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TOBRUK, Libya: This picture taken early on July 2, 2022 shows a fire inside the building used by Libya's Tobruk-based parliament building in the country's east, lit up by protesters who broke inside while demonstrating against deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock. - AFP

Libyan protesters storm parliament

TRIPOLI, Libya: Protesters stormed Libya's parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk on Friday and set parts of it ablaze, venting their anger at deteriorating living conditions and months of political deadlock. Black smoke billowed as men burned tyres and torched cars after one protester had smashed through the compound's gate with a bulldozer and others attacked the walls with construction tools, local media reported.The building was empty, as...

KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait CEO Eaman Al-Roudhan with Kuwait's top students during the event.

Zain celebrates Kuwait's top graduates in ceremony at main headquarters

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, hosted its special annual ceremony to recognize the outstanding achievements of Kuwait's top high school graduates. The event was held at Zain's main headquarters in Shuwaikh with the attendance of the students' parents and CEO Eaman Al-Roudhan.At the end of every academic year, Zain holds a special ceremony to recognize Kuwait's top-performing students who excelled in their high...

Hibatullah Akhundzada

'Stop interfering in Afghanistan', says Taleban leader in rare appearance

KABUL: The Taleban's reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada called Friday for the world to stop telling them how to run Afghanistan, insisting sharia law was the only model for a successful Islamic state. Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taleban returned to power in August, was addressing a major gathering of religious scholars in the Afghan capital called to rubber-stamp the hardline Islamist...

Travellers check in on the depatures level at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 1, 2022, ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend. - US airlines are bracing customers for what will probably be another bumpy holiday weekend as the industry struggles to manage a surge in travel demand that probably exceeds its current capacity. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)

Strained US airlines face July 4 test

NEW YORK: US airlines are bracing customers for what will probably be another bumpy holiday weekend as the industry struggles to manage a surge in travel demand that probably exceeds its current capacity. Yu Su, a computer science professor at Ohio State University, was stranded last Saturday night in Charlotte, North Carolina after his connecting flight home never left.The airline didn't cancel the 8:30 pm flight until around midnight after...

LISBON: Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa appears on giant screens as he gives a speech during the 2022 Ocean Conference closing session on July 1, 2022. - AFP

Outgunned island states vow to fight deep-sea mining

LISBON: A handful of postage-stamp nations in the South Pacific launched an uphill battle this week against the deep-sea mining of unattached, fist-sized rocks rich in rare Earth metals. The stakes are potentially enormous. Companies keen to scrape the ocean floor five to six thousand meters below sea level stand to earn billions harvesting manganese, cobalt, copper and nickel currently used to build batteries for electric vehicles.But the...

NEW DELHI: A man sits on a cart next to a sewer canal filled with plastics and other waste on June 30, 2022. - AFP

India bans many single-use plastics to tackle waste

NEW DELHI: India imposed a ban on many single-use plastics on Friday in a bid to tackle waste choking rivers and poisoning wildlife, but experts say it faces severe headwinds from unprepared manufacturers and consumers unwilling to pay more. The country generates around four million tons of plastic waste per year, about a third of which is not recycled and ends up in waterways and landfills that regularly catch fire and exacerbate air...

GALLE, Sri Lanka: Australia's David Warner plays a shot during the third day of first cricket Test match between Sri Lanka and Australia at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle. – AFP

Lyon stars as Australia crush Sri Lanka inside three days

GALLE: Spinner Nathan Lyon starred with a match haul of nine wickets as Australia wrapped up the opening Test on Friday with a crushing victory over Sri Lanka before lunch on the third day. The hosts were bundled out for 113 in their second innings allowing the Australians to seal a 10-wicket victory in their first over back at the crease in Galle. Lyon, whose five-for helped bowl out Sri Lanka for 212 in the first innings, and fellow spinner...

SILVERSTONE, Northamptonshire: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton drives during third practice ahead of the Formula One British Grand Prix at the Silverstone motor racing circuit in Silverstone, central England. - AFP

Sainz edges revived Hamilton in second Silverstone practice

SILVERSTONE, United Kingdom: Carlos Sainz outpaced local hero Lewis Hamilton in Friday's second practice at the British Grand Prix, his Ferrari edging the revived Mercedes by one tenth of a second on a rain and wind-affected day. The Spaniard, recording his first session-topping time since the Australian Grand Prix in April, clocked a best lap in one minute and 28.952 seconds to beat the seven-time world champion, who appeared to have...

Sculptures known as the 'Benin Bronzes' are pictured at a ceremony for the signing of an agreement of intent to return them to Nigeria at the German foreign ministry in Berlin, Germany on July 1, 2022. - AFP

Germany signs deal to return bronzes to Nigeria

Germany has signed an agreement to begin sending hundreds of Benin bronzes back to what is now Nigeria, rubber-stamping the biggest effort yet by a European country to return the looted artworks. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Culture Minister Claudia Roth signed the deal with their Nigerian counterparts in Berlin after Germany first announced that it would begin returning the bronzes last year. The first two artworks - the head of a king...

Canadian guitarist and former member of Canadian rock groups The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Randy Bachman (left), performs with his original Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins guitar with Japanese musician Takeshi during a Canada-Japan Friendship Concert after a guitar exchange event to coincide with Canada Day at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on July 1, 2022. - AFP

'American Woman' rocker reunited with stolen guitar

They say you never forget your first love, and after pining for his stolen guitar for almost half a century, Canadian rock star Randy Bachman has finally been reunited with the instrument which an eagle-eyed fan tracked down in Japan. Bachman, who wrote the original "American Woman" with his band The Guess Who, was in Tokyo for the emotional handover on Friday - 46 years after his cherished orange Gretsch was snatched from a Toronto hotel."Wow,"...

Gogol Centre actors and personnel stand on stage after a performance in Moscow. - AFP photos

Rebel Moscow theatre shuts doors after final show

The Gogol Centre theatre, one of the last bastions of artistic freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia, shut its doors Thursday night with a defiant final show called "I Don't Take Part In War". The emotional play protesting against the Kremlin's military intervention in Ukraine marked a dramatic end of an era for the Russian capital's ever-shrinking opposition and intelligentsia circles.Previously run by rebel director Kirill Serebrennikov, who left...

BAKU: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem addresses the Parliamentary Network of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Conference on June 30, 2022. - KUNA

Ghanem insists the world needs neutral third voice

BAKU: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said on Thursday the world is in dire need of a principled neutral third voice that calls for applying law and justice amid lingering risks worldwide. Addressing the Parliamentary Network of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Conference held in Baku, Ghanem said the fact that the Palestinian issue remains unresolved is proof of the continuing perils in different world regions.Ghanem regretted that...

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