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LISBON: (From left) Dynamo Kiev's Ukrainian midfielder Serhiy Sydorchuk fights for the ball with Benfica's Brazilian defender Morato and Benfica's Portuguese forward Henrique Araujo during the UEFA Champions League playoff second leg football match at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on August 23, 2022. - AFP

Benfica's Neres ends Dynamo Kyiv's Champions League hopes

PARIS: Benfica cruised into the group stage of the Champions League after overrunning Dynamo Kyiv 3-0 in the second leg of their playoff on Tuesday thanks to David Neres' assist and goal. The two-time European champions from Portugal will be in the draw on Thursday while Dynamo will be in the Europa League. "From the first second we wanted to win and showed it. Now we are happy to be in the Champions League," Benfica coach Roger Schmidt said....

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Pregnant Kerber withdraws from US Open; Kvitova announces engagement

PARIS: Former women's world number one Angelique Kerber announced on Wednesday that she is pregnant and has withdrawn from next week's US Open joking "two against one just isn't a fair competition." The 34-year-old German added that Flushing Meadow holds great memories for her. She won the title there in 2016 and, as a result, became world number one."I really wanted to play the @usopen but eventually I decided that two against one just isn't a...

TOKYO: India’s Kidambi Srikanth returns a shot against China’s Zhao Junpeng during their men’s singles match on day three of the Badminton World Championships in Tokyo on August 24, 2022. – AFP

Former No1 Srikanth bows out of badminton worlds

TOKYO: India's Commonwealth Games badminton bronze medalist Kidambi Srikanth was stunned by unseeded Zhao Junpeng in the second round of the world championships in Tokyo on Wednesday. Number 12 seed Srikanth, the silver medalist at last year's world championships, lost 21-9, 21-17 to China's Zhao, his second-game comeback falling away at the finish.Srikanth, part of India's Thomas Cup-winning team in May, said he "could have maybe played better"...

Pranay Pathole

Elon Musk's Twitter friendship with Indian superfan

Not many people can boast of having candid conversations about planetary conquest with Elon Musk, but for Indian software engineer Pranay Pathole, a friendly chat with the world's richest man is just a tweet away. Their unlikely online friendship has blossomed since Pathole was a teenager, with the mercurial billionaire responding to him over hundreds of tweets and private messages with headline-making company updates and even life advice.This...

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Kim Kardashian is ready to date again after Pete Davidson split

Kim Kardashian is ready to dive in and skim the dating pool. A few weeks after news broke that Kim and Pete Davidson have called it quits on their romance, a source exclusively tells E! News that Kim said she is ready to begin dating again and is "asking who she should date next." The answer to that question? Only time will tell, but a separate source close to The Kardashians star tells E! News that Kim "has plenty of options," adding that "all...

In this file photo taken on September 25, 2021 Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle speaks during the 2021 Global Citizen Live festival at the Great Lawn, Central Park in New York City.- AFP

Meghan Markle hosts Serena Williams as podcast launches

Meghan Markle, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, launched her long-awaited podcast Tuesday, with tennis megastar Serena Williams as the first guest. The Duchess of Sussex said the 12-part series, called "Archetypes,"-a play on the name of the couple's oldest child, Archie-would explore the female experience. "We're going to live inside and rip apart the boxes women have been placed into for generations," Markle said. "I want to get to the...

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New guidelines for taxis issued

KUWAIT: The General Directorate of Traffic has issued instructions to roaming and call taxi companies and offices to affix a taxi permit in Arabic and English in a clear place behind the driver’s seat (on both sides) with the company’s information and the driver’s phone number. Taxis should operate the meter and light the taxi sign in the absence of passengers.Call taxi drivers cannot pick up passengers from the street, while both roaming...

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Expatriate issues to take centerstage after election

KUWAIT: Political powers have agreed to prioritize a roadmap to work with the government after the upcoming National Assembly elections on issues that are currently being discussed in the political arena in Kuwait. Informed sources told Kuwait Times issues regarding expatriates in Kuwait will take precedence, especially those that have been assigned to the parliament but have not yet been addressed, including imposing fees on remittances by...

BEIRUT: This grab from footage shot on Aug 23, 2022 shows the collapse of the northern section of grain silos at the port of Beirut. - AFP

8 more silos collapse in Beirut port

BEIRUT: Eight more grain silos at Beirut port toppled Tuesday, succumbing to damage from a devastating 2020 explosion in the third such collapse in a month, AFP correspondents reported. A cloud of dust rose over the port after the collapse, which brought down the last of the northern block of silos that was more heavily damaged in the blast and where a fire had been burning since last month.The remaining southern block is more stable and not at...

MAKAYLAB, Sudan: A woman wades through floodwater in this village in River Nile state on Aug 23, 2022. - AFP

Sudanese fear worse to come after floods

MAKAYLAB, Sudan: In the Sudanese village of Makaylab, Mohamed Tigani picked through the pile of rubble that was once his mud-brick home, after torrential rains sparked heavy floods that swept it away. "It was like doomsday," said Tigani, 53, from Makaylab in Sudan's River Nile state, some 400 km north of the capital Khartoum. "We have not seen rains and floods like that in this area for years," he said, scouring for anything to help build a...

BAGHDAD: Supporters of Iraqi Muslim Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr dance during a protest outside the headquarters of the Supreme Judicial Council, Iraq's highest judicial body, in Baghdad. - AFP

Sadr supporters launch sit-in

BAGHDAD, Iraq: Several hundred supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched a sit-in outside Iraq's top judicial body on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions in a showdown with a rival Shiite alliance. Caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi cut short a visit to Egypt, where he had been due to take part in a five-nation summit, to return home to monitor developments.Kadhemi "called on all political parties to calm down and to take advantage...

HODEIDAH, Yemen: Children attend classes outdoors amidst the rubble of their destroyed school on the first day of the new academic year in Yemen's war-torn western province of Hodeida. - AFP

Children in war-torn Yemen skip class to survive 'misery'

TAEZ, Yemen: Yemen's new school year is underway, but Midian Aoud skips class and washes cars to support his family in its struggle to survive the "misery" of poverty exacerbated by war. The 12-year-old lives in Taez, a besieged city in the grinding conflict between Iran-backed Huthi rebels and government forces supported by a Saudi-led military coalition."My friends are studying and I am not. They are in seventh grade. I dropped out of school to...

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