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HIROSHIMA, Japan: US President Joe Biden (right) and other world leaders take part in a Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment event during the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. – AFP

US debt crisis dogs Biden at G7

HIROSHIMA: The sight of a tired-looking top White House domestic policy adviser in a Hiroshima hotel said it all: President Joe Biden may be on the other side of the world but his political fight back home over the debt ceiling has followed him. Bruce Reed, spotted in a tracksuit having a late breakfast at the luxury hotel where Biden was staying during the G7 summit, is the White House deputy chief of staff with a focus on issues inside the...

STADE DE FRANCE: France’s prop Cyril Baille (center) is tackled by Wales’ wing Rio Dyer (2nd-left) and Wales’ flanker Justin Tipuric (right) during the Six Nations rugby union international match between France and Wales at Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, north of Paris.- AFP

Jones and Tipuric retire before Rugby World Cup

LONDON: Wales were hit by a dramatic double blow on Friday as Alun Wyn Jones, the world’s most-capped international, and fellow senior forward Justin Tipuric both announced their retirement from Test duty just four months before the side’s Rugby World Cup opener against Fiji in Bordeaux. They had both been included in Wales coach Warren Gatland’s 54-man World Cup preliminary training squad, which is due to assemble next week.Jones, a...

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LeBron, Obama lead tributes to NFL icon Brown

LOS ANGELES: NBA superstar and Ohio kid LeBron James led the tributes to NFL great Jim Brown on Friday, after the legendary Cleveland Browns running back and civil rights campaigner died at the age of 87. “We lost a hero today,” James said in an Instagram post that also featured a video of four-time NBA champion James, then playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, bowing to Brown as he sat courtside at a game. “Rest in Paradise to the legend...

DHARAMSALA: Rajasthan Royals’ Shimron Hetmyer (right) speaks with Punjab Kings’ Arshdeep Singh as he walks back to the pavilion after his dismissal during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals on May 19, 2023. – AFP

Rajasthan Royals dump Punjab Kings out of IPL

DHARAMSALA: Shimron Hetmyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal starred as Rajasthan Royals dumped Punjab Kings out of the IPL on Friday, capping a poor season for the league’s most expensive ever player Sam Curran. The nail-biting four-wicket in Dharamsala win gave Rajasthan, last season’s runners-up, hope of qualifying for the knockout phase although their fate depends on other matches this weekend.Curran, who cost Punjab a hefty $2.23 million, fell one...

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Kuwait’s consumer spending solid in Q1

KUWAIT: Official consumer, monetary and banking data in the first quarter of 2023 continued to signal a normalization in Kuwait’s non-oil economy post-pandemic. Closely watched leading indicators such as consumer spending, real estate sales and bank credit point to a moderation in non-oil activity amid still-elevated inflation, tighter monetary conditions and softening global macroeconomic conditions. Surprising on the upside in 1Q23, however,...

HIROSHIMA: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) shaking hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) in Hiroshima, on the second day of the G7 Summit Leaders' Meeting. – AFP

India will do ‘whatever we can’ on Ukraine crisis: Modi

HIROSHIMA: India will do “whatever we can” to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged Saturday as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since Russia’s invasion. “I understand your pain and the pain of Ukrainian citizens very well,” Modi said, as the pair met on the sidelines of the Group of 7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.“I can assure you that to resolve this India and, me personally, will do...

TAIPEI: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a press conference on the seventh anniversary of her tenure, at the Presidential Office in Taipei on May 20, 2023. – AFP

Taiwan president vows to keep ‘status quo’ on cross-strait relations

TAIPEI: Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen vowed Saturday to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in the face of increased military pressure from China, saying that “war is not an option”. Under Tsai’s two terms as president, the self-ruled island has seen stepped-up warplanes and sea incursions from China—which claims Taiwan as its territory to be claimed one day, by force if necessary. Tsai—who rejects that Taiwan is a...

Musician Andy Rourke

Andy Rourke, the Smiths’ charming man, dies at 59

The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, whose pounding rhythms underscored some of the most influential albums in British music history, has died at the age of 59, band-mate Johnny Marr announced Friday. Rourke died “after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer”, the Smiths lead guitarist and co-founder said. “Andy will always be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by everyone who knew him, and as a supremely gifted musician by people who...

Adidas to sell part of Yeezy gear and donate proceeds

Adidas said it would begin selling part of its huge inventory of Kanye West’s Yeezy products in May, and donate proceeds to NGOs including one founded by the brother of George Floyd. The merchandise has been in limbo since Adidas ended its partnership with the controversial rapper in October 2022. The apparel group did not provide any details on the quantity of stocks it would put on the market in its initial release at the end of May.It said...

Debris litters the ground after the SpaceX Starship liftedoff for a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. – AFP

After SpaceX, NASA taps Bezos’s Blue Origin to build Moon lander

Two years after awarding Elon Musk’s SpaceX a contract to ferry astronauts to the surface of the Moon, NASA on Friday announced it had chosen Blue Origin, a rival space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, to build a second lunar lander. Blue Origin’s lander was selected for the Artemis 5 mission, currently scheduled to take place in 2029. The company will first have to demonstrate it can safely land on the Moon without a crew.Bezos,...

This picture taken on April 9, 2023, shows a general view of Pono Colony in Sanjar Chang village, in Tando Allahyar district. At 82 years old, architect Yasmeen Lari is forging the way in fortifying Pakistan's rural communities, who are living on the frontline of climate change. The few pilot settlements already constructed are credited with saving families from the worst of the catastrophic monsoon flooding that put a third of the country underwater last year. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)

The octogenarian architect Lari working to flood-proof Pakistan

At 82 years old, architect Yasmeen Lari is forging the way in fortifying Pakistan’s rural communities living on the frontline of climate change. Lari, Pakistan’s first woman architect, has ditched a lifetime of multi-million dollar projects in the megacity of Karachi to develop pioneering flood-proof bamboo houses.The few pilot settlements already constructed are credited with saving families from the worst of the catastrophic monsoon...

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Who is Jonathan Glazer, UK director wowing Cannes?

Jonathan Glazer has made just a handful of films in 20 years, but each has been unique, drawing highly memorable performances from stars such as Nicole Kidman and Ben Kingsley. A decade on from his last film, “Under the Skin”, the ultra-bizarre alien flick starring Scarlett Johansson, the enigmatic filmmaker is competing at the Cannes Film Festival with Holocaust drama “A Zone of Interest” that has scored laudatory reviews. Here’s a...

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KUWAIT: Kuwait’s new Amir HH Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah salutes as he swears in before lawmakers as the country’s 17th Amir, at the Kuwaiti parliament, on December 20, 2023 in Kuwait City. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Amir’s first year leading Kuwait drives development and unity

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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk past old Lada cars parked and ready to carry goods in the vicinity of a busy market in Addis Ababa. – AFP photos

The last of Ethiopia’s Soviet-era Lada cars

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KUWAIT: Cabinet ministers convene for their weekly meeting on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at at Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium. — KUNA

Cabinet approves MoU with China to accelerate Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port

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Floating diwaniya on a yacht trip.

Kuwait’s hidden appeal

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KUWAIT: Lulu Kuwait Director Muhammed Haris meets with the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward, and Belinda Lewis, the British Ambassador to Kuwait at the reception.

Lulu Kuwait director attends Duke of Edinburgh reception