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Kuwait grabs IIHF bronze
KUWAIT: Deputy Director-General of Public Authority for Sport (PAS) Bashar Abdullah bronze medal won by the Kuwaiti team at the 2023 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship, Division IV, in Mongolia, is a great achievement in the history of the game in Kuwait. The well-deserved victory, given the fierce competition, is the fruit of relentless efforts by Kuwait Winter Games Club to promote the game over the past years,...
GLASGOW: Scotland’s midfielder Scott McTominay (center right) clears the ball from the path of Spain’s striker Borja Iglesias during the UEFA Euro 2024 group A qualification football match between Scotland and Spain on March 28, 2023. — AFP
Scotland down Spain 2-0
PARIS: Scott McTominay scored twice as Scotland claimed a famous 2-0 victory over Spain at Hampden Park in Euro 2024 qualifying on Tuesday, while Croatia won in Turkey. Steve Clarke’s Scotland won their opening match in Group A 3-0 against Cyprus on Saturday but usurped that result with a stunning performance against three-time European champions Spain. It was their first victory over Spain since 1984 and probably their best result since...
SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO: Argentina’s forward Lionel Messi (center) raises a replica of the World Cup trophy next to his teammates during a recognition ceremony for the World Cup-winning players, following the friendly football match between Argentina and Curacao on March 28, 2023. — AFP
Messi scores 100th Argentina’s goal
SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO: Argentina captain Lionel Messi on Tuesday scored his 100th international goal for the reigning world champions as they romped to a 7-0 friendly win over outclassed Curacao. Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi opened the scoring against the Caribbean island minnows on 20 minutes in Santiago del Estero. It came 17 years after he opened his Argentina account in a 3-2 defeat to Croatia in March 2006.The 35-year-old soon added...
MIAMI: Shohei Ohtani #16 of Team Japan celebrates in the clubhouse after defeating Team USA in the World Baseball Classic Championship 3-2 at loanDepot park.- AFP
Japan Classic hero Ohtani tops MLB with record $65 m
NEW YORK: Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani will make a one-season Major League Baseball record $65 million this year in salary and endorsements, Forbes magazine reported on Tuesday. Ohtani, set to be the starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels in their MLB season opener Thursday against Oakland, helped spark Japan to the World Baseball Classic title a week ago with a victory over the United States in the final.The 28-year-old who serves...
In this picture Libyan students study Tamazight language at a school in Zuwara, a majority-Berber community near the border with Tunisia.—AFP photos
Libyan Berbers revive their language in class and on air
A pupil shyly approached the whiteboard, picked up a marker and carefully traced a letter from the Berber alphabet as the teacher watched -- a scene unimaginable under Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Tamazight has been the native language of indigenous people across North Africa since pre-Roman times. It has survived despite centuries of Arab domination and has undergone a revival in Libya since Kadhafi's four-decade rule ended in a 2011...
In this photograph Yolanda Schicker-Siber (left) takes part in the installation of 'Trinity' a Tyrannosaurus-Rex skeleton dating back 67-million years which will be auctioned in Switzerland on April 18, 2023, marking the first such sale in Europe.—AFP photos
T-Rex skeleton on show in Zurich before auction
Yolanda Schicker-Siber gingerly fastens a pointy claw bone with a thin metal wire, putting the finishing touches on a giant Tyrannosaurus-Rex skeleton before a rare auction in Switzerland next month. The Aathal Dinosaur Museum's curator was on Tuesday helping complete perhaps the world's biggest construction kit -- reassembling a 67-million-year-old T-Rex dubbed Trinity. Trinity was sent to Zurich from Arizona in the United States in nine giant...
The celebrated Ethiopian pianist and nun Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou
Celebrated Ethiopian pianist and nun dies in Jerusalem
The celebrated Ethiopian pianist and nun Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou has died in Jerusalem aged 99, the Ethiopian patriarchate said Tuesday. Guebrou composed more than 150 works and recorded four albums during her career, according to a foundation created in her name. The musician died Monday and "many people will attend her funeral" from abroad, a secretary for the patriarchate said.Born in 1923 to a wealth family in Addis Ababa, Guebrou was...
In this file photo Beninese singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo performs during the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song ceremony in Washington. --AFP
Benin star Angelique Kidjo wins top music prize
Benin singer Angelique Kidjo won one of Europe’s top music prizes Tuesday along with Britain’s Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, and Estonian composer Arvo Part. The five-times Grammy winner, described by the organizers of Sweden’s Polar Music Prize as “one of the greatest singer-songwriters in international music”, sings her in native Fon and Yoruba languages as well as in French and English. Dubbed “Africa’s premier...
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Defendants jailed in 1MDB case
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The criminal court on Tuesday sentenced two Kuwaiti defendants to 10 years in jail over money laundering charges as part of the worldwide scandal of the so-called Malaysian Fund. The court also passed a 10-year jail sentence against two foreign accomplices, a French businessman of Syrian descent and a Malaysian businessman and financier, who is the main defendant in the scandal involving 1Malaysian Development Berhad (1MDB), the...
NASHVILLE: This handout video grab released on March 27, 2023 shows suspect Audrey Hale holding an assault rifle at Covenant School. — AFP
6 killed at US school in latest mass shooting
NASHVILLE: A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school in Nashville on Monday, before being shot dead by police. Chief of Police John Drake named the suspect as Audrey Hale, 28, who left behind a manifesto and had maps of the school detailing surveillance and entry-exit points.The suspect was “prepared for a confrontation with law...
CAIRO: In this file photo taken on April 16, 2022, Muslims gather along street-long tables to break their Ramadan fast together in the Matariya suburb. — AFP
Egyptians cling to Ramadan charity as inflation soars
CAIRO: In a time of dire economic trouble, Egyptians are holding fast to the Ramadan tradition of charity, with both donors and those in need pinning hopes on holiday generosity. Families have buckled under the weight of inflation, which hit 32.9 percent in February as Egyptians tried to fill their shelves ahead of the Islamic holy month of daytime fasting and special evening meals, known as iftar.“Last year, we were giving out 360 iftar meals...
CIUDAD JUAREZ: Firefighters and police rescue migrants from an immigration center, where at least 39 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire. — AFP
39 killed in fire at Mexico-US border center
CIUDAD JUAREZ: At least 39 migrants died in a fire that broke out at an immigration detention center in a Mexican city on the US border, the Mexican government said Tuesday. The fire broke out shortly before midnight at the National Migration Institute (INM) facility in Ciudad Juarez, prompting the mobilization of firefighters and dozens of ambulances. An AFP journalist saw forensic personnel remove a dozen bodies from the INM’s parking lot,...
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17th female minister marks significant milestone in Kuwait’s political history
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GUBA, Ethiopia: This general view shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, Ethiopia.--AFP
Ethiopia says mega-dam on Blue Nile doubles electricity output
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Committee seeks unified procedures for joining army, MoI, NG