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METTUR: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party carders and relatives prepare to perform the last rites of Thangavel who self-immolated to protest against Hindi language imposition at Thalzhaiyur village at Mettur in India’s Tamil Nadu state. - AFP

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,...

SALAHEDDINE: Photo shows a road leading to the village of Messahag in northern Iraq’s Salaheddine province, one of the villages that will be submerged in water if the Iraqi government completes the project of building the Makhoul dam. – AFP

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...

Shoppers sit with their purchases in Selfridges and Zara-branded shopping bags on Black Friday in central London on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

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...

JIBACOA: Coffee farmer Jesus Chaviano verifies the quality of coffee grains at his coffee plantation in Jibacoa, Villa Clara province, Cuba. Cuba launched an official strategy to value the depressed coffee sector by cultivating particular varieties of high quality and excellent grain yield, which would allow it to enter a select market for this product. - AFP

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...

People hold placards bearing portraits of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi (right), who is arrested in Iran, and portraits of children (left), who were killed during the protests in Iran, during a rally in support of Iranian women in Istanbul.-AFP

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

AMMAN: Kuwait's Ambassador to Jordan Aziz Al-Daihani and Head of the Jordanian Businessmen Association Hamdi Al-Tabbaa attend a meeting on Nov 26, 2022. - KUNA

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...

AL-JAMILIYA, Qatar: A group of men watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament match between Qatar and Senegal at Qatari businessman Youssef Al-Taher's home in his farm northwest of Doha on Nov 25, 2022. - AFP

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...

RAWALPINDI: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan waves at supporters as he arrives to lead an anti-government rally on Nov 26, 2022. – AFP

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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