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By the numbers, India’s military would be seen as superior to Pakistan’s in any conventional conflict. The Indian defense budget is more than nine times Pakistan’s, according to this year’s edition of “The Military Balance,” an assessment of armed forces by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. That budget supports an active-duty Indian force of almost 1.5 million personnel, compared to 660,000 for Pakistan. On the ground, India’s 1.2 million-strong army has 3,750 main battle tanks and more than 10,000 artillery pieces, while Pakistan’s tank force is only two-thirds of India’s and Islamabad has fewer than half of the artillery…

Los Angeles FC and Liga MX side América will face off on May 31 at LAFC’s BMO Stadium for the right to replace Club León at the 32-team Club World Cup to be held in the United States next month, a source confirmed to ESPN.Mexican side León finally lost its legal match against FIFA on Tuesday, officially being ruled out of the Club World Cup over FIFA’s multi-club ownership rules.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThe Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges rejected León’s attempt to overturn being removed by FIFA from the tournament for being in the same ownership group as…

Delegation chief seeks strategic partnerships aligned with ‘Kuwait Vision 2035’ KUWAIT: A high-level Austrian trade and business delegation arrived in Kuwait on Monday with the aim of revitalizing longstanding bilateral cooperation and fostering new investment opportunities in alignment with Kuwait’s Vision 2035. Led by Dr Werner Fasslabend, President of the Austro-Arab Chamber of Commerce, the delegation highlighted a range of potential investment avenues in Austria – particularly in renewables, healthcare, tourism, and technology – during a reception hosted by Austrian Ambassador to Kuwait Ulrich Frank at his residence.Dr Fasslabend noted that Kuwait’s Vision 2035 offers unique prospects for businesses in…

NEW YORK: Kuwait reiterated its unwavering commitment to establishing a Middle East free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), during remarks delivered late Monday at a United Nations meeting in New York. Addressing the preparatory committee for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Diplomatic Attaché Abdulaziz Al-Seidi of Kuwait’s Permanent Mission to the UN affirmed that Kuwait’s position is rooted in the outcomes of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference.That landmark agreement, he noted, remains a key legal and ethical foundation and binds nuclear-armed states, including the treaty’s depositary powers – the…

KUWAIT: To mark the beginning of Europe Month activities in Kuwait, EU Ambassadors visited Failaka Island – one of Kuwait’s most treasured heritage sites. The visit, organized by Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, in collaboration with the French Embassy and the French Research Centre for the Arabian Peninsula (CEFREPA), highlighted ongoing joint European-Kuwaiti efforts to preserve Kuwait’s rich history, which includes a remarkable Hellenistic fortress.Every year, archaeological research missions from EU Member States – currently France, Denmark, Poland, Italy and Slovakia – come to Failaka to join efforts to preserve Kuwait’s treasured past, from the Bronze Age…

KUWAIT: The Environment Public Authority (EPA), in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) and the volunteer team from the Al-Shamiya Reserve, planted 300 mangrove saplings in the Jahra Nature Reserve on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. This initiative is part of an ongoing project launched in 2018 to experiment with mangrove cultivation in various parts of Kuwait, aiming to rehabilitate the coastal environment. default Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Since the project’s inception, an increase in biodiversity has been observed, including marine crustaceans, coastal birds, and insects such as bees and butterflies during the plants’ flowering season. Notably, today…

Smoke hangs in the air above Port Sudan as Sudanese authorities struggle to contain fires caused by a series of drone attacks that have ravaged the city for three days. Port Sudan is currently Sudan’s de facto capital and the home of its government, which blames the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its “regional sponsor”, the United Arab Emirates, for drone strikes that began early on Sunday morning.  On Tuesday, Sudan’s security and defence council announced it was cutting off diplomatic ties with the UAE over its support for the RSF, a day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissed a…

Facebook Tweet Email Link In an unassuming industrial park 30 miles outside Boston, engineers are building a futuristic machine to replicate the energy of the stars. If all goes to plan, it could be the key to producing virtually unlimited, clean electricity in the United States in about a decade. The donut-shaped machine Commonwealth Fusion Systems is assembling to generate this energy is simultaneously the hottest and coldest place in the entire solar system, according to the scientists who are building it. It is inside that extreme environment in the so-called tokamak that they smash atoms together in 100-million-degree plasma.…

Jerusalem CNN  —  Israel struck multiple sites in Yemen’s capital Sanaa Tuesday, including the main airport, which the Israeli military said has now been “fully” disabled. “A short while ago, IDF (Israel Defense Forces) fighter jets struck and dismantled Houthi terrorist infrastructure at the main airport in Sanaa, fully disabling the airport,” the Israeli military said in a statement Tuesday, adding that several major power stations in the Sanaa area were also hit. The IDF said fighter jets “dismantled” the airport within 15 minutes and struck a concrete plant. At least one person was killed and three others were injured…

CNN  —  Who knew becoming a millionaire was so easy? When European airline SAS, or Scandinavian Airlines, switched airline “alliance” in late 2024, it decided to make a song and dance about it, creating frequent flyer “millionaires” in the process. For 27 years, the airline had been part of the Star Alliance, an umbrella collection of 25 global carriers including stalwarts of the sky like United, Singapore Airlines and Ethiopian. But last year SAS — based in Copenhagen, with Stockholm and Oslo its other major hubs — switched to SkyTeam, which counts Delta, Virgin Atlantic and Air France-KLM among its…