Meghan Markle’s Morocco ensemble reportedly the most expensive thing she wore in 2019 DUBAI: According to The Daily Mail, the custom Dior kaftan that the Duchess of Sussex wore in Morocco earlier this year was the most costly clothing item she donned in 2019. The publication calculated the cost of all the new items worn by…
What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas. Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. But Confucianism would…
DUBAI: Reel Palestine, a UAE-based film event dedicated to Palestinian movies, is returning for its sixth edition next month. Set to kick off from Jan. 17-25, The weeklong festival will be screening independent Palestinian films in venues across three emirates: Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, the Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi’s Manarat Al-Saadiyat. The pop-up festival,…
HONOLULU: Cole McDonald capped a stellar performance with a 24-yard touchdown pass to Nick Mardner with 1:17 remaining, and Hawaii beat BYU 38-34 on Tuesday night for the Warriors’ first 10-win season since 2010.McDonald threw for 493 yards and four touchdowns against a BYU defense that was allowing an average of 203.8 yards passing per…
LONDON: Leicester City face runaway Premier League leaders Liverpool on Boxing Day knowing their own title hopes are very much in the balance. Thursday’s match will see the second-placed Foxes, the shock 2015/16 champions, kick off 10 points adrift of Liverpool, who will arrive in the East Midlands fresh from winning a maiden Club World…
JEDDAH: West Bromwich Albion manager Slaven Bilic has hinted that a failed bid by Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad to sign Ahmed Hegazi played a part in the player being dropped for yesterday’s squad for the 1-1 draw at home to Brentford. Reports in the UK press on Saturday morning alleged that Al-Ittihad had a £3.4…
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a 60-billion-rupee ($842 million) plan to tackle water shortages in the country’s seven heartland states where agriculture is a mainstay. India, the world’s second-most populous country, faces the worst long-term water crisis in its history as demand outstrips supply, threatening farm output and overall economic growth in…
CHENGDU: China made overtures on trade to Japan and South Korea and offered support for an infrastructure initiative as it hosted the leaders of its two neighbors this week amid strained ties with the US. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday at a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Beijing was willing…
ABIDJAN: A decade after rubber was heavily promoted as a goldmine for Ivory Coast’s cocoa-dependent economy, planters are under pressure to address criticism that they are damaging the environment and weakening the country’s ability to feed itself. “Well-managed rubber production is an asset,” said Eugene Kremien, the president of the Association of Professionals of Natural Rubber…
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OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso was in mourning Wednesday after militants killed 35 civilians, almost all of them women, in double attacks in the north in one of the deadliest assaults in nearly five years of violence in the West African country.Seven soldiers and 80 militants also died in Tuesday’s simultaneous attacks on the town of Arbinda…
SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday night that he briefly lost his memory after falling at his presidential residence in Brasilia, the capital, earlier this week.The president’s office disclosed on Monday that Bolsonaro, 64, had suffered a fall and was taken to a hospital Monday night for a brain scan, which detected…
ANKARA: Turkey is ready to give Libya military support, a spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, with the country’s Parliament readying to authorize troop deployment. Turkey backs the government of Fayez Al-Serraj in Libya, which has been split into rival political and military factions since 2011 when ruler Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed. Al-Serraj’s…
ANKARA: Turkey is ready to give Libya military support, a spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, with the country’s Parliament readying to authorize troop deployment. Turkey backs the government of Fayez Al-Serraj in Libya, which has been split into rival political and military factions since 2011 when ruler Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed. Al-Serraj’s…
BEIRUT: The outbreak of protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran has shaken the political establishment in Tehran. For decades, the theocracy has thrived on the doctrine of velayat-e faqih, which aimed to mobilize Shiite support across the Middle East under a single Iranian religious and political leadership. But exporting the Iranian brand of Shiism and…
RIYADH: The Saudi Human Resources Development Fund (Hadaf) revealed that 48,822 jobseekers were employed from the start of 2019 to the end of November through its branches in various Saudi regions and governorates.Hadaf offers rehabilitation and training programs for jobseekers.Its Makkah branch had the highest employment rate, with 10,933 men and women employed, followed by…
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JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia will wake up to a “Ring of Fire” in the sky on Thursday — a spectacular solar eclipse believed to be the first of its kind in the Kingdom. The final solar eclipse of 2019 will farewell the year in dramatic fashion in places such as India, Singapore, the Philippines and areas…
DUBAI: Egyptian couturier Hany El-Behairy presented his annual fashion show in Cairo on Dec. 23 to a star-studded front row. And as is custom, the eveningwear designer closed the show with a jaw-dropping wedding gown, modeled by Egyptian actress Mai Omar, that is valued at a staggering $15 million. The reason for the hefty price point?…
Time to blush: Looking back on the decade’s best and most awkward makeup trends DUBAI: The 2010s were known for both simple and dramatic makeup trends, but are they all worth carrying into the 2020s? Eyeliner Cara Delevingne. (AFP) Eyeliner was a go-to product during the 2010s — celebrities and makeup lovers covered their lids…
