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De Bruyne injury clouds City’s 3-0 win at Burnley
BURNLEY: Manchester City could be without Kevin De Bruyne for a number of weeks after he suffered the recurrence of a hamstring injury as the defending champions opened the Premier League season with a 3-0 win at Burnley on Friday. Erling Haaland scored twice before Rodri completed the scoring to give City a perfect start to their quest to become the first side to win four consecutive English top-flight titles. But the night was soured for Pep...
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Bayern sign England captain Kane on four-year contract
MUNICH: England captain Harry Kane ended his record-breaking career with Tottenham on Saturday signing a four-year deal with Bayern Munich until 2027. Kane said he “felt it was time to leave” the Premier League club he had spent two decades with as he chases trophies with the Bundesliga giants. “I felt like it was the time to leave. I didn’t want to go into the season with a lot of unresolved future talk,” Kane posted on social...
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Bank tax shatters investor confidence in Italian govt
MILAN: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government watered down its surprise windfall tax on banks this week after a brutal market reaction, but the damage to investor confidence was done. “The most damaging impact... will not be the hit to the earnings of Italian banks but the higher risk premium that investors will demand to compensate them for the risk of future government intervention,” noted Johann Scholtz, analyst at...
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UK economy grows in Q2
LONDON: Britain’s economy expanded slightly over the second quarter thanks to strong output in June and despite inflation remaining high, official data showed Friday. Gross domestic product grew 0.2 percent in the April to June period after output expanded 0.1 percent in the first quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement.“Across the quarter as a whole, GDP grew a little with widespread growth across manufacturing,...
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Yellen sees ‘resilience’ in US economy even as it cools
WASHINGTON: US economic growth and wage gains should “serve as a source of resilience” moving forward even if the economy continues to cool, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in remarks released Friday.“I still believe that there is a path to continue reducing inflation while maintaining a healthy labor market,” she said, in excerpts of a speech to be delivered in Nevada next week.“While there are risks, the evidence we’ve seen so...
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Alcaraz knocked out as Medvedev ousted in Toronto
TORONTO: Frustrated world number one Carlos Alcaraz was knocked out of the ATP Toronto Masters 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 on Friday as American Tommy Paul ended the Spaniard’s 14-match winning streak. Top-seeded Alcaraz was unable to escape the poor form that has plagued him all week as he prepares for a US Open title defense starting in just over two weeks. The 20-year-old muttered to himself and chastised his play during a match lasting more than two and...
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Messi records 8 goals in 5 games; LAFC stunned
FORT LAUDERDALE: Lionel Messi made it eight goals in five games for Inter Miami as they eased into the semi-finals of the Leagues Cup with a 4-0 win over Charlotte FC on Friday. But Major League Soccer champions Los Angeles FC crashed out of the competition after giving up a two goal lead and losing 3-2 at home to Mexico’s Monterrey. Miami will travel north to face the Philadelphia Union for Tuesday’s semi-final after they beat Mexican team...
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Firmino hits hat-trick on Saudi Pro League debut
JEDDAH: Brazilian forward and former Liverpool star Roberto Firmino hit a hat-trick on his Saudi Pro League debut on Friday as Al- Ahli defeated Al-Hazem 3-1. The 31-year-old skipper found the net in the sixth, 10th and 72nd minutes for the promoted team who also fielded fellow new signings Riyad Mahrez, Allain Saint Maximin, Frank Kessie and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.Firmino left Liverpool in the summer after eight seasons at Anfield, during...
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Arm wrestling grips India with glitzy dreams
Athletes flex muscled biceps before going hand-to-hand in a newly televised arm-wrestling league seeking to take the sporting spotlight in otherwise cricket-mad India with a glitzy Bollywood-style makeover. Contestants fight under bright studio lights with a cheering audience as opponents push down the other person’s arm in the Pro Panja League (PPL) at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium.The Indian Arm Wrestling Federation launched in 1977,...
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Rio’s iconic Copacabana Palace celebrates 100 years of glamour
With its gleaming white facade looming over Rio de Janeiro’s iconic beachfront, the Copacabana Palace is celebrating 100 years of welcoming stars, presidents, and royalty. “The Copacabana Palace is more than a hotel, it’s an institution,” director general Ulisses Marreiros told AFP. The epitome of luxury and old-world glamour, the hotel was inaugurated on August 13, 1923, with a performance by Moulin Rouge singer-dancer Mistinguett, the...
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Rise of the machines: AI spells danger for Hollywood stunt workers
Hollywood’s striking actors fear that artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs – but for many stunt performers, that dystopian danger is already a reality. From “Game of Thrones” to the latest Marvel superhero movies, cost-slashing studios have long used computer-generated background figures to reduce the number of actors needed for battle scenes.Now, the rise of AI means cheaper and more powerful techniques are being explored to...
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Catch ‘em all: Pokemon hooks kids, parents and investors
Dressed up and ready for battle, around 10,000 Pokemon fans have descended on Yokohama in Japan this weekend, looking for fun but also collector’s item cards potentially worth serious money. Since the launch of Pokemon cards in 1996 following the hit computer game of the same name – meaning “pocket monsters” – an astounding 53 billion cards have been printed.Almost 30 years on, the card game remains hugely popular as contestants take...
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People walk past a housing complex under construction in Beijing on May 17, 2024. -- AFP
China offers to buy up commercial real estate to boost market
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Kuwait demands action on POWs, UN urges urgency
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KUWAIT: A voter casts his ballot in the Municipal Council by-elections on May 18, 2024.
Kuwait holds municipal by-elections
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GAZA: A man pushes a wheelchair filled with belongings past garbage piled up near tents set up by displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. - AFP
Rafah rocked by Zionist brutality