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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Captain Dasun Shanaka (centre) and team mates celebrate after Sri Lanka won by 4 runs during the fourth one-day international (ODI) cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo.- AFP

'Win for the whole country'; Sri Lanka clinch ODI series

COLOMBO: Skipper Dasun Shanaka dedicated Sri Lanka's sensational series victory over Australia to the country's people as the island nation suffers its worst-ever economic crisis. Australia needed 19 off the final over in Colombo but Sri Lanka held their nerve despite David Warner's 99 and some last-minute heroics from Matthew Kuhnemann to win on the last ball of the match by four runs. The victory in front of an ecstatic crowd at the R Premadasa...

BROOKLINE: Brooks Koepka of the United States and caddie Ricky Elliott walk the 18th green during the third round of the 122nd US Open Championship at The Country Club in Brookline.- AFP

LIV Golf rebels allowed to play in British Open

LONDON: Players who have signed up to the breakaway Saudi-backed LIV Golf series will be allowed to compete in next month's 150th British Open, organizers the R&A announced on Wednesday. The US PGA Tour has banned those involved in the rebel venture after the inaugural event in Britain earlier this month but organizers of last week's US Open did not follow suit. That stance will be followed at the year's final major, which starts at St Andrews in...

MUNICH: Bayern Munich's Senegalese new forward Sadio Mane plays the ball during a press conference after he signed a three-year deal with German first division football club FC Bayern Munich on June 22, 2022. - AFP

Mane's signing eases pressure on Bayern to keep wantaway stars

BERLIN: Sadio Mane's transfer from Liverpool to Bayern Munich is a coup for the Bundesliga champions, who have signed a ready-made replacement for either wantaway striker Robert Lewandowski or winger Serge Gnabry. Mane, 30, arrives in Munich on a three-year contract with sufficient star status to enhance Bayern's attack. "Often it's the other way around, but this time a Bundesliga club has signed a top Premier League player," German magazine...

Kuwaiti student Mishary Khaled Al-Rashed.

Kuwaiti student Mishary Al-Rashed delivers graduates' speech at UCLA

LOS ANGELES: Kuwaiti student Mishary Khaled Al-Rashed affirmed that although Kuwait is a small country in terms of geographical size, it is large in the ambition of its youth. This occurred in his speech at the commencement ceremony of the department of physics and astronomy at UCLA, one of the top 10 universities in the world and the number 1 public university in the United States. Rashed graduated Magna Cum Laude with the highest honor in...

KUWAIT: UK Ambassador Belinda Lewis with President of KCST Professor Khaled Al-Begain and Zain's team at the exhibition.

Zain participates in first KCST career fair

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced its participation of the Kuwait College of Science and Technology Career Fair 2022. The first career fair was organized by KCST Public Relations and Marketing Department which runs from 22-23 June 2022.Zain took part in the opening ceremony held at the KCST campus in Doha, attended by Her Excellency Belinda Lewis, the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the State of Kuwait,...

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Kuwait oil price went up $3.31 to $116.12 pb

KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went up by $3.31 to settle at $116.12 per barrel on Tuesday in contrast with $112.81 pb last Monday, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said on Wednesday. Globally, Brent crude climbed 52 cents to $114.65 pb, while the West Texas Intermediate crude edged up by $1.09, settling at $110.65 pb.The price of OPEC's basket of oils rose by $2.58 to $115.97 per barrel on Tuesday against $113.39 pb on Monday. Bulletin of...

KUWAIT: A view of high-rise buildings in Kuwait City. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

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TEHRAN: Abbas Emami (left), 88, and his daughter Marjan display pistachios inside his shop in Tehran's famous Graz Bazaar. Tucked away in Tehran's famous bazaar, Iran's oldest pistachio wholesaler quietly prepares a small revolution-he will hand his business to his youngest daughter, in a trade dominated by men. - AFP photos

Iran's oldest pistachio trader prepares a 'small revolution'

TEHRAN: Tucked away in Tehran's famed Grand Bazaar, Iran's oldest pistachio wholesaler quietly prepares a small revolution-he will hand his business to his youngest daughter, in a trade dominated by men. Abbas Emami, 88, began working for his own father at the age of 15. More than seven decades on, bags of pistachios at the family shop are emblazoned with the slogan "over a century of experience".He doesn't know exactly when his family first got...

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France's eye in the sky: Tracking Russian vessels in the Baltic

ONBOARD ATLANTIQUE 2 OVER THE BALTIC SEA: The cluster of dots on the Atlantique 2's screens may seem like a confusing mess to the untrained eye, but not to the crew of the French naval surveillance aircraft tasked with telling friend from foe in the Baltic Sea. "Another tarantula," says an operator as the Russian corvette of the Tarantul class becomes visible, travelling in a pack with other Russian vessels as several nearby NATO ships also...

SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgarian Prime minister Kiril Petkov speaks during a demonstration to support the government in Sofia before facing a no-confidence vote. - AFP

Confidence vote puts Bulgarian government's fate in the balance

SOFIA: Bulgaria's coalition government faced collapse Wednesday just six months after taking office, as MPs prepared to vote on a no-confidence motion that if passed could mean fresh elections. But analysts say there is no guarantee that another national vote in this country of 6.5 million people, which last year went through three such polls, would end the country's political instability.In the most recent elections last November, the party of...

MES AYNAK: Photo show an archaeological site in Mes Aynak, in the eastern province of Logar. An ancient Buddhist city carved out of immense peaks near Kabul is in danger of disappearing forever, swallowed up by a Chinese consortium exploiting one of the world's largest copper deposits. - AFP

Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist city threatened by Chinese copper mine

MES AYNAK: An ancient Buddhist city carved out of immense peaks near Kabul is in danger of disappearing forever, swallowed up by a Chinese consortium exploiting one of the world's largest copper deposits. Located at the confluence of Hellenistic and Indian cultures, Mes Aynak-believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old-was once a vast city organized around the extraction and trade of copper.Archaeologists have uncovered Buddhist monasteries,...

KARACHI: Laborers work at a clay pot workshop on the outskirts of Karachi.- AFP

Equities, oil prices plunge as recession fears builds

LONDON: Equities and oil prices tumbled Wednesday after a brief respite from last week's painful rout across world markets, with recession fears building as central banks hike interest rates to combat decades-high inflation. While Asia, Wall Street and Europe all enjoyed healthy gains Tuesday, analysts warned the downbeat mood on trading floors means the selling is unlikely to end any time soon.Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell's two-day...

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