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AL-MALIKIYAH: Relatives mourn over the caskets of 11 people killed in Turkish air strikes during their funeral in al-Malikiyah (Derik) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province. - AFP
Russian, US pressure mounts on Turkey over Syria threat
ISTANBUL, Turkey: International pressure mounted Tuesday on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to launch a threatened ground offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria. Ankara launched a series of air strikes in Operation Claw-Sword on Sunday-hitting dozens of Kurdish militant targets across Iraq and Syria-and announcing that its military was once again "on the top of the terrorists".The air raids followed a bombing in Istanbul that...
SIEM REAP, Cambodia: China's Defence Minister Wei Fenghe arrives for a meeting with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin in Siem Reap on November 22, 2022. – AFP
US defense secretary and China defense chief meet in Cambodia
SIEM REAP, Cambodia: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe in Cambodia on Tuesday, with both sides describing the talks as productive without backing away from their core positions. The rival powers have clashed over a host of issues including Taiwan, security and human rights, but there have been attempts to lower the temperature since a rare summit between the leaders of both countries last week.US President...
AL-RAYYAN: USA's goalkeeper #01 Matt Turner (2nd right) punches the ball ahead of Wales' defender #05 Chris Mepham (left) during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group B football match between USA and Wales on November 21, 2022. - AFP
Bale shines as Wales, US draw 1-1 at World Cup
AL-RAYYAN: Gareth Bale scored a late penalty to snatch a 1-1 draw with the United States in Wales' first World Cup game in 64 years on Monday. Welsh skipper Bale lashed home an 82nd-minute spot kick to break American hearts moments after earning the penalty when defender Walker Zimmerman crashed into the former Real Madrid star.The penalty drama cancelled out Tim Weah's superb first-half goal for the Americans which had threatened to ruin the...
NAPIER: India's Yuzvendra Chahal (left) bowls to New Zealand's Glenn Phillips (right) during the third Twenty20 cricket match between New Zealand and India at McLean Park in Napier on November 22, 2022. - AFP
Rain-hit draw hands India T20 series win in N Zealand
NAPIER: India sealed a Twenty-20 series win over hosts New Zealand after Tuesday's rain-hit third match finished in a draw in Napier. The Black Caps were bowled out for 160 in their innings. India then labored to 75 for four wickets in their nine overs before the rain started. Under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, the match was a rare draw in Twenty-20 cricket. India took the series having won the second tie on Sunday at Mount Maunganui, where...
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Kuwait Cricket Club, Friendi mobile seal partnership deal
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait Cricket Club and Friendi mobile officially launched their partnership at an event held at the Olympic Council of Asia in the presence of senior officials from both sides. "It is a great day for us as we are starting our future events for the coming season with a new partner Friendi, which will join us all the way for the next season. We will experience each other and will know exactly where we stand, as we both...
CHICAGO: Malcolm Brogdon #13 of the Boston Celtics passes the ball around Nikola Vucevic #9 and Ayo Dosunmu #12 of the Chicago Bulls during the second half at United Center on November 21, 2022. - AFP
Bulls overpower Boston Celtics as Warriors crash
LOS ANGELES: The Chicago Bulls, led by 28 points from DeMar DeRozan, ended the Boston Celtics' nine-game NBA winning streak with a 121-107 victory on Monday. Zach LaVine, who was frustrated to be pulled from the waning minutes of the Bulls' loss to Orlando on Friday, scored 22 points. Nikola Vucevic added 12 points and 13 rebounds for Chicago-who had also beaten the Celtics at home in October but fell to them in Boston on November 4 in the game...
KUWAIT: (From Left), Ibrahim Elbadawi, Masood Ahmed, Paulo Drummond, Karen Young, Mohamed Lahouel during the seminar.- Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
IMF-led seminar discusses economic challenges, policy choices for MENA
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: The IMF-Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF) in Kuwait in collaboration with the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) organized a high-level seminar on 'Economic Challenges and Policy Choices for the MENA region on Monday. The event was held in hybrid mode in which some participants attended in-person at the AFESD's headquarters in Kuwait while others joined virtually from other countries in...
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Battling inflation 'priority' as global growth slows: OECD
PARIS: World economic growth is slowing due to decades-high inflation, the OECD said Tuesday, calling for "essential" further monetary policy tightening and "more targeted" government support. Global GDP is set to grow 3.1 percent this year-nearly half the rate for last year, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said.The slide is due to continue next year, with global growth falling to 2.2 percent before rebounding "to a...
ROME: Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Italy's Economy Minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti react during a press conference on November 22, 2022 in Rome, to present the government's draft Budget for 2023. - AFP
Italy's draft budget centers on energy aid and growth
ROME: Italy's new far-right government unveiled its first budget on Tuesday, with most of the nearly €35 billion in spending for 2023 going on the energy crisis rather than flashy electoral promises. More than €21 billion ($21.5 billion) will go towards supporting households and businesses with sky-high gas and electricity bills, a major cause of the soaring inflation which risks tipping the eurozone's third largest economy into recession...
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A bluffer's guide to Proust 100 years after his death
France's Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago on Friday, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time-but few can truthfully claim to have read his 2,400-page masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time". For those waiting for another lockdown to curl up with his magnum opus, here are five fun facts you can drop into a conversation that will make you sound like an expert.Unwanted masterpieceIn 1909 Proust launched himself into what would...
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Spielberg to pick up lifetime honors at Berlin festival
The Berlin film festival will award Steven Spielberg a lifetime achievement prize in February and show a retrospective of the Oscar-winning director's movies, organizers said on Tuesday. The 73rd annual Berlinale, Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year, called Spielberg's more than 100 films and series "unique in the history of international cinema of the past 60 years for its immense variety".The US director will be presented with the...
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'As Time Goes By': Casablanca bar celebrates film classic, 80 years on
Tourists are flocking to a bar in Morocco searching for the spirit of Humphrey Bogart's iconic, fictional nightclub, 80 years after the classic wartime film "Casablanca" hit the silver screen. The Moroccan port city entered the cultural imagination of the United States at a key point in World War II, thanks to the moody romance starring Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund and Bogart as Rick Blaine. Just days after its initial screening on November 26,...
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