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BEIJING: Health workers wearing personal protective equipment are seen at the entrance of a fenced residential area under lockdown due to COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions in Beijing. - AFP

Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents sent to quarantine

BEIJING: Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents were relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the capital begins to take more extreme control measures resembling virus-hit Shanghai. Beijing has been battling its worst outbreak since the pandemic started. The Omicron variant has infected over 1,300 since late April, leading city restaurants, schools and tourist attractions to be closed...

TESTOUR, Tunisia: Tunisian beekeeper Elias Chebbi who uses a locally-made SmartBee device that remotely monitors internal factors in real time and accesses key performance indicators inside his hives, holds a honeycomb in the northern Tunisian area of Testour, in the Beja province. - AFP

Hive mind: Tunisia beekeepers abuzz over early warning system

TESTOUR, Tunisia: Elias Chebbi inspected a beehive in a field in Tunisia minutes after a buzz on his phone warned him of a potential problem. The 39-year-old beekeeper opened a flap in the hive to reveal a low-cost, locally made sensor dedicated to measuring key environmental variables. An app on his phone then warns him if action needs to be taken. "Thanks to this, I can relax," he said. "It tells me remotely everything that's happening."Chebbi...

BELFAST, UK: Ireland's Prime Minister Micheal Martin speaks with members of the media after a series of meetings with the main Stormont parties to discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol and the assembly crisis, at the Grand Central Hotel in Belfast.—AFP

Irish PM urges UK to abide by post-Brexit trade deal

BELFAST: Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin urged the UK government to stand by its post-Brexit trade commitments in Northern Ireland, as Washington warned London its brinkmanship with Europe threatens peace. Martin was visiting Belfast following anger on both sides of the Atlantic at a UK pledge to overhaul the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol, agreed as part of its Brexit divorce deal with the European Union.Its requirement for checks on...

Davos returns under Ukraine cloud after COVID-19 break

DAVOS: The world's political and business elite will hobnob in Davos next week after a two-year break caused by COVID, with the Ukraine war set to dominate the exclusive Swiss mountain summit. The world has changed drastically since the last time the World Economic Forum took place in person at the ski resort in January 2020. At the time, US President Donald Trump and climate campaigner Greta Thunberg headlined the show and the coronavirus had...

DOHA: Photo shows an exterior view of the Al Janoub Stadium in Doha, which will host matches of the FIFA football World Cup 2022. - AFP

Qatar's 'Dr Cool' keeps stadiums chilly

DOHA: Qatar has become almost a byword for scorching heat, but some fans will still take a sweater to World Cup stadiums because of state-of-the-art air conditioning that its mastermind says will become the norm for mega sports events. Saud Abdulaziz Abdul Ghani, nicknamed "Dr Cool", worked for 13 years on the solar-powered cooling system that he says will keep the players and turf healthy and even eliminate body odor in a packed stadium. The...

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Tennis Federation concludes season

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Under the patronage and in the presence of President of Arab and Kuwait Tennis Federations, the Tennis Federation concluded its 2021-2022 season in which Yarmouk Club won and had control of the singles matches. Bader Antar defeated Hussein Al-Shatti 6-2-6-1. Kuwait Club doubles players Hussein Al-Ghareeb and Abdallah Al-Mukaimi won the tournament.New referees who passed the officiating courses successfully received...

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Kuwait tops 3rd Gulf Games medals table with 21 gold

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The opening ceremony of Third Gulf Games will take place on Sunday (7:30 pm) at Rafa Nadal Academy at Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdallah International Tennis Complex. The ceremony will be attended by high ranking dignitaries - both local and international. President of Kuwait Olympic Committee Sheikh Fahad Al-Nasser said he was very pleased with Kuwait's hosting of the Games. He said the events represent the core of the youth...

SAN FRANCISCO: Otto Porter Jr #32 of the Golden State Warriors drives to the basket during Game 2 of the 2022 NBA Playoffs Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Mavericks on May 20, 2022.- AFP

Warriors' comeback stuns Mavs to take 2-0 series lead

SAN FRANCISCO: Stephen Curry scored 32 points as the Golden State Warriors staged a stunning fightback to defeat the Dallas Mavericks 126-117 on Friday and seize control of their NBA Western Conference finals series. A pulsating clash in San Francisco saw the Warriors recover after trailing by as much as 19 points at one stage in the first half for a victory that leaves the six-time NBA champions 2-0 up in the best-of-seven series.Curry may have...

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Rihanna, A$AP Rocky welcome first child

Superstar Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky have reportedly welcomed their first child, after a pregnancy the singer flaunted in a radical revamp of normally covered-up maternity style. The entertainment and fashion mogul behind the hits "Diamonds" and "Umbrella" gave birth to a boy on May 13 in Los Angeles, according to TMZ, which first reported the news.People Magazine confirmed the celebrity birth, citing a source close to the couple who said they...

Aerial view of an urban garden in the Manguinhos favela in Rio de Janeiro on May 4, 2022. – AFP photos

Rio's urban gardens produce healthy food for the poor

Gun-toting youths watch over a street in a Rio de Janeiro slum hit hard by drug trafficking, but walk a bit further and this rough area also boasts the largest urban vegetable garden in Latin America. This success story is unfolding in a favela called Manguinhos in the north of Rio, and thrives as the rest of the country frets over rampant inflation and worries over Russian fertilizer, a major concern for Brazil's powerful agriculture sector.The...

A general view of one of the works produced by the Togolese artist Sitou Matthia, as part of the Effet Graff festival, whose objective is to achieve one of the longest murals in the world, in Cotonou on May 18, 2022. – AFP photos

Graffiti brings Benin's walls alive with treasures from past

On a blue and yellow background, the graffiti artist retouches a spray-painted image of the half-man, half-shark statue of King Behanzin, one of the stolen treasures returned to Benin by France late last year. The image is just one by 26 local and international graffiti artists who have created a mural depicting Benin's history and culture stretching more than one kilometer along a wall in Benin's main city of Cotonou.Their objective is to...

This photo taken on May 7, 2022 shows Japanese taiko drum performers, including Hana Ogawa (center), of the Kodo troupe taking part in a performance on Sado island. – AFP photos

‘Straight to your soul’: Japan’s taiko reinvents drum tradition

In a hall on Japan’s Sado island, 71-year-old Yoshikazu Fujimoto strikes the imposing drum mounted before him, producing a boom so powerful that it reverberates through the floorboards. Fujimoto is a veteran performer of Japanese taiko drumming, a musical form with roots in religious rituals, traditional theatre and the joyous abandon of seasonal festivals called matsuri.But for all its ancient pedigree, taiko as a stage performance is a fairly...

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GAZA: Friends and relatives mourn over the body of photojournalist Ibrahim Muhareb, who was killed as he was covering the advance of Zionist forces north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip the previous day, at Al-Nasser Hospital on Aug 19, 2024. - AFP

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KUWAIT: Inmates line up at the new deportation center in Sulaibiya.

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