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Members of team Japan hold the trophy as they celebrate winning the 2023 Bocuse d’Or pastry competition at the SIRHA (Salon International de la Restauration, de l’Hôtellerie et de l’Alimentation) in Chassieu Eurexpo hall near Lyon, southeastern France. – AFP Photos

Japan wins World Pastry Cup

Japan scored their third win Saturday in the World Pastry Cup, seeing off France and Italy at Sirha, the plum event for catering and hotel professionals. The Japanese added to triumphs in 1989 and 2007 in coming through a two-day contest near Lyon against 17 teams from around the globe all comprising a chocolate maker, a sugar expert and a master ice cream maker.Feted French pastry chef and chocolatier Pierre Herme saluted the winning entrants...

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Iranian women take center stage at Sundance film festival

Movies by and about Iranian women took center stage at the Sundance film festival this weekend, as diaspora filmmakers reflected on female-led protests and the deadly challenges of censorship and resistance in their ancestral home. "Joonam," a documentary about a three-generation family of Iranian women now living in Vermont, and "The Persian Version," a colorful but candid dramedy which hops between Iran and New York over several decades,...

BILBAO: Real Madrid's French forward Karim Benzema fights for the ball with Athletic Bilbao's Spanish defender Aitor Paredes at the San Mames stadium on Jan 22, 2023. - AFP

Madrid triumph in Bilbao, Barca scrape past Getafe

BILBAO: Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos' goals kept Real Madrid on Barcelona's tail in La Liga with a 2-0 win against Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. After the Catalans had beaten Getafe 1-0, champions Madrid won a tight clash at the San Mames to remain three points behind their rivals. Benzema broke the deadlock with a superb volley in the first half while Kroos fizzed home the second late on to kill off Athletic's hopes.After losing the Spanish Super...

MACAU: This photo shows tourists from mainland China strolling down a street in the southern Chinese enclave of Macau. Streets were packed in the run up to the Lunar New Year after pandemic controls were abruptly lifted, but Macau remains far from business as usual as the Chinese casino hub wrestles with questions about its future. – AFP

Macau ponders future even as tourists and gamblers return

MACAU: Macau's streets were packed in the run-up to the Lunar New Year after pandemic controls were abruptly lifted but it is far from business as usual as the Chinese casino hub wrestles with questions about its future. Mainland Chinese tourists filled winding passages leading up to the historic Ruins of Saint Paul's, and stores selling local snacks like almond cookies and meat jerky had trouble keeping up."We don't have enough goods for this...

Priscilla Presley speaks at the public memorial for Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland on January 22, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Graceland memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis

Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley, has been laid to rest at the family's legendary Tennessee home Graceland, where hundreds of fans and loved ones gathered Sunday for a public memorial service. Crowds lined up at dawn in Memphis to pay tribute to the singer who died on January 12 at age 54, after she was rushed to hospital for cardiac arrest.Priscilla Presley-Lisa Marie's mother and Elvis's...

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IWG, Turkish Embassy celebrate Turkish cultural heritage

The International Women’s Group (IWG) and the Turkish Embassy celebrated the taste and flavor of Turkish tea at an event on Sunday. The event commemorated the addition of Turkish tea on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage as a symbol of identity, hospitality and social interaction. The popular beverage was acknowledged by the UN in December.Watching traditional dance performances and live music, attendees enjoyed traditional Turkish...

MONTEREY PARK: Monterey Park police officers stand at the scene of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on January 22, 2023. – AFP

Residents of 'very safe' Monterey Park stunned by mass shooting

MONTEREY PARK: The "Year of the Rabbit" began in horror on Sunday for the inhabitants of Monterey Park, the largely Asian American suburb of Los Angeles where a mass shooting left 10 people dead. In this city of 60,000 people, red lanterns and banners in Chinese characters celebrating the Lunar New Year still fluttered over a roadway.But around the dance hall where the shooting unfolded, yellow police tape and heavily armed policemen supplanted...

SADDLE LAKE: In this file photo taken on June 8, 2022 Eric Large, former Saddle Lake First Nation chief and Blue Quills Indian Residential School survivor, points to where unmarked graves have been found in Saddle Lake Cemetery on Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta. – AFP

Canada to pay Indigenous abuse survivors $2.1 billion

OTTAWA: Canada will pay hundreds of Indigenous communities more than $2 billion in compensation for nearly a century of abuse suffered by children in residential schools, its government has announced. The Can$2.8 billion (US$2.1 billion) settlement, the result of a class action lawsuit by 325 Indigenous groups, will be placed in a not-for-profit trust independent of the government. It will be used to "revitalize Indigenous education, culture,...

WUHAN: A customer buys fruit at a local market in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on January 23, 2023. – AFP

'Not afraid of the virus': Wuhan turns page on COVID, three years on

WUHAN: Residents of China's Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of COVID-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus. Since Beijing ordered Wuhan sealed off in a bid to suffocate the outbreak in January 2020, COVID has devastated the planet, killing millions and plunging the global economy into turmoil.But life is now back to normal for many across the globe and after...

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Assembly-govt standoff deepens

By B IzzakKUWAIT: The standoff between the government and the National Assembly deepened on Sunday as MPs turned down a reported demand by the government to withdraw grillings against two ministers and a key panel reiterated it will not withdraw populist bills without pledges by the Cabinet to raise salaries. As a result, the Assembly's regular session on Tuesday and Wednesday remain in doubt as the government is likely to boycott them.A senior...

MONTEREY PARK, California: Police work near the scene of a mass shooting on Jan 22, 2023. - AFP

US Lunar New Year shooting leaves 10 dead

MONTEREY PARK: Ten people have died and at least 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a dance club in a largely Asian city in southern California, police said Sunday, with the suspect still at large hours later. The gunman opened fire as the local community were celebrating Lunar New Year at the venue in Monterey Park, with witnesses saying he shot indiscriminately with a semiautomatic weapon.Captain Andrew Meyer of the Los Angeles...

KUWAIT: Thick fog lingers over high-rise buildings in Kuwait on early Monday. Weather in Kuwait is forecast to remain unsteady until Monday, the meteorological department said on Sunday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait Airport traffic normal, maritime operations resume

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti General Administration of Civil Aviation said on Sunday that air traffic at Kuwait International Airport is proceeding normally despite the fluctuations in weather conditions and the wave of fog that it is witnessing.The Director General for Air Navigation Affairs in Civil Aviation, Engineer Imad Al-Jalawi said in a statement to KUNA that the movement of aircraft was not affected by the current weather, stressing that an...

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Kuwait-based high school students secure patent for healthcare robot

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KUWAIT: H the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs and Managing Director and CEO of QatarEnergy Saad Al-Kaabi on Aug 26, 2024.

Kuwait signs 15-year Qatar gas deal

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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in the attendance of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, receives HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah and four newly appointed ministers on Aug 26, 2024. – KUNA

Amir calls for good governance

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QUETTA: A man mourns the death of his father, who died in a separatist militant attack, at a hospital on Aug 26, 2024. - AFP

73 killed after militant attacks in Balochistan

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Cooperate and prioritize national interest, Amir tells new ministers