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NEW ORLEANS, LA - JANUARY 22: Zion Williamson #1 of the New Orleans Pelicans shoots the ball against the San Antonio Spurs on January 22, 2020 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. 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. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2020 NBAE Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images/AFP
Pelicans' Williamson thrills in NBA debut; Lakers bounce back
NEW ORLEANS: Zion Williamson #1 of the New Orleans Pelicans shoots the ball against the San Antonio Spurs on January 22, 2020 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. - AFP LOS ANGELES: New Orleans rookie Zion Williamson flashed some brilliance in his long-awaited NBA debut Wednesday, but the San Antonio Spurs spoiled the party at Smoothie King Center with a 121-117 victory over the Pelicans. Williamson, who was the number one...
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In Albania, a film follows communism's star-crossed lovers
Russian director and screenwriter Yuri Arabov (second left) monitors a shooting on the set of his new movie provisionally called "Gjirokastra", inside of former Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha house in Tirana. Inside the stone walls of a 13th-century fortress, Albanian and Russian actors are striving to re-enact a little-known but troubling chapter of their shared history for the big screen. Co-written by Albania's acclaimed novelist...
TOPSHOT - French designer Jean Paul Gaultier (C) celebrates with models at the end of his Women's Spring-Summer 2020 Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris, on January 22, 2020. - Legendary French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier is set to retire from fashion after a typically spectacular show in Paris on January 22, 2020. The maverick creator stunned fans on January 17, by announcing that the haute couture show in a theatre in the French capital would be his last. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
Fashion legend Jean-Paul Gaultier bows out in style
French designer Jean Paul Gaultier (center) celebrates with models at the end of his Women's Spring-Summer 2020 Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris.-AFP photos Jean-Paul Gaultier has bowed out of fashion with all the cheek and showmanship with which he has lit it up over the last half century. The legendary French provocateur bid farewell Wednesday with an hour-long feelgood musical spectacular with an orchestra and a cast of hundreds...
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Asian Handball Championship semis start tomorrow
KUWAIT: Iraq attempts to score in their Asian Handball Championship match against New Zealand yesterday. By Abdellatif SharraKUWAIT: Semifinals of the 19th Asian Handball Championship, which qualifies for the World Cup in Egypt 2021, are set to start tomorrow at Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Hall in Sabah Al-Salem. Qatar and Japan already qualified, while the other two teams are yet to be decided. The winner of the match between South Korea and Iran...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva (L) and BlackRock Chair and CEO Laurence D. Fink attend a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 23, 2020. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)
France, US set aside 'digital tax' row for now
DAVOS: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva (left) and BlackRock Chair and CEO Laurence D Fink attend a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, yesterday.-AFP DAVOS, Switzerland: France and the United States agreed yesterday how to press ahead with a global rewrite of cross-border tax rules for the digital era, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said. Le Maire said he and US...
TOPSHOT - Hairdressers wear protective masks as they cut the hair of customers in Beijing on January 23, 2020. - Seventeen people have died and more than 570 people have been infected with the new SARS-like virus across China -- with most cases found in Wuhan, where a seafood market that illegally sold wild animals has been identified as the epicentre of the outbreak. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)
China locks down two cities to curb coronavirus outbreak
BEIJING: Hairdressers wear protective masks as they cut the hair of customers yesterday. - AFP WUHAN, China: China locked down nearly 20 million in two cities at the centre of a deadly virus outbreak yesterday, banning planes and trains from leaving in an unprecedented move aimed at containing the disease which has already spread to other countries. The respiratory virus has claimed 17 lives since emerging from a seafood and animal market in...
Japan's Naomi Osaka hits a return against China's Zheng Saisai during their women's singles match on day three of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 22, 2020. (Photo by John DONEGAN / AFP) / IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE
Osaka sets up Coco crunch
MELBOURNE: Japan's Naomi Osaka hits a return against China's Zheng Saisai during their women's singles match on day three of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne yesterday. - AFP MELBOURNE: Fifteen-year-old prodigy Coco Gauff set up an Australian Open blockbuster with defending champion Naomi Osaka yesterday, as a pumped-up Serena Williams took another step towards a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title. On a day when men's seeds...
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to Al-Aqsa compound, Islam's third-holiest site which is also considered the holiest site to Jews who refer to it as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on January 22, 2020. - World leaders are to travel to Israel this week to mark 75 years since the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the extermination camp where the Nazis killed over a million Jews. Thousands of police officers and other security forces will deploy from today, ahead of the arrival of dignitaries including Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and US Vice President Mike Pence. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
Macron loses cool with Israeli security forces
JERUSALEM: French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday visits the Al-Aqsa compound, Islam's third-holiest site. - AFP JERUSALEM: When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Jerusalem's Old City yesterday, he also trod in the footsteps of one of his predecessors, Jacques Chirac, by engaging in a heated argument with Israeli security. The altercation broke out when Israeli security forces pushed past the French detail and were first to enter the...
TOPSHOT - People wearing protective masks walk outside Beijing railway station in Beijing on January 22, 2020. - A new virus that has killed nine people, infected hundreds and reached the United States could mutate and spread, China warned on January 22, as authorities urged people to steer clear of the city at the heart of the outbreak. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)
China virus toll hits 17; call to avoid Wuhan
BEIJING: People wearing protective masks walk outside Beijing railway station yesterday. - AFP BEIJING: The death toll from a new SARS-like virus that has infected hundreds in China rose to 17 yesterday, as authorities urged people to steer clear of the city at the center of the outbreak. The coronavirus has caused alarm because of its similarity to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed nearly 650 people across mainland China...
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New PM says Lebanon faces 'catastrophe'
BAABDA, Lebanon: Lebanese President Michel Aoun (left) meets new Prime Minister Hassan Diab at the presidential palace yesterday. - AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon faces a "catastrophe", Prime Minister Hassan Diab said yesterday after his newly unveiled cabinet held its first meeting to tackle the twin challenges of a tenacious protest movement and a nosediving economy. Diab, who replaced Saad Hariri as prime minister, vowed to meet the demands from the...
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Nasser al-Sabah (R) speaks with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah during a parliament session at Kuwait's national assembly in Kuwait City on January 22, 2020. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
Assembly overwhelmingly ratifies neutral zone pact with Saudi Arabia
KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah (right) speaks with HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah during a National Assembly session yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: MPs yesterday overwhelmingly ratified the neutral zone agreement with Saudi Arabia signed last month, paving the way for the resumption of oil production in the area after almost five years of stoppage. Fifty-five members,...
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Kuwait handball team exits championship
KUWAIT: Kuwait National Handball exited the Asian Championship from the second round of the main draw following a heavy loss to South Korea with the score of 27-34 Tuesday evening. The Blue team will face Qatar today in an important match for the Qatari's which is looking for top place.QATAR AND JAPAN QUALIFY Qatar's national team qualified for world cup finals and the semi-finals by two consecutive wins against Korea and Iran collecting four...
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones