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SALT LAKE CITY: Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Utah Jazz passes the ball during the game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday at vivint.SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. - AFPn

Mitchell shines as red-hot Jazz down Pelicans

SALT LAKE CITY: Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Utah Jazz passes the ball during the game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday at vivint.SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Donovan Mitchell scored 28 points to lead the Utah Jazz to a sixth straight NBA victory on Tuesday, a 118-102 triumph over Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans. Mitchell piled up 15 points in the first quarter on an efficient six-of-seven...

DHAKA: West Indies' Joshua Da Silva (R) tries to catch a ball during the first one-day international (ODI) cricket match between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. - AFPn

England look to sweep Sri Lanka as India await

DHAKA: West Indies' Joshua Da Silva (R) tries to catch a ball during the first one-day international (ODI) cricket match between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. - AFPCOLOMBO: Joe Root's England will look to sweep Sri Lanka in the second and final Test, starting Friday, as they prepare to face an India side buoyed by their sensational victory in Australia. England, who resumed a tour...

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Pro gamer retires at 25 after thumb injury

MINNEAPOLIS: In this file photo Thomas "ZooMaa" Paparatto of the New York Subliners competes against the London Royal Ravens during day two of the Call of Duty League launch weekend at The Armory on January 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - AFPNEW YORK: Professional gamer Thomas Paparatto has thanked fans for "an amazing run" after a thumb injury forced him to throw in the towel at the age of 25. Paparatto-who goes by the online moniker...

BRISBANE: India's pacemen Mohammed Siraj (left) and Shardul Thakur celebrate the victory in the fourth cricket Test match against Australia at The Gabba in Brisbane on January 19, 2021. - AFPn

Village boy, rickshaw driver's son: Indian cricket's unlikely heroes

BRISBANE: India's pacemen Mohammed Siraj (left) and Shardul Thakur celebrate the victory in the fourth cricket Test match against Australia at The Gabba in Brisbane on January 19, 2021. - AFPNEW DELHI: After India ended Australia's 32-year unbeaten streak at Brisbane's Gabba ground to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series, AFP Sport looks at the injury-hit team's unlikely heroes:Mohammed Siraj: tragedy to triumphDespite grieving his father,...

KUWAIT: Sheikh Mubarak and his sons Abdullah and Ahmad present a memento to Hamad Al-Enezi.n

Sheikh Mubarak Al-Abdullah honors retired footballer

KUWAIT: Sheikh Mubarak and his sons Abdullah and Ahmad present a memento to Hamad Al-Enezi.KUWAIT: Sheikh Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah received Qadisiya Sports Club and national football team player Hamad Al-Enezi yesterday. Sheikh Mubarak presented to Enezi a memento on the occasion of his retirement. Sheikh Mubarak's sons Sheikh Abdullah and Sheikh Ahmad were present.Sheikh Mubarak lauded the player's contributions to the club and...

LUANDA: Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) prepare to conduct post-landing tests that Angola started to require for travellers from Brazil and Portugal, to stop the new COVID-19 strain, at the Luanda International Airport, in Luanda, yesterday. - AFPnn

China latest of 60 nations with UK strain

LUANDA: Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) prepare to conduct post-landing tests that Angola started to require for travellers from Brazil and Portugal, to stop the new COVID-19 strain, at the Luanda International Airport, in Luanda, yesterday. - AFPGENEVA: China confirmed yesterday that it had detected the UK variant of the coronavirus, joining at least 60 other countries, as US President-elect Joe Biden's incoming...

MUMBAI: A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai.-AFP n

'Hoaxes, fake news' blamed for slow start to India vaccine drive

MUMBAI: A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai.-AFPNEW DELHI: Hoaxes, doctored videos and far-fetched rumors are emerging as some of the biggest threats to India's massive coronavirus vaccine drive, with misinformation blamed for sluggish initial take-ups. There has long been deep distrust of government health programs throughout the vast nation of 1.3 billion people,...

Social media faces reckoning as Trump ban forces reset

LILLE, France: This file photo shows the logo of mobile app Snapchat displayed on a tablet. - AFPWASHINGTON: Social media giants crossed a threshold in banning US President Donald Trump and an array of his supporters-and now face a quandary on defining their efforts to remain politically neutral while promoting democracy and free speech. After the unprecedented violence in the seat of Congress, Trump was banned for inciting the rioters-on...

Villagers pose holding photos of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu yesterday. - AFPn

India villagers fete Harris ahead of US inauguration

Villagers pose holding photos of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu yesterday. - AFPTHULASENDRAPURAM, India: Villagers from Kamala Harris's ancestral home in southern India made offerings of fruit, lit firecrackers and prepared hundreds of snacks in celebration of her swearing-in Wednesday as US vice president. Thulasendrapuram, where Harris's grandfather...

MILAN: A woman smokes a cigarette on Piazza del Duomo in Milan as it became the first Italian city to introduce an outdoor smoking ban.-AFP n

Choked-up Milan takes smoking ban outside

MILAN: A woman smokes a cigarette on Piazza del Duomo in Milan as it became the first Italian city to introduce an outdoor smoking ban.-AFPMILAN: "It's about time they passed this law. We're fed up with this smoke!" declared Massimo Gabbiadini, a shopkeeper in Piazza del Duomo, after Milan banned smoking in many outdoor places. "But I will wait and see if the rules are enforced. In the north of Europe people respect the law, but in Italy?" the...

QIXIA, China: This photo shows rescuers working at the site of a gold mine explosion where 22 miners are trapped underground in Qixia, in eastern China's Shandong province.-AFPn

Rescue shaft offers hope for trapped Chinese miners

QIXIA, China: This photo shows rescuers working at the site of a gold mine explosion where 22 miners are trapped underground in Qixia, in eastern China's Shandong province.-AFPBEIJING: Rescuers are widening a communications shaft in the hope of extracting a group of Chinese gold miners who have been trapped deep underground for 10 days in rising floodwaters, state media said yesterday, with one critically ill and far from medical help....

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Two Kuwaiti women infected with coronavirus variant: MoH

By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Two Kuwaiti women who arrived from Britain have tested positive for a new COVID-19 strain, the first discovery of the more contagious coronavirus variant found in the United Kingdom and several other countries, the health ministry spokesman said yesterday. Abdullah Al-Sanad said the two women had undergone PCR tests in Britain that showed they were not infected, but they tested positive after PCR tests were conducted...

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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

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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