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ABU DHABI: (From left) UAE's head of State for National Security Hazza bin Zayed Al-Nahyan tours with Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and UAE's Minister of Energy and Industry Suhail Al-Mazrouei during the opening ceremony of the 24th World Energy Congress yesterday. – AFP

Crude gets boost as new Saudi minister commits to output cuts

Riyadh flags plan to enrich uranium - Saudi reforms start to yield results: IMF ABU DHABI: (From left) UAE's head of State for National Security Hazza bin Zayed Al-Nahyan tours with Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and UAE's Minister of Energy and Industry Suhail Al-Mazrouei during the opening ceremony of the 24th World Energy Congress yesterday. – AFP ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia’s new energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz...

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Kremlin suffers losses in Moscow vote

Shake-up in city parliament comes amid fall in Putin's approval ratings MOSCOW: Russian president Vladimir Putin (right) arrives to cast his vote at a polling station for the Moscow Duma elections on Sunday. - AFP MOSCOW: Pro-Kremlin candidates suffered major losses in a Moscow city election, results showed yesterday, following a police crackdown on a wave of anti-government protests over the summer. But Kremlin-backed candidates dominated in...

BUSHEHR, Iran: In this file photo released by the official website of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shows him visiting the control room of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Gulf port city of Bushehr. — AFP

Iran installing advanced centrifuges

VIENNA: The UN's nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that Iran was installing advanced centrifuges as the troubled 2015 deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear program threatens to fall apart. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that on September 7 it had "verified that the following centrifuges were either installed or being installed…: 22 IR-4, one IR-5, 30 IR-6 and three IR-6s". The IAEA's confirmation comes...

NEW YORK: In this file photo smoke billowing after the first of the two towers of the World Trade Center collapses in New York City.-AFP

Years later, cancer cases linger over 9/11 anniversary

NEW YORK: Jacquelin Febrillet was 26 years old on September 11, 2001 when jihadist hijackers flew two passenger jets into the World Trade Center just two blocks from where she worked. Fifteen years after the attacks that day, Febrillet, by then a mother of three, was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. The likely cause: a cloud of toxic ash that engulfed her. "I was there (on) 9/11… For years I have been working down there every day since 9/11....

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UN rights chief deeply concerned over India actions in Kashmir

GENEVA: The UN rights chief yesterday voiced alarm over the situation in Kashmir, following India's decision to revoke the autonomous status of the Muslim-majority region last month. "I am deeply concerned about the impact of recent actions by the government of India on the human rights of Kashmiris," Michelle Bachelet said in her opening statement to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. She pointed among other things to "restrictions on...

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Filipino heavyweights hanker for death penalty return

Capital punishment goes against UN covenantMANILA: If he gets his way, Filipino senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao would have drug criminals executed by firing squad. That's getting closer to becoming a reality in the Philippines, where in the past seven weeks, 21 bills have been filed before the lower house and Senate to reinstate the death penalty, collectively covering crimes ranging from drug trafficking and plunder to kidnapping,...

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Kuwait archery team return home with gold, bronze medals

KUWAIT: Kuwait delegation to the Kyrgyzstan International Archery Championship headed by President of Arab and Kuwait Shooting Federations President Eng. Duaij Al-Otaibi returned home Sunday evening. Kuwait's team of archers Abdallah Taha, Bader Al-Mutairi and Faisal Al-Sindi won the Team's gold medal, while Sindi won the bronze individuals medal.Eng. Al-Otaibi said for Kuwait winning two medals in the Kyrgyz tournament is an important...

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Rashid leads Afghanistan to famous test win over Bangladesh

CHATTOGRAM: Rashid Khan picked up six second innings wickets to lead Afghanistan to a famous 224-run win over Bangladesh in the maiden Test match between the two sides at Chattogram yesterday. Racing against time to complete a win with less than four overs left in the weather-hit match, the longest-format rookies bundled out the hosts for 173 in their second innings amid a drizzle and fading light. The 20-year-old Rashid, who became the youngest...

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BA cancels flights in historic strike

British Airways first-ever pilots' strike sparks travel chaosLONDON: British Airways (BA) yesterday cancelled almost all flights departing and arriving into the UK, as the airline's first-ever pilots' strike began, sparking travel chaos for tens of thousands of passengers. The industrial action over pay yesterday and today by members of the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) trade union follows around nine months of failed talks. The...

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India car sales record worst-ever fall

MUMBAI: Passenger car sales in India plunged by 41 percent in their worst monthly fall on record, data showed yesterday, as the weakening economy hit demand and manufacturers called for government relief. It was the tenth straight month of falls in car sales amid soft consumer demand in Asia's third-largest economy, where growth slowed for the fifth straight quarter in the April-to-June period to 5.0 percent. Figures from the Society of Indian...

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Dogs in Norway hit by mysterious illness

OSLO: Dozens of dogs in Norway have recently been hit by a mysterious and at times fatal illness, raising concerns among dog owners who have been told to limit contacts between canines. Some 200 dogs have displayed the same symptoms - bloody diarrhoea and vomit, intense fatigue - in recent weeks and around 25 of them have died, Norway's Veterinary Institute said Monday. The number is an estimate, as the Scandinavian country does not have a...

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New York bomb scene in Kidman's 'Goldfinch' evokes terror trauma

Portraying a terrorist attack on a New York art museum in "The Goldfinch," the new film starring Nicole Kidman, evoked fears of psychological trauma and uncomfortable real-life parallels, filmmakers said Sunday. The chilling scene at the start of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel, on which the movie is based, sees 13-year-old Theo lose his mother and barely escape himself through a crumbling pile of priceless art treasures at the Metropolitan...

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