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DOHA: Qatari influencer Khalifa Al-Haroon, knows as Mr Q, is pictured in his studio in the capital Doha.- AFP

Influencer 'Mr Q' lifts veil on Qatar ahead of WCup

DOHA: At a time when prickly questions are being asked about Qatar and its hosting of the World Cup, Khalifa Al Haroon offers a smile, a sigh and a shrug as he seeks to explain its mysteries. Known to his growing number of followers as Mr Q, the 38-year-old has become a social media hit by partially lifting the veil over the tiny but mega-rich Gulf state that describes itself as a "conservative" Islamic country. The first World Cup in an Arab...

EL AARIDA, Lebanon: Mourners carry the body of one of the victims of the shipwreck during his funeral in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli. – AFP

89 dead in Lebanon migrant shipwreck

DAMASCUS: Eighty-nine bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast, Syrian state media said Saturday, as the Lebanese army said it arrested a suspected smuggler behind one of the deadliest recent shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), called it a "heart-wrenching tragedy". At least 14 people rescued were recovering in...

KFAR QADDUM, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian demonstrators use slingshots during clashes with Zionist forces following a protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Zionist entity in the village of Kfar Qaddum in the occupied West Bank near the Jewish settlement of Kedumim. - AFP

Zionist entity no longer 'partner' for peace, Palestinians' Abbas tells UN

UNITED NATIONS: Zionist entity is deliberately impeding progress toward a two-state solution and can no longer be considered a reliable partner in the peace process, Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas told the United Nations on Friday.His remarks come a day after Zionist Prime Minister Yair Lapid said he supported a two-state solution, but Abbas said the proof would be immediate negotiations. Repeating grievances, Abbas said the Jewish state has...

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EU sees trouble but no breakdown with Italy far-right in power

BRUSSELS: The potential emergence of a far-right government in Italy has put the European Union on alert for disruptions, with fears that unity over the war in Ukraine could be jeopardised. Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni and the League's Matteo Salvini are slated to be the big winners in Sunday's general election on a firmly "Italians First" agenda, in which officials in Brussels largely play the role of the bogeyman.The biggest worries...

NEW YORK: Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif speaks at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters. - AFP

Pakistan's dire floods signal global climate crisis, premier tells UN

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned Friday that his country's worst-ever floods were a sign of climate catastrophes to come around the world, as he urged justice for developing nations that bear little responsibility for warming.Unprecedented monsoon downpours flooded a third of the country-an area the size of the United Kingdom-killing nearly 1,600 people and displacing more than seven million. "What happened in...

DOHA: (Right to left) Saad Sherida al-Kaabi, Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Affairs and President of QatarEnergy, and Patrick Pouyanne, CEO of French energy group TotalEnergies, shake hands during a signing ceremony at the QatarEnergy headquarters in Doha on September 24, 2022. - AFP

TotalEnergies adds $1.5bn to Qatar's gas expansion

DOHA: France's TotalEnergies on Saturday signed a further $1.5 billion investment in Qatar's natural gas production expansion, which comes as Europe scrambles to find new energy sources to replace Russian supplies. The French energy giant will have 9.3 percent stake in the North Field South gas project, the first foreign partner in that section of the vast field, Qatar Energy Minister Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi announced, at a news conference...

NEW YORK: Fumio Kishida (second left), Prime Minister of Japan, stands with John Tuttle (second right), Vice Chairman of the NYSE Group before ringing in the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City. - AFP

Japan to lift COVID restrictions on foreign tourists from October

NEW YORK: Japan announced that it will lift tough COVID restrictions on foreign tourists, reopening the borders after two and a half years. Speaking at the New York Stock Exchange, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the pandemic had interrupted the free flow of people, goods and capital that had helped the nation flourish."But from October 11, Japan will relax border control measures to be on par with the US, as well as resume visa-free travel and...

HONG KONG: A man walks past an electronic sign showing numbers of the Hang Seng index, which today fell to a decade low of as much as 2.6 percent, in Hong Kong. – AFP

World markets plunge on growing recession fears

NEW YORK: Stock markets tumbled, the pound crashed against the dollar and oil prices slumped Friday on growing recession fears after central banks this week ramped up interest rates to fight decades-high inflation. With price rises showing no solid sign of letting up, monetary policymakers have gone on the offensive, warning that short-term hits to economies are less painful than the long-term effects of not acting.The Federal Reserve's...

SPRINGS, South Africa: South African Home Affairs Immigration Officers check records of passport numbers of female migrant workers, during an operation run with the Home Affairs Immigration officers, in Springs on September 22, 2022. - AFP

Fear grips undocumented domestic foreign workers in South Africa

SPRINGS: Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened, yet hours earlier she had been arrested for being in the country without papers. South Africa-the continent's most industrialized country-is buckling under a wave of illegal migration triggered by economic woes in its neighbors. Many come from Malawi, Lesotho, but the majority are from...

(Left to right) Sidney Poitier, Sherri Poitier, Beverly Poitier-Henderson, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Anika Poitier and Pamela Poitier attend the premiere of Apple TV +’s ‘Sidney’ at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California. – AFP

Poitier legacy tackled by Oprah in 'Sidney'

The late Sidney Poitier was at the peak of his Hollywood career when he came under fire from Black activists and intellectuals, accused of playing stereotypical, safe roles for white audiences just as the 1960s civil rights movement was exploding. "Sidney," the new Apple TV+ documentary out Friday, produced by Oprah Winfrey and featuring A-list talking heads from Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman to Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, sets...

English author Hilary Mantel attends a book signing event in London on March 4, 2020, for her new book 'The Mirror & The Light'.

Booker Prize winner Mantel dies, aged 70

Hilary Mantel, the first British novelist to win the Booker Prize twice and who sold millions of books around the world, has died aged 70, her publishers announced on Friday. "We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald," 4th Estate Books said."This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent...

Tourists visit the Nishat Garden in Srinagar. India’s hottest new travel destination is also the site of its deadliest insurgency, where regular skirmishes break out between separatist militants and Indian troops, half a million of whom are stationed on its soil. – AFP photos

Conflict tourism: Kashmir 'hottest' new destination for Indian tourists

Standing on a fortified Kashmir street, an Indian tourist poses triumphantly for her husband's camera, clutching the national flag in each hand and flanked by two soldiers carrying rifles. India's hottest new travel destination is also the site of its deadliest insurgency, where regular skirmishes break out between separatist militants and Indian troops, half a million of whom are stationed in Kashmir.A big-budget tourism campaign, inaugurated...

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