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WASHINGTON: This photo released on August 2, 2022 by the White House shows US President Biden meeting with his national security team to discuss the counterterrorism operation to take out Ayman al-Zawahiri. - AFP

Afghans cast doubt on Kabul killing of Al-Qaeda chief

KABUL: Many Afghans expressed shock or doubt Tuesday that Al-Qaeda's chief had been killed in Kabul by a US drone strike, saying they couldn't believe Ayman Al-Zawahiri had been hiding in their midst. "It's just propaganda," Fahim Shah, 66, a resident of the Afghan capital, told AFP.Late Monday, US President Joe Biden announced Zawahiri's assassination, saying "justice has been delivered" to the Egyptian with a $25 million bounty on his head. A...

KUWAIT: Members of Kuwait’s new cabinet pose for a group photo on the sidelines of their maiden meeting. – KUNA

Kuwait's new cabinet convenes maiden meeting

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti cabinet held its first meeting under chairmanship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at Seif Palace on Tuesday. Emerging from the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammad Al-Fares said that the prime minister had thanked the new ministers for shouldering responsibility at this critical juncture.The prime minister underlined the...

Dr. Khalid Al-Saleh

US close to age of time

By Dr Khalid Al-Saleh meeting that took place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between US President Joe Biden and leaders of some Middle Eastern countries in the middle of July revealed how far leaders of the US are from benefitting from the wisdom of history. Ibn Khaldoun, the founder of social science, said that nations were like individuals: They grow and become strong then become weak. He showed that the last generation of any nation,...

Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah

Kuwait recalls proudly the solidarity, sacrifice of its people: Governor

KUWAIT: In remembrance of the 32nd anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the governor of Al-Ahmadi Sheikh Fawaz Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said that "We all proudly remember the solidarity of the Kuwaiti people, and their hold of their sovereignty and the richness of their pure nation. We also remember proudly the wisdom of the late Amirs, Their Highnesses Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jabir Al-Sabah, Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, and Sabah...

KUWAIT: (From left) Maj Gen Khaled Al-Obaidi, Chinese Ambassador to Kuwait Zhang Jianwei, and Defense Attache of the Chinese Embassy Senior Colonel Xue Chuanlai cut the cake during the ceremony. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Chinese embassy celebrates Army Day

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The Embassy of China in Kuwait held a reception on Monday to celebrate Army Day, which falls on August 1, the day that celebrates the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1927. This year marks the 95th anniversary of the founding of the PLA.On the sideline of the event, Chinese Ambassador to Kuwait Zhang Jianwei said that the Chinese military has distinguished relations with Kuwait, stressing the important of...

KUWAIT: A man visits the Martyr's Museum at the Martyr's Bureau headquarters in Kuwait City on August 2, 2022, on the 32nd anniversary of the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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ISLAMABAD: The main petitioner Akbar S Babar (C), a disgruntled founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) who filed a case against his party leadership accusing it of financial irregularities, arrives at the Pakistan’s election commission office in Islamabad. – AFP

Imran Khan's party accepted illegal donations

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan's ex-premier Imran Khan's party accepted millions of dollars in illegal funds from foreign individuals and groups, the election commission ruled Tuesday. The case dates back to 2014 when a disgruntled founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) filed a case against his party leadership accusing it of financial irregularities.The Election Commission Pakistan found that Khan's party concealed 16 bank accounts and...

BEIJING: A woman pushes a trolley with twins along a street in Beijing on August 2, 2022. China's population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials said. – AFP

China population to begin shrinking by 2025: Officials

BEIJING: China's population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and citizens age. The world's most-populous country has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and its weakest population growth in decades.And although officials relaxed the nation's strict "one-child policy" in 2016 and last year allowed couples to have three children, the...

LONDON: (From left) Malaysia's Ridwan Sahrom, Australia's Matthew Glaetzer, England's Joe Truman, New Zealand's Sam Webster, Trinidad and Tobago's Kwesi Browne and Scotland's Jack Carlin compete in the men's Keirin second round cycling event on day two of the Commonwealth Games, at the Lee Valley VeloPark in east London.- AFP

Proud powers into semi-finals

BIRMINGHAM: World champion Ben Proud powered into the semi-finals of the men's 50m freestyle at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday as breaststroke star Adam Peaty prepared for a shot at redemption. England's Proud, who won the world title in Budapest in June, was third-quickest in the heats, behind compatriot Lewis Burras, who touched in 22.09sec, and Australia's Tom Nowakowski."This is what the whole thing's about," said the 27-year-old, who is...

WASHINGTON: Andy Murray of Great Britain returns a shot to Mikael Ymer of Sweden during Day 3 of the Citi Open at Rock Creek Tennis Center on August 01, 2022.- AFP

Murray, Venus defeated in Washington openers

WASHINGTON: Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray of Britain crashed out in the opening round of the ATP and WTA Washington Open on Monday, falling to Sweden's Mikael Ymer. The 35-year-old Scotsman fell to 115th-ranked Ymer 7-6 (10/8), 4-6, 6-1 after two hours and 50 minutes at the US Open tuneup tournament. "I'm excited," said Ymer, who saved four set points in the first set. "A lot left to do but it's a very good start of the American...

LIMERICK: US golfer Tiger Woods plays out of a bunker on the fifth fairway on the second day of the JP McManus Pro-Am golf tournament at the The Golf Course at Adare Manor in Limerick, south-west Ireland.- AFP

Tiger Woods rejects $700-800 m LIV offer

NEW YORK: Tiger Woods turned down an offer of about $700-800 million to take part in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series, the rebel circuit's chief Greg Norman said. Fifteen-time major champion Woods has always made clear his opposition to the series which is threatening to tear golf apart and triggered accusations of Saudi "sportswashing". Speaking in an interview on Fox News with Tucker Carlson, LIV chief executive Norman was asked if it was true...

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Bahrain Tennis team concludes training in Kuwait

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Bahrain's Tennis Juniors' team members were in Kuwait for a three-week training camp at Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdallah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah International Tennis complex under the supervision Rafa Nadal Kuwait Academy. Head of the delegation, member of the board of Bahrain Tennis Federation (BTF) Mohammad Salman conveyed the message of the President of BTF Sheikh Abdelaziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa to the President of Kuwait and...

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