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Students take to Lebanon streets as protests grow
Protesters prevent access to institutionsBEIRUT: Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon yesterday to demand a better future as anti-government protests now entering their fourth week continued to spread. Pupils carrying their schoolbags picked up the baton from thousands of women who ignited the main protest site in Beirut on Wednesday evening by banging pots and pans to demand their rights. In Tripoli, where mobilization has...
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Indian couple stoned to death
NEW DELHI: Relatives of an Indian woman who married outside her caste and fled her home to escape punishment stoned her and her husband to death after the couple returned to their village to visit family, police said yesterday. The 29-year-old couple, from the same village in the southern state of Karnataka, had married three years ago against the wishes of their families and moved to Bangalore and other cities in the region, and had two...
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Three charged in US with spying on Twitter users
Two suspects remain at large, one arrestedSAN FRANCISCO: Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users, the US Justice Department announced. The two Saudis and one US citizen allegedly worked together to unmask the ownership details behind dissident Twitter accounts on behalf of the government in Riyadh, the department said. According to a court filing, they were...
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Facebook controlling competitors with user data: Report
SAN FRANCISCO: Leaked documents from a civil suit against Facebook show how the social network aimed to employ user data as a tool for bargaining and to manipulate competitors, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Some 7,000 pages of documents reveal how Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and his team harnessed users' personal information to reward partners by giving them preferential data, while depriving rivals of the same sort of information, it...
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Superheroes vs cinema? Scorsese 'art' row splits Hollywood
Martin Scorsese's dismissal of Marvel films as "not cinema" has split Hollywood and moviegoers, sparking reactions from full-blooded support to accusations of hypocrisy and elitism. The Oscar-winning director penned a New York Times op-ed this week in which he argued superhero blockbusters lack the sense of risk, mystery and complex characters vital to the "art" of filmmaking. Marvel films are "market-researched, audience-tested, vetted,...
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Old McDonald's: Aussie mates show off burger bought in 1995
A McDonald's burger bought in 1995 and kept in an Australian shed for years has never decomposed, according to two men who now refer to the quarter-century Quarter Pounder as their "mate". Casey Dean, 39, and Eduards Nits, 38, claim they ordered the Quarter Pounder with cheese from a McDonald's outlet in Adelaide as teenagers-and have hung onto it ever since. "Being teenagers we ordered a truckload of food, and it was just way too much," Dean...
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CBK: Money supply rose 1.4% in Sept
KUWAIT: Kuwait's money supply (M2) rose 1.4 percent in September on monthly basis recording KD 38 billion ($125.5 billion), the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) said yesterday. The CBK economic research department reported that deposits in the Kuwaiti dinar by the private sector in the local banks climbed in September to KD 33.7 billion ($111 billion). Those of foreign currencies climbed 7.7 percent reaching KD 2.7 billion ($8.9 billion), where this...
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Emirates Airline profits nearly triple
IndiGo, Qatar Airways sign codeshare agreementDUBAI: Emirates Airline, the largest carrier in the Middle East, yesterday reported a 282-percent rise in half-year net profits, mainly thanks to a drop in operating costs and fuel prices. The result was a change of fortunes for the Dubai carrier, which for the full-year to the end of March took a heavy hit from high oil prices and currency fluctuations. The carrier said it posted a net profit of $235...
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Juventus, Bayern, PSG seal last-16 Berths as City wait
Lewandowski helps fire Bayern into Champions League last 16PARIS: Douglas Costa scored a dramatic injury-time winner to send Juventus into the Champions League knockout stages after a 2-1 win at Lokomotiv Moscow on Wednesday, while Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich joined the Italian champions in the last 16. Mauro Icardi's first-half goal was enough for PSG to edge past Club Brugge 1-0 at the Parc des Princes, as Bayern laboured to a 2-0...
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Infantino planning Iran visit for game with female fans
LAUSANNE: FIFA president Gianni Infantino plans to attend a league game in Iran where female fans will be allowed to attend. Infantino recently wrote to the Iranian football federation expressing his intention to travel to Iran and watch a game with women present, according to a source. For the first time in 40 years, several thousand women were able to watch Iran's 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cambodia on October 10 at the Azadi Stadium in...
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England's Bowler Barrett shines in Kuwait International tournament
Kuwait's Al-Shaibi grabs the junior title KUWAIT: England's Bowler Dominic Barrett won the 13th Kuwait International Open Tournament, which was the last round of the International League for 2019 - with prizes totaling $218 thousand. Meanwhile, America's Danielle McEwan won the women's title, while Kuwait's Suleiman Al-Shaibi won the junior title (for Kuwaitis only) Barrett defeated Iceland's Arnar Johnson in the final match which marked the...
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Kuwait conveyed messages from Iran to Saudi, Bahrain
Jarallah: Hajraf nominated for GCC chief - Kuwait protects expats’ rights KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said on Tuesday that Kuwait conveyed messages from Iran to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain regarding the situation in the Gulf region, and “until now no answers have emerged”. The Iranian foreign ministry had said last month that Iran is prepared to hold talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, “with or without...
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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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KUWAIT: Interior ministry officials have monitored and conducted several inspection campaigns across the country.
MoI continues crackdown on traffic, residency law violators
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HATHRAS, India: Mourners gather as the deceased who died in a stampede during a sermon are kept at a mortuary at Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024. -- AFP
‘Miracles’ and hope: Fatal stampede spotlights India’s craze for godmen
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