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ACCRA, Ghana: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) heads of state and government pose for a group photo at the ECOWAS 61st Ordinary Session in Accra, Ghana, on July 3, 2022. - AFP

W African heads meet to review sanctions

ACCRA: West African leaders met on Sunday in Ghana's capital Accra to review sanctions they have imposed on three military-ruled countries in their volatile region. Heads of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) were gathering to assess efforts to secure timetables and other guarantees for restoring civilian rule in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso.Mali underwent coups in August 2020 and May 2021, followed by Guinea in September...

TUNIS, Tunisia: File photo shows Sadok Belaid, head of Tunisia's constitution committee, submitting a draft of the new constitution to President Kais Saied (R) at the Carthage Palace in Tunis. - AFP

Author of proposed new Tunisia constitution disavows project

TUNIS: The Tunisian jurist who oversaw the drafting of a new constitution submitted to President Kais Saied said Sunday it has been changed into a charter that could lead to a dictatorship. Some articles of the draft constitution published last Thursday in the official gazette could "pave the way for a dictatorial regime", warned Sadeq Belaid, who headed a committee tasked with drafting the document.The published text is "completely different"...

KHARTOUM, Sudan: Anti-coup protesters take cover as riot police try to disperse them with water cannon during a demonstration against military rule in the centre of Sudan's capital Khartoum. - AFP

Hundreds of anti-coup protesters in Sudan defy security forces

KHARTOUM, Sudan: Hundreds of Sudanese protesters demanding an end to military rule took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and its suburbs for a fourth straight day Sunday, witnesses said. A violent crackdown by the security forces during mass rallies on Thursday killed nine people, the deadliest day for several months in the long running protests against a military takeover last October led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.Recent...

RIYADH: Chief of Kuwaiti Hajj Mission Farid Emadi meets Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq Al-Rabih. - KUNA

Kuwait says Saudi Hajj preparations extraordinary

RIYADH: Chief of Kuwaiti Hajj Mission Farid Emadi commended Sunday Saudi Arabia's early Hajj preparations, calling the organization extraordinary. The Kuwaiti Mission affirmed in statement that this came during meeting between Emadi and Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq Al-Rabih in Makkah, where the two discussed a slew of Hajj and Umrah related topics.Emadi commended their efforts in facilitating the Hajj process, enabling pilgrims to...

KUWAIT: An aerial view shows traditional fishing boats docked at the Souq Sharq harbor, in Kuwait City on July 3, 2022. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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Kuwait Premier League kicks off August 25th

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Football Federation announced that the Kuwait Premier League for the upcoming sports season (2022/2023) ) will start on the 25th of August with a new system. The First Division will begin on the 28th of the same month as the competition of His Highness the Amir’s Cup will be launched on the 23rd of January while His Highness the Crown Prince Cup will kick off on October 18.The Super Cup will be on the 6th November. The...

WIMBLEDON: Germany's Tatjana Maria eyes the ball as she returns it to Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko during their round of 16 women's singles tennis match on the seventh day of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 3, 2022. - AFP

Mother of all wins as Maria books Wimbledon quarters

LONDON: Germany's Tatjana Maria saved two match points to reach her first Grand Slam quarter-final at Wimbledon on Sunday. The 34-year-old mother-of-two defeated former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 after battling back from 1-4 down in the second set. Maria, ranked 103, fired nine aces and exploited Ostapenko's all-or-nothing approach which resulted in 52 winners and 57 unforced errors for the Latvian.Maria made her...

Ferrari's Spanish driver Carlos Sainz Jr finishes his lap during the third and final qualifying session to take pole position for the Formula One British Grand Prix at the Silverstone motor racing circuit in Silverstone, central England on July 2, 2022. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)

Sainz secures maiden pole for 150th start at British Grand Prix

SILVERSTONE: Carlos Sainz surprised himself on Saturday when his bold wet-weather lap secured a maiden pole position ahead of his 150th Formula One race start in Sunday's British Grand Prix. The 27-year-old Spaniard outpaced both his Ferrari team-mate qualifying specialist Charles Leclerc and world champion and series leader Max Verstappen of Red Bull to secure the prime starting place on the grid.His best lap of one minute and 40.983 seconds...

BIRMINGHAM: India's Jasprit Bumrah just fails to reach a shot from England's Sam Billings during play on Day 3 of the fifth cricket Test match between England and India at Edgbaston, Birmingham in central England on July 3, 2022. - AFP

England's Broad concedes the 'costliest over' in Test history

BIRMINGHAM: India stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah starred with both bat and ball as England's Stuart Broad conceded the most expensive over in Test history, giving up 35 runs at Edgbaston on Saturday. India were all out for a breathtaking 416 in their first innings of the COVID-delayed fifth Test, with the tourists 2-1 up in a five-match series.Bumrah, who hit Broad for 29 runs in an over that also featured five wides and a no-ball he struck for...

Bandoneonists Abril Farolini, 22, Ramiro Hernández, 35, and singer Paola Larrama, 37, perform at the dialysis room in the Diaverum Center for kidney patients, as part of the Hospital Tango project, in Montevideo.- AFP

Uruguay's tango therapy a hit with dialysis patients

At the age of 85, Uruguayan Olga Diaz's kidneys are failing - she was beginning to despair at her bleak future, kept alive by 12 hours of dialysis per week. But at the clinic where she receives her treatment, Diaz has found a new "will to live" thanks to live tango and milonga performances. "This is more than medicine," Diaz told AFP from the Diaverum clinic in Montevideo.It is 9:00 am and Diaz is one of 20 patients sitting in armchairs, all...

COLOMBO: Auto rickshaw drivers and motorists queue along streets to buy fuel at fuel stations on July 3, 2022. - AFP

Sri Lanka grinds to a halt as fuel reserves shrink

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has less than a day's worth of fuel left, the energy minister said Sunday, with public transport grinding to a halt as the country's economic crisis deepened. Petrol and diesel queues snaked through the capital for kilometers, though most pumping stations have been without fuel for days. Energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera said petrol reserves in the country were about 4,000 tonnes, just below one day's worth of...

US dollar notes are photographed in Buenos Aires, on June 23, 2022. - Argentines do their accounts in dollars, traumatised by recurrent economic crises and tormented by the inflation that is eating away at their pockets and is projected to exceed 60% this year. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

US multinationals grapple with soaring greenback

NEW YORK: The rapid rise of the US dollar since the start of the year is a double-edged sword for American multinational companies, pushing some of them to decide whether to hedge or reposition their activities abroad to avoid fallout. For an importer, the surge in the greenback against the euro, yen or British pound is a plus, because it makes the products they buy cheaper.But for a US export company, products sold in dollars have become more...

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