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Kuwaitis proud of the sacrifices of their grandfathers: Info minister
DUBAI: Kuwait's representative and Minister of Information and Culture Dr Hamad Rouh El-Din said on Friday that the 61st National Day and 31st Liberation Day of Kuwait are two dear occasions for Kuwaitis. During a speech on the country's National Days at Dubai Expo 2020, the minister said that Kuwaitis expressed pride for the sacrifices of their fathers and grandfathers that formed a roadmap throughout Kuwait's history. Kuwait has been supporting...
Models present creations during the Versace Women Fall/Winter 2022-2023 collection as part of the Milan Fashion Week in Milan.-AFP photos
Sidewalk is new catwalk outside Milan fashion shows
A cry goes up the from crowd, a sea of craning necks and suddenly hundreds of cellphones go up in the air clicking photos. An influencer has just arrived at a fashion show. This is the scene that has played out day after day at Milan Fashion Week, where live shows began Wednesday, all accompanied by crowds of fashion hopefuls, fans and photographers hoping to capture a perfect Instagram shot of their favorite influencer.At Versace on Friday...
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Sean Penn visits Ukraine to make documentary on Russian invasion
US actor and director Sean Penn is in Kyiv making a documentary about Russia's invasion, the Ukrainian president's office said Thursday.The double Oscar-winner was photographed attending a government press conference in Kyiv, and could be seen meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in a video posted to the Ukrainian president's official Instagram account."The director came to Kyiv specifically to record all the events taking place in Ukraine and as a...
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Pattinson suits up for macabre new 'Batman'
Robert Pattinson had never been interested in playing a superhero-until Ben Affleck quit his role as Batman, leaving the famous cape unexpectedly up for grabs. Having spent the past decade mainly working on critically acclaimed arthouse movies, former "Twilight" actor Pattinson requested a meeting with the filmmakers entrusted by Warner Bros. to revitalize the beloved franchise. "He sought me out... and somewhere in that meeting, he brought up...
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Aircraft lead boom in big-ticket US manufacturing goods
WASHINGTON: US manufactured goods orders increased far more than expected in January, according to government data released Friday, driven by a big increase in aircraft sales. The Commerce Department reported durable goods sales rose 1.6 percent last month, while December's 0.9 percent slump in sales was revised sharply upwards to show a 1.2 percent gain. Much of the increase was led by transportation equipment where orders rose 3.4 percent...
LAGOS: In this file photo, a woman pushes a sack containing recycled plastic bottles past an area where plastic waste is being used to reclaim a swamp so that the land can be developed for housing in the Mosafejo area of Lagos. -- AFP
Africa faces herculean job not to become world's plastic 'dustbin'
LAGOS: What can be done to prevent Africa from becoming the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic? That's one of the big questions facing United Nations members next week at a stock-taking on Earth's environmental woes. From Antananarivo to Dakar via Nairobi and Conakry, African cities are scarred by huge landfills where plastic waste is measured in the thousands of tons. The dumps are smelly and dangerous, releasing smoke and toxic...
GLASGOW: In this file photo, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a panel discussion at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow. - AFP
IMF, WB warn of global impacts from Ukraine war
WASHINGTON: The leaders of the World Bank and IMF signaled Thursday they were ready to help Ukraine, while warning that Russia's invasion will have repercussions for the global economic recovery. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said she was "deeply concerned" about the fighting's impact on the people of Ukraine, and cautioned in a tweet that the conflict "adds significant economic risk for the region & the world." The International...
DORTMUND, Germany: People protest with a placard 'SWIFT out for Russia' against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Dortmund, western Germany, on Friday. - AFP
France pushes to bar Russia from SWIFT as Germany brakes
PARIS: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Friday pushed for Russia to be excluded from the global SWIFT interbank system over its attack on Ukraine, supported by other EU nations but facing a more cautious Germany."Some (European Union) member states have shown reservations, France is not one of these states," Le Maire told reporters after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Paris-while describing the move as a "financial nuclear...
KYIV: Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after a fighting with Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv yesterday according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. -AFP
Russia attack conjures up fears of new Europe 'iron curtain'
Russia's attack on Ukraine could herald a Cold War revival in Europe with two blocs armed to the teeth pointing nuclear weapons at each other across an iron curtain, politicians and experts say. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's statement that Moscow's assault on his country was "the sound of a new iron curtain lowering" has resonated in Western halls of power where many had assumed that Europe's post-war division into hostile camps led by...
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'Crime and catastrophe': Russian stars say no to war
PARIS: A number of prominent Russians are echoing a chorus of global celebrities condemning Moscow's war on Ukraine, with some already beginning to suffer the consequences for defying the Kremlin line. When Russia annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014, hundreds of artists signed a petition organized by the ministry of culture to back the move. But this time, the consensus appears more shaky: Since President Vladimir Putin...
LOS ANGELES: A homeless encampment is pictured on the streets of Los Angeles, California.-AFP
Los Angeles counts its growing homeless population
LOS ANGELES: Tents, makeshift shelters and dilapidated campervans line the streets of Skid Row as Mike Murase and his team tally the exploding population of homeless people in Los Angeles. In the United States' second biggest city, the unhoused huddle by small fires, trying to keep warm on one of the coldest nights of the year. Homelessness is "an intractable, stubborn issue that the politicians and agency leaders have not had the will to try to...
VINALES: A farmer works at a tobacco plantation in Cuba. — AFP
Cuban tobacco yield up in smoke amid fertilizer shortages
CUBA: Yurisniel Cabrera, 35, is a fourth-generation tobacco farmer, eking out a meager living from the leaves used to make Cuba's fabled cigars. Clients can fork out more than $10 for a single cigar, but for his months of labor, Cabrera earned only a few hundred US dollars from last year's harvest. This year, the outlook is even bleaker. Sanctions-stricken and facing its worst economic crisis in nearly three decades, Cuba is running low on...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
Zionist jamming disrupts Lebanon ground, air traffic
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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott
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NAVI MUMBAI, India: Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani (front third left) along with his family attends a mass wedding ceremony at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. -- AFP
Ambanis celebrate son’s nuptials with mass wedding