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TOKYO: Japan's department stores have been in a long slow decline as shopping habits change.-- AFP
Death knell sounds for Japan's retailers
TOKYO: Japan's department stores have been in a long slow decline as shopping habits change.-- AFP TOKYO: After more than three centuries in business, the Onuma department store in northern Japanese city of Yamagata began bankruptcy proceedings this year - one of many distinguished department stores across the country in dire straits. Known for fancy food halls, luxury items, impeccable service and, in their heyday, rooftop attractions to...
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Specters of deflation and virus haunt ECB meeting Thursday
FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is expected Thursday to prepare the ground for new stimulus measures, armed with a new set of economic forecasts and amid signs of a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic. The ECB will publish its latest assessments on the eurozone's growth prospects through to 2022, which will be closely scrutinized for signs of whether the worst of the pandemic's devastating economic impact is over.Inflation trends will...
SYDNEY: For many in Australia, the coronavirus has shown that the benefits of globalization, namely low tariffs and cheap labor, are limited when the world economy grinds to a halt. - Reuters
Australia turns to idled factories to pull it out of slump
SYDNEY: For many in Australia, the coronavirus has shown that the benefits of globalization, namely low tariffs and cheap labor, are limited when the world economy grinds to a halt. - Reuters SYDNEY: In 2017, the last car Australia built rolled out of a General Motors' plant in the city of Adelaide, ending seven decades of local automotive history and the belief that the country's factories could ever compete globally. Three years later,...
NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic of Serbia tends to a line judge who was hit with the ball during his Men's Singles fourth round match against Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain on Day Seven of the 2020 US Open on September 6, 2020. - AFP
'So sorry' Djokovic disqualified
NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic of Serbia tends to a line judge who was hit with the ball during his Men's Singles fourth round match against Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain on Day Seven of the 2020 US Open on September 6, 2020. - AFP NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic was dramatically disqualified from the US Open on Sunday after accidentally striking a female lines judge with a ball in frustration during his last-16 match, sending shock waves through the...
Australia's Marcus Stoinis (R) hits a six as England's Jos Buttler keeps wicket during the international Twenty20 cricket match between England and Australia at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, southern nSOUTHAMPTON: Australia's Marcus Stoinis (right) hits a six as England's Jos Buttler keeps wicket during the international Twenty20 cricket match between England and Australia at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton on September 6, 2020. - AFP
Buttler stars as England clinch Australia Twenty 20 series win
SOUTHAMPTON: Australia's Marcus Stoinis (right) hits a six as England's Jos Buttler keeps wicket during the international Twenty20 cricket match between England and Australia at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton on September 6, 2020. - AFP SOUTHAMPTON: Jos Buttler made a dashing 77 not out as England beat Australia by six wickets for a series-clinching win in the second Twenty20 international at Southampton on Sunday. Victory saw England take an...
ATLANTA: Brock Holt #27 of the Washington Nationals slides into home safely beating the tag of Tyler Flowers #25 of the Atlanta Braves in the second inning of an MLB game at Truist Park on September 6, ATLANTA: Brock Holt #27 of the Washington Nationals slides into home safely beating the tag of Tyler Flowers #25 of the Atlanta Braves in the second inning of an MLB game at Truist Park on September 6, ATLANTA: Brock Holt #27 of the Washington Nationals slides into home safely beating the tag of Tyler Flowers #25 of the Atlanta Braves in the second inning of an MLB game at Truist Park on September 6, 2020. – AFP
Indians thump Brewers 41 as Bieber earns AL-high 7th win
ATLANTA: Brock Holt #27 of the Washington Nationals slides into home safely beating the tag of Tyler Flowers #25 of the Atlanta Braves in the second inning of an MLB game at Truist Park on September 6, 2020. – AFP CHICAGO: Shane Bieber struck out 10 in five innings to become the American League's first seven-game winner and the host Cleveland Indians beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-1 on Sunday afternoon. Bieber allowed one run on five hits and...
People walk along a coastal road watching the waves brought by Typhoon Haishen in the eastern port city of Sokcho on September 7, 2020. - The powerful typhoon lashed South Korea on September 7 after smashing into southern Japan with record winds and heavy rains that left four people missing in a landslide. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)
Typhoon smashes South Korea
SOKCHO: People walk along a coastal road watching the waves brought by Typhoon Haishen in the eastern port city of Sokcho yesterday. - AFP SOKCHO: A powerful typhoon lashed South Korea yesterday after smashing into southern Japan with record winds and heavy rains that left four people missing in a landslide. Half a million people were without power after Typhoon Haishen roared past Japan's southern island of Kyushu, ripping off roofs and dumping...
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Showdown looms; UK threatens to undermine the divorce treaty
LONDON: Brexit trade talks plunged into crisis yesterday after Britain warned the European Union that it could effectively override the divorce deal it signed unless the bloc agrees to a free trade deal by Oct. 15. In one of the most startling turns of the four-year Brexit saga, Britain is reportedly planning new legislation that will override key parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement - a step that, if implemented, could jeopardize a treaty...
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Pandemic put Algeria's protests on pause; will they now resume?
TUNIS: Tunisian journalists gather outside the union’s headquarters in the capital Tunis yesterday to demonstrate the detention of Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni. - AFP ALGIERS: For over a year Algeria's defiant anti-government "Hirak" protesters seemed unstoppable, but weekly demonstrations skidded to a halt due to restrictions to end the coronavirus crisis. With two months to go before a key referendum on constitutional reform - a vote...
Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold up signs and flags as they hold a Republican voter registration in Brownsville, Pennsylvania on September 5, 2020. - Less than two months before the November 3 presidential election, the contrast between Republicans and Democrats is striking in Washington County, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
In Pennsylvania, a Trump-Biden battle on uneven ground
BROWNSVILLE: Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold up signs and flags as they hold a Republican voter registration in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. - AFP BROWNSVILLE: Door-to-door canvassing and weekly rallies for Donald Trump, while Joe Biden's campaign avoids both due to the coronavirus: Democrats in Pennsylvania's rural counties are battling to win back the key electoral state, but the pandemic is not making it easy. The difference...
TOPSHOT - San Miguel County Firefighters battle a brush fire along Japatul Road during the Valley Fire in Jamul, California on September 6, 2020 - The Valley Fire in the Japatul Valley burned 4,000 acres overnight with no containment and 10 structures destroyed, Cal Fire San Diego said. (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER / AFP)
'Fire on all sides' as California wildfires prompt evacuations
JAMUL: San Miguel County Firefighters battle a brush fire along Japatul Road during the Valley Fire in Jamul, California. - AFP CALIFORNIA: More than 200 people were airlifted to safety overnight after a fast-moving wildfire cut off the only road out of the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a popular recreational site in California's Sierra National Forest. Twenty evacuees were taken to hospitals, the Madera County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter on...
Rohingya migrants look on following their arrival by boat in Lhokseumawe, Aceh on September 7, 2020. - Nearly 300 Rohingya migrants came ashore on Indonesia's Sumatra island early on September 7, authorities said, in what is believed to be the biggest landing of the persecuted Myanmar minority in years. (Photo by Rahmat Mirza / AFP)
300 Rohingya migrants reach Indonesia 'after seven months at sea'
LHOKSEUMAWE: Rohingya migrants look on following their arrival by boat in Lhokseumawe, Aceh yesterday. - AFP LHOKSEUMAWE: Nearly 300 Rohingya migrants reached Indonesia yesterday claiming to have been at sea for seven months, United Nations officials said, in one of the biggest landings by the persecuted Myanmar minority in years. The migrants-including more than a dozen children-were spotted at sea on a wooden boat by locals who helped them...
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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike
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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn