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PANAMA CITY: Police stand guard outside the Mossack Fonseca law firm offices during a raid on Tuesday. — AFP
Rich nations probe Panama Papers tax revelations
PANAMA CITY: Police stand guard outside the Mossack Fonseca law firm offices during a raid on Tuesday. — AFPPARIS: Tax authorities from the world's richest nations yesterday probed a mass of murky offshore dealings revealed in the huge Panama Papers data leak, just hours after police raided the law firm at the center of the scandal.The leak of 11.5 million confidential offshore financial documents from Panamanian law office Mossack Fonseca...
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Islamists behead two hostages in the Philippines
MANILA: Philippine militants that want to ally with Islamic State jihadists have beheaded two local hostages, police said yesterday. Police on the southern island of Mindanao recovered the decapitated corpses of the two men on Tuesday, nine days after they were taken, said the police chief of Lanao del Sur province."Salvador Hanobas and Jemark Hanobas were beheaded by their abductors," Senior Superintendent Rustom Duran told reporters by...
Abdallah Sultan
Al Mazaya Holding achieves an 80% occupancy rate in Logistics project
Abdallah SultanKUWAIT: Al Mazaya Holding Company has announced that it has achieved an 80% occupancy rate in its Mazaya Logistics project in Bahrain Investment Wharf, which consists of industrial units ready for lease with contemporary, flexible designs at competitive prices. The project is designed to serve multiple purposes including warehouses, offices, industry and workshops.Eng. Abdulla Al Sultan, Chief of Real Estate Project Management...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg points to a drone flying behind him during his keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference on Tuesday. — AP
Facebook: New ways to chat, stream video - Tech giant brings 'chatbots' to Messenger
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg points to a drone flying behind him during his keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference on Tuesday. — APSAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Tuesday extended its reach beyond online socializing by building artificial-intelligence powered "bots" into its Messenger application to allow businesses to have software engage in lifelike text exchanges. The move announced at the leading online social...
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Vegetable fat not the route to healthy heart, study says - Researchers poking holes in ‘fat is bad’ hypothesis
PARIS: Replacing animal fat in the human diet with vegetable oil seems not to lower heart disease risk, and might even boost it, according to a study published yesterday that challenges a cornerstone of dietary advice. Switching from saturated to unsaturated Omega-6 fats did result in lower blood cholesterol in a trial with nearly 10,000 participants, it said, but not the expected reduction in heart disease deaths.In fact, those with a greater...
In this image released by Warner Bros., Cedric The Entertainer, from left, Nicki Minaj and Ice Cube appear in a scene from ‘Barbershop: The Next Cut.’—AP
It’s worth stopping into ‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’
In this image released by Warner Bros., Cedric The Entertainer, from left, Nicki Minaj and Ice Cube appear in a scene from ‘Barbershop: The Next Cut.’—APWhen you come back to a beloved place after many years, sometimes you find all the faces have changed and the vibe is completely different. Not so with Ice Cube's "Barbershop." Though the third film in the franchise comes a dozen years after part two, "Barbershop: The Next Cut" is as...
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MADRID: Barcelona’s midfielder Sergio Busquets (L) heads a ball next to Atletico Madrid’s Argentinian midfielder Augusto Fernandez (C) and Atletico Madrid’s French forward Antoine Griezmann (R) during the Champions League quarter-final second leg football match Club Atletico de Madrid VS FC Barcelona at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid yesterday. — AFP
Griezmann double knocks out Barca
MADRID: Barcelona’s midfielder Sergio Busquets (L) heads a ball next to Atletico Madrid’s Argentinian midfielder Augusto Fernandez (C) and Atletico Madrid’s French forward Antoine Griezmann (R) during the Champions League quarter-final second leg football match Club Atletico de Madrid VS FC Barcelona at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid yesterday. — AFPMADRID: Atletico Madrid dumped holders Barcelona out of the Champions League at...
LISBON: Benfica and Munich players watch the ball during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between SL Benfica and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon yesterday. — AP
Bayern see off Benfica to reach semi-finals
LISBON: Benfica and Munich players watch the ball during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between SL Benfica and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon yesterday. — APLISBON: Bayern Munich came out on top in an entertaining Champions League last-eight clash with Benfica, reaching the semi-finals with a 3-2 aggregate victory, after a second-leg 2-2 draw in Lisbon yesterday. Pep Guardiola took his German champions to...
Jonathan Bairstow and Kane Williamson
Wisden honour for McCullum, Williamson
Jonathan Bairstow and Kane WilliamsonLONDON: New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson, as well as Australia captain Steven Smith, have been chosen among the Wisden Almanack’s Five Cricketers of the Year announced yesterday. The quintet is completed by the England duo of all-rounder Ben Stokes and Jonathan Bairstow. In the personal gift of the editor of cricket’s ‘bible’, which has been published annually since 1864, a player...
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Bodybuilding competition begins tomorrow
KUWAIT: Mr Olympia bodybuilding and physique competition will start Friday at the Mangaf Hilton resort with 350 participants who will go through the weighing process today at the Oxygen Institute in Adailiya.The preliminaries of the competition will take place in the morning, while the finals will be in the afternoon. The bodybuilding weights will be 75, 80, 85, 90 and 95 kg, besides the open weight, meanwhile in the physique category...
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WADA opens way for athletes to avoid sanctions for meldonium
Maria SharapovaLONDON: In a dramatic change that could lead to numerous doping cases being thrown out, athletes who tested positive for meldonium may be able to avoid sanctions because of a lack of scientific evidence on how long the recently banned drug stays in the system. The World Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday provisional suspensions can be lifted if it is determined that an athlete took meldonium before it was placed on the list of...
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation
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Trailblazing Kuwaiti fish and chip fan says selection not sunk in
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman endorses Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. - KUNA
Prince Mohammed endorses Saudi FIFA World Cup 2034 bid
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Group photo of Zain interns. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Zain interns sharpen media chops at Kuwait Times and Kuwait News