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French court fines Deliveroo for 'undeclared labor'

PARIS: A Paris court on Tuesday handed the food delivery group Deliveroo a fine of 375,000 euros ($405,000) after finding it guilty of "undeclared labour" by using freelance delivery riders who should have been considered employees. It was the latest move by courts to recognize the rights of "gig economy" workers who are often classified as independent contractors by start-ups and other firms, and thus ineligible for health insurance and other...

DALLAS: Jalen Brunson #13 of the Dallas Mavericks drives to the basket against Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Utah Jazz in the fourth quarter of Game Two of the Western Conference First Round NBA Playoffs at American Airlines Center on April 18, 2022. - AFP

Brunson's 41 leads Mavs over Utah

WASHINGTON: Jalen Brunson scored a career-high 41 points and Germany's Maxi Kleber added 25 points off the bench to spark the Dallas Mavericks over Utah 110-104 and level their NBA playoff series. The host Mavericks, playing without injured star Luka Doncic, deadlocked the best-of-seven matchup at 1-1 as the scene shifts to Salt Lake City. "We needed this win," Brunson said. "I just tried to go out there and have fun. I'm just being aggressive,...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez

Football world rallies around Ronaldo after death of baby son

MANCHESTER: The football world rallied around Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodriguez on Tuesday after they announced that their newborn son had died. The 37-year-old Manchester United forward had revealed in a social media post last October that the couple was expecting twins. In a post released on Monday on the Portuguese international's Twitter account, they confirmed the birth of a baby girl."It is with our deepest sadness we...

BELGRADE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic attends a press conference during the Serbia Tennis Open ATP 250 series tournament on April 18, 2022. - AFP

Djokovic aiming to be 'as ready' as possible for French Open

BELGRADE: Novak Djokovic said on Monday that he is aiming to be "as ready as I can be" for the French Open as he prepares for just his third tournament of the season in Belgrade this week. The world number one was deported from Australia ahead of the Australian Open in January over his Covid vaccination status, before also missing Indian Wells and the Miami Open in the United States.In the Serbian star's absence, Rafael Nadal won a record 21st...

BARCELONA: Barcelona's Spanish midfielder Gavi vies with Cadiz's Uruguayan defender Pacha Espino and Cadiz's Spanish midfielder Alex Fernandez during their Spanish League football match at the Camp Nou stadium on April 18, 2022. - AFP

Barca top-4 finish in danger after shock defeat by Cadiz

BARCELONA: Barcelona's place in La Liga's top four looks much less secure after they suffered a surprise 1-0 defeat at home to relegation-battling Cadiz on Monday. Lucas Perez's close-range finish early in the second half condemned Barca to a second consecutive defeat, on the back of their shock exit at the hands of Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League on Thursday.Barcelona stayed second but are level on points with both Sevilla in third and...

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British composer Harrison Birtwistle dead at 87

Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's foremost contemporary composers known for his experimental approach to writing classical music, has died at the age of 87, his publisher announced on Monday. Birtwistle, who was born in Accrington in northern England in 1934, crafted critically acclaimed operas such as "Gawain" and "The Mask Of Orpheus" and the famed orchestra composition "The Triumph of Time".During a decades-spanning career that continued...

A visitor attends an exhibition entitled the Repatriated Boukan Glazed Brick Collection from Switzerland, at Iran's National Museum in Tehran.—AFP photos

Iran fights to recover stolen antiquities

Decorated glazed bricks almost 3,000 years old are on display at Iran's National Museum after a four-decade search disrupted by war and an international legal battle. Lions and winged cows with human heads, horses and bulls with a goat's horn, kneeling men and women and other mythological figures decorate the work, created by the Mannaeans who lived in northwestern Iran in the first millennium BC. The 51 square bricks are painted with a glazed...

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Guitar that broke Oasis up for auction in Paris

A Paris auction house will next month sell a guitar smashed backstage at an Oasis concert in an incident that triggered the break-up of the British supergroup and a long-running fraternal feud between star frontmen, Liam and Noel Gallagher. Later repaired, the red Gibson's destruction at the French capital's Rock en Seine festival in 2009 was "a cult moment" in music history, said Jonathan Berg, a guitar expert and cofounder of the Artpeges...

84-years-old artist Vladimir Ovchinnikov gestures during an interview for AFP in his house in the city of Borovsk, some 100kms south-west of Moscow.—AFP photos

'Painted over': Russian village artist finds peace art unwelcome

Retired engineer Vladimir Ovchinnikov has spent decades painting murals in his small town south of Moscow but finds some of his art is not welcome after Russia's conflict with Ukraine. "They've painted over it," Ovchinnikov, 84, said during a recent stop at an abandoned shop in a village field near Borovsk, his town of about 10,000 people two hours' drive from the Russian capital.Ovchinnikov had painted a blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag on one...

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis held a gathering at the Irada Square in Kuwait City in support of Palestine and to denounce the Zionist entity's aggression against Palestinians in Jerusalem Palestinian territories. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait protesters denounce Zionist aggression and raids

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Dozens of demonstrators gathered in a solidarity protest, on Monday, at Al-Erada Square in Shuwaikh area. The protesters chanted slogans to express their support and condemnation of Zionist forces' raid of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. The protesters (Citizens and residents) chanted "You don't need to be Muslim to stand up for Palestine..... you just need to be a human" while holding Kuwait and...

NOVODRUZHESK: A photograph taken from Novodruzhesk village, shows smoke rising in Rubizhne city, on April 18, 2022, on the 54th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - AFP

Russia strikes hit western Ukraine

LVIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday lauded a brigade accused by Ukraine of committing atrocities near the capital Kyiv as his forces pounded targets across the country, killing at least seven people in the western city of Lviv. The air strikes in Lviv came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of wanting to "destroy" the entire eastern region of Donbas where Russian forces were massing for an expected...

KUWAIT: Jassim Al-Awadhi (left) with MP Abdul-Aziz Al-Saqabi using public transportation.

Initiative urges public, private sectors to develop mass transportation in Kuwait

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Taking the bus has personal, environmental and societal benefits. Riding the bus can improve health, reduce air pollution, lead to fewer traffic jams and help the economy. Jassim Al-Awadhi, founder of the Kuwait Commute initiative, works to raise awareness about the public transport system in the country to implement a feasible and executable solution to improve Kuwait's rapidly escalating traffic issues.In an interview with...

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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos

Alain Delon: Women he loved and left

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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait swelters amid power cuts

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KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah receives India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Aug 18, 2024. — KUNA

India looks to upgrade bilateral ties with Kuwait: Dr Jaishankar

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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

Palestinian fighters claim Tel Aviv bombing, threaten more attacks