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Chinese customers browse products at the opening of a new Apple store in Dalian, China's Liaoning province on October 24, 2015. US technology giant Apple will keep investing in China despite slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy, chief executive Tim Cook said, as the company prepares to open its newest store in the mainland. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

China CB sees 'very normal' growth of 6-7% - Yi Gang seeks to cool investor jitters, assures on level of growth

BEIJING: China will be able to keep annual economic growth at around 6-7 percent over the next three to five years, a top People's Bank of China (PBOC) policymaker said yesterday, a day after the bank cut interest rates for the sixth time in less than a year. The comments from Yi Gang, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, appeared to be aimed at reassuring investors this level of growth, China's slowest pace in two decades but still...

In photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, Maldives Vice President Ahmed Adeeb speaks to media in Male, Maldives. The vice president of the Maldives will be charged with high treason after being arrested Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015 in connection with an explosion aboard the president's boat last month that authorities have called an assassination attempt, officials said. (Fayaz Moosa/Sun Media Group via AP) NO ARCHIVE, NO SALES

Maldives arrests veep over plot to kill prez

MALE, Maldives: Maldives Vice President Ahmed Adeeb was arrested yesterday over last month's alleged attempt to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen in a bomb blast on board his speedboat, the government said. Adeeb's dramatic arrest at the Maldives' main international airport followed "extensive investigations by both local and international agencies," the government said in a statement posted on the website of its high commission in New Delhi....

View of a breakwater after the arrival of hurricane Patricia in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on October 24 ,2015. Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia weakened to a tropical storm over north-central Mexico on Saturday, dumping heavy rain that triggered flooding and landslides but so far causing less damage than feared. AFP PHOTO/HECTOR GUERRERO

Super storm weakens as it soaks Mexico

View of a breakwater after the arrival of hurricane Patricia in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on October 24 ,2015. Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia weakened to a tropical storm over north-central Mexico on Saturday, dumping heavy rain that triggered flooding and landslides but so far causing less damage than feared. AFP PHOTO/HECTOR GUERREROPUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico: Hurricane Patricia, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, crashed into western...

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Kuwaiti official urges more planting in Kuwait to combat desertification

ANKARA: Desertification affecting Kuwait should be tackled through more planting of trees and shrubs and increasing natural reserves throughout the country, says a visiting Kuwaiti official. Azhar Al-Assad, the head of the marine and land environment at Kuwait Municipality, made the call for beautifying the Gulf country with more green land patches while acknowledging that the Kuwaiti authorities face a major natural hurdle in the efforts to...

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'Shabab Oman 2' arrives at Shuwaikh Port

KUWAIT: Shabab Oman II (Oman Youth II), the Royal Navy of Oman's latest sailing ship to train young sailors yesterday arrived at Shuwaikh Port as part of a world tour themed "Cooperation sail 2015." This is the second version of Shabab Oman that first sailed in 1979 on a world tour to promote peace, friendship and love among the world peoples, Omani Ambassador to Kuwait Hamid bin Said bin Salim Al Ibrahim said. The second vessel was built in the...

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Kuwait bags three silver one bronze in shooting tournament

KUWAIT: Today marks the final day of competition of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Shooting tournament as well as the 13th Gulf Championship being held at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex.Secretary General of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Obaid Al-Osaimi welcomed the presence of the representative of the tournament patron, Hawally Governor Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at the closing...

Spain's Nora Fernandez performs on the vault as she takes part in the women's qualification competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics championships in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Romania off to rough start at world gymnastics

Spain's Nora Fernandez performs on the vault as she takes part in the women's qualification competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics championships in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)GLASGOW: The back of their blue, red and yellow warmup jackets read "Romania." The performances on the floor, under the lights and in front of the world, hardly looked like it. Shaky on balance beam and shakier still on...

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KOC's facilities saved 25% of electric power

KUWAIT: Facilities, offices, and houses belonging to the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) saved around 25 percent of electric power last summer through the usage of LED technology, said an official yesterday. On the sideline of an event aimed to promote clean energy with EnerTech Holding Company, Senior electrical engineer at KOC Adel Al-Enaizi said that KOC aimed at conserving the use of electrical power as part of its social responsibility towards the...

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42, mainly pensioners perish in bus collision - France's worst road accident in three decades

PUISSEGUIN: At least 42 people were killed when a coach carrying elderly day-trippers collided with a lorry and burst into flames in southwest France yesterday, in the country's worst road accident for three decades. The coach was carrying a club of pensioners on an excursion when it collided with the lorry near the village of Puisseguin among the vineyards of the St Emilion region, east of Bordeaux. Many of the victims were thought to have died...

FILE - In this this file photo released on May 4, 2015, on a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, Islamic State militants pass by a convoy in Tel Abyad, northeast Syria. The Islamic State rakes in up to $50 million a month from selling crude from oilfields under its control in Iraq and Syria, part of a well-run oil industry that U.S. diplomacy and airstrikes have so far failed to shut down, according to Iraqi intelligence and U.S. officials.(Militant website via AP, File)

IS still raking in oil earnings - Airstrikes failing to shut it down

FILE - In this this file photo released on May 4, 2015, on a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, Islamic State militants pass by a convoy in Tel Abyad, northeast Syria. The Islamic State rakes in up to $50 million a month from selling crude from oilfields under its control in Iraq and Syria, part of a well-run oil industry that U.S. diplomacy and airstrikes have so far failed to shut down,...

From left, Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Feridun Sinirlioglu, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Arabia Adel al-Jubeir and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose for a photo, during a meeting in Vienna, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. Kerry and his Russian, Saudi and Turkish counterparts met in Vienna on Friday, seeking to revive a moribund effort to end Syria's civil war. Carlo Allegri/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia hold Syria talks with US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - Chilly atmosphere, scant hope for progress

VIENNA: Top diplomats from Russia, the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey held talks in a frosty atmosphere yesterday on how to end the Syrian conflict, with the sides sharply at odds on the future of Bashar Al-Assad. The Vienna meeting took place three weeks after Moscow thrust itself into the heart of the crisis by launching a bombing campaign in support of the Syrian president that has drawn sharp condemnation from the west.And Russia and Jordan said...

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