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WUZHOU, China: File photo SHOWS rescue workers combing through the site of where China Eastern flight MU5375 crashed on March 21, near Wuzhou in southwestern China’s Guangxi province. – AFP

China reinforces tight control over plane crash mystery

BEIJING, China: The cause of China's deadliest air crash in decades remains a mystery, with authorities giving few details in a preliminary report on Wednesday while enforcing strict censorship one month after the disaster. In the immediate aftermath of the crash, China's ruling Communist Party moved quickly to control information, revving up its censorship machine as media outlets and local residents raced to the crash site.It has maintained its...

RAMBUKKANA, Sri Lanka: District magistrate Wasana Nawarathna (C) inspects a damaged Ceylon Petroleum Corporation fuel station in Rambukkana on April 20, 2022. Dried streaks of blood and spent cartridges mark the ground where a sudden crackdown by Sri Lankan police ended with the first fatality from weeks of anti-government rallies. -- AFP

Sri Lanka deploys military ahead of protester's funeral

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka called out the military on Thursday to bolster security ahead of a funeral for the first person killed during weeks of running anti-government protests in the island nation. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered the three-day deployment to maintain order in the central town of Rambukkana, where police dispersed a demonstration with live rounds and tear gas on Tuesday.A 42-year-old man was shot dead in Tuesday's melee and nearly...

TORONTO: Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers drives to the net against Chris Boucher #25 and Precious Achiuwa #5 of the Toronto Raptors during the second half of Game Three of the Eastern Conference First Round at Scotiabank Arena on April 20, 2022. - AFP

Sixers win on stunning Embiid stunner

WASHINGTON: Joel Embiid hit a stunning three-pointer with 0.8 seconds remaining to give the Philadelphia 76ers a shock 104-101 overtime NBA playoff victory over Toronto on Wednesday. NBA scoring champion Embiid, a 28-year-old center from Cameroon, took an inbound pass near the sideline with less than a second on the shot clock, turned to the hoop and fired, sinking his first career last-second game winner after 14 prior misses."That's the best...

LONDON: A Sotheby's technician adjusts a football shirt worn by Argentina's Diego Maradona during the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal match against England during a photocall at Sotheby's auction house on April 20, 2022, ahead of its sale. - AFP

Maradona shirt auction opens with bid of $5m

NEW YORK: An auction of the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored twice against England in the 1986 World Cup, including the infamous "hand of God" goal, kicked off Wednesday with a bid of over $5 million. Sotheby's is selling the blue number 10 Argentina shirt in an online sale that runs until May 4. A few hours after bidding opened, the site showed that a first offer of £4 million ($5.2 million) - matching the low end of the auction...

LONDON: Arsenal's German-born Portuguese defender Cedric Soares vies with Chelsea's French defender Malang Sarr during their English Premier League match at Stamford Bridge on April 20, 2022. - AFP

Man City back on top as Arsenal rekindle Champions League dreams

MANCHESTER: Manchester City regained top spot in the Premier League from Liverpool with a 3-0 win over Brighton on Wednesday, while Arsenal revived their push for the top four by beating Chelsea 4-2 at Stamford Bridge. Liverpool stormed to the top of the table by tearing Manchester United to shreds in a 4-0 win at Anfield on Tuesday.City were not so sparkling, but held their nerve to edge back one point ahead in the title race thanks to...

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Japan's rowdiest baseball fans eager to end pandemic silence

OSAKA: In a country of baseball fanatics, Hanshin Tigers supporters are known as Japan's rowdiest - so they are aching to cut loose as a pandemic ban on cheering drags into a third season. In pre-coronavirus times, the Tigers' Koshien Stadium near Osaka was a riot of noise and color with fans shouting, singing and playing trumpets in fervent support of their team.But since COVID they have been silenced and their voices replaced by recorded chants...

Mohammad Al-Sanousi with media figures who were honored during the event.

Stars shine at the "Art and Media" Festival

By Faten OmarIn the presence of the former Information Minister Mohammad Al-Sanousi, the seventh edition of the "Stars of Art and Media" Festival kicked off on Wednesday, taking place at Millennium Hotels in Kuwait City. The festival is a milestone cultural event that is set to celebrate and honor Gulf and Kuwaiti actors, actresses, and media figures.Jamal Al-Edwani, festival director, stated that the annual award is for encouraging Kuwaiti,...

Art curator Maria Lanko poses by ‘Fountain of Exhaustion’ by artist Pavlo Makov at Ukraine’s pavilion during a press day at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in Venice.—AFP photos

Ukraine war steals the show at Venice Art Biennale

Pavlo Makov fled Russia's invasion with almost nothing but is proud to represent Ukraine at this year's Venice Biennale, which raises questions about the role of art at a time of war. "I feel myself much more a citizen of Ukraine than an artist from this country," the 63-year-old told AFP ahead of the opening this weekend of one of the world's most prestigious art exhibitions. He added: "I'm simply doing something that I have to do. It's like a...

Actor Johnny Depp demonstrates how he claims he shielded himself from an alleged attack by his ex-wife Amber Heard as he testifies during his defamation trial against Heard, at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia.—AFP photos

Johnny Depp says abuse allegations have cost him 'everything'

"Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp said Wednesday that domestic abuse allegations made against him by his ex-wife Amber Heard had cost him "nothing less than everything" and claimed that she was the one who was frequently violent. Depp, taking the witness stand for a second day of testimony in his defamation case against Heard, said she would regularly insult him and once threw a vodka bottle at him, severing the tip of one of his...

Kim Pan-jun (right), president of “Queen Forever” South Korea Queen fan club poses while wearing a mask next to a statue of British rock group Queen’s lead singer Freddie Mercury after the statue was unveiled outside a restaurant on the northern coast of Jeju.—AFP photos

Freddie Mercury to live forever in South Korea statue

A die-hard Queen fan unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Freddie Mercury on Thursday on South Korea's resort island of Jeju, after an eight-year quest to honor his late hero. The music of British rock band Queen is popular in South Korea, a country more associated with home-grown K-pop dance bands, including global megastars BTS. Jeju businessman and Queen superfan Baek Soon-yeob, 57, used to listen to bootleg recordings of Freddie Mercury-who...

JERUSALEM: Zionist policemen stand guard in front of Muslim women praying in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque as a group of religious Jewish men and women visit the Temple Mount, which is known to Muslims as the Haram Al-Sharif (The Noble Sanctuary), at the Al-Aqasa mosques compound in the old city of Jerusalem on April 20, 2022. - AFP

Churches in Jerusalem resist Zionist settlers and radicals

JERUSALEM: Churches in Jerusalem are up in arms against Jewish "radicals" who are settling in the Christian Quarter and threatening a fragile religious balance in the ancient Holy City. "We have a major problem here," said Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilus III in Jerusalem's Old City, which is split into historic Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Armenian quarters."Jerusalem also has her Christian character, and that is what is threatened," he...

BEIRUT: Vehicles drive in the centre of Lebanon's capital Beirut, while the background shows a giant billboard for the upcoming parliamentary election.- AFP

Lebanon's crisis exposes kids to deadly viruses

BEIRUT: Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained professionals, the United Nations said Wednesday. "The critical drop in vaccination rates has left children vulnerable to potentially deadly diseases such as measles, diphtheria and pneumonia," the UN children's agency UNICEF said in a new report titled "A worsening health crisis for...

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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos

Alain Delon: Women he loved and left

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Schools reopening amid extreme heat sparks concerns

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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait swelters amid power cuts

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KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Aug 18, 2024. — KUNA

India looks to upgrade bilateral ties with Kuwait: Dr Jaishankar

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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

Palestinian fighters claim Tel Aviv bombing, threaten more attacks