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GEELONG: UAE’s Karthik Palaniapan Meiyappan tries to play a sweep shot as Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper Kusal (right) follows the ball during the ICC men’s Twenty20 World Cup 2022 cricket match between Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates at Kardinia Park in Geelong on October 18, 2022.— AFP
Sri Lanka, Netherlands win at T20 WCup as Meiyappan bags hat-trick
GEELONG: Karthik Meiyappan lit up the Twenty20 World Cup with a hat-trick Tuesday but it was in vain as Sri Lanka crushed the United Arab Emirates to get their campaign back on track, while the Netherlands toppled Namibia. The Asian champions were stunned by Namibia in the tournament's opening game on Sunday, a crushing 55-run defeat that left no room for error against the UAE.They responded by bowling out the UAE for 73 for a convincing 79-run...
JAKARTA: Gianni Infantino (right), president of football’s world governing body FIFA, presents a souvenir ball to Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo during a joint press statement at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on October 18, 2022. – AFP
Indonesia to demolish football stadium where crush killed 133
JAKARTA: The Indonesian football stadium where a stampede killed 133 people will be torn down and rebuilt, President Joko Widodo said Tuesday, as the head of FIFA pledged to help "reform and transform" the sport in the country. Gianni Infantino met Widodo in the capital Jakarta, just over two weeks after the tragedy, and a year before the Under-20 World Cup is due to be held in the Southeast Asian nation.More than 40 children were among those...
MUMBAI: Newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Roger Binny (centre right) and secretary Jay Shah (centre left) pose with other board members after the 91st BCCI annual general meeting in Mumbai on October 18, 2022. – AFP
Binny replaces Ganguly as Indian cricket board chief
MUMBAI:  World Cup winner Roger Binny was Tuesday appointed head of India's cricket board - the sport's richest body - replacing Sourav Ganguly after he was reportedly forced out in a political tussle. Binny, 67, was elected president at a meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in Mumbai, where secretary Jay Shah won another term in office, vice-president Rajeev Shukla told reporters.The BCCI, which has a net worth reported...
Swimmer Mishal Al-Badern
Kuwait's Mishal wins silver medal
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Mishal Rasheed Al-Bader won the silver medal in the 50 meters Back Stroke during the world swimming championship for down syndrome being held in Portugal until October 22. Al-Bader who is participating in the M2-T21 Category made the first Kuwaiti achievement in the championship in which swimmers from 20 countries are participating.Al-Bader was happy to lift his country's flag in such an event and dedicated it to HH the Amir and...
Swiss writer Kim de l'Horizon shaves over their hair in solidarity with the protesting women of Iran having received the German Book Prize in Frankfurt.— AFP
Swiss author shaves head on stage after winning award
Swiss author Kim de l'Horizon shaved their head on stage after winning the prestigious German Book Prize on Monday, in a show of solidarity with the women protesting in Iran. "This award is not just for me," the author, who identifies as non-binary, told the audience at the award ceremony in Frankfurt. "I think the jury chose this text also to send a signal against hatred, for love and for the fight of all those people who are being suppressed...
A worker uses a cranberry boom in a flooded bog to coral floating cranberries to a pump as they are harvested at Mann Farms in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.— AFP photos
Cranberry farmers fight climate change to protect Thanksgiving staple
American farmers growing cranberries, a quintessential component of Thanksgiving feasts, have had to adapt their traditional methods to fight the effects of climate change. The tart red berries, boiled with a heaping dose of sugar to make classic cranberry sauce, thrive only in the right environment—but climate change threatens to make conditions more unpredictable and extreme. After a terrible 2021 season, Massachusetts farmer Billy McCaffrey...
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Netflix defends 'The Crown' after ex-PM lambasts 'malicious nonsense'
Netflix on Monday defended its latest series of "The Crown" after former British prime minister John Major lashed out at a story line showing King Charles plotting to oust the late queen. Major's tenure as prime minister from 1990-1997 covered a turbulent period for the royals that included the divorce of Charles and his wife Princess Diana. But reported scenes in the fifth series-defended by streaming giant Netflix as a "fictionalized...
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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida", about a journalist murdered amid the country's sectarian strife. "My hope for Seven Moons is this... that in the not-so-distant future... that it is read in a Sri Lanka that has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work," he said."I hope it's in...
Dr. Khalid Al-Saleh
United States and the meaning of friendship
By Dr Khalid Al-Saleh the good relations that link GCC countries and the United States of America, which is an historic relationship as affirmed by GCC countries and all American administrations, the current US administration could not understand this relation correctly. The misunderstanding usually comes from mistaken consultations or previous political stands that impose itself on the American decision maker. Of course, leaders of Gulf...
KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah poses with Cabinet ministers. – KUNA
Kuwait Cabinet holds first meeting after oath taking
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Cabinet on Monday held the first session after swearing in before the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince His Highness Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Seif Palace. The meeting was led by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Barrak Al-Sheetan said.At the onset of the meeting, the Cabinet reviewed Sheikh Mishal's speech on the...
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Kuwait Society for the Handicapped holds General Assembly
KUWAIT: Sunday evening, the Regular General Assembly meeting of the Kuwait Society for the Handicapped was held for the year 2021 in the presence of BedourBou Nashi, the representative of the Civil Societies Department, the administration team at the Ministry of Social Affairs, valued General Assembly members, and the external auditor, Messrs. RSM Albazie and its partners for auditing.The administrative and financial reports for the year 2021...
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KFF and MOI conduct safety and prevention workshop
KUWAIT: In the framework of cooperation, Kuwait Fire Force (KFF) and the Interior Ministry conducted a workshop on Monday for fire safety precautions at the Information Ministry with the attendance of vice president of KFF Khaled Fahad in order to increase social security and know the best ways to handle incidents at the ministry buildings.The workshop shows ways to insure safe operation. It also included construction stipulations and ways to...
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Palestinian senior medical students attend to patients. – KUNA photos
Kuwait to send Palestinian med students to Gaza
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US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she arrives to speak on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. - Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the partyís nomination for president today at the DNC which ran from August 19-22 in Chicago. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)
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