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MANILA: New Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr takes the oath as president of the Philippines as his wife Louise looks on during the inauguration ceremony at the National Museum on June 30, 2022. -AFP

Marcos Jr praises rule of father

MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Thursday praised his dictator father's rule after being sworn in as the country's new leader, completing a decades-long effort to restore the clan to the country's highest office. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr, 64, won last month's elections by a landslide, securing the biggest victory since his father and namesake was ousted by a popular revolt in 1986.He succeeds the hugely popular Rodrigo...

BRUSSELS: The Barry Callebaut production site is seen in Wieze on June 30, 2022. - AFP

Salmonella hits biggest choc plant

BRUSSELS: Production has been halted in the world's biggest chocolate plant, run by Swiss giant Barry Callebaut in the Belgian town of Wieze, after salmonella contaminations was found, the firm said Thursday. A company spokesman told AFP that production had been protectively halted at the factory, which produces liquid chocolate in wholesale batches for 73 clients making confectionaries.There have been no reports so far of any chocolate consumers...

SAN ANTONIO, United States: People pray during a vigil for the 53 migrants who died in a trailer in San Antonio, Texas on June 29, 2022. - AFP

Texans mourn migrants who died in truck tragedy

SAN ANTONIO, United States: Texas residents gathered under a scorching sun Wednesday to mourn the 53 migrants who died this week after they were abandoned in a trailer in soaring temperatures, leaving tokens of flowers, candles and bottles of water. The mourners, several of whom said they or their loved ones had also migrated to the United States illegally, gathered at the site in San Antonio where the truck was found on Monday to erect large...

JERUSALEM: Head of Zionist entity's conservative Islamic Raam party Mansour Abbas embraces Zionist Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid, following the dissolution of the parliament, in Jerusalem on June 30. -AFP

Zionist parliament dissolves, sets fifth election in less than four years

JERUSALEM: Zionist lawmakers dissolved parliament on Thursday, forcing the country's fifth election in less than four years, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid set to take over as caretaker prime minister at midnight. After the unanimous 92-0 vote, the centrist Lapid embraced outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose year in charge of an unwieldy, eight-party coalition was ultimately undone by its ideological divisions.Lapid, whose...

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Despite laws, Kuwait domestic helpers still vulnerable to abuse

By Saoud Al-MarzouqKUWAIT: Throughout the last 40 years, there have been many instances of domestic workers having their basic human rights violated in Kuwait. Few laws have been written and enforced by the Kuwaiti government throughout this period to protect the rights of domestic workers in Kuwait, as they do not fall under the protection of the regular Kuwaiti labor law, and despite the passing of the domestic worker law in 2016.If both the...

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Interior Minister seeks to retire long-serving officials

KUWAIT: The interior ministry's plans to launch strict campaigns to ensure security and arrest residency violators and intensify field action around the clock, in addition to not resorting to granting grace periods for violators to leave the country, made Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah to ask new security leaders to replace many of the old ones, according to senior sources. The ministry sent direct circulars to leaders who...

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European Parliament to discuss visa liberalization for Kuwait

BRUSSELS: Preparatory work is underway in the European Parliament for the negotiations to start with the Council of Minister on lifting of Schengen visa for Kuwaiti citizens, European Parliament sources said Thursday. EU ambassadors Wednesday approved the negotiating mandate for the EU Council of Ministers on the lifting of Schengen visa for Kuwait. On the basis of this mandate, the Council which represents the 27 EU states, will start...

WIMBLEDON: Spain's Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis during their men's singles tennis match on the fourth day of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships on June 30, 2022. - AFP

Nadal centre stage at Wimbledon as COVID forces third withdrawal

LONDON: Rafael Nadal tops the bill at Wimbledon on Thursday after Roberto Bautista Agut became the third player to withdraw from the Championships following a positive coronavirus test. In early results on the fourth day of the tournament, women's fourth seed Paula Badosa set up a third-round clash against two-time winner Petra Kvitova.Second seed Nadal, hunting a rare calendar Grand Slam, takes on Lithuanian journeyman Ricardas Berankis in the...

JOHOR BAHRU: This picture shows a nutritionist preparing food at the Johor Darul Ta'zim football club training centre in Johor Bahru. - AFP

With royal backing and Snoop Dogg rap, Malaysia minnows challenge best in Asia

JOHOR BAHRU: A wealthy prince and some astute promotion involving US rapper Snoop Dogg have helped turn Malaysia's Johor Darul Ta'zim from footballing minnows into one of Asia's top clubs. The club, commonly known as JDT, has its roots in the former Johor FC and other clubs in the southern state, who kicked around the lower reaches of Malaysian football with an occasional minor cup win as their only honors.But that all began to change in 2012,...

MONTREAL: Fernando Alonso of Spain driving the (14) Alpine F1 A522 Renault leads Carlos Sainz of Spain driving (55) the Ferrari F1-75 during the F1 Grand Prix of Canada at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec. - AFP

Alpine launches program to find women F1 drivers

PARIS: Formula One's Alpine team said physical ability is no barrier for women to compete in their sport as they launched a program to have a female driver in the next eight years. Only two women have ever started a Grand Prix, the Italian pair of Maria Teresa de Filippis, who qualified in three in 1958, and Lella Lombardi, who raced in 12 between 1974 and 1976, picking up a point. There has since been a belief that physical strength was a...

PARIS: Kuwait's education minister Dr Ali Al-Mudhaf speaks during a UNESCO-hosted summit in Paris, France. - KUNA

Kuwait backs UN efforts to transform global education

PARIS: Kuwait on Wednesday said it supports the mission of the United Nations' (UN) cultural agency UNESCO to transform the education sector around the world, citing classroom development as a national priority. The bulk of Kuwait's national development plans often revolves around the goal of educational development, the country's education minister Dr Ali Al-Mudhaf told a UNESCO-hosted summit in the French capital Paris, highlighting such...

KUWAIT: A view of the sunset from Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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