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PARIS: Serbia's Novak Djokovic sends kisses as he celebrates his victory over Peru's Juan Pablo Varillas on day eight of the Roland-Garros Open tennis tournament at the Court Philippe-Chatrier on June 4, 2023. – AFP

Djokovic into quarterfinals as Alcaraz faces Musetti

PARIS: Novak Djokovic swept into the French Open quarterfinals for the 14th straight year on Sunday as world number one Carlos Alcaraz prepared for a tricky test against Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti. Third seed Djokovic, who is chasing a record 23rd men’s Grand Slam singles title at Roland Garros, ended the surprise run of Peruvian outsider Juan Pablo Varillas in straight sets. Djokovic, a two-time champion in Paris, won 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 against the...

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Table tennis team returns with 5 medals

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait national table tennis disabled team arrived from Amman after participating in the National Club 14th International Championship for the Disabled, which saw 132 players from 20 countries competing. Kuwait's team won five various medals as Khalifa Al-Khalifa and Ali Al-Sane won two gold medals in the mixed doubles and Ahad Al-Rashidi won the singles’ bronze, with two medals in the men's doubles for Hassan...

MIDDLETOWN: Chick-fil-A chain restaurant in Middletown, Delaware. The 'Lord's chicken' no more: US fast food chain Chick-fil-A -- beloved among Americans for its sandwiches, nuggets and milkshakes -- found itself on the receiving end of right-wing ire this week, accused of succumbing to 'woke' ideology. – AFP

Fast food chain at center of US culture wars

WASHINGTON: The “Lord’s chicken” no more: US fast food chain Chick-fil-A—beloved among Americans for its sandwiches, nuggets and milkshakes—found itself on the receiving end of right-wing ire this week, accused of succumbing to “woke” ideology. After conservative customers realized the company employs a “diversity, equity and inclusion” representative, it has joined the ranks of other seemingly innocuous brands now facing calls...

BUENOS AIRES: Sebastian Resguardo (L) and Chiara Pollini (R), real estate advisors, work in Buenos Aires. Renting housing in pesos and on a long-term basis is a titanic task in Buenos Aires, where temporary and dollar-denominated supply dominates the market due to three-digit annual inflation that has caused the real estate market to explode. – AFP

In distorted Buenos Aires rental market, it’s dollar vs peso

BUENOS AIRES: Dollar-wielding foreigners living it up in Buenos Aires while locals scrape by; Argentina’s sky-high inflation and weakening currency has yielded a schizophrenic rental market—a bargain for some, a curse for others. Ordinarily, a middle-class couple like anthropologist Martina Campos Lopez, 33 and her computer technician husband Bruno Suarez, 43, would top rental agents’ lists of eligible tenants. But they earn in pesos—a...

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Global Finance: Boubyan is the world’s best Islamic retail bank

KUWAIT: In a new achievement that reinforces its domestic and international leadership, Global Finance has named Boubyan Bank the “World’s Best Islamic Retail Bank” for 2023 upon announcing its awards for banks in Kuwait, the region, and globally. This highlights the constant efforts of the bank towards improving its banking services. On this occasion, Mr. Abdullah Al-Mejhem, Boubyan Bank’s Chief Private Banking and Chief Consumer Banking...

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Meta unveils new VR headset as Apple eyes market

Meta on Thursday ramped up its Quest virtual reality headgear line, just days before Apple is expected to put its spin on the headset market. The new-generation Quest 3 with improved performance and slimmed design will be available later this year at a starting price of $500, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said in an Instagram post.Zuckerberg described the coming model as Meta’s “most powerful headset yet” and promised it would provide the best...

British-Canadian actress Kim Cattrall attends the 'Queer as Folk' premiere at Outfest at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, California.--AFP

And just like that...Cattrall to appear in ‘Sex and the City’ sequel

Samantha Jones, Kim Cattrall’s beloved character from “Sex and the City,” will make a shock (and very brief) return in the sequel to the cult series, streaming platform Max has confirmed, to the delight of fans. The glamorous and sexually liberated Jones was one of the four heroines of the original “Sex and the City” HBO series and films, but has been absent so far in follow-up series “And Just Like That.” Cattrall has publicly...

People walk past a work of art by Pablo Picasso titled 'Woman in Grey' on display at an exhibition titled 'It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby' at the Brooklyn Museum in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.--AFP

It’s complicated: NY exhibit offers feminist reassessment of Picasso

Genius or misogynist—or both? Fifty years after art icon Pablo Picasso’s death, his legacy is reassessed by comedian Hannah Gadsby in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition in New York, this time through a contemporary, feminist lens. In her 2018 Netflix special “Nanette,” Gadsby expressed “hate” for the Spanish master of Cubism and the creator of works like “Guernica” and “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”But in “It’s Pablo-matic:...

An artist takes part in a performance art in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong to mourn the victims of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown after authorities banned an annual vigil and vowed to stamp out any protests come the anniversary on June 4. –AFP photos

Hong Kong artists mark Tiananmen quietly or overseas

Avant garde street performance, politically charged theatre, pro-democracy music and poetry—powerful works of art dealing with China’s bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown that were once commonplace in Hong Kong have all but disappeared in recent years. For decades, tens of thousands of people gathered annually in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil marking June 4, 1989, when Chinese troops moved into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square...

Syrian-Kurdish refugees and musicians Norshean Salih (right), 23, and her sister Perwin Salih, 20, perform in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

After IS and bombs, refugee sisters sing of Kurdish sorrow

When the Syrian Kurdish sisters Perwin and Norshean Salih sing about loss, it comes from the heart. Aged in their early 20s, they have twice been driven from their family home in the northern Syrian town of Kobane—once by the Islamic State group, and again by the threat of Turkish bombs. Now they have found a safe haven in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, where they carve out a living by performing the often melancholy music of their people in...

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New vote-buying network busted

By B IzzakKUWAIT: The interior ministry said on Saturday it has busted a network of two people involved in vote-buying activities in favor of three candidates running in the June 6 National Assembly elections. The ministry added in a statement that security men seized cash and lists of names of voters. The two suspects admitted they were buying votes for three candidates in the first, second and fourth constituencies.The statement said the...

BALASORE, India: This handout photograph taken on June 3, 2023 shows India’s Prime Minister NarendranModi visiting the site of a three-train collision in India’s eastern state of Odisha. — AFP

288 killed in India train crash; Amir sends condolences

BALASORE, India: At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a horrific three-train collision in India, officials said Saturday, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years. Wreckage debris was piled high at the crash site near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, where some carriages had been tossed far from the tracks and others flipped over entirely. Smashed train compartments were torn open in the...

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Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassim Al-Budaiwi and President of the European Council Charles Michel. - KUNA

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