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Kuwait Shooting tournament
Engineer Duaij Al-Otaibi By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Shooting Sport Club will hold the closing ceremony of the late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Cup tournament tomorrow in the presence of the tournament's patron Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, President of Arab and Kuwait Shooting Federations Engineer Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi and KSSC board of directors at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex.Winners of the...
A jogger runs across the Millennium Bridge across the River Thames with St Paul's Cathedral in the background in London on December 31, 2020 on the day that the Brexit transition period ends and Britain leaves the EU single market and customs union four-and-a-half years after voting to leave the bloc. - Brexit becomes a reality on on December 31 as Britain leaves Europe's customs union and single market, ending nearly half a century of often turbulent ties with its closest neighbours. The UK's tortuous departure from the European Union takes full effect when Big Ben strikes 11:00 pm (2300 GMT) in central London, just as most of the European mainland ushers in 2021 at midnight. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)
Post-Brexit students mourn as UK leaves EU exchange scheme
LONDON: A jogger runs across the Millennium Bridge across the River Thames with St Paul's Cathedral in the background yesterday. - AFP PARIS: Lucas Santerre, an 18-year-old French student with a fondness for Victorian architecture, had dreamed of spending a year studying in Britain under an EU scheme that has helped millions of students immerse themselves in another culture. But British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last week that he...
TOPSHOT - Paramedics move a patient suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus into the 22 Battalion of the Military Police Hospital, in Mexico City, on December 30, 2020. - Mexico has registered more than 124,000 coronavirus deaths -- the world's fourth-highest toll after the United States, Brazil and India. (Photo by PEDRO PARDO / AFP)
US hits record daily COVID-19 deaths
MEXICO CITY: Paramedics move a patient suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus into the 22 Battalion of the Military Police Hospital on Wednesday. - AFP WASHINGTON: The US logged its highest ever daily death toll from the coronavirus Wednesday as the world prepares to turn the page on a grim year defined by the pandemic, with much of the globe united in one hope for 2021: That a slew of new vaccines will stamp out COVID-19. New...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 24, 2020, US Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, speaks to the press during a break in the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. - Hawley said on December 30, 2020, that he will object to Congress's certification next week of the results of the November 3 US presidential election, a move that may slightly delay, but not derail, the final confirmation of Democrat Joe Biden's victory. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
Republican senator to object to certification of Biden win
Josh Hawley WASHINGTON: A Republican senator said Wednesday that he will object to Congress's certification next week of the results of the Nov 3 US presidential election, a move that may slightly delay - but not derail - the final confirmation of Democrat Joe Biden's victory. Several Republican members of the House of Representatives have also said they plan to object to the January 6 certification of the Electoral College vote but Josh Hawley...
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai (C) is escorted onto a prison van outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on December 31, 2020, after he was ordered back to jail as the city's highest court granted prosecutors an appeal against his bail. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)
Hong Kong media tycoon Lai ordered back to jail
HONG KONG: Media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted onto a prison van outside the Court of Final Appeal yesterday after he was ordered back to jail as the city's highest court granted prosecutors an appeal against his bail. - AFP HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was ordered back to jail yesterday as the city's highest court granted prosecutors an appeal against his bail. Lai, a vocal Beijing critic, is one of the...
Policemen inspect the burnt Hindu temple a day after a mob attack in a remote village in Karak district, some 160 kms southeast of Peshawar on December 31, 2020. - Hundreds of Muslims attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan on December 30, police and witnesses said. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP)
Clerics among 26 held after Pakistan temple destroyed
KARAK, Pakistan: Policemen inspect a burnt Hindu temple yesterday, a day after a mob attack in this remote village some 160 km southeast of Peshawar. - AFP KARAK, Pakistan: At least two dozen people, including several Muslim clerics, were detained yesterday after a mob attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan, police said. Around 1,500 Muslims on Wednesday descended on the temple - which was destroyed in similar...
A vendor selling decorations arranges his stall on New Year's Eve in New Delhi on December 31, 2020. - New Delhi and other major cities across India on December 31 ordered curfews for New Year's Eve as they stepped up efforts to head off a new coronavirus wave. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)
Delhi leads India clampdown on New Year events
NEW DELHI: A vendor selling decorations arranges his stall on New Year's Eve yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: New Delhi and other major cities across India yesterday ordered curfews for New Year's Eve as they stepped up efforts to head off a new coronavirus wave. In the capital, the curfew would run for two days from 11:00 pm until 6:00 am with gatherings limited to five people even before the shutdown, authorities said. Normally, tens of thousands...
Britain's Houses of Parliament is seen at sunrise in London on December 31, 2020 on the day that the Brexit transition period ends and Britain leaves the EU single market and customs union four-and-a-half years after voting to leave the bloc. - Brexit becomes a reality on on December 31 as Britain leaves Europe's customs union and single market, ending nearly half a century of often turbulent ties with its closest neighbours. The UK's tortuous departure from the European Union takes full effect when Big Ben strikes 11:00 pm (2300 GMT) in central London, just as most of the European mainland ushers in 2021 at midnight. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)
Brexit becomes a reality
LONDON: Britain's Houses of Parliament is seen at sunrise in London yesterday on the day that the Brexit transition period ends and Britain leaves the EU single market and customs union four-and-a-half years after voting to leave the bloc. - AFP LONDON: Brexit became a reality yesterday as Britain left Europe's customs union and single market, ending nearly half-a-century of often turbulent ties with its closest neighbors. The UK's tortuous...
A person riding a bicycle crosses past an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on December 30, 2020. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
Sterling extends gains, markets mixed as traders see out 2020
TOKYO: A person riding a bicycle crosses past an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo. - AFP HONG KONG: The pound extended gains against the dollar yesterday as traders cheered the authorization of another vaccine and final ratification of the Brexit trade deal, while Asian markets were mixed as a painful year drew to a close. While the world economy has been devastated by the...
MIAMI, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 29: American Airlines flight 718, a Boeing 737 Max, takes of from Miami International Airport on its way to New York on December 29, 2020 in Miami, Florida. The Boeing 737 Max flew its first commercial flight since the aircraft was allowed to return to service nearly two years after being grounded worldwide following a pair of separate crashes. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP
US imposes new tariffs on French, German products
MIAMI: American Airlines flight 718, a Boeing 737 Max, takes off from Miami International Airport on its way to New York in Miami, Florida. - AFP WASHINGTON: The United States announced Wednesday that it will impose additional tariffs on French and German products as part of a long-running dispute over subsidies for aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing. The tariffs are on "aircraft manufacturing parts from France and Germany, certain...
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MoI extends amnesty for illegal expats
By B IzzakKUWAIT: Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Al-Sabah yesterday issued a decision extending a grace period for expat residency violators by another month, with the new amnesty ending on Jan 31, 2021. The earlier grace period was scheduled to end today. Under the amnesty, residency violators were allowed to legalize their stay in the country by paying the necessary fines, or leaving the country - also after paying fines - with the ability...
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Kuwaiti woman gets death sentence for killing Filipina maid
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: A death verdict by hanging was handed by the criminal court yesterday to a Kuwaiti woman who tortured to death her Filipino housemaid, Jeanelyn Padernal Villavende, on Dec 28, 2019. The woman's husband was sentenced to four years in jail for covering up and not reporting the crime.The Philippine Embassy's lead counsel, Attorney Sheikha Fawzia Al-Sabah, said the court's ruling was fair and in compliance with the law and...
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Ministries of Awqaf discuss ways to counter extremism, terrorism