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Junk food linked to age-marker in chromosomes
PARIS: People who eat a lot of industrially processed junk food are more likely to exhibit a change in their chromosomes linked to ageing, according to research presented yesterday at an online medical conference. Three or more servings of so-called "ultra-processed food" per day doubled the odds that strands of DNA and proteins called telomeres, found on the end of chromosomes, would be shorter compared to people who rarely consumed such...
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K-pop's BTS first all-South Korean act to top US singles charts
This handout image released courtesy of MTV shows South Korean boy band BTS performing from South Korea during the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, being held virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic, broadcast on August 30, 2020 in New York.-AFP photos K-pop sensation BTS has become the first all-South Korean act to rule the top US singles chart, industry tracker Billboard announced Monday, with their English-language "Dynamite" hitting number one....
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Lebanon loses defender of heritage architecture Lady Cochrane
Yvonne Sursock Cochrane A veteran advocate of the arts and Lebanon's cultural heritage, Yvonne Sursock Cochrane died Monday aged 98, four weeks after the devastating Beirut blast in which she was injured. Born into a wealthy Greek Orthodox family-famed for their Sursock Museum-and married to an Irish nobleman, Lady Cochrane died on the eve of the centenary of Lebanon, friends and family said on Facebook. As head of the Association for the...
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KSC secures stc football league title
By Abdellatif Sharaa,KUWAIT: Kuwait Sports Club (KSC) secured the Kuwait stc Football league title Monday after beating Salmiya 4-1 in the 17th round with one match remaining. Kuwait collected its 40th point to officially become champion as the point difference with Qadisiya is 34 points and Salmiya has 32 points and is in third place.Fahad Humoud scored Kuwait's first goal in the 13th minute, while Yousuf Nasser scored twice in the 40th and...
A worker wearing a face mask works on a production line manufacturing bicycle steel rim at a factory, as the country is hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China March 2, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS/Files
Factories shaking off COVID gloom
BEIJING: Global factories continued to shake off the coronavirus gloom in August as more bright signs in China raised hopes of a firmer recovery in global demand, reducing pressure on policymakers to take bolder steps to avert a deeper recession. LONDON/TOKYO: Factories across Europe and Asia continued to shake off the coronavirus gloom in August as the global economy gradually emerges from a downturn triggered by the health crisis, thanks in...
(FILES) In file photo taken on June 8, 2020, Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong (C), vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, arrives at court for a hearing to review the issuing of his arrest warrant over a controversial merger of two Samsung units, at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul. - South Korean prosecutors indicted the heir to the Samsung empire on September 1, 2020 over a controversial merger of two business units seen as a key step towards his succession, in the latest legal blow to the sprawling conglomerate. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Samsung leader Jay Y Lee indicted on allegations concerning 2015 merger
SEOUL: Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong (center), vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, arrives at court for a hearing to review the issuing of his arrest warrant over a controversial merger of two Samsung units, at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul. - AFP SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors indicted the heir to the Samsung empire yesterday over a controversial merger of two business units seen as a key step towards his succession, in the latest...
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India economic growth hit by record slump amid virus surge
MUMBAI: India's virus restrictions dealt a severe blow to an economy already struggling with a protracted slowdown through 2019, hit by the twin shocks of shrinking consumer demand and rising unemployment levels. MUMBAI: India's economic growth suffered a historic 23.9 percent decline between April and June, official figures showed Monday, as manufacturing and productivity were battered by a strict coronavirus lockdown. The contraction was the...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 31: Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic returns a shot during her Women's Singles first round match against Anhelina Kalinina of the Ukraine on Day One of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 31, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York City. Al Bello/Getty Images/AFP
Pliskova leads seeds into US Open
NEW YORK: Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic returns a shot during her Women's Singles first round match against Anhelina Kalinina of the Ukraine on Day One of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. - AFP NEW YORK: Karolina Pliskova led a day of dominance for seeded players as the underdogs failed to bite at the US Open on Monday. Meanwhile, pre-tournament favorite Novak Djokovic marched into round two of the...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 24, 2016 Australia's Adam Zampa delivers a ball during the second one-day international (ODI) cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia at The R Premadasa International Cricket Stadium in Colombo. - Leg-spinner Zampa has been called up by Royal Challengers Bangalore to replace fellow Australian Kane Richardson, who pulled out of the Indian Premier League for the birth of his first child. Bangalore, led by India skipper Virat Kohli, welcomed the 28-year-old Zampa in RCB colours late Monday for the Twenty20 tournament in the United Arab Emirates starting September 19, 2020. (Photo by Lakruwan WANNIARACHCHI / AFP)
Zampa replaces Richardson in Bangalore IPL
Adam Zampa NEW DELHI: Leg-spinner Adam Zampa has been called up by Royal Challengers Bangalore to replace fellow Australian Kane Richardson, who pulled out of the Indian Premier League for the birth of his first child. Bangalore, led by India skipper Virat Kohli, welcomed the 28-year-old Zampa in RCB colours late Monday for the Twenty20 tournament in the United Arab Emirates starting September 19.Richardson, who went for $533,333 in the IPL...
OLYMPIA FIELDS, ILLINOIS - AUGUST 30: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays his shot from the first tee during the final round of the BMW Championship on the North Course at Olympia Fields Country Club on August 30, 2020 in Olympia Fields, Illinois. Stacy Revere/Getty Images/AFP
McIlroy ready for baby dash, Johnson on pole: Golf talking points
OLYMPIA FIELDS: File photo shows Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays his shot from the first tee during the final round of the BMW Championship on the North Course at Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois.-AFP HONG KONG: We've reached the final week of the truncated 2019-20 US PGA Tour season, but some players' minds are already on other matters. AFP Sport looks at this week's talking points in golf:RORY 'CAN'T WAIT' FOR...
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ACK participates in e-workshop organized by KFAS
ACK President Prof Isam Zabalawi KUWAIT: Prof Isam Zabalawi, President of the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK), representing the College, participated in an electronic workshop organized by Kuwait Foundation for the Advancements of Sciences (KFAS) titled 'Distance Learning - Challenges and Opportunities.'The workshop was organized based on the vision of KFAS in support of a sustainable practical culture, and within the framework of the...
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Kuwait commercial flights travel guidelines
KUWAIT: Commercial flights resumed on August 1, while the airport will operate at 30 percent capacity during the six-month first phase of a three-stage airport reopening plan. However, flights to and from the following countries are suspended until further notice: Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kosovo, Lebanon,...
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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