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A man watches a video trailer for Final Fantasy XVI as it went on sale at an electronics store in central Tokyo on June 22, 2023.

Fans hail ‘dark’ storyline as new Final Fantasy title released

The eagerly awaited new game in the best-selling Final Fantasy franchise came out on Thursday, with fans hailing its high-spec action graphics and grown-up storyline. “Final Fantasy XVI”, the latest title in the long-running Japanese series, was released on the PlayStation 5 and is expected to boost sales of the Sony console, analysts said. Producer Naoki Yoshida has cited US television megahit “Game of Thrones” as inspiration for the...

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Pharrell breaks down barriers between fashion and music

Paris became a playground for Pharrell Williams and his celeb friends at his debut show for Louis Vuitton, collapsing the distance between fashion, music and money-spinning publicity. Williams is the first musician to be put in charge of designing clothes for a major luxury brand with an eye-popping €20 billion ($22 billion) in revenue last year. He has experience working with fashion houses in the past, but the bosses at Louis Vuitton were...

Gallery assistants hold two paintings attributed to Dutch artist Rembrandt ahead of their presentation at Christies auction house in Amsterdam on June 21, 2023. - AFP

Lost Rembrandt portraits to be sold after 200 years

As family heirlooms go, it doesn’t get much better than a pair of Rembrandt portraits that the world had forgotten about for 200 years. A British family “rather casually enjoyed” the oil paintings by the 17th century Dutch master until an expert from Christie’s auction house spotted them. Now the last pair of Rembrandt portraits to remain in private hands are set to fetch between £5 million and £8 million when they go under the hammer...

This combination of pictures shows a three-page handwritten letter written by Ramon Artagaveytia, one of the three Uruguayan passengers travelling on the RMS Titanic, to his brother Adolfo on April 11, 1912. - AFP photos

Titanic passenger’s letter to be auctioned in Uruguay

A letter written by a Uruguayan passenger on the Titanic will go on auction in Montevideo next week with a starting price of $12,000, an auction house has announced. The Titanic continues to inspire intrigue to this day, with a frantic search now under way for a tourist submersible that went missing Sunday on its way to see the wreck nearly four kilometers below the surface of the North Atlantic.The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in 1912 during...

Mexican announcer Mario Filio works at a recording studio in Mexico City on April 26, 2023. - AFP photos

‘Don’t steal our voices’: Dubbing artists confront AI threat

Voice actors around the globe are mobilizing against the unregulated use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and clone human voices that they fear poses a threat to their livelihoods. “We’re fighting a very big monster,” said Mario Filio, a Mexican artist who has done voiceovers for Hollywood star Will Smith, the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars and the party-loving lemur King Julien in the animated movie “Madagascar”....

A general view on the first day of the Glastonbury festival in the village of Pilton in Somerset, southwest England, on June 21, 2023. - AFP photos

Elton John and Guns N’Roses primed as Glastonbury music festival opens

The iconic Glastonbury Festival opened its doors on Wednesday, with a torrential downpour threatening to turn the famous site into a mudbath for the 200,000 music fans set to descend on a farm in southwest England to see acts including Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’Roses and Elton John. While able to draw the biggest performers from every genre and generation, the long-running annual festival is equally known for hosting thousands of small acts and...

JENIN: Palestinian schoolgirls mourn during the funeral of their classmate, 15-year-old Sadil Naghnaghiya, in the occupied West Bank on June 21, 2023. – AFP

Zionist settlers attack village, kill Palestinian

TURMUS AYYA: A Palestinian man was killed Wednesday in an occupied West Bank village, as Zionists attacked residents and property in escalating violence. The reprisals came hours after Palestinians buried a girl killed in a Zionist raid. “A martyr arrived at the Palestine Medical Complex from Turmus Ayya after being shot in the chest,” a Palestinian health ministry statement said. Lafi Adeeb, Turmus Ayya mayor, told AFP that 35 houses were...

This combination of pictures shows Titan submersible passengers (left to right, top to bottom) Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Suleman Dawood and Shahzada Dawood. – AFP

Rescuers ‘target’ noises in hunt for Titanic sub

BOSTON: Rescue workers raced to beat a rapidly closing oxygen window Wednesday as they hunt for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic, after noises detected by sonar raised hopes the five people onboard are still alive. Extra ships, specialized salvage equipment and US Navy experts arrived in the vast search area in the North Atlantic, with the passengers of the small sub estimated to have less than 24 hours of oxygen left....

KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah meets Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on June 21, 2023. - KUNA

Iranian FM visits Kuwait on third leg of Gulf tour

KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Salem Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, received on Wednesday visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian during his official visit to Kuwait. During the meeting, both sides discussed the latest regional and international developments as well as the bilateral relations between Kuwait and Iran."The resolution of...

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MP threatens to remove Audit Bureau chief

By B IzzakKUWAIT: MP Hamad Al-Mudlej threatened on Wednesday that he will initiate a move that could end up dismissing Faisal Al-Shaye, the head of the state accounting watchdog, the Audit Bureau, over alleged violations. Mudlej wrote on Twitter “he will make a decisive stance through a letter to remove the State Audit Bureau chief in the next session” scheduled for July 4 and 5. The lawmaker said the Audit Bureau is involved in “excesses...

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12-graders left in tears after tough history final exam

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: As high school exams come to an end, hundreds of students in Kuwait are preparing for their graduation ceremonies mentally and psychologically to bid farewell to their books and stationery. But this was not the case for students graduating from the literary section, as the hashtag #history_exam topped Twitter. Thousands of students complained on Wednesday about the difficulty of the history exam and its impact on their psyche...

NASEEM: A health care worker follows up on the condition of a Kuwaiti pilgrim at the hajj mission's medical clinic. -- KUNA

Kuwaiti medical teams ready to serve pilgrims

NASEEM: The Ministry of Health announced that preparations are complete at the medical clinics at the headquarters of Kuwait’s hajj mission in Naseem, Saudi Arabia. The clinics, the ministry said, are now in operation to provide health care to pilgrims of Kuwaiti campaigns. The head of the medical services team at the Kuwaiti hajj mission, Dr Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi, said in a press statement on Wednesday that the team includes doctors, health...

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