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This aerial view shows rows of boats used for harvesting salt in Lake Retba (Pink Lake) in Senegal. – AFP photos

Floods wash away salt industry, tourism at Senegal's 'Pink Lake'

Maguette Ndiour stands on the edge of Senegal's Lake Retba, famous for its pink-hued waters, and points to a mound of salt slowly being shovelled into bags by men toiling under the hot midday sun. "This is the last of what we were able to save as the waters rose," Ndiour, the head of an association of artisanal salt collectors, says of the 200-tonne pile.In two months, he says, they will have sold all the salt they were able to rescue before the...

ADELAIDE: India's Dinesh Karthik (left) and Virat Kohli run between the wickets during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup 2022 cricket match between India and Bangladesh at Adelaide Oval on November 2, 2022.- AFP

India stun Bangladesh to stand on the brink of T20 semi-finals

ADELAIDE: Virat Kohli became the highest run-scorer in Twenty20 World Cup history Wednesday as India edged Bangladesh by five runs in a crunch rain-hit Twenty20 World Cup clash in Adelaide that went to the last ball. India go top of Group 2 and can clinch a semi-final spot with a win against Zimbabwe in their final Group 2 match on Sunday after Bangladesh faltered in their revised chase of 151 in 16 overs.Kohli's unbeaten 64 had steered India to...

MARSEILLE: Marseille’s Bosnian defender Sead Kolasinac (left) heads the ball during the UEFA Champions League group D football match between Olympique Marseille (OM) and Tottenham Hotspur on November 1, 2022. – AFP

Spurs, Eintracht cruise into Champions League last 16

PARIS: Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg scored a 95th-minute winner as Tottenham Hotspur came from behind to beat Marseille 2-1 and reach the Champions League knockout stage on Tuesday, where they were joined by Eintracht Frankfurt after their victory at Sporting Lisbon. Liverpool ended Napoli's unbeaten start to the season with a 2-0 success at Anfield, but the Italian club did enough to finish top of Group A. Atletico Madrid crashed out of Europe...

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Mutairi, Ibrahim shine as Shooting Tournament

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Competitions at HH the Crown Prince Annual Shooting Tournament continues as the 10m Air Rifle for men and women were played on Tuesday. The results were as follows; first place was won by Ali Farhan Al-Mutairi (from Defense Ministry); Saud Ruhaiman Al-Subaie (from The Club) won second place while Abdallah Hamad Al-Harby (from Defense Ministry) grabbed the third place.On the women side, Shaima Saleh Al-Ibrahim won first...

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Over 1500 registered for FSHN's 10th annual race

KUWAIT: With the participation of 1,500 people, Fawzia Sultan Healthcare Network (FSHN), a nonprofit healthcare provider, concluded yet another successful RunKuwait race in support of children with special needs for the tenth year. The revenues of this race will provide treatment sessions at deeply reduced and no cost for the children treated at the non-profit Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC) at FSHN. The unit offers...

KFH’s team welcomes Kuwait National Jet Ski Team.

KFH honors Kuwait Jet Ski Champions

KUWAIT: Under the sponsorship of Kuwait Finance House (KFH) and as part of its commitment towards the youth segment, KFH hailed Kuwait National Jet Ski Team at Kuwait airport in celebration of their win in the recently concluded Jet ski World Series 2022 held in Arizona, US along with other officials from Kuwait Sea Club and the Public Authority for Sport as well as a large crowd of citizens and family members of the winning team.KFH's...

NIAGARA FALLS, US: Tourists take photos at the American Falls in Niagara Falls, New York on October 25, 2022. In the US city of Niagara Falls, residents accustomed to the soothing rumble of famous waterfalls have recently discovered a much less pleasant sound: the roar of bitcoin mining farms. – AFP

In Niagara Falls, bitcoin mining brings a new roar to town

NIAGARA FALLS: In the US border town of Niagara Falls, residents accustomed to the soothing roar of the famous waterfalls recently discovered a much less pleasant sound: the “haunting hum” of bitcoin mining farms. “I get four hours of sleep, maybe, because of that constant noise,” said Elizabeth Lundy, an 80-year-old retired hairdresser. “I can hear the noise even through the storm windows.” On a sunny October morning, a mechanical...

DAYTON, US: Matthew Atha, a 54 year old apprentice, does steel work at Ironworkers local 29 during an apprenticeship in Dayton, Ohio.— AFP

In Rust Belt Ohio, US Democrats struggle to win back workers

DAYTON, US: In a US workshop echoing with the sound of steel girders clanging into each other, Zachary Williams is learning a trade. At this vocational training center in Ohio, the red-bearded apprentice is eyeing work that will be generated by two huge factories under construction in this one-time bellwether state that swung to the right as long-time heavy industries rusted out.But in next week's midterm elections, Williams is hoping for a...

ALGIERS: Arab leaders, including HH the Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, pose for a group photo on Nov 1, 2022 during the Arab Summit. - AFP

Leaders launch 31st Arab Summit

ALGIERS: The Arab Summit kicked off on Tuesday with the attendance of 13 leaders, eight delegation heads and the Arab League chief. Representative of HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, is heading Kuwait's delegation to the summit. This year's summit is themed "Arab reunification", with the Algeria Declaration expected to focus on the Palestinian crisis, food security...

KUWAIT: MPs attend a National Assembly session on Nov 1, 2022. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Assembly passes deficit budget as inflation hits 4.2%

By B Izzak & KUNAKUWAIT: The National Assembly on Tuesday passed the state budget for the 2022/2023 fiscal year, which forecasts a deficit for the eighth year in a row, after the government accepted demands by MPs to increase welfare spending. The initial draft budget projected a KD 333 million surplus for the first time since the 2015/2016 fiscal year, but the government accepted demands by newly-elected lawmakers to add more than KD 450 million...

ABU DHABI: UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and US National Security Council Coordinator for MENA Brett McGurk watch as US Senior Advisor for Energy Security Amos Hochstein and UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology Sultan Al-Jaber sign an agreement on Nov 1, 2022. – AFP

US, UAE in clean energy partnership worth $100 bn

WASHINGTON: The United States announced a clean energy partnership on Tuesday with the United Arab Emirates worth $100 billion, the White House said. The Partnership for Accelerating Clean Energy (PACE) will aim to develop low-emission energy sources to distribute 100 gigawatts of clean energy worldwide by 2035, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. The two countries will also invest in managing harmful emissions such as...

MANAMA: A poster bearing the images of Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and Pope Francis is displayed at the Sacred Heart Church on Oct 7, 2022, ahead of a visit by Pope Francis. – AFP

Pope's Bahrain visit to cement ties with Islam

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will become the first pontiff in history to visit Bahrain, in a trip this week that is hoped will cement ties with Islam. The Thursday-to-Sunday visit - the 39th international trip of Francis' papacy - comes three years after his historic trip to the United Arab Emirates in 2019, where he signed a Muslim-Christian manifesto for peace.The Argentine pontiff, 85, has made outreach to Muslim communities a priority during...

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