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Indian man burns himself to death in 'language protest'
NEW DELHI: An octogenarian man burned himself to death in southern India in protest at what he called New Delhi's attempts to impose nationwide usage of Hindi, a language mostly spoken in the north, police said Sunday. Language is an emotive issue in India where hundreds of languages and dialects are spoken, but English serves as the main official medium while state governments use regional languages. According to the most recent census in 2011,...
A dam threatens to swallow farmland in drought-hit Iraq
Al-MESSAHAG: Jamil Al-Juburi, 53, has never left his village in northern Iraq, where his family has worked the land for generations-but a dam will soon swallow his home, forcing them out. Tens of thousands of Iraqis are threatened by the Makhoul dam, which the government hopes will be operational on the mighty Tigris in five years. "I was born here and I grew up here," said Juburi, whose village of Al-Messahag is set in pasture land on the banks...
Nurses to join other striking UK staff in two December walkouts
LONDON: Nurses across most of Britain will hold the first strikes in their union's 106-year history next month, joining a host of other workers taking industrial action over pay. Staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland-but not Scotland-will walk out on December 15 and 20, after the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union said the government had turned down an offer of negotiations.It will be the latest industrial action in Britain, where...
China pledges $100 million to Cuba, discusses new debt terms
HAVANA: China has donated $100 million to Cuba to help it survive a crippling economic crisis exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, the island nation's Deputy Prime Minister Alejandro Gil said Saturday. The donation came as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel concluded a visit to China, part of a rare foreign trip. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Diaz-Canel met on Friday and "the offer arose of a donation of around $100 million by China," Gil...
Iran rapper arrested over protests risks death penalty
The family of an Iranian rapper detained for supporting protests over Mahsa Amini's death said his life was at risk after he went on trial behind closed doors on Saturday. Iran has intensified a crackdown on the protests sparked by the September 16 death of Amini after her arrest in Tehran for allegedly breaching the country's strict dress code for women.Toomaj Salehi, well known on Iran's rap scene, was arrested late last month after denouncing...
HK actor Anthony Wong wins at Taiwan's Golden Horse film awards
Veteran Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong took top honors at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards while a Chinese short film won for the first time since Beijing shunned the event due to political tensions. Dubbed the Chinese-language Oscars, the Golden Horse awards took place for the fourth straight year without most of the Chinese and Hong Kong A-listers who used to walk the red carpet in Taipei. Beijing officially boycotted the event in 2019 after a...
Freud centenary exhibit reunites artist with closest friends
British artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were friends for decades before a bitter falling out. Now a new exhibition explores the pair's friendship with two other influential painters with whom they shared models, rivalries and a belief in portraiture in 1950s and 60s London. Freud's first wife Caroline Blackwood famously said of Bacon that he came over for dinner "nearly every night for more or less the whole of my marriage to Lucian". "We...
MoI to launch instant passport machines
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: A source from the interior ministry confirmed to Kuwait Times that the ministry is working on a plan to provide a service for citizens to renew and receive their passports immediately at the airport through passport machines. He said this service will be available only for those who weren’t aware their passports have expired or those whose passport pages are filled with stamps. This service will only be for holders of...
Kuwait detects cholera case
KUWAIT: The health ministry announced Friday a citizen who had returned recently from a neighboring country which is suffering from a cholera outbreak showed symptoms of cholera infection. In a press statement, the ministry said the infected citizen had been isolated and received treatment at a ministry hospital until his recovery. It added the ministry dealt with those who contacted the case according to the relevant protocols.The ministry ruled...
Kuwait top investor in Jordan with $18bn
AMMAN: Kuwait's Ambassador to Jordan Aziz Al-Daihani said on Saturday Kuwait is the top investor in Jordan with an amount of KD 5.5 billion ($18 billion). During a meeting organized by the Jordanian Businessmen Association under the title 'Development of Jordanian-Kuwaiti economic relations', he hoped that economic cooperation between the two brotherly countries would expand to reach a political cooperation level.He pointed out that Jordan and...
Qatar grabs political win at World Cup
DOHA: Qatari businessman Youssef Al-Taher gathered 10 friends at his desert oasis to watch the national team's last-gasp bid to stay in the World Cup end in defeat. Senegal's 3-1 win did not matter, he said stoically as the group digested the early exit from a competition Qatar has spent tens of billions of dollars preparing. Qatar was a "winner" just for putting on the 32-nation event which is predicted to bring more than one million fans to the...
Khan vows to fight after being shot
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan told tens of thousands of supporters Saturday he would fight with his "last drop of blood" in a first public address since being shot in an assassination attempt earlier this month. The shooting was the latest twist in months of political turmoil that began in April when Khan was ousted by a vote of no confidence in parliament.Saturday's rally was the climax of a so-called "long march" by...
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