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LEGANES: Leganes’ Greek midfielder Dimitris Siovas (L) and Leganes’ Spanish defender Unai Bustinza (R) challenge Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior during the Spanish league football match Club Deportivo Leganes SAD against Real Madrid CF at the Estadio Municipal Butarque in Leganes. —AFP

Real Madrid draw relegates Leganes and Messi claims golden boot

LEGANES: Leganes’ Greek midfielder Dimitris Siovas (L) and Leganes’ Spanish defender Unai Bustinza (R) challenge Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior during the Spanish league football match Club Deportivo Leganes SAD against Real Madrid CF at the Estadio Municipal Butarque in Leganes. —AFP MADRID: Newly-crowned La Liga champions Real Madrid dropped points for the first time since the season’s restart on Sunday in a dramatic...

LONDON: Watford’s English head coach Nigel Pearson (2nd R) speaks to his players during a drinks break in the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Watford at The London Stadium, in east London. — AFP

Pearson sacked as Watford manager

LONDON: Watford’s English head coach Nigel Pearson (2nd R) speaks to his players during a drinks break in the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Watford at The London Stadium, in east London. — AFP LONDON: Nigel Pearson was sacked as Watford manager on Sunday with just two games left in the club’s fight for Premier League survival. Pearson has been replaced by Hayden Mullins as interim boss for...

MANCHESTER: West Indies’ Shannon Gabriel is bowled by England’s Chris Woakes on the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between England and the West Indies at Old Trafford in Manchester, northwest England. —AFP

Broad boosts England’s victory bid in second West Indies Test

MANCHESTER: West Indies’ Shannon Gabriel is bowled by England’s Chris Woakes on the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between England and the West Indies at Old Trafford in Manchester, northwest England. —AFP MANCHESTER: Stuart Broad revived England’s hopes of a series-levelling victory in the second Test with a trio of new-ball wickets even as the West Indies avoided the follow-on at Old Trafford on Sunday. The veteran paceman...

NEW YORK: The Statue of Liberty is pictured in front of Lower Manhattan before sunrise amid the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday in New York City. — AFP

New York hopes to reinvent itself again

NEW YORK: The Statue of Liberty is pictured in front of Lower Manhattan before sunrise amid the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday in New York City. — AFP NEW YORK: People fleeing town, widespread joblessness, a rising crime rate: the coronavirus pandemic has plunged New York into crisis, deeply concerning for many, but for others a chance for this famously dynamic city to reinvent itself. “We may be going through one of the most painful and...

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UK retailer M&S to announce huge job cuts

LONDON: British retailer Marks and Spencer Group Plc plans to announce hundreds of job cuts in the coming week, Sky News reported yesterday, citing sources. The cuts would be part of redundancy plans the company will be announcing in the coming days, the Sky report added, part of a restructuring that could affect several thousand employees in coming months. The report did not specify the number of jobs at risk.“We don’t comment on...

LONDON/ABIDJAN: The steepest dive in cocoa demand in a decade has thrown into jeopardy a plan by top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana to guarantee some two million farmers a living wage, sources within the countries’ regulators said. — Reuters

Pact to aid poor cocoa farmers in peril as COVID-19 hits demand

LONDON/ABIDJAN: The steepest dive in cocoa demand in a decade has thrown into jeopardy a plan by top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana to guarantee some two million farmers a living wage, sources within the countries’ regulators said. — Reuters LONDON/ABIDJAN: The steepest dive in cocoa demand in a decade has thrown into jeopardy a plan by top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana to guarantee some two million farmers a living wage, sources...

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Kuwait reports no deaths, 559 new COVID-19 cases

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health said Monday that no coronavirus deaths were reported over the past 24 hours, but confirmed 559 new infections. Thus, the death toll remained unchanged at 408, while the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 59,763, the Health Ministry's Spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said. The fresh cases included 337 Kuwaitis (60.29 percent) and 222 non-Kuwaitis (39.71 percent), he elaborated.In addition,...

TANEGASHIMA, Japan: An H-2A rocket carrying the “Hope” probe blasts off from Tanegashima Space Centre yesterday. — AFP

First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan

TANEGASHIMA, Japan: An H-2A rocket carrying the “Hope” probe blasts off from Tanegashima Space Centre yesterday. — AFP TOKYO: The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed “Hope”, blasted off from Japan yesterday, in a bid to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet. The Japanese rocket carrying the probe developed by the United Arab Emirates lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan...

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Saudi king admitted to hospital

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz RIYADH: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh for gallbladder inflammation, the royal court said yesterday. The king was “admitted today to King Faisal specialist hospital in Riyadh for some medical tests due to cholecystitis,” inflammation of the gallbladder, the royal court said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency. It did not disclose any...

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visits the Hagia Sophia on Sunday. — AFP

Erdogan visits Hagia Sofia after reconversion to mosque

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visits the Hagia Sophia on Sunday. — AFP ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a surprise visit to Hagia Sofia on Sunday just days before the first Muslim prayers are due to be held at the Istanbul landmark since it was reconverted to a mosque last week. In a lightning visit billed as an inspection, Erdogan took stock of the conversion work, the president’s office said, providing...

This combination of file photos shows US President Donald Trump (left) and Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden during the Nevada caucuses. — AFP

Biden ‘not competent’ to lead the US: Trump

This combination of file photos shows US President Donald Trump (left) and Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden during the Nevada caucuses. — AFP WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump assailed likely opponent Joe Biden as “not competent” to lead the United States, speaking as polls over the weekend showed deepening voter disenchantment with his own handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “He’s shot, he’s...

TOKYO: People wearing face masks cross a street in Tokyo. Tokyo is on its highest coronavirus alert level after a spike in new cases as experts said the rising infections were a clear ‘red flag’. — AFP

No kissing, disinfect microphone: Japan nightlife sets rules

TOKYO: People wearing face masks cross a street in Tokyo. Tokyo is on its highest coronavirus alert level after a spike in new cases as experts said the rising infections were a clear ‘red flag’. — AFP TOKYO: Campaigners for Japan’s nightlife workers say they need realistic guidelines for how to stay safe and remain in business amid the novel coronavirus, which has seen the government zero in on host and hostess bars as centers of...

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