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Biles: 'I was abused' by USA gymnastics doctor

Simone Biles LOS ANGELES: Olympic gymnastics superstar Simone Biles revealed on Monday she was sexually abused by disgraced former USA team doctor Larry Nassar, who was last month jailed for 60 years on child porn charges. In a statement posted on T...

RIO DE JANEIRO: In this Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, United States’ Kerri Walsh Jennings stands on the podium after winning the bronze medal in the women’s beach volleyball competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 100 athletes from around the world say the medals they won at the Rio Olympics are damaged. The IOC and Rio organizers plan to replace them with new medals. Among those with defective medals are beach volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings who says her bronze medal from last summer is flaking and rusting. — AP

Faster, rustier: Medals from Rio Olympics damaged

RIO DE JANEIRO: In this Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, United States’ Kerri Walsh Jennings stands on the podium after winning the bronze medal in the women’s beach volleyball competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More th...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Children play near the Olympic Park sign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. _ AP

Scathing report on Rio Olympics: venues 'White Elephants'

RIO DE JANEIRO: Children play near the Olympic Park sign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. _ AP RIO DE JANEIRO: A federal prosecutor looking into last year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics says that many of the venues "are white elephants" that were built with "n...

Behbehani congratulates Kuwait’s disabled athletes

Behbehani congratulates Kuwait’s disabled athletes

Behbehani congratulates Kuwait’s disabled athletes KUWAIT: Iqbal Behbehani visited Kuwait Disabled Sports Club and met Club President Shafi Al-Hajiri and several members of the board. Behbehani honored and rewarded several athletes who reached tre...

Al-Mutairi receiving the award

KFH honors gold medalist Al Mutairi with 2kg gold award

Al-Mutairi receiving the award KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) offered 2 kg gold award to the gold medalist Ahmad Al-Mutairi in recognition of his triumph in capturing the gold medal in the wheel-chair competition for 100m at the Rio 2016 Paralym...

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KUWAIT: (Left) HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace on Oct 29, 2024. New Oil MInister Tareq Al-Roumi (center) and new Education Minister Jalal Al-Tabtabaei (right) take the oath of office before HH the Amir. - KUNA

New education, oil ministers named

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KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives KDIPA’s report for the financial year 2023/2024. — KUNA photos HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah receives KDIPA’s report.

KDIPA attracts KD 206.9m in new investments in 2023/24

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DHAKA: Nobel laureate and chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government Muhammad Yunus (fourth left) as he tours the battered Gonobhaban palace, the former official residence of Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka.-- AFP

Pressure mounts to oust Bangladesh president

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DOHA: Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani receives Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah on Oct 28, 2024. – KUNA

Qatari Amir meets Kuwait’s First Deputy PM

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MOSCOW: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov shake hands at the end of a joint press conference following talks on Oct 28, 2024. - AFP

Kuwait, Russia FMs hold talks