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Kuwait Sports Club Handball team book second round

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Sports Club Handball team qualified for the second round of the 38th Gulf Cup winner championship after winning their second match against UAE's Aljazeera Club 28-21 in the first group. Al-Ahli (Qatar) defeated Oman's Muscat 25-17 in the same group and qualified along with Kuwait. Aljazeera and Muscat are no longer in competition.The match between Kuwait and Aljazeera was attended by National Assembly Speaker...

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West Asia Futsal tournament

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Two important matches will be played on Tuesday in the West Asia Futsal tournament being held in Kuwait at Martyr Qushaian Al-Mutairi Hall in Al-Nasr Club. Lebanon will face off with UAE at 4:30 pm while Oman will play Bahrain (7:30 pm). Oman top the standings of the second group with 3 points - two points ahead of Bahrain and Lebanon, that have one point each. UAE remain pointless. The first round of the second group...

MONTMELO: Yamaha French rider Fabio Quartararo competes during the Moto Grand Prix de Catalunya at the Circuit de Catalunya on June 5, 2022. – AFP

Quartararo wins Catalonia MotoGP, as Espargaro pays dearly for error

MONTMELO: France's world champion Fabio Quartararo extended his lead in this season's title race after winning the Catalonia MotoGP on Sunday helped by an astonishing error by his closest pursuer Aleix Espargaro. The Frenchman's joy contrasted starkly to Aprilia rider Espargaro, who had a nightmare of a race from start to finish.Having started on pole he was passed by Quartararo on the first bend-a lead the 23-year-old Frenchman would never...

An undated handout photograph released by Buckingham Palace shows Queen Elizabeth II and Paddington Bear having cream tea at Buckingham Palace, taken from a film that was shown at the BBC Platinum Party at the Palace.—AFP photos

Queen Elizabeth II ends historic jubilee with vow to carry on

Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday brought the curtain down on her historic Platinum Jubilee celebrations, making another public appearance on the last of four days of festivities and vowing to maintain her record-breaking reign. The 96-year-old monarch, who has been troubled by mobility problems, appeared for the first time in person since Thursday on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the Trooping the Color military parade.Her exertions at the start...

This undated handout shows members of the group dancing while wearing neckties and colored belly warmers in Wake town, western Okayama prefecture.—AFP

Dancing 'old heart-throbs' become TikTok sensation in Japan

Showing off their awkward moves in shirts, ties and brightly colored belly warmers, four men in their 50s and 60s have become Japan's latest TikTok sensation. The group's mission? To promote their small countryside town, whose population is in decline, through dance routines to pop tunes that fans call "adorable". Since their first post in February, the videos, filmed in choice locations from playgrounds and shrines to municipal buildings, have...

This aerial view shows sheep grazing in a dry wheat field during a sandstorm in the countryside of the city of Tabqa in Syria's Raqqa governorate.—AFP photos

Syria's climate-scorched wheat fields feed animals, not people

Moussa Fatimi's wheat field was once part of a thriving Syrian breadbasket. Now, he can't even grow enough to feed his family, and the land has been turned over to animals. Fatimi's crop has withered from a climate crisis, adding to fears of supply shortages sparked by the war in Ukraine as Syria grapples with record-high rates of food insecurity. "For the second year in a row, we face drought," Fatimi, 85, told AFP at his parched plot. "We...

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‘Top Gun’ again soars to top of N America box office

Action drama “Top Gun: Maverick” has soared to a second huge weekend showing in North American theaters, taking in an estimated $86 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. That “sensational” number for Paramount’s long-awaited Tom Cruise sequel placed it among the top 10 highest-grossing second weekends in domestic box office history, Variety reported. It took in $151 million last weekend.Boosted by its gripping...

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Zendaya's 'Euphoria' and 'Spider-Man' win at MTV awards

Zendaya dominated the MTV Movie and TV Awards on Sunday as her teen drama "Euphoria" and big-screen superhero blockbuster "Spider-Man: No Way Home" were voted best show and best movie respectively. The light-hearted awards, taking place at the start of the summer blockbuster season, are voted for online by the public, and underscored the huge popularity of the 25-year-old former Disney child star.Zendaya won best performance in a show for...

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Kuwait summons Indian envoy after BJP official insults Prophet

KUWAIT: The foreign ministry on Sunday summoned the Ambassador of India to Kuwait Sibi George, where he met the assistant secretary of state for Asia affairs, who handed him an official protest note expressing Kuwait's categorical rejection and condemnation of statements offensive to the holy Prophet (PBUH), Islam and Muslims made by a politician of the ruling Bhartaiya Janata Party.A statement by the foreign ministry said that the Indian...

SITAKUNDA, Bangladesh: Firefighters carry the body of a victim from the site after a fire broke out at a container storage facility about 40 km from the key port of Chittagong on June 5, 2022. - AFP

Bangladesh port depot fire kills 49

SITAKUNDA, Bangladesh: At least 49 people died and hundreds were injured after a fire sparked a huge chemical explosion at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday. The toll was expected to rise, with some of the more than 300 people injured in serious condition, officials said, while volunteers reported that there were more bodies inside the smoldering, wreckage-strewn facility.The fire started late on Saturday at the...

JUBAN, Philippines: Vehicles drive past ash-covered homes and vegetation on June 5, 2022 after Bulusan volcano erupted, sending a plume of ash over the area. - AFP

Philippine towns covered in volcano ash

MANILA: A volcano in the eastern Philippines spewed a huge, dark cloud on Sunday, prompting evacuations from ash-covered towns while authorities warned of possible further eruptions. The blast from Bulusan volcano in the rural Sorsogon province lasted about 17 minutes, sending a grey plume shooting up at least one kilometer, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PhiVolcs).No casualties were reported, but authorities...

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Saudi Arabia eyes tripling of foreign tourists in 2022

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia aims to triple foreign tourism this year as pandemic restrictions ease, hajj pilgrims return and the first elements of the crown prince's signature projects open, its tourism minister told AFP Sunday. The famously conservative and closed-off kingdom inaugurated tourist visas in September 2019, just months before the coronavirus pandemic decimated the industry globally.An uptick in domestic travel in 2020 and 2021 -...

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