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MOSCOW, Russia: An employee holds a food order on a tray in the Russian version of a former McDonald's restaurant after the opening ceremony in Moscow on June 12, 2022. - AFP
Russia's McDonald's renamed ahead of grand re-opening
MOSCOW: Former McDonald's restaurants in Russia have been renamed "Vkusno i tochka" ("Delicious. Full Stop"), the new owner said ahead of their grand re-opening later on Sunday. "The new name is Vkusno i tochka," Oleg Paroyev, the director general of the new group, told a press conference in Moscow. Replete with a new logo to replace the Golden Arches, the restaurant on Moscow's Pushkin Square-where the very first McDonald's opened its doors to...
MCLEAN,US: In this file photo taken on June 10, 2022, a sign displays the price of fuel at a gas station in McLean, Virginia.- AFP
Price spike: Higher fuel prices a litmus test for US economy
WASHINGTON: Surging energy costs are being felt across the US economy with varying effects. Some consumers are absorbing higher costs, while others are shifting behavior or cutting back. Here’s a sampling of how the story is playing out in different sectors.Trucker sees austerityAs he contends with surging fuel prices, truck driver Lamar Buckwalter sees signs all around that consumers are cutting back. Demand for refrigerated pet food-a torrid...
BAKU: Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen wins the Formula One Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit on June 12, 2022. - AFP photos
Verstappen wins Azerbaijan Grand Prix
BAKU: World champion Max Verstappen led a Red Bull 1-2 in Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a potentially key moment of the title race after Charles Leclerc and Ferrari endured another dose of raceday misery. Sergio Perez had jumped pole sitter Leclerc to the first turn before Verstappen took control as first the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz and then Leclerc retired with engine problems.George Russell took third with teammate Lewis Hamilton fourth for...
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Kuwait futsal team in final
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: Kuwait national futsal team reached the final of the 4th West Asia Championship after beating Lebanon 6-3 Saturday. Kuwait players were in control in the first half in both defense and attack, despite the strength of the Lebanese team. Kuwait ended the first half with a lead of three goals scored by Abdelrahman Al-Taweel, Yousuf Al-Khalifa and Hamad Hayat, while Lebanon had one goal by Mustafa Raheem.The second half...
CARDIFF: Belgium's midfielder Axel Witsel fights for the ball with Wales' midfielder Gareth Bale during the UEFA Nations League - League A Group 4 match at Cardiff City Stadium on June 11, 2022. - AFP
England and Italy in Nations League draw as Germany held by Hungary
PARIS: England are bottom of their UEFA Nations League group without a win after drawing 0-0 with Italy in a repeat of the Euro 2020 final on Saturday, while Germany settled for a point in a 1-1 stalemate in Hungary. The meeting in Wolverhampton between Gareth Southgate's side and the European champions was played before just 3,000 people, largely school-children, as a punishment for the incidents that marred the Euro 2020 final between the same...
ST ALBANS: South African golfer Charl Schwartzel celebrates with the trophy during the podium ceremony after winning the LIV Golf Invitational Series event at The Centurion Club on June 11, 2022. – AFP
Schwartzel celebrates win as golf power struggle deepens
ST ALBANS, United Kingdom: Charl Schwartzel's victory at the first event of the rebel LIV Golf series brought the curtain down on one of the most dramatic weeks in the history of a sport now in deep turmoil. The breakaway circuit, fronted by former world number one Greg Norman and bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, is now a real and present threat to golf's established tours.The stars at the opening tournament outside London,...
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Morocco bans film about daughter of Prophet Mohammed
Morocco announced Saturday it had banned a British film about the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims in a number of countries have denounced as blasphemous. "The Lady of Heaven" will not receive a license to be shown in the country, the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre (CCM) said in a statement issued late Saturday.The CCM ruling bans the film, directed by Eli King, from being screened on either a commercial or cultural basis in the...
 Argentinean artist Sofia Crespo holds one of her works as she poses for a photo at the Estrela garden in Lisbon.—AFP photos
Is AI the future of art?
To many they are art's next big thing-digital images of jellyfish pulsing and blurring in a dark pink sea, or dozens of butterflies fusing together into a single organism. The Argentine artist Sofia Crespo, who created the works with the help of artificial intelligence, is part of the "generative art" movement, where humans create rules for computers which then use algorithms to generate new forms, ideas and patterns.The field has begun to...
This photograph shows aromatic medicinal chamomile in the agricultural farm “The Caserma of Herbs” run by the Social Cooperative of the Dodecanese Department of Mental Health on Leros island in Greece.—AFP photos
'Soul relief': Bees help mentally ill on Greek island
On a hillside overlooking the azure blue waters of Greece's Leros island harbor, a small group of workers in protective gear are busy smoking beehives. But these are not ordinary beekeepers. Some of them are patients from the nearby psychiatric hospital, participating in a two-decade project combining therapy with professional fulfillment. The social cooperative in Leros, housed in a former barracks known as the Caserma estate, is the first of...
South African stage and movie actor John Kani, 79, who is also an author, director and play-writer, pose for a portrait in the backstage of the Johannesburg Theatre in Johannesburg.—AFP
Theatre legend Kani turns eye to modern South Africa
When John Kani launched his acting career in the 1960s, the only stage he could find was an empty snake pit at a shuttered South African museum. His latest production, "Kunene and the King", opened with the Royal Shakespeare Company and played on London's West End. It's now resuming a South African tour that was interrupted by the pandemic's theatre closures."In 2018, I had the idea that the following year, we are going to celebrate 25 years of...
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MoI arrests 328 violators amid ongoing crackdown
KUWAIT: The interior ministry announced Friday that public security arrested 328 law offenders and busted two breweries manufacturing local liquor during security campaigns, in an effort to pursue wanted people and law violators.Ahmadi governorate's security forces carried out a campaign in Wafra and Mina Abdullah and arrested 162 people, including 145 persons for not having IDs, 11 absconders and six people who were in an abnormal condition, the...
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60+ expat decision remains in place
By A SalehKUWAIT: A decision by the Public Authority of Manpower on renewing or transferring work permits of expat residents aged 60 years and above without degrees will remain in place at least till next year, because the decision was to be implemented for a year and then reviewed according to the market situation and studies to be conducted in this regard.PAM's decision included allowing the renewal or transfer of work permits for private...
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GAZA: A medic checks a wounded child at Nasser Hospital following Zionist bombardment of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 20, 2024. - AFP
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