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Curran under fire as IPL record price tag weighs heavy

NEW DELHI: Sam Curran is the most expensive player in Indian Premier League history but England’s World Cup hero is drawing flak after failing to justify his price tag with bat or ball. Punjab Kings shelled out $2.23 million on the all-rounder but they are eighth in the 10-team table and barring a miracle will not qualify for the knock-out phase. With a week of the group phase left, Curran was languishing at 39th on the runs table as of early...

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Titans’ Shubman Gill plays a shot during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad on May 15, 2023. – AFP

Gill’s ton fires Gujarat to play-offs, Hyderabad out

AHMEDABAD: India opener Shubman Gill hit his maiden IPL century to help holders Gujarat Titans secure their play-off berth with a thumping 34-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday. Gill, who smashed 101 off 58 balls, put on a 147-run stand with Sai Sudarshan, who made 47, to guide table-toppers Gujarat to 188-9 in Ahmedabad. Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma both took four wickets to limit Hyderabad to 154-9 as Gujarat became the first team to...

HIROSHIMA: A large banner hangs from the roof of a popular shopping precinct advertising the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Hiroshima on May 14, 2023 just days ahead of the arrival of leaders for the event. – AFP

G7 leaders meet to pressure Russia and find China unity

TOKYO: G7 leaders meet in Hiroshima this week looking to tighten the screws further on Russia over the Ukraine war and agree a united line on China’s growing military and economic power. The three-day summit of leading developed democracies will cover everything from energy to AI, but a key focus will be targeting those who have helped Moscow blunt the impact of Western-led sanctions.The leaders will also chart a careful course on Beijing,...

ISTANBUL: The EBRD predicted Turkish GDP will expand 2.5 percent this year, cutting prior guidance of 3.0 percent and citing the impact of “unorthodox” loose monetary policy.

EBRD bank lowers Turkey GDP forecast and upgrades Russia

LONDON, UK: Turkey’s quake-hit economy will grow this year by less than previously forecast, while Russian output will shrink far less than expected despite Ukraine war sanctions, Europe’s development bank said Tuesday. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which later opens its annual meeting in Uzbekistan, published its latest outlook for a region hit also by rampant inflation and slowing global economic activity.The EBRD...

PARIS: SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023. -AFP

Musk considering ‘significant investments in France’

PARIS: Billionaire businessman Elon Musk on Monday said he was considering “significant investments in France” as he visited the country for a summit aimed at attracting foreign business leaders. The world’s second richest man, who is the chief executive of electric car firm Tesla, social media company Twitter and cosmic exploration outfit SpaceX, made the comments after meeting President Emmanuel Macron and Economy Minister Bruno Le...

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Gulf Bank concludes second edition of Datathon competition

KUWAIT: With the participation of more than 400 young and talented Kuwaiti contestants, Gulf Bank announced the winning teams of the second edition of the Datathon competition – the first platform of its kind in Kuwait, to empower data professionals, high school, and university students, as well as new employees interested in working in the fields of data and analytics.The Datathon competition lasted for two days at Al-Shaheed Park, in...

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Kuwait’s credit growth slows in Q1

KUWAIT: Domestic credit started the year on a relatively weak note, increasing by 0.6 percent q/q in Q1 2023, cutting the y/y increase to 5.1 percent through March. Higher interest rates, banks’ lower price competition in terms of retail lending, and normalizing growth following a very strong 2022 are some of the factors behind the softening growth so far this year.Business credit increased by 1.2 percent q/q, cutting the y/y increase to 4.2...

Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales speaks on stage inside Windsor Castle grounds at the Coronation Concert, in Windsor, west of London.--AFP

Singapore to host Prince William’s Earthshot Prize

Singapore will host the next awards ceremony for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize that aims to reward innovative efforts to combat climate change, a statement said Monday. A winner is selected in each of the prize’s five categories such as “Clean our Air” or “Revive our Oceans”. The winners are awarded £1 million ($1.2 million) each. “The Earthshot Prize is all about showing the world that solutions to some of the biggest...

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Son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti arrested for ‘police assault’

Nigerian musician Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer, Lagos state police said on Monday. An order was made for the arrest of Kuti, a Grammy-nominated saxophonist and singer, on Saturday after a viral video showed him on a road, shouting and apparently pushing and smacking a policeman, police said. He turned himself in early Monday to the headquarters of the Lagos State Police...

US actor Tyrese Gibson (left) and US actor Vin Diesel arrive for the Premiere of the film 'Fast X', the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga at the Colosseum monument in Rome.--AFP photos

French fan takes over final Fast and Furious films

French director Louis Leterrier was a regular fan of “The Fast and the Furious” when the multi-billion-dollar franchise started more than two decades ago. Now he is finishing it. “I was a fan, buying my ticket on the Champs Elysee in 2001, who became a director and now I’m ending the franchise,” Leterrier told AFP. “That never happens!” The 49-year-old has taken over directing duties for the final two instalments—including “Fast...

Defendants sit at the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, eastern Germany, prior to a hearing in the trial over a jewellery heist.

German court sentences five over spectacular museum heist

A German court on Tuesday sentenced five members of a criminal gang to up to six years in prison for snatching priceless 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum in what local media have dubbed the biggest art heist in modern history. The thieves made away with a haul worth more than 113 million euros ($123 million) from the Green Vault museum in November 2019. Some, but not all, of the loot was recovered after four of the defendants made...

BANGKOK: Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat leads a victory parade with fellow party members and supporters outside Bangkok City Hall on May 15, 2023. – AFP

Thai oppn leader Pita claims victory

BANGKOK: Thailand’s progressive Move Forward Party (MFP) claimed victory in the country’s election Monday after a result that decimated military-backed parties that have ruled the kingdom for nearly a decade. A stunning surge for the upstart MFP in Sunday’s ballot left it on course to be the biggest party, followed by its rival opposition — the Pheu Thai movement of billionaire ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra.MFP leader Pita Limjaroenrat...

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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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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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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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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