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TUMON BAY, US: This video grab from the Twitter page of James Reynolds @EarthUncutTV shows tropical storm force winds blowing across Tumon Bay, Guam on May 24, 2023. – AFP

Typhoon Mawar pounds Guam with destructive winds

LOS ANGELES: Typhoon Mawar roared over the US territory of Guam on Wednesday, bringing destructive winds to the Pacific military outpost. The eye of the storm passed just north of the island, its governor said, after forecasters had warned that winds of up to 140 miles per hour (225 kilometers per hour) could cause major damage.“What we are feeling right now is the eye going over the Rota Channel,” Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said in a...

KHARTOUM: A man walks past a burnt out bank branch in southern Khartoum on May 24, 2023. – AFP

Sudanese still await relief

KHARTOUM: Fighting had eased but not stopped in Sudan on Wednesday, the second full day of a ceasefire that has raised cautious hopes among beleaguered civilians that aid corridors and escape routes will open soon. Sporadic air strikes and artillery fire have still echoed across the capital, residents told AFP, but US and Saudi observers said “fighting in Khartoum appeared to be less intense” since the one-week truce entered into force late...

COLOGNE: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde after being awarded the 'Staatspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen' (State Prize of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia) on May 16, 2023 in Cologne.-- AFP

Inflation crashes the party as ECB marks 25 years

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank celebrated its 25th anniversary Wednesday but soaring inflation in the eurozone threatened to put a damper on festivities at the Frankfurt-based financial institution. To mark the occasion, around 200 guests will descend in the evening on the ECB’s imposing steel-and-glass tower on the banks of the Main river in Germany’s financial capital.With music from French composer Claude Debussy playing, ECB...

DOHA: International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said Wednesday that protracted domestic wrangling over the US debt ceiling was “unnecessary” for the world economy but should be settled.

US debt battle ‘unnecessary’ for world economy: IMF chief

DOHA: International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said Wednesday that protracted domestic wrangling over the US debt ceiling was “unnecessary” for the world economy but should be settled. Georgieva also told the Qatar Economic Forum that central banks must keep interest rates high to tame inflation but there should be improvement in 2024.International markets have been unnerved by the battle between US President Joe Biden and...

Britain’s annual inflation rate struck a 13-month low in April, official data showed Wednesday but remains elevated at 8.7 percent as soaring food prices offset weaker energy costs, prolonging a cost-of-living crisis.

UK inflation slides to 13-month low, stays elevated

LONDON: Britain’s annual inflation rate struck a 13-month low in April, official data showed Wednesday, but remains elevated at 8.7 percent as soaring food prices offset weaker energy costs, prolonging a cost-of-living crisis. The rate of price increases slowed from 10.1 percent in March to below double digits for the first time since August last year, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. At 8.7 percent, UK inflation is at...

MANAMA: FIFA President Gianni Infantino (left) greets AFC President Salman bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa during the 33rd Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Congress.- AFP

Asian federation foresees Saudi bid for 2030 or 2034 World Cup

BEIRUT: Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, said the body wanted to host another World Cup, in 2030 or 2034, and that “Saudi Arabia is coming in force”. Asia has staged the World Cup twice: in South Korea and Japan in 2002 and in 2022 in Qatar. “I think Saudi Arabia is a country capable of organizing a similar tournament,” Sheikh Salman, who is from Bahrain, told journalists in Beirut on...

CHENNAI: Chennai Super Kings’ Ravindra Jadeja plays a shot during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 first qualifier cricket match between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on May 23, 2023. – AFP

All-round Jadeja leads Chennai into IPL final

CHENNAI: Ravindra Jadeja starred with bat and ball as Chennai Super Kings beat holders Gujarat Titans by 15 runs on Tuesday to enter the IPL final that could be skipper MS Dhoni’s farewell. Four-time winners Chennai posted 172-7, a total their bowlers defended as they bowled out Gujarat for 157 in a play-off believed to be the last home match at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium for the 41-year-old Dhoni. The left-handed Jadeja returned figures of...

GOHEUNG, South Korea: South Korea's homegrown space rocket Nuri moving to its launch pad at the Naro Space Centre in the southern coastal village of Goheung, a day before its third attempt to put satellites into orbit. -- AFP

S Korea postpones third launch of homegrown rocket

SEOUL: South Korea on Wednesday postponed the launch of its homegrown Nuri rocket after a technical glitch was detected just hours before lift-off, officials said. It was the third planned launch of Nuri, following a failed first attempt and a successful second mission last year. A communication error between the launch control computer and another computer managing the launch pad was detected during preparation, forcing officials to postpone,...

BEIJING: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin meets with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 24, 2023. – AFP

China’s Xi offers Russia ‘firm support’ in ‘core interests’

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday offered Beijing’s support on Moscow’s “core interests”, at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. China and Russia have in recent years ramped up economic and diplomatic cooperation, growing even closer since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine despite Beijing’s insistence that it is neutral in that conflict. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin arrived in China on Monday,...

Britain's Queen Camilla views The Boodles 'Best of British' Garden during a visit to the 2023 RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London.

Women outnumber men for the first time at Chelsea Flower Show

More women than men are competing for medals at the Chelsea Flower Show this year — a first after more than a century of competition at the flagship London event. The highlight of the British horticultural year opened to the public on Tuesday, with some 145,000 people expected to attend by Saturday’s close. King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited on Monday, as did Catherine, Princess of Wales, whose husband William is heir to the throne.A...

A file photo taken on October 22, 1991, shows US jazz and blues singer Nina Simone in concert at the Olympia music hall in Paris.--AFP

$6 million raised to preserve Nina Simone’s childhood home

An art auction and New York gala have raised nearly $6 million to preserve and restore the childhood home of soul music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, organizers said Tuesday. The twin events brought in some $5.88 million — far more than the original $2 million organizers hoped to raise to restore the rural North Carolina abode. “The new funding will meaningfully advance our project goals to complete the full restoration of the...

Spanish author Eva Baltasar (from Left), Brazilian literary translator Julia Sanches, US literary translator Kim Chi-Young, South Korean author Cheon Myeong-kwan, US literary translator Angela Rodel, Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov, Literary translator Richard Philcox, Guadeloupe author Maryse Condé (front), Irish writer and translator Frank Wynne, Ivorian author Gauz', British literary translator Rosalind Harvey and Mexican author Guadalupe Nettel pose on the red carpet upon arrival for the International Booker Prize award ceremony.--AFP photos

Bulgaria’s ‘Time Shelter’ wins International Booker Prize

Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel were named Tuesday winners of the International Booker Prize with the novel “Time Shelter” - a first for a book in Bulgarian. The prestigious award recognizes works of fiction from around the world that have been translated into English and the £50,000 ($62,000) prize is split equally between the author and the translator.The winning novel focuses on a “clinic for the past”...

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