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LAHORE: Pakistan's wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan attempts a stump New Zealand's Mark Chapman during their first Twenty20 match at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium on April 14, 2023. – AFP
Pakistan thump New Zealand in Azam’s 100th T20 international
LAHORE: Pakistan celebrated skipper Babar Azam’s 100th international match in the shortest format with a clinical 88-run win in the first Twenty20 against New Zealand in Lahore on Friday. Azam failed with just nine runs but Fakhar Zaman and Saim Ayub scored 47 runs each and put on a 79-run partnership for the third wicket to anchor Pakistan to 182 all out in 19.5 overs.Fast bowler Haris Rauf, one of five players who returned after being rested...
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Japan PM resumes campaigning after blast
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resumed campaigning on Saturday after being evacuated unharmed from the scene of an apparent "smoke bomb" blast. The incident in western Japan's Wakayama came less than a year after the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, which traumatised the country and forced a security shake-up for public officials. Kishida was in the city to deliver remarks in support of a ruling party candidate at...
SLOVIANSK: A woman reacts in front of a partially destroyed residential building, after a shelling in Sloviansk, on April 14, 2023, amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine. – AFP
Russian strike kills nine, including toddler, in Ukraine
SLOVIANSK: Russia shelled a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing nine people, authorities said Saturday, including a two-year-old boy who was rescued from the rubble but died on his way to hospital. Friday’s strike on the quiet neighbourhood came as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that will make it easier to mobilise citizens into the army and block them from fleeing the country if drafted. Russia...
ESSENBACH: Photo taken on April 14, 2023 shows the nuclear power plant Isar in Essenbach near Landshut, southern Germany. Germany shut down its three remaining nuclear plants on April 15. – AFP
Germany ends nuclear era as last reactors power down
BERLIN: Germany will switch off its last three nuclear reactors on Saturday, exiting atomic power even as it seeks to wean itself off fossil fuels and manage an energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. While many Western countries are upping their investments in atomic energy to reduce their emissions, Germany is bringing an early end to its nuclear age. Europe’s largest economy has been looking to leave behind nuclear power since 2002, but...
SAPPORO, Japan: Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura (front left) and Minister of the Environment Akihiro Nishimura (front right) attend the G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment in Sapporo, Hokkaido prefecture on April 15, 2023. -- AFP
G7 faces pressure on fossil fuels at Japan climate talks
SAPPORO, Japan: G7 allies met Saturday for two days of “difficult” climate talks in northern Japan, facing pressure to show progress on key fossil fuel commitments in an example to other major economies including China. Campaigners have warned climate and environment ministers from the leading developed countries against backsliding on pledges to shift away from coal and natural gas at home and abroad. But a leaked third draft of a statement...
WASHINGTON: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva (right) speaks during a panel titled “Digital Infrastructure: Stacking Up the Benefits” at the annual spring meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2023. – AFP
MENA growth to slow in 2023: IMF
KUWAIT: Despite a series of global shocks, Middle East and North Africa regions surprised on the upside last year with the GDP growing by 5.3 percent, reflecting strong domestic demand and the rebound in oil production, said Jihad Azour, director of the IMF’s Department for the Middle East and Central Asia, while summarizing the findings of the Asian Economic Outlook Report during the IMF 2023 Annual Meetings in Washington. However, growth is...
NEW YORK: In this file photo taken on April 17, 2019 the JPMorgan Chase & Co world headquarters are pictured in New York City. - AFP
Large US banks report higher profits despite recent turmoil
NEW YORK: JPMorgan Chase reported a jump in first-quarter profits Friday alongside fellow banking giants Citigroup and Wells Fargo, in reassuring news to investors after recent banking sector turmoil sparked contagion fears. The first substantial look at the sector—since last month’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and two other midsized banks—showed large banks are still benefiting in some ways from the Federal Reserve’s shift towards...
US rapper Pusha T performs during the first week-end of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Cali-nfornia. —AFP photos
Bad Bunny makes history with sweeping Coachella set
Bad Bunny was among Coachella's most hotly anticipated acts and the Puerto Rican reggaeton giant delivered late Friday, performing two hours of his numerous hits set against an homage to trailblazing Latino artists. The megastar was the first Spanish-language and first Latin American act to headline the major festival, which takes place over two three-day weekends and traditionally kicks off the summer touring circuit. It's but another notch on...
Spanish sportswoman Beatriz Flamini (Right) hugs a relative upon getting out of the cave.
Spanish climber ends 500 days of isolation in underground cave
A 50-year-old Spanish mountain climber emerged Friday from an underground cave where she spent 500 days in seclusion as part of an experiment on the effects of isolation on the human body. Wearing dark sunglasses, Beatriz Flamini smiled and embraced family members who had gathered to greet her as she climbed out of the cave near Motril in southern Spain. “I haven’t talked to anyone for a year and a half, only myself,” the experienced...
NAPLES: Napoli fans stage a protest outside the Diego Maradona stadium on April 2, 2023 to protest against tickets high prices and the interdiction to carry any banners and symbols of team membership. – AFP
As Napoli prepare for historic title, fans feud with owner
MILAN: Napoli fans are preparing for their biggest party in over three decades but a row between hardcore supporters and club owner Aurelio De Laurentiis threatens to take the shine off the colorful festivities already beginning in Naples. Napoli host Verona on Saturday on the verge of their first Scudetto since the days of Diego Maradona but while the city is starting to be decked out in blue and white, the atmosphere at recent home matches has...
MIAMI: Alex Caruso of the Chicago Bulls passes the ball while being defended by Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat during the second quarter at Kaseya Center on April 14, 2023. – AFP
Butler, Strus lead Heat into playoffs
MIAMI: Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat caught fire down the stretch to beat the Chicago Bulls 102-91 and reach the NBA playoffs on Friday, as the Minnesota Timberwolves dominated the Oklahoma City Thunder to book their postseason berth. Miami, smarting from a loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, clinched the Eastern Conference’s eighth and final seed to set up a meeting with the top seeded Milwaukee Bucks starting on Sunday. Minnesota...
JEDDAH: A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Walid Al-Khuraiji (right) receiving Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad (left) upon his arrival at the airport of Jeddah. — AFP
Mideast nations re-establish ties
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia hosted landmark delegations from Iran and Syria on Wednesday as Gulf countries prepare for re-establishing diplomatic ties after years of bitter divisions. Only hours after Iranian state media said a delegation had touched down in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia announced the arrival of Syria's foreign minister in Jeddah - the first such trip since the country's civil war broke out in 2011. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad met with...
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Kuwait, Turkey charities ink $2.105m agreement