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MIAMI GARDENS: Barcelona celebrate with the trophy after defeating Real Madrid 3 to 2 in their International Champions Cup 2017 match at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday in Miami Gardens, Florida. - AFP

Pique lifts Barca as El Clasico lives up to hype

MIAMI GARDENS: Barcelona celebrate with the trophy after defeating Real Madrid 3 to 2 in their International Champions Cup 2017 match at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday in Miami Gardens, Florida. - AFPMIAMI: Gerard Pique delivered Barcelona's match winner over Real Madrid on Saturday as El Clasico Miami lived up to the hype. The Spanish international steered in a Neymar free-kick in the 50th minute to seal a 3-2 win for the Catalan giants in front...

Attorney Fajer Ahmed

New employment law amendments

Attorney Fajer AhmedI know I have written about it previously, but I have been receiving a lot of questions about the new July 9 employment amendments. The new amendments were made in order to close loopholes that were existent, and unfortunately it is still unclear what these changes are (as I will explain below). The law has also failed in some sense to balance the relationship between the employer and the employee. With that said, I think it...

WASHINGTON: US Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) heads for the Senate Floor for a vote at the US Capitol. - AFP

Republican women keep Trump in check

WASHINGTON: US Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) heads for the Senate Floor for a vote at the US Capitol. - AFPWASHINGTON: The stunning collapse of President Donald Trump's health reforms was due in large part to the defiance of two Republican women who resisted relentless White House pressure to toe the party line. While Senator John McCain's revolt grabbed the headlines, the votes of the lesser-known Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski proved...

MIAMI: In this May 27, 2015 file photo, an American Airlines jet taxis to the gate at Miami International Airport, in Miami. American Airlines Group, Inc reported earnings on Friday.-AP

Strong demand at American Airlines; Lean times ahead?

MIAMI: In this May 27, 2015 file photo, an American Airlines jet taxis to the gate at Miami International Airport, in Miami. American Airlines Group, Inc reported earnings on Friday.-APDALLAS: Double-digit increases in fuel and labor costs caused second-quarter profit at American Airlines to fall 15 percent despite higher revenue. The world's biggest airline still beat Wall Street expectations, earning $803 million in the quarter, which marks...

Frank Ocean performs at the 2017 Panorama Music Festival on Randall's Island in New York on July 28, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS

Frank Ocean, gentle R&B voice, finds live intimacy at NY festival

Frank Ocean performs at the 2017 Panorama Music Festival on Randall's Island in New York. - APFrank Ocean has captivated audiences since his debut with his tenderness, a gentle but unwavering voice in the often hyper-macho world of R&B and hip-hop. Nearly a year after he released his long-awaited second album, "Blonde," Ocean has presented his ever-patient fans with a live vision of his music, one that creates a kind of cinematic intimacy....

DUBAI: In this July 25, 2017 photo, a customer leaves the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant. - APn

Gulf hosts thousands of N Korea workers

DUBAI: In this July 25, 2017 photo, a customer leaves the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant. - APDUBAI: As pressure over North Korea's nuclear weapons program grows, America's most valued Arab allies host thousands of its laborers, whose wages help Pyongyang evade sanctions and build the missiles now threatening the US and its Asian partners, officials and analysts say. From state-run restaurants to construction sites, North Korean...

RAQA: Smoke billows out from Raqa following a coalition air strike. - AFP

Squeezed in Raqa, jihadists ramp up counter-attacks

RAQA: Smoke billows out from Raqa following a coalition air strike. - AFPRAQA: As Islamic State group fighters steadily lose chunks of their Syrian bastion Raqa to a US-backed force, the jihadists are ramping up the ferocity of their counter-attacks. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) first broke into Raqa in early June and have advanced in a pincer-like motion towards the heart of the city. The alliance's Arab and Kurdish fighters now hold half...

MOSUL: Iraqi girls attend a class at a school in west Mosul. - AFP

Mosul's schoolgirls aim to catch up on lost years

MOSUL: Iraqi girls attend a class at a school in west Mosul. - AFPMOSUL: Despite having fallen three years behind their peers elsewhere in Iraq, it's been mostly smiles all around for the girls at Mosul's Trablus school since it reopened its damaged gates after the jihadists fled. With a blast from her whistle to signal the end of recess, a supervisor in a black robe and white headscarf called the teenage girls back to class, during a recent...

GALLE: Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli plays a shot during the fourthnday's play of the first Test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in Galle, Sri Lanka, yesterday. - APn

India thrash S Lanka in first Test

GALLE: Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli plays a shot during the fourthday's play of the first Test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in Galle, Sri Lanka, yesterday. - APGALLE: India captain Virat Kohli completed his 17th Test ton yesterday and then let his bowlers demolish injury-hit Sri Lanka to claim a 304-run victory inside four days in the first Test. It was India's biggest winning margin in Sri Lanka and showed just why they are...

Ed Jennings

Out of 45 m emails 25% are 'unsafe'

Ed JenningsDUBAI: Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security company, today announced the results of its third quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA),a report of the results of tests which measure the effectiveness of incumbent email security systems. This quarter's assessment noted a continued challenge of securing organizations from malicious attachments, dangerous files types, impersonation attacks, as well as...

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Iran vows no halt to missile tests as West hardens tone

This US Navy photo obtained July 29, 2017 shows sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) as they stand watch in an A/S 32-P-25 firefighting truck on the flight deck as an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the "Wolf Pack" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 75, flies above on July 24, 2017 in the Gulf, as Nimitz deploys in the US 5th Fleet area of operations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. - AFPTEHRAN:...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and others, speaks about healthcare, July 24, 2017, in the Blue Room of the White House. - AP

Time to move on from health care: GOP leader

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and others, speaks about healthcare, July 24, 2017, in the Blue Room of the White House. - APWASHINGTON: The resounding Senate crash of the seven-year Republican drive to scrap the Obama health care law has led to finger-pointing but also has left the party with wounded leaders and no evident way ahead on an issue that...

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BAGRAM: Taleban military vehicles parade to celebrate the third anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan at Bagram Air Base on Aug 14, 2024. - AFP

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KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah preside over a Cabinet weekly meeting on Tuesday at Bayan Palace. - KUNA

Cabinet mourns Sheikh Salem Al-Ali

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