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MUNICH: Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez (C), new recruit of German first division Bundesliga football club Bayern Munich, holds his new jersey as he poses with Bayern Munich’s Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti (L) and the club’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (R) during an official presentation in Munich, southern Germany, yesterday. — AFP

James to rekindle career under Ancelotti at Bayern

MUNICH: Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez (C), new recruit of German first division Bundesliga football club Bayern Munich, holds his new jersey as he poses with Bayern Munich’s Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti (L) and the club’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (R) during an official presentation in Munich, southern Germany, yesterday. — AFPBERLIN: After a frustrating spell at Real Madrid, James Rodriguez will attempt to kick-start his...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new Test cricket captain Dinesh Chandimal (C) chats with cricketers during a practice session at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe will play a one-off Test match starting tomorrow at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo. — AFP

Chandimal, Tharanga to captain Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s new Test cricket captain Dinesh Chandimal (C) chats with cricketers during a practice session at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe will play a one-off Test match starting tomorrow at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo. — AFPCOLOMBO: Sri Lanka appointed two new captains yesterday to replace Angelo Mathews, who resigned after his side’s humiliating home series defeat to...

LAS VEGAS: Floyd Mayweather Jr (L) faces off for the first time with UFC fighter Conor McGregor during a press call at the Staples Center in LosnAngeles, California on Tuesday. The two will fight August 26th in Las Vegas, Nevada. — AFP

Mayweather to quit for good after McGregor bout

LAS VEGAS: Floyd Mayweather Jr (L) faces off for the first time with UFC fighter Conor McGregor during a press call at the Staples Center in LosAngeles, California on Tuesday. The two will fight August 26th in Las Vegas, Nevada. — AFPLOS ANGELES: Floyd Mayweather has vowed to quit boxing once and for all after he emerges from retirement for next month’s cross-combat showdown with Conor McGregor. The 40-yearold former welterweight king, who...

MALAYSIA: Foreign workers wait for their work documents to be checked by Malaysian immigration officer during an operation to crackdown on illegal immigration on the outskirts of Port Dickson. — AP

Malaysia prompts alarm in migrant worker crackdown

MALAYSIA: Foreign workers wait for their work documents to be checked by Malaysian immigration officer during an operation to crackdown on illegal immigration on the outskirts of Port Dickson. — APKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has rounded up over 3,000 undocumented migrant workers this month in a major crackdown, prompting alarm Wednesday from lawmakers across the region who said the campaign was "victimizing the vulnerable". The relatively developed...

DOHA: In this Sunday, July 9, 2017 file photo, men wait for a bus in front of a building with the poster of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. — AP

Tiny Qatar is living large despite siege

Boycott-busting bovines begin arriving DOHA: In this Sunday, July 9, 2017 file photo, men wait for a bus in front of a building with the poster of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. — APDOHA: It's been more than a month since four Arab nations cut land, sea and air routes to Qatar, but in the gas-rich Gulf nation's glimmering malls and luxury hotels there is little sign of hardship. High-end clothing stores hawk the latest summer...

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Kuwait: Inflation holds at 2.7% in May with momentum easing

Click to view largerKUWAIT: Inflation in consumer prices stood pat at 2.7% year-on-year (y/y) in May, as inflation across most components came in unchanged from April. Moderating growth in housing rent and weak food inflation has led to lower overall price growth in recent months. Momentum is expected to remain to the downside, as a continued decline in global food prices and a soft real estate market are seen keeping food and housing inflation,...

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Alcatel launches A5-LED in Dubai, available in Kuwait on mid-July

DUBAI/KUWAIT: TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited (Alcatel) recently launched newest A5 LED-covered Smartphone in Dubai. The world's first interactive LED-covered Smartphone, A5 LED delivers on Alcatel's 'enjoy.now' promise with innovations for energetic young consumers. The event was held inside restaurant and bar at Grand Millennium Hotel, frequented by young customers."With the A5 LED, Alcatel is delivering new fun features, like...

SWANSEA, WALES, United Kingdom: This handout image received from Swansea University shows an illustration depicting an iceberg detachment from the Larsen C Ice Shelf.—AFP

Trillion-ton iceberg breaks off Antarctica

SWANSEA, WALES, United Kingdom: This handout image received from Swansea University shows an illustration depicting an iceberg detachment from the Larsen C Ice Shelf.—AFPPARIS: An iceberg the size of Delaware, one of the largest on record, was set adrift after snapping off a West Antarctic ice shelf that is now at increased risk of collapse, scientists said yesterday. A crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, a drifting extension of the land-based...

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Men who stopped train attack to star in Clint Eastwood film

The three California men who thwarted a terror attack on a French train in 2015 will make the rare move of playing themselves in a Clint Eastwood-directed film about their heroics, a studio announced Tuesday.Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and civilian Anthony Sadler, all childhood friends from California, will star in “The 15:17 to Paris,” a film based on the book they co-wrote about taking down a...

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Cult Paris fashion store Colette to close

The cult Paris concept store Colette-a regular haunt of Hollywood stars as well as fashionistas-will close its doors in December, its owners said yesterday. “All good things come to an end. After 20 exceptional years Colette is closing its doors,” the boutique’s founders mother and daughter Colette Roussaux and Sarah Andelman said in a statement. “Colette Roussaux has reached an age when it’s time for her to take her time, and Colette...

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Kuwait, US, Britain call for rapid solution of Gulf crisis

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Britain’s National Security Advisor Mark Sedwill. — KKUWAIT: Kuwait, the US and Britain Monday called for a rapid end to the Gulf crisis through dialogue, as they expressed their concern over the prolonging of the dispute. Kuwait’s Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah...

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