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Chelsea's French striker Olivier Giroud (C) takes a shot at goal during the English Premier League football match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Chelsea at the Molineux stadium in Wolverhampton, central England on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Michael Steele / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /
Chelsea lose 2-1 at Wolves
WOLVERHAMPTON: Chelsea’s French striker Olivier Giroud (center) takes a shot at goal during the English Premier League football match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Chelsea at the Molineux stadium in Wolverhampton on December 15, 2020. – AFP WOLVERHAMPTON: Frank Lampard believes Chelsea have become complacent after the Blues blew a lead to lose 2-1 at Wolves and suffer back-to-back Premier League defeats for the first time during his...
Bremen's German midfielder Maximilian Eggestein and Dortmund's German forward Youssoufa Moukoko (L) vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Werder Bremen v Borussia Dortmund in Bremen, western Germany, on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Patrik Stollarz / various sources / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO
Dortmund's new caretaker coach gets a winning start
BREMEN: Bremen's German midfielder Maximilian Eggestein and Dortmund's German forward Youssoufa Moukoko (left) vie for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga football match Werder Bremen v Borussia Dortmund on December 15, 2020. - AFP BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund's new caretaker coach Edin Terzic made a winning start Tuesday after club captain Marco Reus netted a late winner to seal a 2-1 victory at Werder Bremen. The 38-year-old...
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Kuwait Club win fifth Super Cup
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Sports Club met Arabi Club on Tuesday evening to launch the new football season with the Super Cup. Kuwait were determined from the onset for an attack as they kicked off with the attacking squad - Ahmad Al-Zanki, Faisal Zayed, Jumaa Saeed and Akaishi. 10 minutes into the match, defender Fahad Humoud headed the ball but missed, then five minutes later, Talal Al-Fadhel shot the ball that was handled by...
Nasser Al-Attiyah poses during theHail Baja 1, Saudi Arabia on December 9, 2020 // Marian Chytka/Red Bull Content Pool // SI202012120418 // Usage for editorial use only //
Al-Attiyah blasts over the dunes, wins Hail Baja 1
KUWAIT: Nasser Al Attiya wasted no time showing his speed over the dunes as he took a stunning victory at Hail Baja 1. Qatar's sand racing specialist demonstrated his competitive edge as he fended off fellow Dakar supremos Carlos Sainz and Stephane Peterhansel to take the win. Al-Attiyah and French co-driver Mathieu Baumel made their intentions plain from the start line in Hail as they set the opening day's fastest time. The duo backed up this...
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Rouhani: Iran 'very happy' Trump leaving
TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets the family of slain Iranian top general Qasem Soleimani yesterday. – AFP TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that Iran was "very happy" over the looming departure from office of US counterpart Donald Trump, who led a campaign of "maximum pressure" against the Islamic republic. President-elect Joe Biden, who defeated Trump at the ballot box in November, has signaled a...
US President-elect Joe Biden waves as he arrives at Newcastle Airport in Wilmington, Delaware, on December 15, 2020. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
Biden joins battle for Senate as top Republican accepts win
WILMINGTON, Delaware: US President-elect Joe Biden waves as he arrives at Newcastle Airport in Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday.?AFP ATLANTA: President-elect Joe Biden threw his weight behind the Democratic battle for control of the US Senate on Tuesday, as his White House win was finally acknowledged by top Republicans and holdout foreign leaders. Biden flew into Georgia-a southern state he won in an upset against President Donald Trump-to host...
This photo taken on October 22, 2020 shows Rohingya migrant Nemah Shah (L) with his six-year-old daughter Nosmin Fatimah and his wife Majuma (R) after being reunited at a temporary shelter in Lhokseumawe in Aceh province. - Weeks after a funeral for the wife and daughter he thought had died at sea while trying to sail to him, Nemah Shah was stunned when he saw online images of them emerging from a refugee boat in Indonesia. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP) / To go with Rohingya-migration-trafficking-family,FOCUS by Haeril Halim
Rohingya man narrates his incredible reunion with 'dead wife and daughter'
Rohingya migrant Nemah Shah (left) with his six-year-old daughter Nosmin Fatimah and his wife Majuma (right) after being reunited at a temporary shelter in Lhokseumawe in Aceh province. - AFP LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia: Weeks after a funeral for the wife and daughter he thought had died at sea trying to reach him, Nemah Shah was stunned when he saw online images of them emerging from a refugee boat in Indonesia. What followed was an incredible...
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Erdogan calls US sanctions 'attack on sovereignty'
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a televised address yesterday. – AFP ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday called US sanctions against Ankara over its purchase of a Russian missile defense system an "open attack" on the NATO member state's sovereignty. The United States made good on months of threats to punish Turkey for buying the S-400 system under a 2017 law known as CAATSA, which aims to...
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Fijians told to seek shelter as super cyclone closes in
Fijians living in the path of an approaching super cyclone were told to hunker down at home or flee to emergency shelters immediately yesterday. SUVA: Fijians living in the path of an approaching super cyclone were told to hunker down at home or flee to emergency shelters immediately yesterday, as authorities warned the storm has the potential to uproot buildings and cause mass destruction.The Fiji Meteorological Service said Cyclone Yasa had...
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Lovesick Scot jailed for breaching COVID rules on jet-ski odyssey
A photo posted on the internet of McLaughlan arriving in Ramsey harbor, Isle of Man, after a four-hour trip by jet ski across the chilly and choppy Irish Sea, before walking 24 kilometers to see his girlfriend. LONDON: A lovesick Scottish man who bought a jet-ski so he could evade lockdown measures to visit his girlfriend in the Isle of Man has been jailed for breaching coronavirus restrictions, reports said. Dale McLaughlan from Ayrshire in...
Parents wait outside the Government Science where gunmen abducted students in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria December 15, 2020. - Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed the abduction of hundreds of students, marking its first attack in northwestern Nigeria since the jihadist uprising began more than ten years ago. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)
Terror, then safety: How a boy survived Nigeria abduction
KANKARA: Parents wait outside the government science secondary school where gunmen abducted students in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria. - AFP KANKARA, Nigeria: Gunmen arrived late Friday at his school in Kankara, northwestern Nigeria, just as he and his classmates were about to go to bed. Their first thought was that the men were vigilantes-civilians who take on a policing role-"so, we were not scared," the 18-year-old told AFP....
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Saudi cuts spending as 2020 deficit soars
RIYADH: A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Tuesday shows Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz giving a speech after signing the 2021 state budget during a virtual cabinet meeting in the capital Riyadh. - AFP RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday projected its 2020 budget deficit will soar to around $79 billion, as the world's top crude exporter reels from low oil prices and a coronavirus-led economic downturn. Passing...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
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