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BRUSSELS: Officials wait for the start of the fifth international donor conference for Syria at the European Council in Brussels on May 10, 2022. – AFP

Ukraine war casts shadow over Syria donors' conference

BRUSSELS: International donors held a sixth pledging conference in Brussels for conflict-wracked Syria on Tuesday, saying Syrians should not be forgotten even as the Ukraine war grips world attention. "World public opinion seems not to be able to deal with more than one crisis at the time," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said as he opened the event.He admitted "a certain fatigue" among donors, adding: "Now it is Ukraine in the headlines....

SEOUL: South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife, First Lady Kim Kun-hee, attend an inaugural dinner at a hotel in Seoul on May 10, 2022. –AFP

South Korea's new leader Yoon calls on North to trade nukes for aid

SEOUL: South Korea's new leader Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday called on the North to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for massive economic aid, describing Pyongyang's missiles as a threat to regional and global security. Yoon, 61, who started work in an underground bunker with a briefing on North Korea, takes office at a time of high tensions on the peninsula, with Pyongyang conducting a record 15 weapons tests since January, including two...

Boohoo shares sink as costs hit online fashion group

Shares in Boohoo plunged after the British online fashion retailer slumped into a loss on soaring inflation. Boohoo posted a net loss of £4 million ($5 million, 4.8 million euros) in the year to the end of February. That compared with a profit after tax of nearly £91 million a year earlier. Revenue jumped 14 percent to £2 billion in Boohoo's financial year just ended, offset by "significant freight and logistics cost inflation", the company...

In this file photo a worker cleans a display with the poster of the Bollywood movie 'The Kashmir Files', outside a cinema hall in New Delhi.—AFP photos

Singapore bans hit Kashmir film over portrayal of Muslims

Singapore has banned a controversial Indian film over its "provocative and one-sided portrayal" of Muslims in Kashmir that officials fear could provoke religious and ethnic tensions in the city-state. Released in March and one of India's highest-grossing films this year, "The Kashmir Files" depicts in harrowing detail how several hundred thousand Hindus fled Muslim militants in Indian-administered Kashmir in 1989 and 1990.The movie has been...

In this file photo US singer-songwriter and rapper Kendrick Lamar performs during the BRIT Awards 2018 ceremony and live show in London.—AFP

New Kendrick Lamar music video drops ahead of album release

Kendrick Lamar surprised fans overnight Sunday by dropping a new track and music video ahead of his expected album release later this week. The clip for "The Heart Part 5"-the fifth installment of a series of tracks Lamar began releasing in 2010 -- sees the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper morph into likenesses of OJ Simpson, Kanye West, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, and Nipsey Hussle. The "deepfakes"-a manipulated media that sees a...

In this file photo a woman takes a photo of Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ during Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art press preview at Christie’s New York in New York City.—AFP

Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetches record $195 mn

An iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe by American pop art visionary Andy Warhol went under the hammer for $195 million Monday at Christie's, becoming the most expensive 20th century artwork ever sold at public auction. "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn," produced in 1964 two years after the death of the glamorous Hollywood star, sold for exactly $195.04 million, including fees, in just four minutes in a crowded room at Christie's headquarters in...

Al-Majed during the lecture

Boubyan Bank, an example of a success story: Group CEO

KUWAIT: Boubyan Bank represents a unique success story of an institution rising steadily towards the top to assume an outstanding place in the banking industry and at the level of Islamic banking, regionally and internationally, especially in the digital services domain. This drove Stanford Graduate School of Business to invite Boubyan Bank’s Vice-Chairman & Group Chief Executive Officer, Adel Abdul Wahab Al-Majed, to give a lecture to MBA...

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Environment group warns air pollution worsening in Kuwait

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: The Green Line Environmental Group has warned the Kuwaiti government about worsening air pollution in the country. In its weekly environment newsletter, Green Line said Kuwait is among the most polluted countries in the world, according to the World Air Quality Index, where Kuwait is ranked 11th over high rates of air pollution. The environmental group said the global index monitors PM2.5, most dangerous particulate matter,...

COLOMBO: A vehicle belonging to security personnel and a bus are set alight near Sri Lanka's outgoing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's official residence on May 9, 2022. - AFP

Sri Lanka prime minister quits as violence kills 5

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit on Monday, as an outbreak of political violence killed five people including an MP and wounded almost 200. Lawmaker Amarakeerthi Athukorala from the ruling party shot two people - killing a 27-year-old man - and then took his own life after being surrounded by a mob of anti-government protesters outside Colombo, police said.And another ruling-party politician who was not named opened fire...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu leave the Red Square after the Victory Day military parade on May 9, 2022. - AFP

Putin defends Ukraine war on Victory Day

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin defended Russia's war in Ukraine as necessary to protect the "Motherland" as Moscow flexed its military muscle on Monday at a huge parade marking the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany. Fierce battles raged in eastern Ukraine while Putin made his Victory Day speech against a backdrop of intercontinental ballistic missiles rumbling through Red Square.The Russian leader made no major announcements on Russia's next steps...

MANILA: Presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr speaks to members of the media at his party headquarters on May 9, 2022. - AFP

Marcos Jr holds runaway lead in Philippine poll

MANILA: The son of late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos on Tuesday headed for a historic landslide victory in the country's presidential election, after Filipinos brushed aside warnings about weakening their already fragile democracy. Nearly 40 years after his namesake father was deposed by a popular revolt and his family chased into exile, Ferdinand Marcos Jr had garnered more than double the number of votes of his nearest rival, according...

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Kuwait's Amir congratulates Saudi King on successful medical check-ups

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent on Monday a cable to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to congratulate him on the successful medical check-ups he underwent recently. In the cable, His Highness the Amir wished Saudi King everlasting wellbeing and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia more progress and welfare under his wise leadership. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and...

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GAZA: Friends and relatives mourn over the body of photojournalist Ibrahim Muhareb, who was killed as he was covering the advance of Zionist forces north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip the previous day, at Al-Nasser Hospital on Aug 19, 2024. - AFP

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