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BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Polish forward Robert Lewandowski (right) scores his team’s third goal during the UEFA Champions League 1st round, group C, football match between FC Barcelona and Inter Milan lona on October 12, 2022. – AFP
Barca on the brink, Salah scores 'fastest hat-trick'
PARIS: Barcelona slipped closer to a second straight Champions League group-stage exit despite Robert Lewandowski's double in a thrilling 3-3 draw with Inter Milan on Wednesday, while Mohamed Salah scored the fastest hat-trick in the competition's history as Liverpool hammered Rangers. Bayern Munich, Napoli and Club Brugge-for the first time since the inaugural group stage in 1991-92 - all booked places in the last 16.Xavi Hernandez's Barca...
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Arab Men Basketball Clubs Championship
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The two semi-final matches of the 34th Arab men Basketball Clubs Championship will be held on Friday evening. The first match (at 5:00 pm) will be between Kazma and Ahli (Egypt). It will be followed by a match between Kuwait and Beirut (Lebanon). The 34th Championship will come to an end on Saturday. The two winners of the semi-final matches will meet by 7:00 pm and the losers will play for third and fourth position by...
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U18 Athletics Championship
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The 4th Asian U18 Athletics Championship began on Thursday under the patronage of President of Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) Sheikh Fahad Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at Ahmad Al-Rashdan track and field in Kaifan. Competitions will resume on Friday (9:00 am) with loom hurdles, pole vault and discuss throw.In the evening, there will be Javelin throw, 110m hurdles final, 400m final, triple jump, 100m final, 1500m in...
2022 FIA World Rally Championship / Round 11 / Rally New Zealand 2022 / 29th September - 2nd October 2022// Worldwide Copyright: Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
GAZOO Racing seals 1-2 victory at Rally New Zealand
KUWAIT: GAZOO Racing(GR) celebrated a spectacular 1-2 finish at Rally New Zealand, while Kalle Rovanpera wrote his name in the history books as the youngest-ever winner of an FIA World Rally Championship title. Rovanpera, who turned 22 just a day before the win, and his co-driver Jonne Halttunen secured victory in style following another outstanding performance in the No 69 Toyota GR YARIS Rally1 Hybrid Electric Vehicle.Taking the title in only...
This undated handout photo obtained from the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan shows a movie still from Singaporean director He Shuming’s upbeat feature debut, “Ajoomma”, about a Singaporean widow who visits South Korea. – AFP photos
Asia's top film festival roots for regional talent
From a Singaporean widow on a K-drama voyage of self-discovery to teenagers seeking revenge on a bully, the movies vying for the key prize at the Busan International Film Festival showcase a diverse array of Asian experiences. Ten films are in the running for the high-profile New Currents award at the festival-Asia's largest-which will hand out two prizes of $30,000 to first- or second-time Asian directors on Friday.Host South Korea-now a...
In this file photo Kanye West attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 92nd annual Oscars at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.- AFP
Chaos agent Kanye West crosses line with bigoted remarks
Kanye West has long been one of the entertainment industry's most polarizing figures, but his recent actions including anti-Semitic comments and white supremacist messaging have alienated fans and business partners alike. It's another problematic turn for the rapper and fashion mogul once hailed as an artistic genius, but whose stubborn contrarianism has seen him start conflating hate speech with free speech.The latest controversies-which erupted...
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Louvre Abu Dhabi marks five years with major Impressionism show
A major exhibition of impressionist art opened Wednesday at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, featuring works from masters such as Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Renoir. Billed as one of the most significant exhibitions on the 19th century art movement ever held outside France, it features more than 150 works on loan from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.A visitor looks at Gustave Caillebotte's masterpiece In The Cafe displayed at the exhibition...
A visitor looks at artworks titled 'Grande Nature morte au gueridon' (Great Still life on pedestal) (left) by artist Pablo Picasso and 'Burlesque' (right) by artist Glenn Brown as part of the 'Les choses - Une histoire de la nature morte' (Things - A History of Still Life) exhibition at the Louvre museum in Paris.- AFP
Picasso’s first lover more than a victim in Paris expo
Fifty years on from Pablo Picasso’s death—and five years after the #MeToo movement started highlighting celebrities’ abuse of women—a new exhibition in Paris focuses on one of the early partners of the controversial artist. If Picasso’s reputation has taken a battering in the post-MeToo world, it is in part due to his treatment of Fernande Olivier, his first serious partner. But for Cecile Debray, director of the Picasso Museum in...
KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah meets MP Alia Al Khaled.
PM meets women lawmakers, more MPs as deadline nears
By B IzzakKUWAIT: Prime Minister-designate HH Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah continued meetings on Wednesday with MPs over the structure of the government, as the two-week deadline for holding the new National Assembly's opening session is fast approaching. The premier received on Wednesday the two female MPs, Jenan Bushehri and Alia Al-Khaled. Bushehri said cooperation between the National Assembly and the government should be based on reforms...
Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai meets flood-affected families at a makeshift camp in Johi in Dadu district of Sindh province on Oct 12, 2022. - AFP
Malala visits women at Pak flood camps
KARACHI: Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai met Wednesday with victims of Pakistan's devastating monsoon floods, in only the second visit to her home country since being shot by the Taleban a decade ago. Catastrophic flooding this summer put one-third of Pakistan under water, displaced eight million people, and caused at least an estimated $28 billion in damage.Yousafzai visited camps in rural Sindh province where she met families who have...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden delivers virtual remarks at the Summit on Fire Prevention and Control from the South Court Auditorium of the White House on Oct 11, 2022. - AFP
Biden confident he 'can beat' Trump again
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Tuesday voiced confidence that he could beat his predecessor Donald Trump in a 2024 rematch - even as he acknowledged the country could sink back into recession under his leadership. The 79-year-old Democrat was asked if he'd be announcing a run for a second term after November's midterm elections - and if Trump would be a factor in his decision."I believe I can beat Donald Trump again," Biden responded,...
RASTAN: Journalists film at the site of a discovery of a mosaic floor dating to the Roman era on Oct 12, 2022. – AFP
Syria unearths stunning mosaic
RASTAN, Syria: Syria on Wednesday revealed a remarkably intact 1,600-year-old Roman-era mosaic including depictions of warriors in the Trojan War, with authorities hailing it as one of the "rarest" found. The mosaic is the latest to be found in Rastan in northern Syria's Homs district, which the government seized back from rebels in 2018 after years of bloodshed.Soldiers carrying swords and shields are seen with the names of Greek leaders who...
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Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by the Zionist entity's Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region on August 23, 2024. — AFP
Airlines fly over Afghanistan as Middle East skies become risky
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TARIM, Yemen: The Terkait Medical Center includes eight medical clinics and related departments. - KUNA photos
Kuwait opens medical center in Hadhramaut
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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)
Harris’ foreign policy muscular, nuanced on Gaza