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REYKJAVIK: Participants attend the closing session on the second day of the 4th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe, at the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 17, 2023. – AFP

Europe, G7 sign war register for Ukraine

REYKJAVIK: Europe and the United States on Wednesday hailed a newly created “register of damage” for Ukraine as a first step to making Russia pay for its war. The instrument, created by the 46-nation Council of Europe, records claims of damage or loss, paving the way to a future mechanism to compensate victims of the conflict. The register is a “first, necessary, urgent step” ensuring “justice that is centred on the victims” of the...

DENVER, COLORADO - MAY 16: Anthony Davis #3 of the Los Angeles Lakers attempts a shot between Christian Braun #0 and Nikola Jokic #15 of the Denver Nuggets during the first quarter in game one of the Western Conference Finals at Ball Arena on May 16, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by MATTHEW STOCKMAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Jokic dominates as Nuggets hold off Lakers in opener

LOS ANGELES: Nikola Jokic produced a dominant display as the Denver Nuggets held off a late Los Angeles Lakers fightback to win their NBA Western Conference finals opener 132-126 on Tuesday. Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Jokic finished with 34 points, 21 rebounds and 14 assists to give top-seeded Denver a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Jokic received offensive support from Jamal Murray, who finished with 31 points, while four other...

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Evenepoel’s Giro team shredded by new positive COVID-19 cases

PARIS: The Giro d’Italia lost six more cyclists, four of them from former race leader Remco Evenepoel’s team, on Wednesday owing to positive COVID tests taking the total of withdrawals due to the virus to 15 since the race began on May 6. Race favorite Evenepoel had withdrawn late on Sunday due to a positive test and despite the race organizers implementing stricter rules on Monday COVID continues to affect the peloton.“Soudal Quick-Step is...

KHARTOUM: Smoke billows over residential buildings in Khartoum as deadly clashes between rival generals' forces have entered their third week. Heavy fighting again rocked Sudan's capital as tens of thousands have fled the bloody turmoil and a former prime minister warned of the 'nightmare' risk of a descent into full-scale civil war. – AFP

Sudan war lays bare ‘fault lines’ between capital and periphery

CAIRO: Sudan’s brutal war has pitted the traditional urban elite that has long monopolized wealth and power in the capital Khartoum against forces from the marginalized rural periphery, analysts say. For the past month, two rival generals have fought for control of the northeast African country in a war that has spread chaos, claimed at least 1,000 lives and displaced nearly a million people.One of them is army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, a...

TEHRAN: Iranian Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash (right) and his Russian counterpart Vitaly Savelyev exchanging documents after signing an agreement to construct the final part in the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) in Tehran on May 17, 2023. --AFP

Iran, Russia ink deal on huge transport network

TEHRAN: Iran and Russia agreed Wednesday to collaborate on the construction of the final part of a commercial transport network linking to the Gulf and India while avoiding Western sea lanes. Iranian Transport Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash, who signed the agreement with his Russian counterpart in Tehran, said the 164-kilometre (102-mile) railway in Iran’s north would be completed within three years.It is the only missing link in the International...

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GCC economic growth expected to slow to 2.5% in 2023: World Bank

KUWAIT: The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are projected to grow at a slower pace in 2023 compared to the previous year, in the face of lower oil and gas earnings and a global economic slowdown, according to the new World Bank Gulf Economic Update (GEU). The GCC is expected to grow by 2.5 percent in 2023 and 3.2 percent in 2024. This compares to the region’s remarkable GDP growth of 7.3 percent in 2022, which was fueled by a...

MILAN: AC Milan’s French defender Theo Hernandez (center) fouls Inter Milan’s Italian midfielder Nicolo Barella during the UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg football match between Inter Milan and AC Milan on May 16, 2023.- AFP

Inter Milan reach Champions League final, first in 13 years

MILAN: Inter Milan reached their first Champions League final for 13 years as Lautaro Martinez’s sole goal of the match gave them a 3-0 aggregate win against AC Milan on Tuesday. Inter will undoubtedly be the underdogs against either Real Madrid or Manchester City in Istanbul on June 10, but the way they managed both legs of this all-Milan tie suggests they will be hard to beat.The key moment of the night at the San Siro came when Argentinean...

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Morocco unveils its first hydrogen powered vehicle

RABAT: King Mohammed VI of Morocco unveiled the nation’s first car brand along with a prototype of a hydrogen-powered vehicle. During a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Rabat on Monday, According to Morocco’s MAP news agency, the recently unveiled car, known as the Hydrogen Utility Vehicle (HUV), was developed by Neo Motors, the first Moroccan-owned car company, and NamX, an automobile company based in Turin.The president of NamX played a key...

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden (center) speaks during a meeting on the debt limit with (left to right) US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, US Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. -- AFP

US debt row overshadows Biden’s truncated Asia trip

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden’s departure Wednesday to the G7 in Japan was meant to launch a geostrategic masterclass on rallying the world’s democracies against China. Instead, he will limp into an abruptly truncated journey facing concerns that the US debt ceiling row is about to tear up the global economy. Biden arrives on Thursday in Hiroshima, one of the two cities hit by US atomic bombs in 1945 -- a closing chapter to World War II and...

TOKYO: A woman walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average (top) on a street in Tokyo on May 17, 2023. --AFP

Japan economic growth beats expectations

TOKYO: Japan’s economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter, official data showed Wednesday, helped by a recovery in inbound tourism after pandemic border restrictions were lifted. The 0.4 percent rise in gross domestic product beat market expectations of 0.2 percent, after hopes of a rebound fell flat in the final quarter of last year.Spending by visitors to Japan “rapidly recovered” in the three months to March, Ryutaro Kono,...

SAO PAULO: Influencer Murilo Duarte streams a live video at the Jardim Joao XXIII slum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 19, 2023. – AFP

Brazil ‘finfluencers’ bring finance to the favelas

SAO PAULO: With his tattooed arms, drop-fade haircut and baby-face looks, Murilo Duarte doesn’t look like a typical financial adviser as he dishes out investment tips on social media from the Sao Paulo favela where he grew up. Duarte, 28, who has more than a million followers on social media, is one of the “finfluencers” — financial influencers — who have gone viral in Brazil, bringing financial education to the masses in a country...

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Possible antidote discovered for deadliest mushroom

Researchers said on Tuesday that an already widely used medical dye reduces the poisonous effects of death cap mushrooms in mice, raising hopes of the first targeted antidote for the world’s deadliest mushroom. The China-led team said the dye, which has yet to be tested as an antidote on humans but has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) for other uses, has the potential to “save many lives”.Amanita...

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