rising domestic violence during lockdown, Polish teen Krysia Paszko set up a website purporting to be a cosmetics shop that actually offers victims covert help. "I was inspired by this French idea, where by going to the pharmacy and asking for the number 19 mask, you could signal...
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Indigenous softball team bats away Mexico machismo
Players of "Las Diablillas de Hondzonot", pose for a picture after a softball match against "Guerreras de Piste", in Hondzonot, municipality of Tulum, Quintana Roo State, Mexico.-AFP photosBarefoot and resplendent in traditional embroidered garments, women from an indigenous Mayan community in rural Mexico are challenging gender stereotypes and the country's machismo culture on a dusty softball field. There are no locker rooms or manicured lawns...
This picture shows K-pop group Brave Girls performing during a rehearsal for a Youtube-livestreamed commercial event at a studio in Gwacheon, south of Seoul.-AFP photosn
Video saved the K-pop stars: Brave Girls reborn via YouTube
This picture shows K-pop group Brave Girls performing during a rehearsal for a Youtube-livestreamed commercial event at a studio in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. - AFP photosThe Brave Girls were losing courage just weeks ago, on the verge of breaking up and abandoning their dreams of K-pop stardom after years of going nowhere. Then a pseudonymous YouTuber called Viditor uploaded a compilation of them performing on South Korean army bases-and saved...
In this file photo taken on July 11, 1961 first cosmonaut in history Yuri Gagarin salutes the crowd upon his arrival in London during an official visit in England. -AFP photosn
In Russia, the legend of cosmonaut Gagarin lives on
In this file photo taken on July 11, 1961 first cosmonaut in history Yuri Gagarin salutes the crowd upon his arrival in London during an official visit in England. -AFP photosSixty years after he became the first person in space, there are few figures more universally admired in Russia today than Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. His smiling face adorns murals across the country. He stands, arms at his sides as if zooming into space, on a pedestal...
PIERRE-BENITE, France: A patient developing a severe form of COVID-19 is treated in the COVID-19 ICU at Lyon Sud Hospital near Lyon yesterday. - AFP n
1 in 3 COVID survivors suffer mental issues
PIERRE-BENITE, France: A patient developing a severe form of COVID-19 is treated in the COVID-19 ICU at Lyon Sud Hospital near Lyon yesterday. - AFPPARIS: One in three people who overcome COVID-19 suffer from a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months on, according to the largest study so far published on the mental toll that long-COVID takes on survivors. Authors said the research, printed yesterday in The Lancet Psychiatry journal,...
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Kuwait's Amir receives Libyan Prime Minister
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibeh. - Amiri Diwan photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah who was accompanied by visiting Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibeh. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Amiri Diwan...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives his Libyan counterpart Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibeh. - KUNAn
Kuwait Prime Minister receives Libyan counterpart
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives his Libyan counterpart Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibeh. - KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yesterday Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity of Libya, Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibeh.An official reception ceremony was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense...
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Dr Ahmed Bin Mubarak. - KUNAnn
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister meets Yemeni counterpart
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Dr Ahmed Bin Mubarak. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah met yesterday the visiting Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Dr Ahmed Bin Mubarak....
KUWAIT: Two kids ride their bicycles in a park before the curfew hours. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn
Police begin to seize bikes
KUWAIT: Two kids ride their bicycles in a park before the curfew hours. - Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhBy Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Authorities have started enforcing the ban on riding bicycles and scooters during the walking period after the night-time curfew begins. For the past two days, police patrols in Salwa and other areas have started seizing bicycles and scooters during the walking period (which was from 6 pm to 8 pm till yesterday, and 7 pm...
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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA
Kuwait army alert, govt prepared
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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.
A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates
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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP
Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh
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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos
Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened
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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP
One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse