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Barcelona's Uruguayan defender Ronald Araujo (L) jumps for the ball during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Levante UD at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on December 13, 2020. (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP)
Messi saves lacklustre Barca as Sociedad reclaim top spot
BARCELONA: Barcelona's Uruguayan defender Ronald Araujo (left) jumps for the ball during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Levante UD at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on December 13, 2020. - AFP MADRID: Lionel Messi saved Barcelona from another embarrassing result by scoring the decisive goal in a 1-0 win over lowly Levante, while Real Sociedad returned top of La Liga on Sunday. Messi struck with 14 minutes remaining...
Britain's Anthony Joshua (R) lands a punch on Bulgaria's Kubrat Pulev (L) during their heavyweight world title boxing match at Wembley Arena in north west London on December 12, 2020. (Photo by ANDREW COULDRIDGE / POOL / AFP)
Joshua-Fury deal could be done in 2 days: Promoter
WEMBLEY: Britain's Anthony Joshua lands a punch on Bulgaria's Kubrat Pulev (left) during their heavyweight world title boxing match at Wembley Arena in north west London. - AFP LONDON: Anthony Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn says a deal for his man to fight Tyson Fury in an all-British world heavyweight unification bout in 2021 could take as little as two days to complete. Plans for a "Battle of Britain" have accelerated after Joshua, 31, stopped...
Sandra Lindsay(L), a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, on December 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York. - The rollout of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, the first to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, ushers in the biggest vaccination effort in US history. More than 299,000 Americans have been killed by the virus, including over 35,000 residents of New York state. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / POOL / AFP)
Nurse receives first COVID vaccine in US
NEW YORK: Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester yesterday in the Queens borough. - AFP NEW YORK: A nurse in New York became the first person in the United States to receive the coronavirus vaccine yesterday. Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, received the Pfizer-BioNTech shot live on television shortly before 9:30...
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Sudan taken off US terror blacklist
KHARTOUM: Sudanese women chat at a cafe in the capital yesterday. - AFP KHARTOUM: The United States yesterday removed Sudan from its state sponsors of terrorism blacklist and declared a "fundamental change" in relations, less than two months after the East African nation pledged to normalize ties with Israel. The move opens the way for aid, debt relief and investment to a country going through a rocky political transition and struggling under a...
A man ties a white ribbon on a fence at a cemetery as a sign of protest against the government policy of forced cremations of Muslims who die of the coronavirus, in Colombo December 14, 2020. - Sri Lanka said on December 9 it would cremate the bodies of 19 Muslim coronavirus victims, overriding the families' objections against the contentious policy. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP)
Anger in Lanka over forced cremations
COLOMBO: A man ties a white ribbon on a fence at a cemetery yesterday as a sign of protest against the government's policy of forced cremations of Muslims who die of the coronavirus. - AFP COLOMBO: Outrage is mounting in Sri Lanka after at least 15 Muslim coronavirus victims, including a baby, were cremated against family wishes and in contravention of Islamic funeral rites. Health authorities in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka insist all victims...
Pedestrians walk past an BTier 2 Coronavirus information displayed on an electronic advertising board at a bus stop in central London on December 14, 2020. - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen agreed Sunday to push on with post-Brexit trade talks despite the passing of a self-imposed deadline. Britain left the EU on January 31, 2020 after five decades of integration but a standstill transition period, under which it remains bound by the bloc's rules pending any new deal, ends on the night of December 31, 2020. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP)
EU sees 'narrow path' to Brexit deal
LONDON: Pedestrians walk past an BTier 2 Coronavirus information displayed on an electronic advertising board at a bus stop in central London yesterday.-AFP BRUSSELS: EU negotiator Michel Barnier yesterday signaled there was a "narrow path" to a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain, as key sticking points remain after both sides abandoned a supposed make-or-break deadline. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula van der Leyen...
The Tokyo Tower is seen at night in the Japanese capital on December 14, 2020. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Japan's business confidence picks up after virus plunge
TOKYO: The Tokyo Tower is seen at night in the Japanese capital yesterday.-AFP TOKYO: Confidence among major Japanese manufacturers has recovered further after plunging on pandemic woes to its worst level since the global financial crisis, a key survey showed yesterday. The Bank of Japan's December Tankan business survey-a quarterly poll of about 10,000 companies-showed a reading of minus 10 among big manufacturers, after recording minus 27 in...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 27, 2019 A man works in the hearth of the nuclear reactor building on June 27, 2019 at the Tricastin nuclear power plant owned and operated by French energy copany EDF in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, southern France. - Britain said December 14, 2020 it will hold talks with French energy giant EDF concerning the construction of a nuclear power plant on England's east coast, in a project reportedly worth £20 billion ($26.4 billion, 22 billion euros). (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)
UK set for talks with France's EDF over building $26.4bn nuke plant
In this file photo taken on June 27, 2019, a man works in the hearth of the nuclear reactor building at the Tricastin nuclear power plant owned and operated by French energy company EDF in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, southern France. -AFP LONDON: Britain said yesterday it will hold talks with French energy giant EDF concerning the construction of a nuclear power plant on England's east coast, in a project reportedly worth £20 billion ($26.4...
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Kuwait's COVID cases jump by 231, one new death
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH) registered yesterday 231 additional COVID-19 cases in a span of 24 hours, increasing the total number of infections to 146,449, while one new death recorded in the same period raised the death toll to 912. Earlier, the ministry confirmed 263 fresh recovery cases, which brought the total to 142,357 recoveries so far.Meanwhile, active cases amounted to 3,180 with 57 of them in intensive care units, MoH's...
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Zain receives six awards at Arab Media Forum's Creativity Award
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announces it has received six creativity awards at the Arab Media Forum's 8th Creativity Award - that recognizes creativity by Kuwaiti organizations - in three categories: TVC Creativity, PR Creativity, and Best Government App. The event organized virtually over video conferencing, was held under the patronage of Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit and...
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Amir, Crown Prince receive visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Mohammad Hussein. - Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yesterday Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Mohammad Hussein along with Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and the Iraqi accompanying delegation. Hussein delivered a letter...
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2020 KAFO forum held online
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: The fourth annual Kuwait's Achievers for Future Opportunities (KAFO) forum was launched on Sunday and continues till Dec 16, 2020. All activities of the forum are being held online via the Zoom app. This year, 100 personalities were chosen by KAFO to form 10 communities from various fields.His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled...
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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
Fears of Middle East war grow
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
Somalia beach attack kills 32
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests