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DEBAGA, Iraq: Iraqi youth, who were separated from their families during the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists around the city of Mosul, sit in a room at the headquarters of the Terres des Hommes Italia, a children's aid organization. - AFP

Separated by conflict, Iraqi children wait for parents

DEBAGA, Iraq: Iraqi youth, who were separated from their families during the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists around the city of Mosul, sit in a room at the headquarters of the Terres des Hommes Italia, a children's aid organization. - AFPDEBAGA: Adel, 15, hasn't seen his parents for the past nine months, but that was the price to pay to escape the brutal rule of Islamic State group jihadists in his northern...

Pro Palestine supporters protest against Radiohead's planned concert in Tel Aviv as Radiohead headline on the main stage at the TRNSMT music Festival on Glasgow Green, in Glasgow on July 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Digital / Andy Buchanan

Radiohead set for Israel concert despite calls to boycott

Pro Palestine supporters protest against Radiohead's planned concert in Tel Aviv as Radiohead headline on the main stage at the TRNSMT music Festival on Glasgow Green, in Glasgow on July 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Digital / Andy BuchananRadiohead is set to defy calls from prominent artists to cancel its concert today in Israel over the occupation of Palestinian territory, the latest controversy related to a campaign to boycott the country. Radiohead...

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Ali Amer to lead Cisco's Global Service Provider business in MEA

Ali AmerDUBAI: Cisco announced yesterday that Ali Amer has been appointed Managing Director for Global Service Provider Sales in the Middle East and Africa at Cisco.In his new role, Ali will be responsible for helping telecommunications service providers transform their networks, businesses and customers' experiences to capture the opportunities created by the digital era. In addition to driving the segment's sales strategy and growth across the...

Members of gold medal winner Team Russia pose with their medals during the awarding ceremony of women's team technical final technical routine competition of FINA Swimming World Championships 2017 in the City Park, in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Russian team claims gold in synchronized swimming again

Members of gold medal winner Team Russia pose with their medals during the awarding ceremony of women's team technical final technical routine competition of FINA Swimming World Championships 2017 in the City Park, in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)BUDAPEST: Russia won its sixth straight women's team technical synchronized swimming title for its fourth gold medal of the world championships yesterday. The team...

Sri Lankan cricket captain Dinesh Chandimal poses with the trophy after victory in the final day of a one-off Test match between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo on July 18, 2017. / AFP / ISHARA S. KODIKARA

S Lanka pull off record chase to beat Zimbabwe

Sri Lankan cricket captain Dinesh Chandimal poses with the trophy after victory in the final day of a one-off Test match between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo on July 18, 2017. / AFP / ISHARA S. KODIKARACOLOMBO: Niroshan Dickwella and Asela Gunaratne guided Sri Lanka to a record 388 target to beat Zimbabwe by four wickets yesterday in a pulsating end to their one-off Test. A crucial 121-run sixth-wicket...

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US sanctions Iran despite nuclear deal compliance

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump swings a Marucci baseball bat in the Blue Room during a "Made in America" product showcase event at the White House on Monday. - AFPWASHINGTON: The US slapped fresh sanctions on Iran yesterday over its ballistic missile program, just hours after Washington admitted the Islamic Republic was complying with a landmark nuclear deal signed two years ago. Iran's parliament retaliated by voting for extra funding...

ANKARA: This photo taken on July 15, 2017 shows Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan waving to an F-16 fighter jet while travelling from Ankara to Istanbul. - AFP

Erdogan to visit Kuwait, Gulf - Egypt ends visas on arrival for Qataris

ANKARA: This photo taken on July 15, 2017 shows Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan waving to an F-16 fighter jet while travelling from Ankara to Istanbul. - AFPISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will this month visit Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are locked in a deep diplomatic crisis, his office announced yesterday. Erdogan will also visit Kuwait, the main mediator in the Qatar crisis, during his July 23-24 tour. Turkish...

This photo taken on July 13, 2017 shows a Muslim family at Maung Hnama village, Buthidaung township in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine State say fear is one of the few constants in their lives. - TO GO WITH Myanmar-Bangladesh-killings-unrest by HLA HLA HTAYr / AFP / HLA HLA HTAY / TO GO WITH Myanmar-Bangladesh-killings-unrest by HLA HLA HTAY

Rohingya Muslims: Cornered by poverty, stalked by violence

This photo taken on July 13, 2017 shows a Muslim family at Maung Hnama village, Buthidaung township in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine State say fear is one of the few constants in their lives. - TO GO WITH Myanmar-Bangladesh-killings-unrest by HLA HLA HTAY/ AFP / HLA HLA HTAY / TO GO WITH...

Protesters hold placards to protest the extension of martial law on Mindanao island in southern Philippines, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Manila, Philippines. Duterte asked for an extension till the end of the year on the marshall law he declared on May 23, 2017, following a bloody siege of southern Marawi city by Islamic State group-aligned militants, the most serious security crisis he has faced since assuming power in June last year. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Duterte seeks martial law extension in south

Protesters hold placards to protest the extension of martial law on Mindanao island in southern Philippines, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Manila, Philippines. Duterte asked for an extension till the end of the year on the marshall law he declared on May 23, 2017, following a bloody siege of southern Marawi city by Islamic State group-aligned militants, the most serious security crisis he has faced since assuming power in June last year. (AP...

Smoke and flames rise from a fire in the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split, on July 18, 2017. Montenegro asked on July 17 for international help to fight wildfires in the Lustica peninsula on the country's Adriatic coast, while forest fires in neighbouring Croatia spread to suburbs of the coastal city of Split / AFP / STR

Wildfires rage in Europe from Croatia to Portugal

Smoke and flames rise from a fire in the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split, on July 18, 2017. Montenegro asked on July 17 for international help to fight wildfires in the Lustica peninsula on the country's Adriatic coast, while forest fires in neighbouring Croatia spread to suburbs of the coastal city of Split / AFP / STRZAGREB: Firefighters battled to douse wildfires on the Adriatic coast of Croatia and Montenegro...

Trader Andrew Silverman, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street, led by declines in phone and technology companies. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Emerging stocks jump, US shares lower

Trader Andrew Silverman, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street, led by declines in phone and technology companies. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK: US stocks opened lower yesterday, weighed down by earnings reports from some big names and concerns over President Donald Trump's ability to push through his pro-growth policies, following a setback to the...

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Air India eyes bumper staff buyout

NEW DELHI: Air India is drawing up a proposal to offer voluntary buyouts to just over a third of its 40,000 employees, a senior company official said, one of the largest such offers in India's state sector, as the carrier slashes costs ahead of a 2018 sale. The official, who could not be named as the plans are not public, said the state-owned airline had also put fleet expansion on hold, scrapping a proposal to lease eight Boeing 787 wide-body...

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