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BEIRUT: A woman leaves a bakery with a bag of bread as people wait for their turn in the neighborhood of Nabaa in the capital's southern suburbs on Friday. - AFP n

In Lebanon, bread too is now scarce

BEIRUT: A woman leaves a bakery with a bag of bread as people wait for their turn in the neighborhood of Nabaa in the capital's southern suburbs on Friday. - AFPBEIRUT: Michael Hamati emerged from a long queue at a Beirut bakery sweat dripping from his forehead, as Lebanon's economic collapse sparks increasing shortages including over bread. "There's nothing left in this country," said the 72-year-old, as dozens of people clamored behind him in...

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Kuwait distributes eight tons of baby formula to refugees

BEIRUT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) distributed Friday eight tons of baby formula as part of its efforts to support the Lebanese and Syrian refugees in need. In a statement to the press, KRCS delegation's head Dr Musaed Al-Enezi said that the society team and in cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross Society started a campaign to distribute baby formula in refugee camps and to the Children's Cancer Center in Lebanon. He also stressed that...

KUWAIT: People swim in the Arabian Gulf waters as the Salmiya skyline is seen in the background. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikhn

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KUWAIT: People swim in the Arabian Gulf waters as the Salmiya skyline is seen in the background. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

Omar Hamdani, proprietor of one of the city's oldest restaurants, Chez Hamdani, serves up Yemeni fish to lunchtime customers at his restaurant in Djibouti on April 11, 2021. – AFP photosn

How Yemeni fish became Djibouti's national dish

Omar Hamdani, proprietor of one of the city's oldest restaurants, Chez Hamdani, serves up Yemeni fish to lunchtime customers at his restaurant in Djibouti on April 11, 2021. – AFP photosIt's lunchtime in Djibouti's capital and "Chez Hamdani" is buzzing. Local celebrities, visiting diaspora and nomadic herders: everyone flocks to this decades-old establishment for a taste of Yemeni fish, the only dish on the menu. Split in two, coated with a...

A man waits at a bus stop below a Bansky graffiti artwork of a couple dancing to an accordion player on a wall in Great Yarmouth on the east coast of England.n

Banksy shows off his seaside 'spraycation'

A man waits at a bus stop below a Bansky graffiti artwork of a couple dancing to an accordion player on a wall in Great Yarmouth on the east coast of England.Banksy, Britain's most famous street artist, on Friday confirmed what many had already suspected - that he is indeed the author of a number of works that have appeared recently in British seaside towns. An Instagram video clip, just over three minutes long and entitled "A Great British...

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Why a Hong Kong artist chose 'self-exile' in Taiwan

As he queued to board a flight out of Hong Kong to Taiwan last month, dissident artist Kacey Wong was painfully aware of the extra immigration officials brought in to scrutinize each departing passenger. Wong, 51, was one of the city's best-known provocateurs, an artist who specialized in satirizing and criticizing those in power.But as China's crackdown on dissent gathered pace in Hong Kong, he decided he had to leave. But would authorities let...

BEIRUT: Lebanese soldiers are pictured at a petrol station in the capital Beirut yesterday after soldiers were deployed to force several stations to reopen their doors. - AFPnn

Lebanon army deploys at pumps as CB chief firm on lifting fuel subsidies

BEIRUT: Lebanese soldiers are pictured at a petrol station in the capital Beirut yesterday after soldiers were deployed to force several stations to reopen their doors. - AFPBEIRUT: Lebanon's army yesterday raided gas stations and seized petrol to curb hoarding as the central bank chief stood firm on his decision to halt fuel subsidies. Lebanon is gripped by one of the world's worst economic crises since the 1850's, according to the World Bank,...

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Apple defends child protection features over privacy concerns

CUPERTINO: Apple on Friday defended new child protection features that would check images uploaded to its cloud storage and on its messaging platform, rejecting concerns the updates pose threats to privacy. "We can see that it's been widely misunderstood," the US tech giant's software chief Craig Federighi said of the update rollout in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Friday.Last week, Apple unveiled two features to debut on...

NEW YORK: A woman exits from a Famous Footwear Store in Midtown New York. Stock markets were mostly lower Friday weighed down by a slump in oil prices over concerns about the economic impact of rising infections from COVID's highly contagious Delta variant. - AFPn

Global stocks make modest gains after days of records

NEW YORK: A woman exits from a Famous Footwear Store in Midtown New York. Stock markets were mostly lower Friday weighed down by a slump in oil prices over concerns about the economic impact of rising infections from COVID's highly contagious Delta variant. - AFPNEW YORK: US and European stock markets made modest gains on Friday after days of records as concerns about the pandemic sparked a surprise collapse in US consumer confidence. On Wall...

Facebook encrypts Messenger calls in privacy move

PARIS: In this file illustration photo taken in Paris, shows the logo of the instant messaging application of Facebook called Messenger. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Friday began rolling out encryption for voice or video calls made through its Messenger texting app, ratcheting up privacy for users. The move comes as the sanctity of data on smartphones becomes an increasingly sensitive topic. Encrypting text chats on Messenger has been an...

MANCHESTER: Manchester United's midfielder Bruno Fernandes (left) celebrates scoring his team's first goal with striker Mason Greenwood (center) and midfielder Paul Pogba during the English Premier League match against Leeds United at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England yesterday. – AFPn

Fernandes, Pogba shine as five-star Man Utd thrash Leeds

MANCHESTER: Manchester United's midfielder Bruno Fernandes (left) celebrates scoring his team's first goal with striker Mason Greenwood (center) and midfielder Paul Pogba during the English Premier League match against Leeds United at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England yesterday. – AFPMANCHESTER: Bruno Fernandes scored a hat-trick and Paul Pogba provided four assists as Manchester United thrashed Leeds 5-1 at a packed Old Trafford...

HERAT: A Taleban fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan's third biggest city, after government forces pulled out the day before following weeks of being under siege. - AFPn

Arms seizures 'massive boon' for Taleban

HERAT: A Taleban fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan's third biggest city, after government forces pulled out the day before following weeks of being under siege. - AFPKABUL: The United States spent billions supplying the Afghan military with the tools to defeat the Taleban, but the rapid capitulation of the armed forces means that weaponry is now fuelling the insurgents' astonishing...

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