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WASHINGTON: In this file photo taken on July 27, 2022, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC. - AFP

Steep Fed rate hike seen as certainty after inflation data

WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve is poised to unleash another massive interest rate increase this week after the latest data showed a worrying US inflation picture, which confirmed the need for the central bank to continue to act aggressively. Soaring prices have pushed annual inflation to a 40-year high, inflicting pain on American consumers and businesses, despite the welcome drop in gasoline prices at the pump in recent weeks.The disappointing...

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Crisis-hit German toilet paper maker turns to coffee grounds

FRANKFURT: Choked by soaring energy and wood pulp costs, German toilet paper maker Hakle is turning to waste from coffee production to stay afloat and help the environment. Just two years ago, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the firm profited from a stampede of consumers rushing to stock up on essentials. But with the health crisis abating, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked skyrocketing energy costs, forcing Hakle to file for...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan: Volunteers carry humanitarian aid for people evacuated from the town of Batken in Bishkek on September 17, 2022. - AFP

Over 80 dead in Tajik-Kyrgyz border clashes

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan: At least 81 people were killed in clashes between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan this week, in the worst violence the countries have seen in years, while the international community called for calm. The situation on the contested border between the two Central Asian neighbors was however calm on Sunday afternoon, according to Kyrgyz authorities.Clashes regularly erupt between the two former Soviet republics, as around half their...

ADEN, Yemen: In this file photo Yemen's councillor Sayyid Abubakr bin Shaikh Alkaff kneels before Queen Elizabeth II to be knighted during the Sovereign visit to Aden, on April 29, 1954. - AFP

Dented plaque, creaking hospital, Queen's complex legacy in Aden

ADEN: A battered plaque in a rundown hospital and a crackly, black-and-white newsreel are all that remain of Queen Elizabeth II's 1954 visit to Aden, the war-torn Yemeni city whose troubles are a reminder of Britain's complicated legacy in the Middle East. The plaque, scratched and dented and inscribed in English and Arabic, testifies that the queen, then 28, laid the foundation stone for the Al-Joumhouria hospital on April 27, 1954, less than a...

KABUL: Afghan girls of up to primary grades attend a class at their school in Kandahar, Afghanistan, March 23, 2022. The UN today urged the Taleban to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan, condemning the ban that began exactly a year ago as ‘tragic and shameful’. - AFP

UN slams 'shameful' year-long ban on Afghan girls' education

NEW YORK: The United Nations urged the Taleban on Sunday to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan, condemning the ban that began exactly a year ago as "tragic and shameful". Weeks after the hardline Islamists seized power in August last year, they reopened high schools for boys on September 18 but banned secondary schoolgirls from attending classes. Months later on March 23, the education ministry opened secondary schools for girls,...

Coal loaded on trains at a coal plant in Huaibei, in China's eastern Anhui province. Coal power still makes up most of China's energy supply. – AFP

China doubles down on coal as domestic energy crunch bites

BEIJING: China has stepped up spending on coal in the face of extreme weather, a domestic energy crunch and rising global fuel prices-raising concerns Beijing's policies may hinder the fight against climate change. The country is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases driving global warming, and President Xi Jinping has vowed to reduce coal use from 2026 as part of a broad set of climate promises.Beijing has committed to peaking its...

A mosque sits amidst fig trees in the Tunisian town of Djebba, southwest of the capital Tunis.— AFP photos

Tunisian 'hanging garden' farms cling on despite drought

High in the hills of northwestern Tunisia, farmers are tending thousands of fig trees with a unique system of terracing they hope will protect them from ever-harsher droughts. But the "hanging gardens" of Djebba El Olia have been put to the test this year as the North African country sweltered through its hottest July since the 1950s. That has exacerbated a long drought that has left Tunisia's reservoirs at just a third of their capacity. The...

French sound artist Guillaume Rousere collects sounds in the nature north of the Qatari capital Doha.— AFP photos

Qatar-based sound artist says it's time to slow down and listen

In a noisy, chaotic and fast-paced world, the Qatar-based sound artist Guillaume Rousere is on a mission: to get people to slow down and listen again. Birdsong, insects chirping, the sound of wind brushing through tall grass or over sand dunes-all these form part of what the 44-year-old Frenchman calls his "sound art". "Sound art is a discipline where the principal medium is sound and where the aim is to listen," said Rousere, who lives in the...

Winners of the Stage Tango Style category Argentine dancers Constanza Vieyto (left) and Ricardo Astrada (second left), pose with winners of the Pista Tango Style category Argentine dancers Cynthia Palacios (second right) and Sebastian Bolivar during the World Tango Championship final in Buenos Aires, Argentina. - AFP

Argentine dancers crowned world champions of tango

Two Argentine pairs were crowned winners of the world tango championships in Buenos Aires, the city government said Saturday. More than 20,000 people attended the music and dance shows during the competition, organizers said, with a final showdown on a stage in front of the historic Buenos Aires Obelisk in the heart of Argentina’s capital.In the stage category, which featured spectacular acrobatic stunts, Constanza Vieyto and Ricardo Astrada...

KUWAIT: The National Assembly.

Candidates welcome arrest of candidate over vote-buying

By B IzzakKUWAIT: A number of candidates welcomed an announcement by the interior ministry that it had stormed a house where a candidate was organizing vote-buying in the second constituency. The ministry said in a statement that it had arrested an unspecified number of people and confiscated large amounts of money that were being prepared to be distributed to voters to secure their votes.The ministry statement gave no details on the name of the...

BEIRUT: A reporter looks on as people chant slogans next to security forces standing guard outside a bank held up by a depositor in the Ramlet al-Bayda area of the capital on Sept 16, 2022. - AFP

'Heists' abound as Lebanese demand savings

BEIRUT: Five Lebanese banks were stormed Friday by depositors seeking to unlock frozen savings, the latest in a string of such "heists" that have garnered wide public support in the crisis-hit country. Lebanon has been mired in an economic crisis for more than two years, since the value of its currency began plummeting and banks started imposing draconian restrictions on withdrawals.In the past week, seven bank branches have been targeted by...

DUBAI: Sunbeds are lined up on a floating platform at a beach on Sept 15, 2022. - AFP

World Cup a money-spinner for Dubai

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates did not qualify for the Qatar World Cup but it will be a winner anyway if an overspill of fans floods its hotels, restaurants and planes. With little investment the UAE, and in particular Dubai, stands to gain if, as expected, supporters opt to stay in the tourism hotspot instead of Gulf neighbor Qatar during the November-December tournament.High accommodation prices in the Qatari capital Doha and Dubai's more...

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WARSAW: Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Belweder Palace on Aug 22, 2024. - AFP

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