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Emirates signs $16bn engine deal with GE for 777x fleet
DUBAI: Dubai’s Emirates airlines yesterday said it signed a $16 billion service contract with GE’s aviation unit for engines powering the airline’s 777x fleet. The contract will include maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of the GE9X engines that will power the airline’s fleet of 150 Boeing 777X aircraft over a period of 12 years, it said in a statement. Emirates last year placed a record $76 billion order for 150 Boeing 777X...
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GE wins $2.6bn contract to make trains in India
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has awarded a $2.6 billion contract to General Electric to develop and supply Indian Railways with 1,000 diesel locomotives over a period of 11 years, a company statement said yesterday. In accordance with the contract, GE is set to invest $200 million to build a factory and maintenance sheds in the country, in what is being touted as the company's largest deal in their 100-year history in India."It is a major...
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, center, is surrounded by media personnel as he greets supporters after victory in Bihar state elections in Patna on Sunday. The alliance led by Kumar defeated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party in a crucial election in one of India’s most populous states. —AP
Soul searching for Modi after crushing Bihar rout - Indian PM urged to change tack after election defeat
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, center, is surrounded by media personnel as he greets supporters after victory in Bihar state elections in Patna on Sunday. The alliance led by Kumar defeated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party in a crucial election in one of India’s most populous states. —APNEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met leaders of his party yesterday to discuss whether to...
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Afghanistan, US condemn beheadings of women, child
Afghan President Ashraf GhaniKANDAHAR: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani yesterday condemned the beheading of a group of Shiite Hazaras, including a child, in the southern province of Zabul, the scene of deadly clashes between rival Taleban groups.Local officials in Zabul province said the headless bodies of four men, two women and one child, who were kidnapped by armed men in October from neighboring Ghazni province, were found in Khak-i-Afghan...
BARCELONA: Catalan deputies of the PPC (Popular Party of Catalonia) hold up Spanish and Catalan flags following the vote on a proposed resolution to secede from the rest of the country during a session at the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona yesterday. —AFP
Catalan parliament kicks off secession from Spain - 72 pro-independence lawmakers vote for a resolution to secede
BARCELONA: Catalan deputies of the PPC (Popular Party of Catalonia) hold up Spanish and Catalan flags following the vote on a proposed resolution to secede from the rest of the country during a session at the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona yesterday. —AFPBARCELONA: Lawmakers in Catalonia officially kicked off a process to secede from Spain by 2017 despite impassioned pleas against independence, in an unprecedented showdown with Madrid's...
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Saudi carries out 146th execution
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday executed a citizen convicted of killing a policeman, the Interior Ministry announced, bringing to 146 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year. Ayed Al-Jahdali was convicted of shooting dead a policeman who was trying to arrest him for drug trafficking, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. He was executed in the western Mecca region, it said. Saudi...
AMMAN: Jordanian and US special forces take part in a hijacked plane rescue simulation at the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Centre (KASOTC) in the Jordanian capital Amman, during their “Eager Lion” military exercise. A Jordanian policeman shot dead two US instructors and a South African before being gunned down at a police training centre east of the capital yesterday. — AFP
Jordanian policeman kills US, S African instructors - Attack coincides with 10th anniversary of hotel bombings
AMMAN: Jordanian and US special forces take part in a hijacked plane rescue simulation at the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Centre (KASOTC) in the Jordanian capital Amman, during their “Eager Lion” military exercise. A Jordanian policeman shot dead two US instructors and a South African before being gunned down at a police training centre east of the capital yesterday. — AFPAMMAN: A Jordanian policeman shot dead two US...
PARIS: (Left to right) RATP CEO, public transport operator for Paris’ area, Elisabeth Borne, Junior minister for Transports Alain Vidalies and French Junior minister for Women’s Rights Pascale Boistard answer journalists questions after unveiling the poster of an awareness campaign on gender harassment within public transports yesterday. — AFP
France fights sexual violence on public transport
PARIS: (Left to right) RATP CEO, public transport operator for Paris’ area, Elisabeth Borne, Junior minister for Transports Alain Vidalies and French Junior minister for Women’s Rights Pascale Boistard answer journalists questions after unveiling the poster of an awareness campaign on gender harassment within public transports yesterday. — AFPPARIS: France launched an awareness campaign yesterday in a bid to halt the crude comments,...
CESME: Migrants and refugees walk towards a dinghy to travel to the Greek island of Chios from Cesme in the Turkish province of Izmir yesterday. Nearly 500 people have died trying to cross the Aegean Sea from neighboring Turkey this year, many of them in the narrow but treacherous stretch separating Lesbos from Turkey. — AFP
Europe urged to move faster on migrant crisis - EU-Africa summit in Malta tomorrow
CESME: Migrants and refugees walk towards a dinghy to travel to the Greek island of Chios from Cesme in the Turkish province of Izmir yesterday. Nearly 500 people have died trying to cross the Aegean Sea from neighboring Turkey this year, many of them in the narrow but treacherous stretch separating Lesbos from Turkey. — AFPBRUSSELS: European Union interior ministers faced renewed pressure to deliver on their promises for tackling the...
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Swedish support for migrants falls: poll
STOCKHOLM: A growing number of Swedes want their country to take in fewer migrants, a poll showed yesterday, as Sweden struggles to manage an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers.The poll by Sifo, published in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, found 41 percent said Sweden should grant fewer residency permits to refugees-compared to just 29 percent in September. Of the 1,000 people questioned on November 2-5, a quarter wanted the number to remain...
SEVILLE: Real Madrid’s Jese Rodriguez, right, and Sevilla’s Michael Krohn-Dehli fight for the ball during their La Liga soccer match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain on Sunday.— A
Defeated Madrid lacked know-how to fight back
SEVILLE: Real Madrid’s Jese Rodriguez, right, and Sevilla’s Michael Krohn-Dehli fight for the ball during their La Liga soccer match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain on Sunday.— AMADRID: Rafael Benitez lamented his side’s inability to react after going behind for the first time this season as he suffered his first defeat as Madrid boss 3-2 at Sevilla on Sunday. Defeat leaves Madrid trailing Barcelona by three...
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Pacers and Kayes steer Bangladesh to series win
DHAKA: Pacemen Mustafizur Rahman and Al-Amin Hossain shared five wickets between them as Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 58 runs in the second oneday international to take the three-match series 2-0 in Dhaka yesterday. Chasing a modest target after Bangladesh posted 241-9, Zimbabwe recovered from a top-order collapse of 78-4 to pose a real threat to the hosts before Mustafizur and Al-Amin derailed the visitors again.Mustafizur finished with 3-33 but...
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani poses with ministers and delegates from the region, including Kuwaiti Deputy PM and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah, attending an anti-drug trafficking conference on July 22, 2024. - AFP
Iraq becoming major drug conduit
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Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Higher Education, Lamia Al-Melhem holds talks with the Omani Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation, Dr Rahma Al-Mahruqiya. - KUNA
Kuwait, Oman discuss education, research
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The Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) CEO Nadia Al-Hajji. KUNA
Petrochemical Industries Co.: KD 39 mln net profit 2023-24 fiscal year
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KOLKATA: Students take part in a demonstration in Kolkata on July 22, 2024, demanding an end to government crackdowns against protesters in Bangladesh. — AFP
Bangladesh students suspend protests
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Councilmembers approve projects and specifications