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People arrive at a cinema hall to watch Bollywood movie Pathaan in Dhaka.

Bangladesh audiences see first Indian movie in 50 years

Thousands flocked to cinemas in Dhaka on Friday as Shah Rukh Khan’s blockbuster “Pathaan” hit the big screens, the first Bollywood movie to get a full release in Bangladesh in more than half a century. The action-packed spy thriller smashed box office records when it opened in India in January and the star has a huge fan following around the world. But Dhaka banned films from its neighbour soon after its independence in 1971, in the face of...

MANCHESTER: Supporters of former US President and 2024 Presidential hopeful Donald Trump rally to welcome him at Manchester airport in Manchester, New Hampshire, on May 10, 2023 ahead of his CNN town hall meeting. – AFP

Trump refuses to accept 2020 defeat

GOFFSTOWN: A combative Donald Trump made a rare live appearance on longtime adversary CNN on Wednesday, repeating his false claims about the 2020 election, hurling insults and mocking a former magazine columnist he was found liable of sexually abusing and defaming.Trump, during a one-hour “town hall” on the cable television network that he regularly denounced as “fake news” while in the White House, took questions on a broad range of...

DUBAI: File photo shows ground crews prepare an Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Emirates Group announced a record billion annual profit on May 11, 2023, hailing a 'full recovery' for the Dubai-based carrier after last year's losses due to the pandemic. – AFP

Emirates Group unveils record $3 billion profit

DUBAI: Emirates Group announced a record $3 billion annual profit on Thursday, hailing a “full recovery” for the Dubai-based carrier after last year’s losses due to the pandemic. “We’re proud of our 2022-23 performance which is not only a full recovery but also a record result,” Emirates chairman and CEO Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said in a statement.The Emirates airline business alone banked $2.9 billion, another record, after...

NIIGATA: President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde (L) talks with Commissioner for the Economy of the European Commission Paolo Gentiloni (2-L) before the start of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting opening session at the International Conference Room of Toki Messe in Niigata. – AFPnnnNIIGATA: President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde (L) talks with Commissioner for the Economy of the European Commission Paolo Gentiloni (2-L) before the start of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting opening session at the International Conference Room of Toki Messe in Niigata. – AFP

G7 tackle crises from Ukraine to banking

NIIGATA: Support for war-torn Ukraine topped the agenda at G7 finance talks on Thursday in Japan, where ministers and central bankers also weighed concerns ranging from banking uncertainty to US debt default fears.The meeting of the Group of Seven developed nations comes with the global economy still unsteady after years of pandemic woes compounded by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. So the three-day talks in the coastal city of Niigata in central...

MANIPUR: An Indian army personnel gestures as children evacuated by the Indian army during the ethnic riots in Manipur state prepare to leave after reuniting with their parents at a temporary shelter at the Leimakhong Army Cantonment in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur on May 10, 2023. – AFP

Indian ethnic clashes shatter harmony

CHURACHANDPUR: Houses in a remote village in the restive northeastern Indian state of Manipur daubed with “Don’t Burn” notices stand untouched while many unmarked buildings are in ruins, their Meitei owners having fled. “It all started with an attack on two houses... But there was so much anger at what had happened in the afternoon that the people kept coming back to attack the entire neighbourhood,” said Khumujamba village resident...

TOKYO: File photo shows a woman standing in front of the Nissan showroom in the Ginza district of Tokyo. Nissan said on May 11, 2023 its full-year net profit slightly topped its estimate and offered an upbeat forecast for the fiscal year ahead. – AFP

Nissan’s results beat estimates, forecast bullish

TOKYO: Nissan said Thursday its full-year net profit slightly topped estimates and offered an upbeat forecast for the current fiscal year, despite warning of “challenging” conditions ahead. The Japanese automaker said it logged a net profit of 221 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for the year to March 2023, just beating its prediction of 220 billion yen, and projected 315 billion yen ($2.3 billion) for the coming year. The company said the gains...

TOKYO: Pedestrians walk outside the headquarters for Japanese company SoftBank Group in Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba on May 11, 2023. – AFP

SoftBank Group logs $7.2bn full-year loss on tech woes

TOKYO: SoftBank Group reported an annual net loss of over $7.2 billion on Thursday after a bruising year for the tech startup sector in which it is heavily invested. The company said its annual net loss came to 970 billion yen ($7.2 billion) on sales of 6.57 trillion yen, reflecting in part major losses from its Vision Fund portfolios. The Vision Fund 1 and 2 vehicles were hit by the global tech rout, SoftBank Group said in a statement. But the...

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Kuwait shine at Arab Ice Hockey championship

KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Ice Hockey Team topped the first group for the first Arab men’s ice Hockey Cup Competitions after winning on Wednesday against their Algerian counterpart 6-2. This was their third consecutive victory in the championship. Kuwait players played a strong match at the end of the first round of the Championship, which is taking place at the Club’s Lounge in Bayan area. The victory enabled them to go top of the group...

AUGUSTA: Tiger Woods of the United States catches a ball on the practice area during the third round of the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. – AFP

Tiger out, Spieth in doubt as PGA Championship field set

ROCHESTER: Tiger Woods was confirmed out for next week’s PGA Championship following right ankle surgery while injured Jordan Spieth, chasing a career Grand Slam, was on the entry list released Wednesday. The field of 156 for next week’s showdown at Oak Hill also includes 18 players from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League, among them Masters runner-ups and multiple major winners Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka.Woods, a 15-time major champion...

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Van Gogh’s frenzied final days highlight of new show

Vincent Van Gogh’s feverish final months in a French village, when he churned out masterpieces even as he spiralled into despair, are the subject of a one-off exhibition opening this week in Amsterdam. The show at the Van Gogh Museum in the Dutch capital, which opens Friday, features 50 of the 74 works produced in his frenzied last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, just northwest of Paris, before his death at the age of 37.More than 30 drawings are also...

Fans of US musician Beyonce queue to enter to the Friends Arena to watch her first concert of the World Tour named “Renaissance”, in Solna, north of Stockholm.

Fans in frenzy as Beyonce kicks off concert tour

Ecstatic Beyonce fans sang and danced in feverish excitement in Stockholm Wednesday as the superstar kicked off her first solo tour in seven years with a futuristic spectacle featuring a lunar rover, an airborne horse and wall-to-wall rhinestones.Hours before the doors opened hundreds of people were thronging outside the stadium, including some who had travelled halfway around the world to catch the show, anxious to see the global music icon --...

A man walks in front of a traditional wooden ships (lenj).

Winds of change buffet Iran’s wooden boat building tradition

Iranian captain Hassan Rostam has braved the Strait of Hormuz aboard his lenj for four decades, but now watches with despair as the wooden ships are being replaced by cheaper, faster boats. The sturdy vessels, built by hand, have sailed Gulf waters for centuries, their potbellied silhouette emblematic of regional maritime traditions like the dhows of the Arabian Peninsula.But these days, “there are fewer and fewer” of them, said Rostam, 62,...

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