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SHANGHAI, China: Health workers wait to test passengers for the COVID-19 coronavirus after their arrival at Hongqiao railway station in Shanghai. - AFP

China to loosen COVID restrictions

BEIJING: China announced Wednesday a nationwide loosening of its hardline COVID restrictions that had hammered the world's second biggest economy and ignited rare protests against the ruling Communist Party. The new rules are a major relaxation of President Xi Jinping's signature zero-COVID policy, three years into the pandemic and long after the rest of the world had largely learnt to live with the virus.However, with vaccination rates remaining...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: A supporter of Argentina's Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner sticks a sign outside the Courthouse Comodoro Py in Buenos Aires. – AFP

Guilty of corruption, Argentina's Kirchner banned from seeking office

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: An Argentine court on Tuesday sentenced Vice President Cristina Kirchner to six years in jail for corruption, banning the country's best-known politician from seeking public office after a trial she dismissed as a political witch hunt. Adored and reviled in equal measure by millions of Argentinians, the divisive former president was declared guilty of "fraudulent administration" over irregular public works contracts...

TOKYO: File photo shows, US President Joe Biden (2L), Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2R) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) arrive for their meeting during the Quad Leaders Summit at Kantei in Tokyo. Three-quarters of a century after independence, India is a nuclear power about to become the world's most populous country. – AFP

India at 75: Rising nuclear power finding its place on global stage

NEW DELHI: Three-quarters of a century after independence, India is a nuclear power about to become the world's most populous country, and its economy has overtaken its former coloniser's to become the globe's fifth biggest. But New Delhi has challenges to overcome if it is to secure a more central place on the world's diplomatic stage, analysts say. India wants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, like the five victors of World War II,...

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World economy faces more pain in 2023 after a gloomy year

PARIS: This was supposed to be the comeback year for the world economy following the COVID pandemic. Instead, 2022 was marked by a new war, record inflation and climate-linked disasters. It was a "polycrisis" year, a term popularized by historian Adam Tooze. Get ready for more gloom in 2023."The number of crises has increased since the start of the century," said Roel Beetsma, professor of macroeconomics at the University of Amsterdam. "Since...

LIANYUNGANG, China: This photo taken on December 7, 2022 shows cranes and shipping containers at a port in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu province. – AFP

China's imports and exports plunge due to COVID rules

BEIJING: China's imports and exports plunged in November to levels not seen since early 2020, official figures showed Wednesday, as severe COVID restrictions hit the economy hard. The last major economy still wedded to a zero-tolerance virus policy, Beijing's snap lockdowns, travel curbs and mass testing have stifled business activity, disrupted supply chains and dampened consumption.Imports in November fell 10.6 percent year-on-year, the biggest...

PHOENIX, US: US President Joe Biden (left) tours the TSMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 6, 2022. - AFP

Biden celebrates US manufacturing comeback at semiconductor project

PHOENIX, US: President Joe Biden declared the comeback of US manufacturing Tuesday at the site of a mammoth expansion to a Taiwanese-owned semiconductor plant aimed at breaking risky US dependency on foreign-based producers for the vital component. "American manufacturing is back, folks. American manufacturing is back," Biden said at the plant in Phoenix, Arizona, accompanied by senior political allies and titans of the corporate world, including...

DOHA: South Korea’s midfielder #07 Son Heung-min shoots but fails to score during the Qatar 2022 World Cup round of 16 football match between Brazil and South Korea on December 5, 2022. – AFP

How do you stop Mbappe? England wrestle with World Cup conundrum

DOHA: England manager Gareth Southgate is wrestling with the biggest dilemma of his reign as he tries to plot a way to stop the "sensational" Kylian Mbappe in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final. Southgate's hopes of leading England to a third successive semi-final at major tournaments hinge on finding a solution to a problem that has proved impossible for any team to solve in Qatar. Just how do you subdue a player with Mbappe's lethal combination...

CHARLOTTESVILLE: Armaan Franklin #4 of the Virginia Cavaliers defends Tyree Ihenacho #2 of the James Madison Dukes in the second half during a game on December 6, 2022.- AFP

Cavaliers trounce Lakers as ailing Davis sidelined

LOS ANGELES: Donovan Mitchell scored 43 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 116-102 NBA victory on Tuesday over a Los Angeles Lakers team that clearly missed the firepower of ailing Anthony Davis. Star center Davis had scored 99 points in the Lakers' last two games, including a 55-point outburst in a victory over the Wizards in Washington on Sunday.However, he played just eight minutes in Cleveland before calling it a night with flu-like...

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Kuwait's shooting tournament starts

By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: The Late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah Shooting Tournament will kick off on Thursday at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex. Shooters from the Club, National Guard, Bahrain and Kazakh federations are participating in the Cup tournament. Kuwait Shooting Sport Club Assistant Secretary Eng Mohammad Al-Ghurba lauded the role of the Late Sheikh Ali Sabah Al-Salem in supporting the shooting community.

This file photo of a composite picture released by NASA/ESA from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy.— AFP photos

Webb telescope promises new age of the stars

The James Webb Space Telescope lit up 2022 with dazzling images of the early universe after the Big Bang, heralding a new era of astronomy and untold revelations about the cosmos in years to come. The most powerful observatory sent into space succeeds the Hubble telescope, which is still operating, and began transmitting its first cosmic images in July. "It essentially behaves better than expected in almost every area," said Massimo Stiavelli,...

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Climate activists hurl paint at La Scala entrance in Milan

Environmental activists hurled paint at the entrance of Milan's prestigious La Scala opera house on Wednesday, part of a series of recent protests across Europe to focus attention on climate change. The early morning protest came ahead of the gala opening of the new season on Wednesday night, with a scheduled performance of "Boris Godunov". Five climate activists from the Last Generation group threw buckets of paint onto the facade of the...

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Four new ministers in Cabinet

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Khalifa Abdullah Dhahi Al-Ajeel Al-Askar
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Kuwait-based high school students secure patent for healthcare robot

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VIENNA: Representatives of OPEC member countries attend a press conference after the 45th Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee and the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting in Vienna, Austria in this file photo. – AFP

OPEC+ faces moment of truth on planned output increase