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Twice exiled, Shakhtar Donetsk dreaming of war-torn home
ISTANBUL: They had already fled their home in eastern Ukraine for Kyiv when their shiny new stadium was battered by shelling in the first weeks of a Russian-backed insurgency in 2014. Now the players of Ukraine's perennial football champions Shakhtar Donetsk are training in Turkey because of the all-out invasion by Russia of their former Soviet state.Team and national squad captain Andriy Pyatov - an imposing 37-year-old goalkeeper who has played...
Sri Lanka cricket stars go into bat for protesters
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's World Cup-winning cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga and fellow ex-skipper Sanath Jayasuriya have joined street protests demanding the president step down over the country's economic crisis. Cricket is avidly followed in the Indian Ocean island nation and the pair called on other former players to support attempts to oust President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The island nation is in the grip of its worst economic crisis since...
Harry, Meghan make first public appearance in Europe since royal exit
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Friday made their first joint public appearance on this side of the Atlantic since quitting royal life and moving to North America two years ago. The Sussexes attended an evening reception in the Dutch city of The Hague for the Invictus Games, a day after a visit with his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II in Britain on Thursday. Harry, who served with the British army in Afghanistan, founded the event...
Coachella music festival returns after three-year hiatus
California's Coachella kicked off Friday for the first time since 2019, with hundreds of thousands of people flocking to the premier desert music festival, as the United States sees COVID-19 cases edge up. The mammoth event that takes place over two three-day weekends-and this year features Billie Eilish, Harry Styles and the Weeknd with EDM stars Swedish House Mafia as headliners-traditionally kicks off the year's summer concert circuit....
Get this straight: Curls bounce back in Cairo
"Shaggy," "messy," "unprofessional". Natural curls were once looked down upon in Egypt, where Western beauty standards favoured sleek, straight locks. Now, things are changing. For Rola Amer and Sara Safwat, their curls were once a career-hindering nuisance. Now part of an aesthetic liberation movement sweeping Egypt in recent years, they own a curly hair salon that caters to women and men like them. Amer used to spend hours straightening her...
In US, every dog has its... DNA test
The routine is now a familiar one: Open the kit, swirl a swab around, put it in solution and wait impatiently for the results. Except this time it's not a test for COVID-it's a DNA test for dogs. The kits, which are used foremost to learn a dog's breeds, first appeared some 15 years ago and their popularity has since exploded in the United States, where nearly 40 percent of all families have at least one canine companion. "Having a dog and...
In embattled Ukraine, spring flowers take on patriotic hues
In her garden in western Ukraine, Ivanna Kuziv, a retired accountant in her late 60s, gathers an armful of yellow daffodils and bluebells to sell at the market. It is purely coincidental that the flowers in her garden are the colors of the national flag this week, she says. "But I like it. It's in honor of Ukraine." Since Russia invaded her country in February, the population of the surrounding town of Vynnyky has dwindled. Many mothers and...
Marzouq Al-Kharafi elected new HEISCO Chairman, Bader Al-Kharafi Vice Chairman
KUWAIT: Heavy Engineering Industries and Shipbuilding Company (HEISCO) elected its new board of directors at its Annual General Assembly meeting on Wednesday. Marzouq Nasser Al-Kharafi was elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi was elected as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. The General Assembly approved all items on the agenda including the reports of the board of directors and auditors.HEISCO is a...
Ukraine war raises risks for Mideast, World Bank warns
DUBAI: The war in Ukraine has "multiplied risks" for the Middle East and North Africa's poorer countries by raising food and energy prices, the World Bank said Thursday, warning of potential social unrest. In its latest update to its MENA growth forecast, the development lender said inflationary pressures set off by COVID-19 "are likely to be exacerbated" by Russia's invasion."The threat of COVID-19 variants remains and the war in Ukraine has...
Philippines landslides kill 148
ABUYOG: The death toll from landslides and flooding in the Philippines triggered by tropical storm Megi rose to 148 on Thursday, official figures showed, as more bodies were found in mud-caked villages. Scores of people are still missing and feared dead after the strongest storm to strike the archipelago nation this year dumped heavy rain over several days, forcing tens of thousands into evacuation centers.In the central province of Leyte - the...
US suspect faces terror charge
NEW YORK: A 62-year-old man accused of shooting 10 people on the New York subway was taken into custody Wednesday and faces a federal terror charge, following a day-long manhunt in a city set on edge by the attack. Frank James-who is suspected of detonating two smoke canisters on the train as it pulled into a Brooklyn station, before firing into the crowd-was stopped by officers on a Manhattan street and arrested without incident."My fellow New...
Initiatives launched to help owners of damaged Souq Mubarakiya stores
By Nawara FattahovaKUWAIT: Different companies and businesses took the initiative to help the stores that were damaged in the Souq Mubarakiya blaze two weeks ago. Some stores offered the damaged stores to sell their products in their own stores, and even removed their original products to provide them space. Meanwhile, some online businesses offered them their platform to sell their products free of charge.Marshoud Al-Marshoud, CEO of one of...
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