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TOPSHOT - Argentina's Lionel Messi controls the ball during the closed-door 2022 FIFA World Cup South American qualifier football match against Paraguay at La Bombonera Stadium in Buenos Aires on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Marcelo ENDELLI / POOL / AFP)
Injury-hit Brazil and Argentina resume World Cup qualifying
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's Lionel Messi controls the ball during the closed-door 2022 FIFA World Cup South American qualifier football match against Paraguay at La Bombonera Stadium in Buenos Aires. - AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil must confront a growing injury list that includes star forward Neymar as they resume World Cup qualifying this week, while Argentina are out to extend their perfect start at home to neighbors Paraguay. Copa America...
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Kuwait Women's Basketball event
By Abdellatif SharaKUWAIT: The women's first Open basketball tournament for the current season 2020-2021 (3x3) was concluded yesterday following three days of strong competition between 16 teams representing local women clubs as well as individual participation.The teams of Fatat A and B, Arabi A, B and C, Al-Qurain D and Salwa Al-Abah qualified for the quarter finals following strong and exciting matches played at the Basketball Federation...
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Al-Nasr Sports Club opening ceremony
KUWAIT: Al-Nasr Sports Club will hold an opening ceremony of the late Sheikh Abdallah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah halls complex tomorrow at 7.30 pm under the patronage and presence of Sheikh Mubarak Abdallah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah at the club's premises in Ardhiya. A statement issued by the club said the complex was named after Sheikh Abdallah Al-Mubarak due to his role in supporting the sport - and contribution to building youth sectors. The multi halls...
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 14: Bryson DeChambeau of the United States prepares to play a shot on the 17th hole during the continuation of the second round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on November 14, 2020 in Augusta, Georgia. Jamie Squire/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Lost ball leaves DeChambeau in 'danger' of missing Masters cut
AUGUSTA: Bryson DeChambeau of the United States prepares to play a shot on the 17th hole during the continuation of the second round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on November 14, 2020. – AFP AUGUSTA: US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, whose ball-bashing feats had people fearing he would overwhelm Augusta National, is struggling just to make the cut at the Masters. The bulked-up American, a pre-Masters favorite who said the...
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Clashes in Western Sahara despite calls for restraint
GUERGUERAT: A handout picture published by the Royal Moroccan Army Facebook page on Friday shows tents used by the Polisario Front ablaze near the Mauritanian border in Western Sahara after the intervention of the Moroccan armed forces. - AFP RABAT: The pro-independence Polisario Front yesterday reported clashes in the Western Sahara after Morocco launched an operation in the buffer zone in the disputed territory, as the UN led calls for...
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Vietnam braces as typhoon kills 53 in Philippines
Philippine coastguard personnel use a basin to evacuate a child from a flooded home in Cagayan province yesterday. - AFP HANOI/MANILA: Vietnam was bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country's central coast early today, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country's deadliest storm this year. Packing winds of up to 165 kph, Vamco is forecast to hit a swathe of Vietnam's coast from Ha Tinh to Quang Ngai...
The motorcade of US President Donald Trump drives past supporters holding a rally in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2020. - Supporters are backing Trump's claim that the November 3 election was fraudulent. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Trump loyalists gather claiming election fraud
WASHINGTON: The motorcade of US President Donald Trump drives past supporters holding a rally yesterday. - AFP WASHINGTON: Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington yesterday to push the discredited theory that fraud denied him rightful victory in the election, as further results cemented the president's defeat. Trump expressed his thanks and added he might "stop by and say hello" at rallies held under the banners of "Stop The Steal",...
A picture shows statues and funerary masks on display during the unveiling of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, at the Saqqara necropolis 30 kms south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on November 14, 2020. - Egypt announced the discovery of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, the largest such find this year. The sealed wooden coffins, unveiled on site amid fanfare, belonged to top officials of the Late Period and the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt. They were found in three burial shafts at depths of 12 metres (40 feet) in the sweeping Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. (Photo by Ahmed HASAN / AFP)
Egypt finds over 100 sarcophagi
SAQQARA: Statues and funerary masks are on display during the unveiling of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi at the Saqqara necropolis yesterday. - AFP SAQQARA, Egypt: Egypt announced yesterday the discovery of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, dating back more than 2,500 years ago, the largest such find this year. The sealed wooden coffins, unveiled on site amid much fanfare, belonged...
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Israelis killed Qaeda no. 2 in Iran: NYT
Abdullah Abdullah TEHRAN: Iran yesterday dismissed a US newspaper report that Al-Qaeda's second-in-command was killed in Tehran by Israeli agents as "made-up information" and denied the presence of any of the militant group's members in the Islamic republic. The New York Times said Abdullah Ahmad Abdullah, indicted in the United States for 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was secretly shot and killed in Tehran by Israeli...
Ethiopians fleeing intense fighting in their homeland of Tigray, gather with their belongings in the bordering Sudanese village 8, east of the town of Gadaref, on November 13, 2020. - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, ordered military operations in Tigray last week, shocking the international community which fears the start of a long and bloody civil war. (Photo by Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)
Tigray forces strike Amhara airports
GADAREF, Sudan: Ethiopians fleeing intense fighting in their homeland of Tigray gather with their belongings near this border Sudanese town on Friday. - AFP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Ethiopia said yesterday that forces loyal to the ruling party in the northern Tigray region had fired into neighboring Amhara region, raising fears that ongoing fighting could draw in other parts of the country. A doctor said two military personnel were killed and up...
In this picture taken on November 10, 2020, a pastor shows a memorial tablet of Christoper Biden, a potential ancestor of US President-elect Joe Biden, at the St George's Cathedral in Chennai. - Already bursting with pride at Kamala Harris's Indian ancestry, the South Asian nation has started digging up potential local roots for US president-elect Joe Biden. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'US-vote-India-Biden' by Arun SANKAR and Vishal MANVE
Biden's possible India links spark genealogical frenzy
CHENNAI: In this picture taken on Nov 10, 2020, a pastor shows a memorial tablet of Christopher Biden at St George's Cathedral. – AFP CHENNAI: Already bursting with pride at Kamala Harris's ancestry, India has now started digging up potential local roots for US President-elect Joe Biden. The next leader of the United States has speculated that he might have had relatives in colonial India. While there is no proof, the Biden name has become a...
A house burns in the village of Charektar outside the town of Kalbajar on November 14, 2020, during the military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. - Villagers in Nagorno-Karabakh set their houses on fire before fleeing to Armenia ahead of a weekend deadline that will see parts of the territory handed over to Azerbaijan as part of a peace agreement. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
Villagers burn houses ahead of takeover
CHAREKTAR: A house burns in this village outside the town of Kalbajar yesterday. - AFP CHAREKTAR, Azerbaijan: Villagers in Nagorno-Karabakh set their houses on fire yesterday before fleeing to Armenia ahead of a weekend deadline that will see parts of the territory handed over to Azerbaijan as part of a peace agreement. Residents of the Kalbajar district in Azerbaijan that was controlled by Armenian separatists for decades began a mass exodus...
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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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