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HAMILTON: India's Harmanpreet Kaur plays a shot during the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup match between New Zealand and India at Seddon Park in Hamilton yesterday. - AFPn

New Zealand overpower India to showcase World Cup credentials

HAMILTON: Hosts New Zealand inflicted India's first defeat of the Women's Cricket World Cup yesterday, racing to a 62-run win in Hamilton. India's bowlers did well to limit New Zealand to 260-9 but were let down by a limp batting display that left them well short of the target. The result leaves India, who scored a 107-run win over Pakistan in their tournament opener, fifth in the eight-team leaderboard after two matches. New Zealand, who have...

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Women's Basketball League

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The Women's Basketball League will launch its second season tomorrow with two matches in the first round between Salwa Al-Sabah Sports Club with Qurain Club at Saad Al-Abdallah Sports Halls complex. The second match will be between Fatayat Al-Oyoun and Gulf University at the same place. The Women's Basketball League is of two parts as the top four teams will qualify for the semifinals.Head of the women basketball...

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden meets with business leaders to discuss the Bipartisan Innovation Act, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, near the White House, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.-AFPnn

Biden repairs image through Ukraine crisis leadership

WASHINGTON: A congressional round of applause and a bump in the polls: US President Joe Biden has newfound political momentum from his handling of the war in Ukraine, but experts warn it might not last. Last week, the 79-year-old president got a lengthy standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress when he underlined America's steadfast support for Ukraine during his State of the Union speech.The moment of strong bipartisanship...

AJACCIO, France: Protestors throw stones and flares at French gendarmes in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, during a demonstration in support to Yvan Colonna who was assaulted by a fellow inmate at the Arles prison on Wednesday.-AFPn

Riots shake Corsica over assault of jailed nationalist figure

AJACCIO, France: Violent clashes broke out between protesters and police overnight Wednesday to Thursday on France's Mediterranean island of Corsica where local anger is growing over the assault in prison of a nationalist figure. Yvan Colonna, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination in 1998 of Corsica's top regional official Claude Erignac, is in a coma after being beaten on March 2 in jail by a fellow detainee, according to...

BUDAPEST: Newly-elected Hungarian President Katalin Novak is pictured after she took her oath as representatives of the Hungarian parliament approved her appointment as the new president at the parliament building in Budapest yesterday.-AFPnn

Parliament elects Hungary's first-ever woman president

BUDAPEST: The Hungarian parliament yesterday elected Katalin Novak, a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as the EU member's first ever woman president. Novak, who most recently served as a minister for family policy, portrayed her election as a victory for women. She was elected to the mostly ceremonial role by 137 votes to 51 in the parliament dominated by Orban's right-wing Fidesz party ahead of opposition challenger Peter Rona, an...

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Gorillas in our midst: Baby apes boost Congo wildlife haven

Two baby gorillas have been born in the Virunga National Park, the world-renowned wildlife haven in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the park said yesterday. "We're excited to announce that Virunga's Rangers have identified two new baby gorillas at #VirungaNationalPark," it said on Twitter. "Bazirushaka from the Lulengo family has given birth to her second child, a female. Rubiga, from the Kabirizi family, has also welcomed her seventh...

Fredrik af Malmborg (right), Managing Director and Nicola Soderlund Managing Partner at Eccho Rights, a global rights management company, are pictured at the company’s office, in Stockholm.—AFPn

World clamors to air Ukrainian president's hit TV series

First one, then two, then 20: a small Stockholm agency has in recent days been deluged with bids for the rights to air the hit comedy series starring Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former actor turned wartime hero. "It's been very, very busy. All around the world, people have asked for the rights because they want to broadcast it," explains Eccho Rights co-founder Nicola Soderlund in the agency's elegant offices in the Swedish...

Fans of K-pop group BTS take pictures as they arrive for a BTS live concert at Jamsil Olympic Stadium in Seoul.—AFP photosn

K-pop's BTS on stage for first Seoul gig since pandemic

South Korean supergroup BTS yesterday returned to the stage in Seoul for the first time since 2019, with an adoring home-grown crowd offering only applause as Covid rules barred all screaming, chanting or singing. The show is the first of three concerts for the chart-topping septet titled "Permission to Dance on Stage - Seoul" at the capital's Olympic Stadium. Since BTS' last performance for domestic fans in 2019, the band have gone from strength...

This file picture taken on July 21, 1969, shows US astronaut Edwin Aldrin standing on the moon beside the deployed flag of the United States during the Apollo 11 mission. — AFP n

Buzz Aldrin's famous 1969 moon walk picture sells at auction

More than 70 original NASA photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin's moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000). The Aldrin image, which fetched 5,373 euros, shows the astronaut on the surface of the moon in July 1969 during the first manned lunar landing. It was famously used on the cover of LIFE magazine. Armstrong, the first man to step onto the Moon,...

In this file photo taken on February 21, 2020 Russian opera soprano singer Anna Netrebko performs during the 27th annual Victoires de la musique classique (Classical music award) ceremony at the l’Arsenal de Metz, in Metz. northeastern France.—AFP photosn

Cold shoulder for Russian artists sparks debate over cultural boycotts

As Moscow's invasion of Ukraine enters its third week, a pall has fallen over Russian artists, long crown jewels of a country whose fine arts are an eminent source of soft power. Superstar operatic soprano Anna Netrebko and renowned conductor Valery Gergiev are among the luminaries axed from performing on the global stages they have long graced-but do cultural boycotts work? The freezing out of artists who have espoused pro-Kremlin views-or who...

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah are sworn in before HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday. - KUNA photos

New defense, interior ministers appointed

By B IzzakKUWAIT: An Amiri decree was issued yesterday appointing Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Sabah as interior and defense ministers respectively. They replace the former defense and interior ministers who resigned together last month in protest against the state of affairs in the country and their inability to carry out reforms under such circumstances. First Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister...

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with Zionist President Isaac Herzog during an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex yesterday. - AFP n

Zionist entity prez in Turkey to 'restart' ties

ANKARA: The president of the Zionist entity met with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara yesterday, in the first visit by a Zionist head of state to Turkey since 2007, as the countries seek to mend fractured ties. President Isaac Herzog's trip to the Turkish capital and Istanbul was planned weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, but the conflict could feature at the talks, with both the Zionist entity and Turkey playing mediation roles in...

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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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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)

Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait

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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

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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA

Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey

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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.

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