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Cyber bullying, star suicides: The dark side of South Korea's K-pop world
The apparent suicide of a second K-pop artist in a month has cast renewed focus in South Korea on vicious personal attacks and cyber bullying of vulnerable young stars, and how it mostly goes unpunished. The police consider cyber violence a serious crime and have an active program educating the public how not to fall prey to online attacks, or to become the perpetrator. Charges laid are steadily on the rise with nearly 150,000 cases last year,...
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On Emirates' coast, pearl trade lives on
Pearl industry once underpinned UAE economy RAS AL-KHAIMAH: Emirati Abdullah Al-Suwaidi opens oysters to look for pearls at the Suwaidi’s pearl farm, off the coast of Al-Rams in the northern emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah. — AFP RAS AL-KHAIMAH: Before the discovery of oil transformed the Gulf into one of the world's wealthiest regions, the fortunes of its people depended on pearling - a tradition that Abdullah Al-Suwaidi hopes to revive. Many...
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Consumer demand weakens in India - Economy growing at 4.7%
NEW DELHI: India's economy probably expanded at its weakest pace in more than six years in the quarter to September, a Reuters poll showed, as consumer demand and private investment weakened further and a global slowdown hit exports. The median of a poll of economists showed annual growth in gross domestic product of 4.7% in the quarter, down from 5.0% in the previous three months and 7% for the corresponding period of 2018. Economic growth could...
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Oil trader sues a Lebanese bank BankMed in US court
Crisis-hit Lebanon faces petrol station strike BEIRUT: An international oil trader is suing a Lebanese bank in the United States over failing to release $1 billion in deposits, court documents showed, charges the banking institution denied yesterday. IMMS has filed a suit against BankMed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York over the "brazen theft of more than $1 billion", according to court documents dated November 22 and seen by AFP....
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Kuwait beat Saudi Arabia 3-1 in Gulf Cup of Nations
Oman, Bahrain goalless in Gulf Cup DOHA: Kuwait outmatched Saudi Arabia to end the opener of the Gulf football Cup 3-1 in a clash held in the Qatari capital, Doha, yesterday. Saudi Arabia were controlling the pitch and attempted to penetrate from within the Kuwaiti defense. The Kuwaitis were relying on counter-attacks. However, Kuwait's Ahmad Al-Dhefeeri scored the opener by capitalizing on a cross-over from team captain Bader Al-Mutawwa. Sami...
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Amir instructs three authorities to join hands to boost integrity
Amir delivers message to Qatari leader through chief lawmaker KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives a memento from Chairperson of the Award's Board of Trustees Sheikha Aida Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah during the 19th edition of the HH Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award ceremony at Bayan Palace yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT/DOHA: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah called Tuesday on the government,...
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113 Syrian refugees welcomed in Italy
ROME: More than a hundred Syrian refugees arrived in Rome yesterday, the latest wave of refugees from the war-torn country to be escorted to safety in Europe. The 113 men, women and children arrived at Rome's Fiumicino airport from Lebanon where church groups had arranged their safe passage out of refugee camps. "Viva Italy," shouted the approximately 30 children among the group, as a host families and volunteers greeted the new arrivals - some...
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MBS meets MBZ amid push to end war in Yemen
ABU DHABI: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the United Arab Emirates yesterday, as efforts to end the nearly five-year war in Yemen gain momentum. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are close allies and key members of a military coalition backing the government in Yemen against the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels. Earlier this month, a power-sharing agreement brokered by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi was reached between the southern secessionists and the...
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More protesters killed in Iraq anti-govt unrest
BAGHDAD: Two protesters were shot dead in Baghdad yesterday and other Iraq cities were shrouded in acrid smoke from burning tyres as demonstrators pressed their campaign of anti-government rallies. Masked youths sealed off streets with makeshift barricades across the restive south as schools and public offices stayed shut. "The government has lost all its legitimacy. We don't want them," said one protester in the southern city of Basra. "They...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran
Iranian supreme leader says 'very dangerous' plot foiled
TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday said his sanctions-hit country had foiled a "very dangerous" plot after violent demonstrations triggered by a fuel price hike. New York-based Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, accused Tehran of "deliberately covering up" more than 100 deaths and thousands of arrests during the crackdown. The demonstrations first flared on Nov 15, hours after a midnight shock announcement that petrol...
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Eight liver transplants performed in one year in Kuwait
KUWAIT: Health Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary for Allied Medical Services Dr Fawaz Al-Rifae speaks during the conference. KUWAIT: Health Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary for Allied Medical Services Dr Fawaz Al-Rifae said eight liver transplants were performed in one year at Jaber and Mubarak Al-Kabeer hospitals. Speaking to journalists during the opening of the 42nd Kuwait Otorhinolaryngology Conference, Rifae said there is a schedule to...
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Specialist applauds decision to merge nuclear medicine, radiology departments
Establishing new medical imaging departments highly positive: OfficialKUWAIT: The former head of the nuclear medicine department at the Ministry of Health (MoH) Dr Saud Al-Enezi stressed the recent ministerial decision on establishing new medical imaging departments including nuclear medicine and diagnostic radiology is highly positive for the greater good. Enezi added that the same structure is followed at various international medical centers...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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Uruguay's midfielder #05 Manuel Ugarte scores in a penalty shoot-out to win the Conmebol 2024 Copa America tournament quarter-final football match between Uruguay and Brazil at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 6, 2024. — AFP
Uruguay beat Brazil on penalties to reach Copa America semi-finals
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A man looks at campaign posters for the Tokyo gubernatorial election in Tokyo on July 7, 2024. - Polls opened on July 7 to elect a new Tokyo governor with incumbent Yuriko Koike challenged by opposition figure Renho, two prominent women in Japan's male-dominated political sphere. — AFP
Women fight Tokyo election in male-dominated Japan