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(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 6, 2020, a staff member stands in a Toyota showroom in Tokyo. Japan's Toyota reclaimed the title of world's top-selling automaker in 2020, according to data released by the firm on January 28, 2021, pushing Volkswagen into second place for the first time in five years.n

Toyota overtakes VW as top-selling automaker

In this file photo taken on November 6, 2020, a staff member stands in a Toyota showroom in Tokyo. Japan's Toyota reclaimed the title of world's top-selling automaker in 2020, according to data released by the firm on January 28, 2021, pushing Volkswagen into second place for the first time in five years.TOKYO: Japan's Toyota reclaimed the title of world's top-selling automaker in 2020, according to data released by the firm yesterday, pushing...

A Cathay Pacific passenger plane preparing to take off from Hong Kong's international airport. - AFPn

Cathay Pacific shares fall as bond sale announced to stem cash crisis

A Cathay Pacific passenger plane preparing to take off from Hong Kong's international airport. - AFPHONG KONG: Shares in Hong Kong's marquee carrier Cathay Pacific plunged yesterday after the struggling airline unveiled a HK$6.7 billion (US$870 million) bond sale to try to stem its rampant cash burn. The firm's stock tumbled 9.7 percent as the market closed in Hong Kong, days after it warned new quarantine measures planned for passenger and...

SEOUL: A woman walks past an advertisement for the Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul yesterday after the company reported its fourth-quarter net profits up by more than a quarter year-on-year. - AFPn

Samsung Electronics profit spikes on pandemic-driven demand

SEOUL: A woman walks past an advertisement for the Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul yesterday after the company reported its fourth-quarter net profits up by more than a quarter year-on-year. - AFPSEOUL: Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker reported fourth-quarter net profits up by more than a quarter year-on-year yesterday, with coronavirus-driven working from home...

Cannes Film Festival postponed to July due to virus

In this file photo the logo of the International Cannes Film Festival is pictured during a press conference.-AFPThe Cannes Film Festival has been rescheduled for July 6 to 17 -- postponed by around two months due to the ongoing virus crisis, organizers said on Wednesday. The delay looked increasingly likely in recent weeks, with infection rates still high in France and talk of another lockdown looming. "As announced last autumn, the Festival de...

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Botticelli 'masterpiece' expected to top $80 mn at Sotheby's sale

In this file photo a Sotheby's employee poses for a photograph with the artwork "Young Man Holding a Roundel" by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.-AFPA portrait by Italian renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is expected to sell for more than $80 million when it goes up for auction at Sotheby's in New York yesterday. "Young Man Holding a Roundel," believed to have been painted in the 1470s or 1480s, is considered one of Botticelli's...

Danish author Sara Omar poses during a photo session on the premises of the Danish newspaper Politiken, which is also her publisher, in Copenhagen.-AFP n

Danish author Sara Omar: Breaking taboos for Muslim women

Danish author Sara Omar poses during a photo session on the premises of the Danish newspaper Politiken, which is also her publisher, in Copenhagen.-AFPBorn amid the horrors of war in Iraqi Kurdistan, Danish author Sara Omar now uses her voice to denounce violence inflicted on women in the name of reactionary Islam, a "calling" that has left her living under police protection. "I broke the taboo. I talk about the things you are not supposed to...

US model Christy Turlington presents a creation of British designer Kim Jones for the Fendi's Spring-Summer 2021 collection during the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, in Paris. — AFP photosn

At Fendi, Kim Jones brings Virginia Woolf chic to Paris

US model Christy Turlington presents a creation of British designer Kim Jones for the Fendi's Spring-Summer 2021 collection during the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, in Paris. — AFP photosKim Jones' debut collection for Fendi as a womenswear designer tapped the bohemian, literary world of Virginia Woolf on Wednesday, bringing bookish glamour to his first haute couture runway show. The celebrated British menswear talent, a veteran of Dior...

Matan Fingerhut, his wife Chagit, and their four children look on at their house in the wildcat outpost of Givat Hahish, near the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut, south of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. -afpn nn

West Bank's settlers pressure Netanyahu ahead of March vote

Matan Fingerhut, his wife Chagit, and their four children look on at their house in the wildcat outpost of Givat Hahish, near the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut, south of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. - AFPGIVAT HAHISH, Palestinian Territories: Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are demanding concessions from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a March general election which could hinge on a...

A picture shows heavily damaged buildings in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.-AFPn

Mosul's ruined Old City up for sale, but few buyers

A picture shows heavily damaged buildings in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.-AFPMOSUL: Mosul's Old City still lies in ruins three years after intense fighting drove out Islamic State jihadists. With rebuilding unlikely and Iraq's economy in tailspin, homeowners are desperate to sell. But many who lived through the horrors of IS rule there are now unable to find buyers for their properties in what still resembles a warzone.Piles of rubble block...

TRIPOLI: Lebanese mourners attend the funeral of Omar Tayba, who died during clashes between anti-government protestors and security forces the previous night, in the northern port city of Tripoli yesterday.-AFPn

Lebanese man dies of wounds as troops and protesters clash

TRIPOLI: Lebanese mourners attend the funeral of Omar Tayba, who died during clashes between anti-government protestors and security forces the previous night, in the northern port city of Tripoli yesterday.-AFPTRIPOLI: A man died of his wounds yesterday in Lebanon after clashes between security forces and protesters angered by the combined impact of a severe economic crisis and a coronavirus lockdown. Omar Tayba sustained a bullet wound late...

LONDON: A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking part in the weekly Prime Minister's Questions, in a hybrid, socially distanced session at the House of Commons in London on Wednesday.—AFPn

UK's Johnson visits Scotland as independence support mounts

LONDON: A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking part in the weekly Prime Minister's Questions, in a hybrid, socially distanced session at the House of Commons in London on Wednesday.—AFPLONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson headed to Scotland yesterday to praise the United Kingdom's collective response to coronavirus, in a bid to counter record support for independence. Johnson...

KABUL: In this photo taken on January 14, 2021, Hazara men and women arrive to offer prayers for their relatives, members of the 'Enlightenment Movement', buried in a graveyard on the outskirts of Kabul. - AFPn

Hazaras fear for the future as foreign troops exit Afghanistan

KABUL: In this photo taken on January 14, 2021, Hazara men and women arrive to offer prayers for their relatives, members of the 'Enlightenment Movement', buried in a graveyard on the outskirts of Kabul. - AFPBAMIYAN, Afghanistan: The choice was straightforward for Hamidullah Asadi, a member of Afghanistan's minority Hazara community-wait for the next deadly attack or join a growing militia in the mountains. After spending months recovering from...

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MUMBAI: A vendor counts a wad of Indian rupees. - AFP

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NOTTINGHAM: Protesters are detained on Aug 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration. - AFP

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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP

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