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BANGKOK: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during their meeting in Bangkok on November 17, 2022, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. – AFP
Xi, Kishida hold first face-to-face talks in three years as N Korea fires missile
BANGKOK: The leaders of China and Japan held their first face-to-face talks in three years on Thursday, after North Korea fired the latest in a record missile blitz that has sent nuclear fears soaring. Chinese President Xi Jinping flew in to the talks in Bangkok from a G20 meeting in Bali where US President Joe Biden pressed him to use his influence to rein in Pyongyang's activities.North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile as Xi and...
BALI: Handout photo shows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) speaking to Chinese President Xi Jinping as Trudeau arrives at the G20 in Bali. - AFP
Xi spat with Trudeau lays bare China's frayed ties with Canada
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Chinese President Xi Jinping scolded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an on-camera dressing down at the G20 summit, an unusual public spat that could further complicate strained relations between the countries.Video recorded by reporters at the Bali summit for world leaders on Wednesday showed Xi appearing to upbraid Trudeau after details of talks between the two leaders were leaked to the media. Trudeau had on...
CHESTER, UK: People shop in Chester on November 17, 2022. Britain unveiled an austerity budget with £55 billion ($65 billion) of tax hikes and spending cuts despite confirming its economy was in recession. - AFP
UK unveils recession budget following markets chaos
LONDON: Britain on Thursday unveiled a painful budget with £55 billion ($65 billion) of tax hikes and spending cuts despite confirming its economy was in recession. Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said the measures were needed to bring financial stability after recent markets turmoil, insisting they would alleviate rather than aggravate the downturn.A day after official data showed UK inflation rocketing to a 41-year high above 11 percent, Hunt...
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Russia falls into recession
MOSCOW: Russia has entered a recession, nine months after launching its offensive in Ukraine as Western sanctions weigh on the economy, according to official data published on Wednesday. Gross domestic product shrank four percent in the third quarter, according to a preliminary estimate by the national statistics agency Rosstat. As that follows one of the same size in the second quarter, Russia now meets the technical definition of a recession...
ATLANTA: Blake Griffin #91 of the Boston Celtics battles for a rebound against Onyeka Okongwu #17 and John Collins #20 of the Atlanta Hawks during the first half at State Farm Arena on November 16, 2022.- AFP
Celtics notch eighth straight NBA win; Suns beat Warriors
LOS ANGELES: Boston's bench came up big Wednesday to help the Celtics notch an eighth straight NBA victory, 126-101 over the Hawks in Atlanta. Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 22 points and his fellow All-Star Jayson Tatum added 19, but Brown said it was the 44 points from the Boston reserves that ultimately made the difference. "We got some big plays, some great energy from guys coming off the bench," Brown said. "We've got a really good team...
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Three Kuwaitis win 6 medals in equestrian event
CAIRO: Abdullah Al-Ali, Abdulaziz Al-Nasrallah and Nawaf Al-Qassar won six medals, three gold and three silver medals, for Kuwait in the equestrian event at the Special Olympics held in Egypt on Wednesday. Al-Ali clinched two gold medals, with his fellow riders Al-Nasrallah taking home a gold and a silver and Al-Qassar take two silver medals. Huda Al-Khaldi, Kuwati equestrian delegation and Al-Tamouh Sports Club for intellectual disabilities...
DUBAI: Children play cricket in a parking lot in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. Every weekend, informal cricket matches are played on spare patches of ground across the Gulf region, which is home to millions of migrant workers and expatriates from cricket-loving South Asia. - AFP
As WCup looms, street cricket rules for Gulf migrant workers
DUBAI: It is 7:00 am in Dubai and as the sun peeks above high-rises, it reveals an animated scene below: about 200 people, mostly men, wielding bats and taped-up tennis balls in a weekly festival of street cricket. About a dozen informal games are in progress in a carpark near the city's financial district, as metro trains glide across a bridge overhead and police watch from a parked SUV, wary of players bringing alcohol or otherwise...
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Hundreds of booklovers flock to Kuwait International Book Fair
By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: Hundreds of booklovers continued to flock to the Kuwait International Book Fair that opened on Nov 16 at Kuwait International Fairgrounds. Kuwait Times visited the book fair and asked people about their reading preferences and how they choose the subjects of their books. Haya Al-SulaibiHaya Al-Sulaibi, 21, said due to the types of books she used to read previously, such as science fiction, it led her to not like reading....
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Mouth diseases hit nearly half the world’s people
GENEVA: Rotting teeth, swollen gums and oral cancers: nearly half the world’s population suffer from mouth diseases, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new report highlighted glaring inequities in access to oral health services, saying it badly affected the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. “Oral health has long been neglected in global health,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, insisting that “many oral...
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Praised abroad, controversial Pakistani movie 'Joyland' banned at home
The local screening of a Pakistan-produced movie portraying a love affair between a married man and a transgender woman hangs in the balance after the film was cleared by censors, then banned by the government under pressure from Islamists. "Joyland", which has won prizes around the globe including the Jury Prize at Cannes, is also Pakistan's entry for next year's Oscars. But it may not be seen at home unless a review by the censors, ordered by a...
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Out of the box: Defying stereotypes in 'Return to Seoul'
It is Cambodia's next Oscars entry, has a Korean-born France-based star, a French-Cambodian director, and was shot in South Korea. If "Return to Seoul" sounds hard to categorize, that's precisely the point, director Davy Chou told AFP. The film follows Freddie, a mercurial and ruthlessly unapologetic Korean-born French adoptee who, at the age of 25, embarks on a quest to find her birth parents. Freddie is constantly fighting against "people...
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Warhol piece sells for $85 million at New York auction
Andy Warhol's iconic 1960s painting "White Disaster" sold for $85 million at auction Wednesday evening at Sotheby's in New York. The 1963 piece of art was sold after two minutes and a brief duel between two bidders, for a total of $74 million, or $85.4 million with all related costs and fees.The last time a piece of art from Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series was sold in 2013, it set a record for the artist at $105 million. In May, Warhol's...
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