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Miami ready for big-name signings: Beckham

David BeckhamMIAMI: David Beckham says Inter Miami are ready to make big-name signings as they prepare for their second season in Major League Soccer under new coach Phil Neville. Speaking Saturday at an event to launch Miami's new jersey, Inter co-owner Beckham said the club saw home-grown talent as the cornerstone of the franchise's long-term success. However he acknowledged that Inter remained in the hunt for big-name players, citing the...

A woman walks on Wall Street in New York. - AFPn

Women making inroads on Wall Street, but still a long way to go

A woman walks on Wall Street in New York. - AFPNEW YORK: Pin-up photos and smutty jokes have long been commonplace on trading floors, but the finance world is gradually opening up to women-underlined by the arrival today of Jane Fraser as the head of Wall Street banking flagship Citigroup. Her elevation marks "a milestone," according to Lorraine Hariton, director of Catalyst, an organization that promotes women in the workplace. "But there is...

Allyson Kapin, General Partner at the W Fund and co-founder of Women Who Tech, peeks out of her back door before an interview with AFP in Washington, DC.-AFPn

Women fight for funding in man's world of tech startups

Allyson Kapin, General Partner at the W Fund and co-founder of Women Who Tech, peeks out of her back door before an interview with AFP in Washington, DC.-AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Lauren Foundos has excelled at just about everything she has put her mind to, from college sports and Wall Street trading to her Forte startup that takes workouts online. Being a woman in the overwhelmingly male world of venture capital was still a barrier-but, like many other...

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A look at three women in finance

Robin PruntyNEW YORK: Women in the US finance industry applaud signs of progress at financial giants like Citigroup, which became the first big Wall Street bank to name a female chief executive. Still, even as more women rise and some companies allow greater flexibility to working mothers, finance remains a challenging career domain and progress is coming more slowly than many women would like. 'Never been easy' -As a little girl, Hermina Batson...

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Salt spa seeks to soothe cradle of Libya's revolution

A specialist covers the body of a client with salt. - AFP photosLibya's principal eastern city may be best known as the cradle of a revolution, but it has lately scored an improbable first for the conflict-riven country-a salt spa. The Opal center in Benghazi, where citizens rose up against dictator Moamer Kadhafi's rule a decade ago, opened Libya's first-ever artificial salt caves to clients last October. Established by two women entrepeneurs,...

Dermatologist Brunilda Bardhi applies esthetic treatment to a woman at a clinic in Tirana.

Nip, tuck, mask: Cosmetic surgery sweeps Albania along with virus

Dermatologist Brunilda Bardhi applies esthetic treatment to a woman at a clinic in Tirana.Pandemic stress, the focus on faces during video chats and the convenience of hiding under a mask are fuelling a cosmetic surgery boom in Albania-but rogue operators are putting some patients at risk. Doctors say the surge has been driven by demand from mainly young women such as Ana Kela, a 20-year-old student in Tirana who had her lips plumped in...

Fahrije Hoti (first right) sits among her employees at the Koperativa Krusha, in the village of Krusha e Madhe.-AFP

Kosovo drama captures the rebellious work of war widows

Fahrije Hoti (first right) sits among her employees at the Koperativa Krusha, in the village of Krusha e Madhe.-AFPAfter being driven out of her village in the midst of Kosovo's war two decades ago, Fahrije Hoti returned several months later to find her home destroyed and her husband gone. The mother of two was suddenly one of 140 new widows in the farming village of Krushe e Madhe, whose soil was the site of a massacre by Serb forces in 1999...

A photo shows a detail of a large Roman four-wheeled ceremonial chariot after it was discovered near the The archaeological park of Pompei.-AFP n

Roman chariot unearthed 'almost intact' near Pompeii

A photo shows a detail of a large Roman four-wheeled ceremonial chariot after it was discovered near the The archaeological park of Pompei.-AFPAn ornate Roman chariot has been discovered "almost intact" near Italy's buried city of Pompeii, the archaeological park announced on Saturday, calling it a discovery with "no parallel" in the country. The four-wheeled processional carriage was found in the portico to stables where the remains of three...

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Hollywood, history combine in Churchill art auction

This combination of pictures shows (top) a general view of the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on February 24 , 2021, and (bottom) gallery workers pose with an artwork titled "Tower of Koutoubia Mosque" by Winston Churchill during a photocall at Christie's auction house in central London.-AFPHollywood's Angelina Jolie and Britain's iconic wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a keen artist who took inspiration from the Moroccan city of...

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African-American barber snips COVID fictions

Mike Brown cuts the hair of Kendrick Furbush at The Shop Hair Spa in Hyattsville.Barber Mike Brown carefully guides his trimmer as he fights misconceptions about COVID-19 among his African-American customers, who face an outsize risk from the virus but are less likely to get vaccinated. Kerdell Porter is a 60-year-old mailman who said he has shared his doubts about the vaccine with his barber, including the claim that the shots are a ploy to...

KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs a virtual meeting with leaders from 75 government agencies yesterday regarding the right to access information law, in the presence of Minister of Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh and Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah. - KUNA n

Prime Minister chairs meeting on right to access information law

KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs a virtual meeting with leaders from 75 government agencies yesterday regarding the right to access information law, in the presence of Minister of Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh and Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah. - KUNAKUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday held a virtual meeting regarding the right to access...

The National Assembly

Bill filed to suspend foreign aid; election petitions quashed

The National AssemblyBy B IzzakKUWAIT: Five opposition lawmakers yesterday filed a draft law calling to suspend Kuwait's foreign aid for five years amid official reports stating that the country is projected to accumulate KD 81 billion in fiscal deficits over 12 years. The bill, filed by MPs Hasan Jowhar, Abdullah Al-Mudhaf, Muhalhal Al-Mudhaf, Hamad Rouh El-Din and Muhannad Al-Sayer, stipulates that the government suspend all forms of foreign...

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Al-Sawaber Complex

Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved

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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP

Hamas names Sinwar new chief

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WEYMOUTH: A police officer restrains a protester during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists in Weymouth, on the southwest coast of England where the Bibby Stockholm migrant accommodation barge is moored, on August 4, 2024. — AFP

No end in sight for UK riots

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Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Finance Aseel Al-Munifi and CEO of the Shared Electronic Banking Services Company (K-Net) Essam Al-Khashnam are pictured after signing the deal. - KUNA

Ministry of Finance and KNET ink e-payment services deal

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ALDERSHOT: Protesters hold placards during a 'Enough is Enough' demonstration called by far-right activists near a hotel housing asylum seekers in Aldershot on August 4, 2024. — AFP

Musk fans flames of anti-Muslim riots, spars with UK govt