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SANAA: Forces loyal to Yemen's Huthi rebels take part in a military parade marking the seventh anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in their country, in the capital Sanaa, on March 31, 2022. - AFP

War-torn Yemen holds breath as breakthrough truce begins

SANAA: Yemen's warring parties laid down their weapons for the first nationwide truce since 2016 on Saturday, with all eyes on whether the UN-brokered ceasefire will hold. The Iran-backed Huthi rebels and Saudi-led coalition have both agreed to observe the two-month truce, which took effect at 1600 GMT on the first day of Ramadan, the Muslim holy fasting month. "The two-month truce started at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) tonight. As of tonight, all...

COLOMBO: Protestors hold banners and placards during a demonstration against the surge in prices and shortage of fuel and other essential commodities in Colombo on April 2, 2022. – AFP

S Lanka protesters defy curfew after social media shutdown

COLOMBO: Armed troops in Sri Lanka blocked a Sunday opposition march that defied a weekend curfew to protest the island nation's worsening economic crisis, after authorities imposed a social media blackout to contain public dissent. The South Asian nation is facing severe shortages of food, fuel and other essentials, along with record inflation and crippling power cuts, in its most painful downturn since independence from Britain in 1948....

CHRISTCHURCH: Australian team celebrate their victory with the trophy after the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup final match between England and Australia at the Hagley Park Oval on April 3, 2022. – AFP

Australia beat England to win World Cup

CHRISTCHURCH: Australia, led by a sublime 170 from Alyssa Healy, rewrote the record books to beat a valiant England by 71 runs in the Women's World Cup final in Christchurch on Sunday. Australia amassed a daunting 356 for five but the defending champions England, faced with a record target, kept up the run rate but ran out of wickets to be dismissed for 285 in the 44th over, with Nat Sciver unbeaten on 148."Unbelievable," player-of-the-match and...

MIAMI GARDENS, Florida: Poland's Iga Swiatek poses with her trophy after winning the 2022 Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on April 2, 2022. - AFP

Swiatek beats Osaka to win Miami Open

MIAMI: Iga Swiatek's dream season continued as the incoming world number one scooped her third successive WTA 1000 title to beat Naomi Osaka in the Miami Open final on Saturday. The Polish 20-year-old became only the fourth - and youngest - player to win the "Sunshine Double" of Indian Wells and Miami in the same year following Steffi Graf, Kim Cljisters and Victoria Azarenka with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Osaka.Swiatek, who will be formally confirmed...

LONDON: Brentford's Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen celebrates after scoring a goal during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Brentford at Stamford Bridge on April 2, 2022. - AFP

Man City maintain Premier League lead as Brentford thrash Chelsea

LONDON: Manchester City kept their cool under pressure on Saturday, cruising past Burnley 2-0 after Liverpool briefly replaced the long-time Premier League leaders at the top of the table. Elsewhere, Christian Eriksen scored as Brentford came from behind to beat Chelsea 4-1 - their first victory against their London rivals since 1939. Third-placed Chelsea remain on course for next season's Champions League, but Manchester United's hopes of a...

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Disabled table tennis players return victorious

KUWAIT: Kuwait disabled table tennis team returned home Sunday with 15 medals of various hues after participating in the first Arab Clubs Tournament and Egypt’s International Paralympic Table Tennis Championship. The team was received by Honorary Chairwoman of Irada Disabled Sports Club Sheikha Suhaila Al-Sabah and the athletes’ parents.Sheikha Suhaila was pleased with the achievements the athletes made in the singles, doubles and mixed...

This file photo shows a Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft at the ILA Air Show in Berlin, Germany.

US defense contractors see longer term benefits from war in Ukraine

NEW YORK: US arms manufacturers are not cashing in directly from the thousands of missiles, drones and other weapons being sent to Ukraine, but they do stand to profit big-time over the long run by supplying countries eager to boost their defenses against Russia. Like other Western countries, the United States has turned to its own stocks to furnish Ukraine with shoulder-fired Stinger and Javelin missiles, for instance. These weapons from...

HOUSTON: A Chevron gas sign is seen on April 01, 2022 in Houston, Texas. The Biden administration announced that the US will release up to one million barrels of oil per day from the United States' strategic petroleum reserve. - AFP

Will Biden's plan to tap US oil reserves reduce gasoline prices?

WASHINGTON: Citing the need to counteract the "Putin price hike" following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Biden has announced a sweeping plan to make unprecedented use of US emergency oil stockpiles. Under Biden's plan, the United States will release up to a million barrels a day every day for six months from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). On Friday, the International Energy Agency announced that a group of 30 other countries...

FREMONT, US: An aerial view of cars parked at the Tesla Fremont Factory in Fremont, California. US electric car manufacturer Tesla shipped a record number of more than one million cars over the past year, according to figures published April 2, 2022. - AFP

Tesla delivers over 1 million electric cars over past year

NEW YORK: US electric car manufacturer Tesla shipped a record number of more than one million cars over the past year, according to figures published Saturday. The company delivered 1.06 million cars from April 2021 to March 2022, including more than 310,000 cars in the first quarter of this year alone, which is 67 percent higher than over the same period last year.Still, the figure fell short of analysts' expectations of 317,000 cars, according...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica: Costa Rican presidential candidate Jose Maria Figueres (left), of the Social National Liberation Party, speaks as a woman records him with a mobile phone, after a press conference in San Jose, on April 02, 2022. - AFP

Costa Rica presidential candidates vow to tackle unemployment

SAN JOSE: Costa Ricans headed to the polls on Sunday to elect one of two scandal-tainted presidential candidates in a country grappling with sky-high poverty and unemployment. Former president Jose Maria Figueres was once investigated for corruption while ex-finance minister Rodrigo Chaves was previously demoted for sexual harassment. But with 23 percent of the population living in poverty and unemployment soaring to 14 percent alongside a...

Journalists discover novelties at the booth of Italian luxury watch manufacturer Panerai, owned by Richemont group, on the opening day of the Watches and Wonders Geneva show, in Geneva.—AFP photos

Clock ticking on Swiss watches' raw materials from Russia

Diamonds shine brightly at this year's Geneva watch fair but the sanctions slapped on Russia could soon force the Swiss watch industry to produce more subdued designs. Russia is a major supplier of diamonds, gold and other precious metals to the luxury watchmakers exhibiting at Watches and Wonders, one of the world's top salons for the prestige industry. The Russian group Alrosa-the world's largest diamond mining company-was hit by US sanctions...

In this file photo beekepers walk towards the Inzerki Apiary in the village of Inzerki, 82 km north of Agadir, in the Souss-Massa region.—AFP photos

Stung by drought, Morocco's bees face disaster

Morocco's village of Inzerki is proud to claim it has the world's oldest and largest collective beehive, but instead of buzzing with springtime activity, the colonies have collapsed amid crippling drought. Beekeeper Brahim Chatoui says he has lost almost a third of his hives in just two months-and he is not alone. "At this time of year, this area would normally be buzzing with bees," said Chatoui, sweating under a blazing springtime sun. "Today,...

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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

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GAZA: A Palestinian man carries a cat as he flees with others a makeshift camp for displaced people in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip after Zionist tanks took position on a hill overlooking the area on Aug 18, 2024. - AFP

Under-fire Bibi blames Hamas as Gaza suffers