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Southampton inflict fresh misery on sloppy Chelsea
LONDON: Chelsea crashed to a shock 2-1 defeat against Southampton as their rocky start to the Premier League season took a turn for the worse on Tuesday. Thomas Tuchel's side blew the lead at St Mary's after Raheem Sterling put them ahead midway through the first half.England forward Sterling bagged his third goal in two games with a close-range strike in the 23rd minute. But Chelsea had squandered a host of chances before Sterling's opener and,...
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Dybala double against Monza fires Roma top as Inter stroll past Cremonese
MILAN: Paulo Dybala shot Roma top of Serie A on Tuesday with a brace which sank Monza 3-0 while Inter Milan are one point behind Jose Mourinho's side after their 3-1 home win over Cremonese. Argentina forward Dybala brought up his goal century in the Italian top flight after netting twice in the first 32 minutes at the Stadio Olimpico to put unbeaten Roma on 10 points from their first four games.Roma, who also scored just after the hour through...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, dead at 91
MOSCOW: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow aged 91, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday."Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness," the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said, quoted by the Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies.Gorbachev, who was in power between 1985 and 1991 and helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze, was the last...
KUWAIT: Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah speaks to military personnel during the tour.
Defense Minister inspects military, security sites North Kuwait
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Acting Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Tuesday highlighted the need of maintaining a high degree of preparedness at all security and military facilities, including the border outlets. Military preparedness is key to protecting the security of the country against the risks of drug smuggling which poses a grave threat to the society, he said in a statement from the...
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Turkish cryptocurrency boss arrested in Albania
ISTANBUL: The founder of cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, suspected of having fled Turkey with the assets of his clients, has been arrested in Albania, the Turkish interior ministry said on Tuesday. Turkey issued an international arrest warrant in April last year for fugitive businessman Faruk Fatih Ozer, who fled with a reported $2 billion in investors' assets. Tirana had informed Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu that Ozer, who was wanted...
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Air France pilots suspended for fight during flight
PARIS: French carrier Air France has suspended two pilots after a heated disagreement in which "inappropriate gestures were exchanged" in the cockpit of a Geneva-Paris flight in June, the company said Monday. "Following an argument between the two pilots at the controls of an Airbus A320... inappropriate gestures were exchanged," Air France said. "The pilots involved are currently suspended from flying and awaiting a managerial decision about how...
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Kuwait sets up advisory economic unit
KUWAIT: Chief of the Prime Minister's Office Abdulaziz Dakhil Al-Dakhil on Tuesday announced the launch of the advisory economic unit headed by His Highness the Prime Minister and including representatives of the concerned government agencies. This is based on the instructions of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah, on the importance of adopting an advanced approach to support the national economy and work on attracting...
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Kuwaiti divers lift four tons of abandoned fishing nets in Kuwait Bay
KUWAIT: Kuwait Dive Team managed on Tuesday to lift several neglected fishing nets containing hundreds of dead and live fish, weighing four tons, found from the offshore locations of Kuwait Bay and Umm Al-Naml island. Chief of Kuwait Dive Team Waleed Al-Fadhel said that the team, which operates under the umbrella of Kuwait Voluntary Environmental Foundation, was able to lift the nets that were in various spots in the sea, ranging from two to 11...
BAGHDAD: Members of Saraya Al-Salam (Peace Brigade), the military wing affiliated with cleric Moqtada Sadr, withdraw from Baghdad's Green Zone on August 30, 2022. - AFP
Iraq protesters disperse after Sadr demands end to deadly clashes
BAGHDAD: Iraqi supporters of powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr began withdrawing Tuesday from Baghdad's Green Zone after he demanded fighting end between rival Shiite forces and the army that left 23 dead and hundreds wounded. The violence that erupted on Monday pitted Sadr loyalists against Shiite factions backed by neighboring Iran, with the sides exchanging gunfire across barricades -- violence the United Nations warned risked tipping the...
KUWAIT: Former MP Marzouq Al-Khalifa (right) is escorted after he turned himself in after submitting his papers to run for parliament on August 30, 2022. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Total candidates at 185 after second day of registration for Kuwait assembly elections
By B IzzakKUWAIT: Seventy new candidates including two women filed nominations to run in the upcoming national assembly polls on the second day of registration on Tuesday, bringing the total number of hopefuls to 185, including 10 females. The new candidates include nine members of the dissolved assembly, bringing the total number of those members to 25. The candidates also included seven former lawmakers from previous assemblies, raising their...
LONDON: In this file photo taken on February 01, 2020 the international high-speed Eurostar train arrives from Paris at St Pancras International railway station in London. - AFP
Eurostar to scrap London service to Disneyland Paris
LONDON: High-speed train operator Eurostar has decided to stop direct services from London to Disneyland Paris from next summer, citing fallout from both Brexit and COVID. The group said in a statement sent to AFP on Tuesday that it will scrap trains running from the British capital to the Disneyland site in Marne-la-Vallee, in the eastern Paris suburbs. "We have taken the decision not to run the direct Disney service... in summer 2023," it said...
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Kuwait's money supply increases by 0.1 percent: Central Bank
KUWAIT: Figures issued by the Central Bank of Kuwait Tuesday showed that the broad money supply (N2) increased by 0.1 percent last July (monthly) to reach about KD 41.7 billion (about $137.6 billion). The bank's Economic Research Department revealed in statistical tables that private sector deposits with local banks decreased by 0.2 percent last July to reach KD 37.1 billion (about $122.4 billion). It added that the private sector's deposits in...
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KUWAIT: Officials and citizens carry the body of Kuwaiti firefighter Abdullah Al-Farsi before he was laid to rest at Sulaibikhat Cemetery on Nov 23, 2024. — KUNA
Kuwait honors martyred fireman
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Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' are displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.--AFP photos
Human ancestor Lucy still has secrets 50 years after discovery
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A Kuwaiti folklore group performs at the ceremony.
Kuwait hosts Gulf Weeks ahead of 45th GCC summit
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People hold placards and shout slogans during a protest march against the sectarian attacks in Kurram district in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Lahore on November 22, 2024. - AFP
Families fleeing after 32 killed in new sectarian clashes in Pakistan
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India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference against the backdrop of a picture of Gautam Adani, at his party headquarters in New Delhi on November 21, 2024. -AFP
Indian billionaire Adani down again, but not out