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LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 11: The Los Angeles Lakers pose for a team photo with the trophy after winning the 2020 NBA Championship over the Miami Heat in Game Six of the 2020 NBA Finals at AdventHealth Arena at the ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on October 11, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Lakers capture 17th NBA title
FLORIDA: The Los Angeles Lakers pose for a team photo with the trophy after winning the 2020 NBA Championship over the Miami Heat in Game Six of the 2020 NBA Finals at Advent Health Arena on October 11, 2020. - AFP ORLANDO: A Los Angeles Lakers team led by superstar LeBron James dominated the Miami Heat 106-93 on Sunday to win a record-equaling 17th NBA championship but their first in a decade. James added another chapter to an epic career,...
Portugal's forward Ronaldo (2ndL) vies with France's midfielder Paul Pogba (C) during the Nations League football match between France and Portugal, on October 11, 2020 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
Portugal, Italy hold onto Nations League top spots
SAINT-DENIS: Portugal's forward Ronaldo (2nd left) vies with France's midfielder Paul Pogba (center) during the Nations League football match between France and Portugal on October 11, 2020. - AFP PARIS: Portugal and Italy kept hold of first place in their UEFA Nations League groups on Sunday with goalless draws against France and Poland on a night of little drama, while England saw off Belgium to take the initiative in their pool. There was not...
TOPSHOT - LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 11: Lakers fans celebrate in front of the Staples Center on October 11, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. People gathered to celebrate after the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
LeBron improves case vs Jordan as all-time NBA best
LOS ANGELES: Lakers fans celebrate in front of the Staples Center on October 11, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. People gathered to celebrate after the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. - AFP LOS ANGELES: As the first player to lead three different teams to NBA titles, LeBron James has revived the question of whether he or Michael Jordan is the league's greatest-ever superstar. "I don't know," James said....
In this picture taken on October 6, 2020, a user checks dating apps Grindr (L) and Tinder on mobile phones in Islamabad. - Unlike in many countries where meeting online is routine, Pakistanis who use dating apps regularly face harassment and judgmental relatives -- and now also have to contend with a government clampdown. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) / To go with 'PAKISTAN-MARRIAGE-DATING', FOCUS by David Stout and Kaneez Fatima in Lahore
Swiping right: Slim pickings for Pakistan's online daters
In this picture a user checks dating apps Grindr (left) and Tinder on mobile phones in Islamabad. -AFP photos After endlessly swiping through pictureless profiles on dating apps, Muhammad Ali Shah still hasn't found the one-or really anyone-to get serious with in Pakistan. In the ultra-conservative Islamic republic, where arranged marriages are the norm, he says many women choose to stay anonymous, making online dating matches tricky. "It's slim...
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American duo wins Nobel Economics Prize
A screen shows pictures of US economists Paul Milgrom (left) and Robert Wilson during the announcement of the winners of the "2020 Nobel Prize Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm yesterday.-AFP STOCKHOLM: US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Economics Prize yesterday for work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services...
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OECD: Global deal on taxing tech giants still beyond reach
PARIS: The 137 nations trying to hammer out a new global standard for taxing multinational tech firms will not secure a deal by the end of this year as hoped, the OECD acknowledged yesterday. "The glass is half full: the package is nearly ready but there is still no political accord," said Pascal Saint-Amans, head of tax policy at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).But the OECD, which is leading the...
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Markaz launches its 'Procurement Guide' to contractual arrangements
Sheikh Humoud Salah Al-Sabah KUWAIT: The Kuwait Financial Centre K.P.S.C "Markaz" recently announced the launch of its 'Procurement Guide to Contractual Arrangements' between governmental and quasi-governmental entities with "Markaz", in an effort to establish guided contractual relationships between both sectors. The development of the guide stems from Markaz's keenness to participate in the sustainable growth and development of the national...
An elderly man sits at a playground in front of an apartment building in the city of Stepanakert on October 12, 2020, during the ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)
Karabakh ceasefire fails to stick
STEPANAKERT: An elderly man sits in a playground in front of an apartment building yesterday during the ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. - AFP STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan: Russia yesterday urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately start observing a ceasefire agreed over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as intense fighting between the two Caucasus rivals cast fresh doubt...
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Claiming COVID-19 immunity, Trump hits election trail again
A contestant dressed as President Trump participates in a Trump campaign rally named "Trumptoberfest" at Rocky Point Park in Warwick, Rhode Island on Sunday. Many supporters dressed in political campaign clothing and waved flags while others dressed in festive costumes to take part in a political costume contest. -AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is launching a campaign marathon, holding rallies in three key swing states over the next...
Members of the public, some wearing face masks or coverings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, watch as scenes for a movie are filmed at at George's Hall in Liverpool, north west England on October 12, 2020, as new local lockdown measures are set to be imposed to help stem a second wave of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to present a new three-tiered alert system for coronavirus cases in England on Monday, with Liverpool in the northwest expected to be the only city placed in the top category. Like governments throughout Europe, Johnson's conservative cabinet is seeking to balance bringing down the rate of new infections against concern about the economy and frustration among voters. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
China to test whole city of 9m as Europe rolls out new virus rules
LONDON: Members of the public, some wearing face masks or coverings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, watch as scenes for a movie are filmed at George's Hall in Liverpool, north west England yesterday. - AFP BEIJING: All nine million people in a major Chinese port city will be tested for Covid-19 following a tiny outbreak, health officials said yesterday, as surging infection numbers in Europe force another round of containment efforts. The virus...
Passengers walk on a railway track after trains got stranded due to a major power cut in several areas after grid failure in Mumbai on October 12, 2020. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP)
Mumbai gets power back after outage
MUMBAI: Passengers walk on a railway track after trains got stranded due to a major power cut in several areas after grid failure yesterday. - AFP MUMBAI: Millions went without power in India's financial capital Mumbai and surrounding areas for hours yesterday, after a grid failure triggered its first major blackout in more than two years. The outage stranded thousands of train passengers, disrupted online college exams and affected mobile...
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Irish locals show colors in Biden's ancestral home
BALLINA: Laurita Blewitt (center), a cousin of US Presidential candidate Joe Biden, poses with supporters or Biden, Martin Devanney (left), Smiler Mitchell (second left), Willie Creighton (second right) and Derek Leonard, who together erected a painting of him, in his ancestral home of Ballina, north west Ireland. - AFP BALLINA, Ireland: Thousands of miles east of the White House in Ireland, a pop-art portrait of US presidential candidate Joe...
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