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TEHRAN: Iranians walk at Valiasr square in the capital Tehran. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi came to power a year ago, amid attempts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. - AFP

A year on, Iran's Raisi faces economy in trouble

TEHRAN: A year after Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi took power, his government has curbed the COVID pandemic but faces a sharp downturn of the sanctions-hit economy as nuclear talks remain stalled. Having pledged to help especially the poor, the ultraconservative cleric now faces runaway consumer prices that have sparked protests. Raisi was elected in June last year in a ballot for which less than half of voters turned up, after his major rivals...

COLOMBO: Motorists queue up along a street to buy fuel from Lanka IOC fuel station in Colombo on August 1, 2022. - AFP

Sri Lanka seeks remittances jumpstart from electric cars

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka offered its overseas workers the right to buy electric vehicles duty-free on Tuesday to encourage them to send money home and boost the cash-strapped nation's depleted foreign exchange reserves. The island nation banned vehicle imports in March 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic began to hit its finances, culminating the president's flight and resignation last month.But in an effort to woo the more than two million Sri Lankans...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council in Moscow. The Russian economy has been deeply damaged by sanctions and the exit of international business since the country invaded Ukraine. - AFP

Sanctions have huge toll on Russian economy: Report

MOSCOW: The Russian economy has been deeply damaged by sanctions and the exit of international business since the country invaded Ukraine, according to a new report by Yale University business experts and economists. Even though Moscow has been able to pull in billions of dollars from continued energy sales at elevated prices, largely unpublished data shows that much of its domestic economic activity has stalled since the February 24 invasion,...

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Beyonce to remove offensive lyric after disabled community outcry

Beyonce will remove a derogatory term for disabled people from her new song "Heated," a spokesperson said Monday, after its use was condemned as offensive by campaigners. The US pop megastar will re-record the track from her latest album "Renaissance" on which she originally sang the lyrics "Spazzin' on that ass, spazz on that ass." "The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced," a spokesperson for Beyonce told AFP via...

Firefighters hose down a structure to extinguish a fire at the Cinecitta studios southeast of Rome. — AFP photos

Fire destroys set at Rome's Cinecitta studios

A fire broke out on Monday at Rome's legendary Cinecitta Studios, virtually destroying a set being dismantled but causing no injuries, emergency services and the studio said. Three teams of firefighters were on the site southeast of the Italian capital, which in its heyday was frequented by some of the country's greatest stars, from Federico Fellini to Sophia Loren. "A fire has broken out in an area where a set was being decommissioned," a...

This photo shows macaque monkeys next to Bayon Temple in Angkor Park in Siem Reap province. – AFP photos

Baby boom: The endangered wildlife revival at Cambodia's Angkor Wat

The melodic songs from families of endangered monkeys ring out over the jungle near Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex-a sign of ecological rejuvenation decades after hunting decimated wildlife at the site. The first pair of rare pileated gibbons were released in 2013 as part of a joint program between conservation group Wildlife Alliance, the forestry administration and the Apsara Authority-a government agency that manages the 12th-century...

His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

Kuwait PM forms new Cabinet with old faces

By B IzzakKUWAIT: Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah yesterday announced his first 12-man Cabinet with almost old faces, in an indication that the new government will stay for a short period to dissolve the National Assembly and hold snap polls. The new Cabinet retained 11 of the old Cabinet's ministers, added a new minister and dropped three ministers who are all lawmakers.Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, Minister of Foreign...

ODESSA: Bulk carrier M/V Razoni, carrying a cargo of 26,000 tons of corn, leaves Ukraine's port of Odessa, en route to Tripoli in Lebanon, on August 1, 2022.- AFP

First Ukrainian grain shipment since invasion

KYIV: The first shipment of Ukrainian grain since the Russian invasion in February left the port of Odessa on Monday under a landmark deal to lift Moscow's naval blockade in the Black Sea. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, who brokered the plan with Turkey, welcomed the announcement. Kyiv said it would bring "relief for the world" if Moscow held up its side of the accord.The five-month halt of deliveries from war-torn Ukraine-one of the...

COLOMBO: A monkey handler makes his pet monkey perform on a police barricade as security personnel stand guard outside the President's office in Colombo on August 1, 2022. - AFP

Lanka seeks urgent help to feed kids

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka issued an urgent appeal on Monday to tackle rapidly spreading malnutrition among children as its economic crisis leaves nine out of 10 people dependent on state handouts. The Ministry for Women and Child Affairs said they were seeking private donations to feed possibly several hundred thousand children wasting due to insufficient food.The bankrupt state, grappling with Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence, was...

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah meets with the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Honda Taro.

Kuwait's Foreign Minister meets Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah met on Monday with the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Honda Taro during his official visit to Kuwait with his accompanying delegation. In the meeting, they discussed close ties between both sides with ways to strengthen and develop them in various fields, as well as the latest developments regionally and internationally.Honda said he would like...

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50 soldiers deployed at Interior Ministry

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Armed Forces have appointed 50 soldiers from the 49th batch and deployed them to the Ministry of Interior and Traffic Department to supervise the movement of traffic in the central control room. This is to promote cooperation between the two ministries and to improve the soldiers' skills and readiness in different military operations, the Defense Ministry said in a press statement.

KUWAIT: People buy freshly caught shrimp at a fish market in Kuwait City on August 1, 2022. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Customers complain of high prices at start of shrimp fishing in Kuwait

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: On the first day of selling the Kuwaiti shrimp at the local fish markets, and after banning the fishermen from fishing in the Special Economic Zone for almost eight months, the price of one kilo of Kuwaiti shrimp reached KD 5 for the jumbo size and KD 3.5 for the medium and small size, while the price range of one basket (20 kilos) reached between KD 65 and KD 70.On Sunday, President of the Kuwaiti Union of Fishermen Dhaher...

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PIFSS denies newspapers and social media reports

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Lynn Whyte at Kuwait Cancer Centre, receiving chemo treatment.

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