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MONTREAL: In this file photo, servers wait for clients in a restaurant terrace on the Place Jacques-Cartier, close to the Old-Port in central Montreal, Canada. Canada added 246,000 jobs in August as most coronavirus restrictions eased and businesses reopened, cutting the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent, the national statistics agency said on Friday. —AFP
Canada adds 246,000 jobs in August as rebound continues
MONTREAL: In this file photo, servers wait for clients in a restaurant terrace on the Place Jacques-Cartier, close to the Old-Port in central Montreal, Canada. Canada added 246,000 jobs in August as most coronavirus restrictions eased and businesses reopened, cutting the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent, the national statistics agency said on Friday. —AFP OTTAWA:  Canada added 246,000 jobs in August as most coronavirus restrictions eased...
LONDON: Ahead of talks next week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was likely to be little progress due to the EU’s refusal to be flexible. —AFP
Fears of no-trade deal Brexit rise as UK says progress unlikely at talks
LONDON: Ahead of talks next week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was likely to be little progress due to the EU’s refusal to be flexible. —AFP LONDON/BRUSSELS: The chances of Britain leaving the European Union without a trade deal have risen sharply as negotiations have been threatened by London’s insistence that it have full autonomy over its state aid plans, negotiators and diplomats said. The United Kingdom left the EU...
NEW YORK: Angelique Kerber of Germany returns a shot during her Women’s Singles third round match against Ann Li of the United States on Day Five of the 2020 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Queens borough of New York City. — AFP
Djokovic through to last 16
NEW YORK: Angelique Kerber of Germany returns a shot during her Women’s Singles third round match against Ann Li of the United States on Day Five of the 2020 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Queens borough of New York City. — AFP NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic sailed into the last 16 of the US Open on Friday as off-court intrigue forced the delay of a men’s singles match over issues linked to coronavirus. Djokovic...
Jubilant Kuwait Sports Club players and officials with STC trophy.
Kuwait SC wins STC football league for fourth time
Jubilant Kuwait Sports Club players and officials with STC trophy. By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Sports Club (KSC) are officially the champions. The team closed their season with an emphatic win against Al-Shabab with the score of 5-1 and retained the STC Football League plaque for the fourth consecutive season after collecting 43 points.Kuwait’s goals were scored by Jumaa Saeed in the 6th minute, Yousuf Nasser in the 11th and 70th...
AMSTERDAM: Poland’s defender Jan Bednarek (L) vies with Dutch’s defender Nathan Ake (C) during the UEFA Nations League football match between Netherlands and Poland at the Johan Cruijff Arena stadium, in Amsterdam. — AFP
Bergwijn leads Koeman-less Dutch past Poland, Italy held by Bosnia
AMSTERDAM: Poland’s defender Jan Bednarek (L) vies with Dutch’s defender Nathan Ake (C) during the UEFA Nations League football match between Netherlands and Poland at the Johan Cruijff Arena stadium, in Amsterdam. — AFP LONDON: Steven Bergwijn ensured the Netherlands did not feel the absence of recently departed coach Ronald Koeman to beat Poland 1-0 in the Nations League, while Italy’s record winning run came to an end in a 1-1 draw...
BRUSSELS: Britain’s Mo Farah celebrates after victory and a world record in the men’s one hour event at The Diamond League AG Memorial Van Damme athletics meeting at The King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels. — AFP
Two world records as Farah makes track return, Hassan sizzles
BRUSSELS: Britain’s Mo Farah celebrates after victory and a world record in the men’s one hour event at The Diamond League AG Memorial Van Damme athletics meeting at The King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels. — AFP BRUSSELS: Mo Farah blitzed to a new world record in the rarely-run one-hour event on his return to the track on Friday at an empty Brussels stadium that also saw Sifan Hassan set a new best in the women’s equivalent race. Three...
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Bahrain to allow UAE-Israel overflights
US AIR FORCES CENTRAL COMMAND: Photo shows US soldiers standing next to an F-35A Lightning II stationed at the Emirati Al-Dhafra base, about 32 kilometers south of Abu Dhabi. - AFP DUBAI: Bahrain said it had agreed to allow UAE flights to and from Israel to overfly the kingdom, a day after a similar decision was announced by Saudi Arabia. The announcements come after a US-Israeli delegation visited Abu Dhabi on Monday, on the first direct...
People walk across a footbridge over the River Avon heading toward the Bishop's Mill pub in Salisbury, southern England on September 4, 2020 that was cordoned off following the nerve agent attack on Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal in March 2018. - A long way from the violent cauldron of Russian politics, the picturesque city of Salisbury is contending with painful memories and a burning sense of injustice as the nerve agent Novichok again hits headlines. The cathedral city in southwest England is all too aware of the chemical weapon's terrifying potency, as survivors of a March 2018 attack follow news of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's fight for life in a German hospital. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JITENDRA JOSHI
Navalny's poisoning stirs anger in English city hit by Novichok
SALISBURY: People walk across a footbridge over the River Avon heading toward the Bishop's Mill pub in Salisbury, southern England that was cordoned off following the nerve agent attack on Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal in March 2018. - AFP SALISBURY: A long way from the cauldron of Russian politics, the picturesque city of Salisbury is contending with painful memories and a burning sense of injustice as the nerve agent Novichok again hits...
National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien (R), with Advisor to the President on Serbia-Kosovo Richard Grenell (L) and Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner, holds a press conference on September 4, 2020, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
Kosovo recognizes Israel; Serbia to move embassy to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON: National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien (right), with Advisor to the President on Serbia-Kosovo Richard Grenell (left) and Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner, holds a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House. – AFP JERUSALEM: Israel scored two diplomatic gains Friday when majority-Muslim Kosovo agreed to recognize the Jewish state and Serbia said it would move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel...
US President Donald Trump calls reporters for questions during a press conference in the James S. Brady Briefing Room of the White House on September 4, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
Trump called Marines killed in WWI 'losers'
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump calls reporters for questions during a press conference in the James S Brady Briefing Room of the White House on September 4, 2020. – AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump referred to US Marines buried in a WWI cemetery in France as "losers" and "suckers" for getting killed in action, according to a report Thursday in the Atlantic magazine. The report, penned by the magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey...
Rescue workers use a tube to vacuum debris from a badly damaged building in Lebanon's capital Beirut, in search of possible survivors from a mega-blast at the adjacent port one month ago, after scanners detected a pulse, on September 4, 2020. - Lebanese rescuers scoured rubble for a possible survivor in Beirut after the detection of a pulse drew crowds hopeful of a miracle one month on from a devastating explosion. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)
Hopes of miracle fade in search for Beirut blast survivor
BEIRUT: Rescue workers use a tube to vacuum debris from a badly damaged building in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, in search of possible survivors from a mega-blast after scanners detected a pulse on September 4, 2020. – AFP BEIRUT: Rescue teams kept up their search for survivors in Beirut yesterday even as hopes raised by sensor readings of a pulse beneath the rubble of last month's blast began to fade. The cataclysmic August 4 explosion in the...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 3, 2020 Linvestigators move the body of a man who is reportedly Michael Forest Reinoehl after he was shot and killed by law enforcement in Lacey, Washington. - One was an far-right activist, the other a member of the far-left Antifa movement. Both men paid with their lives after getting drawn into the anti-racism demonstrations that have shaken the US for the last three months. (Photo by Nathan Howard / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Portland protests: Two dead on either side of divide
LACEY: Investigators move the body of a man who is reportedly Michael Forest Reinoehl after he was shot and killed by law enforcement in Lacey, Washington. - AFP PORTLAND: One was a far-right activist, the other a member of the far-left Antifa movement. Both men paid with their lives after getting drawn into the anti-racism demonstrations that have shaken the US for the last three months. Aaron Danielson, 39, a supporter of a far-right group...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike
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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn