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PORTO: Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (left) reacts to his team's defeat at the end of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between Porto and Juventus at the Dragao stadium in Porto on Wednesday. - AFPn
Lackluster Juventus handed Porto victory 'on silver platter,' says Pirlo
PORTO: Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (left) reacts to his team's defeat at the end of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between Porto and Juventus at the Dragao stadium in Porto on Wednesday. - AFPPORTO: Cristiano Ronaldo's first game for Juventus in his native Portugal ended in 2-1 defeat as FC Porto out-played the Italians for much of Wednesday's Champions League last-16, first leg tie. Such was...
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Kuwait imports $1b gasoline
KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) resorted to purchasing gasoline for KD 135 million ($450 million) from the direct market during the 2019-2020 fiscal year to meet the increased local demand. Delays in some capital projects, including the construction of gasoline production units in oil refineries, have forced KPC to import the fuel from abroad, Al-Anba Arabic daily reported.Official oil sources said Kuwait National Petroleum Company...
SEVILLE: Dortmund's Norwegian forward Erling Braut Haaland (R) challenges Sevilla's French defender Jules Kounde during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between Sevilla FC and Borussia Dortmund at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville on Wednesday. - AFPn
'One of the best' - Haaland stars as Dortmund beat Sevilla
SEVILLE: Dortmund's Norwegian forward Erling Braut Haaland (R) challenges Sevilla's French defender Jules Kounde during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match between Sevilla FC and Borussia Dortmund at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville on Wednesday. - AFPSEVILLE: Erling Braut Haaland produced another deadly display of finishing with a first-half brace as Borussia Dortmund came from behind to beat Sevilla 3-2...
MELBOURNE: This hand out photo released by the Tennis Australia yesterday shows Serena Williams of the US gets emotional at a press conference after losing her women's semi-final match against Japan's Naomi Osaka on day eleven of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. - AFPn
Williams exits in tears as Osaka, Djokovic reach finals
MELBOURNE: This hand out photo released by the Tennis Australia yesterday shows Serena Williams of the US gets emotional at a press conference after losing her women's semi-final match against Japan's Naomi Osaka on day eleven of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. - AFPMELBOURNE: Japan's Naomi Osaka brutally halted Serena Williams's latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title yesterday, as Novak Djokovic wrote the...
TOKYO: Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee, speaks during a press conference after the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board meeting in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn
New Tokyo 2020 chief vows to 'regain trust' after sexism row
TOKYO: Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee, speaks during a press conference after the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board meeting in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPTOKYO: Tokyo 2020's new president Seiko Hashimoto yesterday vowed to "regain trust" in the Olympic organizing committee after an embarrassing sexism row, with just over five months until the virus-postponed Games. Hashimoto, a seven-time Olympian, had been one of...
TEHRAN: A man walks past a window shop displaying PlayStation 4 (PS4) game consoles for sale at a shop in the central market of Iran's capital Tehran. Prices of popular gadgets such as PlayStations and iPhones could rise because of microchip shortages, experts warned yesterday.-AFPn
Phones, consoles get pricier as chip crisis bites
TEHRAN: A man walks past a window shop displaying PlayStation 4 (PS4) game consoles for sale at a shop in the central market of Iran's capital Tehran. Prices of popular gadgets such as PlayStations and iPhones could rise because of microchip shortages, experts warned yesterday.-AFPKUALA LUMPUR: Prices of popular gadgets such as PlayStations and iPhones could rise because of microchip shortages caused by a "perfect storm" of coronavirus-driven...
PARIS: This file photo shows Air France planes at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, outside Paris. - AFPn
Coronavirus crisis upends hopes for aviation careers
PARIS: This file photo shows Air France planes at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, outside Paris. - AFPPARIS: One year ago 26-year-old Perrine was on the cusp of realizing her childhood dream of becoming a flight attendant. Then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived and Perrine is now on track for a job in insurance instead. At the CFA center near Paris's Bourget airport where Perrine has been training in mock aircraft cabins, the...
The return of Britain's former star investor Neil Woodford has caused concern in London's City finance district, where his spectacular fall from grace is still fresh in the memory.n
Return of Britain's fallen star fund manager sparks concern
The return of Britain's former star investor Neil Woodford has caused concern in London's City finance district, where his spectacular fall from grace is still fresh in the memory.LONDON: The return of Britain's former star investor Neil Woodford has caused concern in London's City finance district, where his spectacular fall from grace is still fresh in the memory. Woodford Investment Management, which once boasted billions of pounds in assets...
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Barclays bank profit tumbles on pandemic fallout
LONDON: British bank Barclays yesterday announced a 38-percent slump in net profit for 2020 and said expenses related to the coronavirus pandemic were set to stay high this year. Profit after tax fell to £1.53 billion ($2.12 billion, 1.76 billion euros), Barclays said in a statement. Group credit impairment charges shot up to £4.8 billion from £1.9 billion owing "to the deterioration in the economic outlook driven by the COVID-19 pandemic",...
In this file photo Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (right) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after attending a Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in central London.—AFP n
Celebrities turn to podcasts to hang on to fans during pandemic
In this file photo Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (right) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after attending a Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in central London.—AFPCooped up like many of us, movie stars, politicians and reality show types eager to hold onto their fans are turning to podcasts to get through the pandemic, converting their homes-even a bathroom in one case-into makeshift recording studios. There is...
Eduardo Hernandez, owner of a private restaurant and a tobacco cultivator, works in his land in Vinales, Cuba.-AFPn
Back to the soil as Covid robs Cuban town of its bread and butter
Eduardo Hernandez, owner of a private restaurant and a tobacco cultivator, works in his land in Vinales, Cuba.-AFPA year ago, Carlos Millo was renting out rooms to foreigners in the picturesque town of Vinales, a popular tourist getaway in rural Cuba. Now, Millo and other townsfolk have had to return to an age-old means of survival, growing their own food as the coronavirus pandemic has robbed them of holidaymakers. "We have had to return to the...
A hairdresser cuts hair on the frozen lake Babelitis while a winter swimmer enjoy swimming in an ice hole, in Riga, Latvia.-AFPn
Haircuts on ice in Latvia to protest COVID ban
A hairdresser cuts hair on the frozen lake Babelitis while a winter swimmer enjoy swimming in an ice hole, in Riga, Latvia.-AFPHairdressers in Latvia are taking the unusual step of offering their services in snowy forests or on frozen lakes as they protest against COVID restrictions. "We cannot work otherwise," hairdresser Diana Silina told AFP as she prepared her equipment on the icy surface of a lake outside the capital Riga. Hairdressing and...
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MUMBAI: A vendor counts a wad of Indian rupees. - AFP
Indian rupee hits record low amid geopolitical jitters
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Flag of Kuwait, visa application form and passport on table
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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait population hits 4.919 million
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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP
People power rocks Bangladesh
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Al-Sawaber Complex
Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved