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DWC celebrates Ramadan

KUWAIT: In presence of the Honorary President Sheikha Halah Bader Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Diplomatic Women's Committee celebrated the advent of the holy month of Ramadan for the year 2022. Among the attendees were the lady ambassadors of the Republic of Sierra Leone and the Republic of Kenya, and the wives of a group of ambassadors and diplomats as well as the members of DWC board Nargis Al-Shatti, Fouzia Abdelbasit, Nazira and Yoke...

COLOMBO: A police official walks past a cordoned off site next to the burnt-out bus near Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's home in Colombo on April 1, 2022. Security forces were deployed across the Sri Lankan capital on April 1 after protesters tried to storm the president's home in anger at the nation's worst economic crisis since independence. - AFP

Sri Lanka deploys troops to quell protests

COLOMBO: Troops armed with sweeping powers were deployed in Sri Lanka Saturday with the near-bankrupt country on edge after the president declared a state of emergency to quell escalating protests against him. Gotabaya Rajapaksa invoked special powers on Friday night, a day after hundreds tried to storm his house in anger over unprecedented shortages of food, fuel and medicine.The state of emergency was for the "protection of public order and the...

DOHA: A picture shows a general view of the stage during the draw for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center on April 1, 2022. - AFP

Germany, Spain in World Cup clash

DOHA: Former winners Germany and Spain will clash early in the World Cup finals in Qatar after being placed in the same group while the coaches of bitter geopolitical rivals United States and Iran vowed to put animosity aside when their sides meet. The glitzy draw in Doha on Friday also set reigning champions France on a potential collision course with England in the quarterfinals, if they win their relatively kind groups.But the world's...

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Qatar 2022 World Cup draw: Group guide

DOHA: AFP Sport examines each group following Friday's draw in Doha for the 2022 Qatar World Cup:Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, NetherlandsQatar, ranked 51st in the world, are appearing at their first World Cup but were among the top seeds thanks to their privileged status as hosts. With a squad of home-based players under Spanish coach Felix Sanchez, they are a little-known quantity to most. The Netherlands, whose coach Louis van Gaal...

MEMPHIS: Deandre Ayton #22 of the Phoenix Suns shoots the ball during the game against the Memphis Grizzlies on April 1, 2022 at FedExForum. – AFP

Depleted Grizzlies stun Suns, Lakers fall despite return of James, Davis

LOS ANGELES: The short-handed Memphis Grizzlies shocked the Phoenix Suns 122-114 on Friday to push their winning streak to seven games in a clash of the top two teams in the NBA. Dillon Brooks scored 30 points to lead a Grizzlies team playing without injured top scorer Ja Morant, Desmond Bane, Steven Adams, Jaren Jackson and Tyus Jones. Despite the absences, the Grizzlies took a one-point lead into the final quarter and pushed their lead to 14...

KUWAIT: Kuwait Sports Club jockey Ali Jassem Al-Kharafi receives the Kuwait Equestrian League trophy.

Ali Al-Kharafi wins Kuwait Equestrian League title

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Sports Club jockey Ali Jassem Al-Kharafi claimed the first ever Kuwait Equestrian League title Friday by winning the eighth and final round of the championship. Masayel Club's Abdullah Al-Awadhi was second, while Equestrian Club rider Abdelrahman Al-Fuzaei stood third in the final standings.In the final round, Kharafi won first place after a differentiation round with 46.11 points free of faults followed by...

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Qurain women win narrowly

KUWAIT: Qurain women basketball team defeated their Gulf University counterparts 79-74 in the third round of the women basketball league in a game that was played at the Kuwait Basketball Association's hall at the Sheikh Saad Complex. Meanwhile, Fatat club handed Fatayat Al-Oyoun a heavy loss with a score of 95-21.The first game was exciting and competitive. Qurain players were up 42-33 and remained ahead in the third quarter and the point...

MANAMA: A group photo during Boursa Kuwait’s participation in the Arab Federation of Capital Markets (AFCM) annual conference in Bahrain.

Boursa Kuwait concludes successful participation in AFCM conference

KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait concluded its successful participation in the Arab Federation of Capital Markets (AFCM) annual conference entitled, "AFCM Annual Conference: Bahrain 2022", which was held in the Kingdom of Bahrain, on March 28 and 29, 2022.Regarded as the largest event for stock exchanges and capital markets in the Middle East, the AFCM annual conference is a distinguished platform that gathers leaders from across the Arab securities...

HEBRON: Palestinians carry the body of Ahmad al-Atrash, shot and killed during clashes with Zionist security forces, during his funeral procession in the city center of Hebron city in the occupied West Bank. – AFP

Zionists kill three Palestinian militants as violence spirals

Jerusalem: Zionist entity security forces killed three Islamic Jihad militants when they came under fire Saturday during a raid in the West Bank, police said, the latest deaths in a surge of violence. The bloodshed comes amid heightened tensions ahead of the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, that has seen violence spiral in Zionist entity and the occupied West Bank.Last year during Ramadan, clashes that flared between Zionist forces and...

LUQA, Malta: Photo shows children offering flowers to Pope Francis (L) as Malta's President, George Vella (2ndL) and his wife Miriam Vella (C) look on, after the Pope landed at Malta's international airport in Luqa, for a two-day trip to the island. – AFP

Pope arrives in Malta

VALLETTA, Malta: Pope Francis began his first trip to Malta Saturday, where he is expected to ask the heavily Catholic country to do more to help migrants who have risked their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. The pontiff's plane touched down around 9:50 local time (0750 GMT) at Malta's airport south of the capital, ahead of a welcome ceremony with Prime Minister Robert Abela and dignitaries at the Grandmaster's Palace,...

SEVILLE, Spain: Member of the Ukrainian Parliament Yelyzaveta Oleksiyivna Yasko delivers a speech during the 20th National Congress of the Popular Party (PP) at the Fibes conference and exhibition centre in Seville on April 2, 2022. – AFP

After crisis, Spain's right-wing PP appoints Feijoo as new leader

Seville, Spain: Spain's opposition Popular Party (PP) on Saturday appoints Alberto Nunez Feijoo as leader in the hope the calm, experienced moderate with a pragmatic outlook will return the right-wing faction to power. After 13 years governing Galicia in northwestern Spain with an impressive track record of four absolute majorities, the party is hoping the 60-year-old will be able to translate his regional success to a national level."I have come...

DEBARK, Ethiopia: Men carry a sack of wheat during a food distribution by the World Food Programme (WFP) for internally displaced people (IDP) in Debark, 90 kilometres of the city of Gondar, Ethiopia. The first international aid convoy in three months entered Ethiopia's war-stricken Tigray region. – AFP

First aid convoy reaches Ethiopia's Tigray: UN

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The first aid convoy in three months reached Ethiopia's war-stricken Tigray region on Friday, the UN said, a week after the government and Tigrayan rebels agreed to a conditional humanitarian truce. The UN's World Food Programme said on Twitter that 13 trucks had "arrived safely" in Tigray's capital Mekele, adding: "More trucks & fuel will follow in morning."The 17-month war between government forces and the Tigray People's...

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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP

Hezbollah reveals its military muscle