ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries including Germany and the United States who appealed for the release of a jailed civil society leader. The envoys issued a highly unusual joint statement on Monday saying the continued detention of Parisian-born philanthropist and activist Osman Kavala “cast a shadow” …

Ouagadougou: Somali film-maker Khadar Ahmed won the top prize at the Fespaco film festival in Burkina Faso Saturday for “The Gravedigger´s Wife”, which he wrote and directed. The 40-year-old was not at the ceremony to receive the Golden Stallion award, but his work beat 16 other African films to the top prize. The films in competition were made by directors …

Fans of India and Pakistan called for “peace” and more cricket between the two Asian giants ahead of the blockbuster clash at the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday. The arch-rivals will lock horns in Dubai in one of the biggest games of the tournament with an expected television audience of up to one billion people. But matches between the two …

ABU DHABI: Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade combined in a crucial 40-run stand to help Australia beat South Africa by five wickets in a low-scoring thriller in their opening Super 12 clash in the Twenty20 World Cup on Saturday. Stoinis and Wade held their nerve superbly during an unbroken sixth-wicket stand to take Australia past their 119-run target with the …

SHARJAH: Sri Lanka have already made their mark in the Twenty20 World Cup with commanding wins in the preliminary round and will go into their Super 12 contest against Bangladesh on Sunday with a slight edge, the team’s captain Dasun Shanaka has said. The island nation, who won the 2014 edition of the tournament, stamped their authority over the game’s …

DUBAI: Skipper Babar Azam vowed his team will not think about Pakistan’s poor record against arch-rivals India when they meet in the high-octane Twenty20 World Cup clash in Dubai on Sunday. Pakistan have lost all seven World Cup (50 over) clashes against India as well as five games in the Twenty20 World Cup and start as ‘underdogs’. Exuding confidence, Babar …

DUBAI: Former champions India and Pakistan will face off on Sunday (today) in a Twenty20 World Cup blockbuster in Dubai and the buzz around the game und­erlines the enduring appeal of the matchup between the sub-continent’s feuding neighbours. Pakistan’s captain Babar Azam and his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli have called it just another game, but that is clearly not the …

It’s no secret that Pakistan find it difficult to hang with India when it comes to cricket matches of big importance, especially the World Cups. The Greenshirts’ big moment meltdowns have been well documented so there is no point in dwelling over that. But as they say, every dog (no pun intended at all) has its day. Trends do not …

The experts, pundits and analysts have all spoken plenty on tonight’s big Pakistan-India match. But the problem with all the opinions and analysis is that they go in every which way. One guru might say India are the favourites and the other would guarantee a win for Pakistan. Under this mishmash of perspectives, the most the fans can expect is …

KARACHI: Pakistan’s first green hydrogen plant will be built in Sindh with a capacity to produce approximately 150,000kg fuel per day, it emerged on Saturday. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by the Chief Executive Officer of UK-listed Oracle Power Public Ltd, Naheed Memon, and Chief Representative in Pakistan of Power China International for development of the first green …