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'Mac is back': McDonald's plans 'phased' reopening in Ukraine
New York: McDonald's announced plans Thursday for a "phased" partial reopening of restaurants in Ukraine, where operations have been shuttered since February due to the Russian invasion.The US burger chain will "reopen some restaurants in Kyiv and western Ukraine, where other businesses have safely reopened," Paul Pomroy, senior vice president for international operated markets, said in a message to employees.Pomroy cited requests from the...
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Blinken says support for armed groups in DRC must 'cease'
Kigali: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Thursday on governments to stop backing armed groups in the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo.He made his comments during a trip to Rwanda, which is accused of supporting the M23, a militia group behind a recent resurgence of deadly violence in the east of the DRC.Kigali has repeatedly denied the allegations."Our position is clear: support for any armed group needs to cease. It is not a...
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Armed client holds Lebanon bank staff hostage to access savings
Beirut: A customer armed with a rifle and threatening to set himself ablaze held bank workers hostage Thursday in Lebanon's capital, demanding to withdraw his trapped savings to pay hospital fees, security sources and a family member said.The incident is the latest between local banks and angry depositors unable to access their savings held in cash-starved banks because of informal capital controls in economic crisis-hit Lebanon.Security forces...
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Alleged British IS 'Beatle' appears in court after arrest in UK
A British man accused of being part of an Islamic State (IS) kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" appeared in court in London on Thursday on terrorism charges after returning to the UK.The Metropolitan Police said Thursday that 38-year-old Aine Davis had "been charged with various terrorism offences following an investigation by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command".Davis appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London on...
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Iran rejects US claim of plot to kill ex-official Bolton
Tehran: Iran dismissed as "fiction" Thursday US allegations it had plotted to kill former White House national security adviser John Bolton in retaliation for the assassination of one of its top commanders.The US claim comes at a crunch moment in talks on reviving a nuclear deal between Iran and major powers that Washington had abandoned in 2018 but has said it wants to rejoin, with Iran now considering what European Union mediators have called a...
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Kuwait embassy issues drone warning for citizens in UAE
Kuwait: The Kuwaiti Embassy in Abu Dhabi on Thursday warned Kuwaiti citizens traveling to the UAE against bringing in, having or using drones in this Gulf country so as to avert legal and judicial accountability.In a press statement to KUNA, the embassy cautioned that rules and regulations put in place by the UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority in this regard must be observed.The UAE's Ministry of Interior had definitely imposed a ban on...
Kuwait Amb. presents credentials to Vietnam pres
Kuwait Amb. presents credentials to Vietnam pres.
Kuwait: New Kuwaiti Ambassador in Hanoi Yousuf Al-Sabbagh HAS presented his credentials to Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.During a reception held at the presidential palace in Hanoi, the Kuwaiti ambassador conveyed the greetings of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to the Vietnamese president, the Kuwaiti embassy said in a statement to KUNA.He also discussed with the president ways of developing relations...
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Trump suggests FBI 'planting' evidence at Florida residence
Washington: Former US president Donald Trump complained Wednesday that he had been barred from re-entering his Florida resort home and suggested FBI agents might be "planting" evidence there following a dramatic raid that triggered outrage among Republicans."The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on...
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China warns it will not tolerate Taiwan 'separatists'
Beijing: China on Wednesday vowed zero tolerance for "separatist activities" in Taiwan and reaffirmed that it would take the self-ruled island by force if necessary.The warning from Beijing, which considers Taiwan its territory, came after days of unprecedented Chinese military drills around the island sparked by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip.Pelosi last week became the highest-ranking US official to visit Taiwan in decades despite stark...
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Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion worth of Tesla shares
Washington: Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to legal filings, amid a high-stakes legal battle with Twitter over a $44 billion buyout deal.The Tesla boss sold some 7.9 million shares between August 5 and 9, according to filings published on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website on Tuesday."In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close and some equity partners don't come...
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Raymond Briggs, author of UK Christmas classic 'The Snowman', dies aged 88
London: British cartoonist and illustrator Raymond Briggs, whose creation "The Snowman" became a Christmas staple for generations of children, has died aged 88, his publisher Penguin Random House said Wednesday.The 1978 picture book about a young, ginger-haired boy who builds a snowman that magically comes to life has sold more than 5.5 million copies globally and was transformed into an animated film in 1982.First shown on British TV, with an...
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Police kill knife-wielding man at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport
Paris: Police officers shot and killed a man who brandished a knife at the Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris on Wednesday, police and airport sources said."Officers neutralised a threatening individual in possession of a knife at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport," the Paris police department said on its Twitter account.An airport source said the incident occurred at the busy Terminal 2F at around 8:20 am (0620 GMT), when "a homeless man...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
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