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BRUSSELS: Demonstrators gather outside the European Headquarters part as they protest in support of Ukraine's application for EU candidacy status during an EU-Western Balkans leaders' meeting in Brussels on June 23, 2022. - AFP

EU weighs Ukraine candidacy

KYIV, Ukraine: EU leaders met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss making Ukraine a candidate to join the bloc, a "decisive" moment likely to infuriate Russia as its forces battled stiff resistance to advance in the embattled eastern Donbas region. Western officials also denounced Moscow's "weaponising" of its key gas and grain exports, with a US official warning of further retaliation measures at a G7 summit in Germany starting Sunday. Germany...

LONDON: Handout photograph shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacting during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) session in the House of Commons, in London. - AFP

Johnson resolute as twin UK by-election losses loom

WAKEFIELD, United Kingdom: Britain's beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday he will not resign even if his ruling Conservatives lose two closely watched by-elections, including in a once-safe seat held by the party for more than a century. The Tories are tipped to lose the contests for the Westminster seats of Tiverton and Honiton in southwest England-a true blue heartland which has voted Conservative in every general election...

YANGON, Myanmar: File photo shows, a protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the Central Bank of Myanmar in Yangon. - AFP

Myanmar's Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement in prison

YANGON: Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained in strong spirits after being transferred from house arrest to prison, a source with knowledge of the case said Thursday, and would "calmly" face her new solitary confinement. Since being deposed in a coup last year, Suu Kyi had been under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Naypyidaw, accompanied by several domestic staff and her dog, according to sources with knowledge of the...

BERLIN, Germany: German Minister of Economics and Climate Protection Robert Habeck shows a graph featuring forecasts of gas storage levels as he gives a press conference on energy supply security, on June 23, 2022 at his Ministry in Berlin. - AFP

Germany raises natural gas alert level after Russia slash supplies

FRANKFURT, Germany: Germany moved closer to rationing natural gas on Thursday as it raised the alert level under an emergency plan after Russia slashed supplies to the country. "Gas is now a scarce commodity in Germany," Economy Minister Robert Habeck told reporters at a press conference.Russia was using gas "as a weapon" against Germany in retaliation for the West's support for Ukraine following Moscow's invasion, Habeck said, with the aim of...

TOKYO: An electronic quotation board displays the yen's rate against the US dollar (top) and the share price of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (bottom) at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo. - AFP

Euro, pound retreat against dollar as recession prospects increase

LONDON: The euro and pound retreated against the dollar Thursday as economic data pointed to increased prospects of recession in Europe. Global stock markets recovered some ground after another battering this week, while oil prices extended losses.Economic growth in the eurozone plummeted in June, a key survey showed, as high prices took the wind out the strong recovery from the deep lows of the coronavirus pandemic. The closely-watched monthly...

TUNIS: In this file photo taken Noureddine Taboubi, secretary-general of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), holds flags of Tunisia and the UGTT as he speaks at the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of the assassination of its founder Farhat Hached (during the French protectorate period), in the capital Tunis. - AFP

Tunisia trade unions chief Taboubi rejects IMF reforms

TUNIS: The head of Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union on Thursday rejected International Monetary Fund conditions for a new loan to bail out the country's struggling economy and questioned the government's authority to negotiate. Noureddine Taboubi's comment came a day after an IMF official said the global lender is ready to begin formal talks on a new financial aid package for Tunisia."We reject the conditions set by the IMF, given Tunisians'...

BUDAPEST: Canada's Joshua Liendo (left), Romania's David Popovici (center) and France's Maxime Grousset competes in the men's 100m freestyle finals during the Budapest 2022 World Aquatics Championships at Duna Arena in Budapest. - AFP

Popovici, McIntosh grab golds

BUDAPEST: After Caeleb Dressel, one of the veterans expected to dominate the World Swimming Championships, quit the competition as two teenagers, 17-year-old David Popovici and Summer McIntosh, 15, leapt to the top step of the podium. Dressel, a seven-time Olympic gold medalist, had "withdrawn for medical reasons. For his long-term health," Lindsay Mintenko, the Swimming Managing Director for the USA team, told media at the start of the evening...

TAMPA: Andrei Vasilevskiy #88 of the Tampa Bay Lightning lays on the ice after allowing a goal during the third period against the Colorado Avalanche in Game Four of the 2022 NHL Stanley Cup Final at Amalie Arena on June 22, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. - AFP

Avalanche on the brink of Stanley Cup glory after Kadri seals thriller

MIAMI: Nazem Kadri lashed in an overtime winner as the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lighting 3-2 in overtime to move within one win of the Stanley Cup crown on Wednesday. Kadri flashed a shot past Bolts goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy deep into the first period of sudden-death overtime at Tampa Bay's Amalie Arena to put the Avs 3-1 up in the best-of-seven series.Colorado can clinch NHL championship on Friday with a victory against the...

BELLA VISTA: In this file photo, the coffin with the remains of late Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona is carried by his family and friends at the Jardin Bella Vista cemetery, in Buenos Aires province. Eight medical personnel will stand trial for alleged criminal negligence in the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, according to a court ruling made public on June 22, 2022. - AFP

8 medical personnel to be tried for Maradona death

BUENOS AIRES: Eight medical personnel will stand trial for alleged criminal negligence in the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, according to a court ruling made public on Wednesday. No date has been set for the trial of the staff over Maradona's death in 2020, which prosecutors say was due to "omissions" by his caregivers who abandoned him "to his fate" during home hospitalization.Maradona died aged 60 while recovering from brain...

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Fashion day dzair is back again!

Fashion day dzair is back again, with its sixth edition for the fashion lovers in Algeria. The event was organized by Rayan Prince and Mahdi at the international conferences center (CIC) Alger, to preserve the traditional Algerian culture dress and introduce it to the world.

In this file photo A policeman stands guard near a piece of art attributed to Banksy, that was stolen at the Bataclan in Paris in 2019, and found in Italy, ahead of a press conference in L’Aquila. — AFP

French court convicts eight for stealing Banksy from Paris attack site

A French court on Thursday convicted eight men for the theft and handling of a Banksy painting paying homage to the victims of the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. Three men in their 30s who admitted to the 2019 theft were given prison sentences, one of four years and two of three, although they will be able to serve them wearing electronic tracking bracelets rather than behind bars.Another man, a 41-year-old millionaire lottery...

People party at the Ushuaia nightclub in Ibiza. — AFP photos

'Like COVID never happened': Ibiza's nightclubs reopen

A crowd dances to the pulsing beat of electronic music, hands in the air, at the Pacha nightclub near the main marina on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza. On this warm June night, the pandemic is a distant memory. "It is like COVID never happened inside here," said Michelle, a 31-year-old British healthcare worker at the entrance to the club, which is packed with 3,500 people. After being closed for two years because of Covid-19, the...

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