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PARIS: Global Head of Strategy and Corporate Affairs at Chinese fashion brand Shein, Peter Pernot-Day, poses during a photo session at the Shein offices in Paris on May 4, 2023. – AFP
Chinese fashion giant Shein denies low prices due to forced labor
PARIS: Chinese cut-price fast-fashion giant Shein defended its business model in an interview with AFP, saying demand-based production accounted for its low prices and not forced or cheap labor. Founded in China in 2008, Shein has swiftly claimed a top place in the global fast-fashion marketplace, offering young social-media-savvy customers low-priced collections that turn over at a steady clip.The Singapore-based firm’s strategy chief Peter...
The production line at a Volkswagen factory in Zwickau. German industry had already been suffering from the effects of global trade tensions before the pandemic.
German factory orders suffer biggest decline since 2020
FRANKFURT/BERLIN: German industrial orders suffered their biggest fall in March since 2020, official data showed Friday, fuelling fears that Europe’s biggest economy is entering a sharp downturn. New orders, which give a foretaste of industrial output, suffered a surprise drop of 10.7 percent compared with the previous month, according to provisional figures from federal statistics authority Destatis. It was the biggest decline since April...
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Philippines police rescues over 1,000 trafficking victims
MANILA: Philippine authorities have rescued over a thousand people from several Asian nations who were trafficked into the country, held captive and forced to run online scams, an official said Saturday.International alarm has grown in recent months over internet scams in the region often staffed by trafficking victims tricked or coerced into promoting bogus crypto investments. Michelle Sabino, a spokeswoman for the Philippine national police...
MALO ORASJE: People queue to light candles ahead of a funeral service for five young men killed, in the village of Malo Orasje near the town of Mladenovac, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) south of Serbia's capital Belgrade, on May 6, 2023, in the aftermath of a drive-by shooting. – AFP
Eight killed in Serbia’s second mass shooting
MLADENOVAC: Serbian police said Friday they had arrested a man suspected of killing eight people and injuring at least 14 others in the country’s second mass shooting this week, following a manhunt through the night. The back-to-back shootings have left Serbians horrified, spurring vows from President Aleksandar Vucic to launch a massive crackdown to remove hundreds of thousands of guns from the Balkan country. The latest shooting erupted...
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang addresses a joint press conference along with his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (not pictured) at the foreign ministry in Islamabad on May 6, 2023. – AFP
Afghan foreign minister woos neighbors on rare visit abroad
ISLAMABAD: The foreign minister of Afghanistan’s Taleban government, which is not recognised by any other nation, held talks Saturday with his counterparts from Pakistan and China during a rare visit abroad. Amir Khan Muttaqi is barred by international sanctions from leaving Afghanistan but was granted an exemption for a trip to Islamabad just days after the United Nations secretary-general again condemned the Taleban government’s curbs on...
ANNAPOLIS: In this file photo taken on May 16, 2022 a “Now Hiring” sign at T J Maxx in Annapolis, Maryland.— AFP
US hiring shows surprise surge as unemployment falls to 3.4%
WASHINGTON: Hiring in the United States picked up pace in April and unemployment returned to a multi-decade low, government data showed Friday, signaling labor market resilience despite higher interest rates to tackle inflation. The unexpected surge comes amid banking sector upheaval, higher borrowing costs and uncertainty surrounding a potential government default. The world’s biggest economy added 253,000 jobs last month, up from a revised...
CASTEL VOLTURNO: Fans of SSC Napoli gather outside the club’s training centre in Castel Volturno, north of Naples, to welcome Napoli’s players.- AFP
Champions Napoli return home as city revels in victory hangover
NAPLES: Napoli’s champions returned home Friday after winning their first Serie A title in 33 years, greeted at their training camp by hundreds of jubilant fans following a raucous night of partying in Naples. Waving blue-and-white flags, singing songs and honking horns, ecstatic fans went wild at the sight of the players’ white bus returning to the team’s training centre in Castel Volturno, northwest of Naples. The returning heroes who...
Mexican singer Peso Pluma arrives for the 8th annual Latin American Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.- AFP
Rising star rides Mexican music’s wave of success
A fast-rising young Latin music star is helping a Mexican musical genre that has courted controversy by glamorizing drug traffickers to take global charts by storm. Peso Pluma, who takes his nickname from the Featherweight boxing category, currently has several songs in both Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 US chart and streaming giant Spotify’s global Top 50. The 23-year-old was recently invited to sing “Ella Baila Sola” (She Dances Alone) -...
An aerial view of the tiny town of Felicity, home of The Museum of History in Granite, The Church on the Hill and a 21-foot-tall stone-and-glass pyramid marking the “Official Center of the World.” The tiny town of Felicity, which borders Yuma, Arizona and Mexico, was founded by French-American Jacques-Andre Istel, 94, and is the home of Istel’s passion project, the Museum of History in Granite. — AFP photos
Journey to the center of the world
Every morning, Jacques-Andre Istel has breakfast in bed at the center of the world. Istel is founder, mayor and postmaster general of Felicity, a stretch of California’s Sonora Desert where for nearly four decades he has been building a museum of, y’know... the whole of human history. “This doesn’t exist anywhere else on this planet,” the 94-year-old told AFP.What started in 1986 with two small houses has grown into an amphitheater of...
Britain’s King Charles III and Britain’s Queen Camilla travel in the Gold State Coach, built in 1762, back to Buckingham Palace from Westminster Abbey in central London on May 6, 2023, after their coronations.
Thousands cheer on Charles III as UK coronation party begins
Thousands of people turned central London red, white and blue on Saturday, with a sea of Union Jack flags lining the streets for the coronation of King Charles III. While the coronation service was itself a somber and sober affair, a celebratory atmosphere filled the British capital and beyond, despite wet weather. Crowds across the capital cheered in unison as the crown was placed on King Charles III’s head at 12.02 pm.On The Mall outside...
RUBENGERA: Bystanders look at the damaged slope after a landslide caused by heavy rain in Rubengera, Rwanda. At least 130 people have died as floods and landslides engulfed several parts of Rwanda after torrential rains, destroying homes and cutting off roads. – AFP
Rwanda counts cost after floods, landslides kill 130
KIGALI: Rwandans grieved Thursday for lost loved ones and destroyed homes after powerful floods and landslides tore through the country killing at least 130 people and leaving many thousands homeless. The government was still counting the cost as families prepared to bury their dead in the aftermath of a natural disaster caused by torrential rains in the steep and hilly country.Rivers of mud swept away homes and other infrastructure and cut off...
ISLAMABAD: People browse through second hand footwear for sale at a roadside bazaar in Islamabad on May 2, 2023.- AFP
Pakistan inflation hits record high
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s year-on-year inflation hit its highest-ever level of 36.42 percent in April, after the government introduced new taxes and raised fuel prices to try to meet International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions for a crucial bailout. Government data released Tuesday showed month-on-month inflation was 2.41 percent, while average inflation for the past 12 months stood at 28.23 percent.Years of financial mismanagement and political...
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Minister of Municipal Affairs Dr Noura Al-Mashaan and Head of the Municipal Council Abdullah Al-Mahari inspect the Darwazat Abdulrazzaq project. – KUNA photos
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