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Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire to design menu for new restaurant at Louvre Abu Dhabi
DUBAI: Kuwait-based Bazza Alzouman, who designs red-carpet evening wear for real women, is a designer every Arab fashion girl should have her eyes on. She started her eponymous label in 2014 and has completed three trunk shows with Moda Operandi, the online luxury retailer known for discovering new labels. Alzouman has dressed Maya Diab, Mai Omar…
Meet Bazza Alzouman, who designs red-carpet fashion for real women
DUBAI: Kuwait-based Bazza Alzouman, who designs red-carpet evening wear for real women, is a designer every Arab fashion girl should have her eyes on. She started her eponymous label in 2014 and has completed three trunk shows with Moda Operandi, the online luxury retailer known for discovering new labels. Alzouman has dressed Maya Diab, Mai Omar…
Dubai-based fashion brand Noor The Label’s abayas embody Eid spirit
DUBAI: Inspired by the festivities of the upcoming Eid Al-Adha holiday, the Dubai-based brand Noor The Label just revealed a special collection of abayas, aimed at the modest modern-day woman. Noor, Arabic for light, was launched in 2015 by the designer with a vision to enrich the fashion scene with elegant modest wear, by shedding that…
Swiss charge German football officials in 2006 World Cup fraud probe
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad have one foot in the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League after Ziyad Al-Sahafi’s 72nd-minute goal handed Iran’s Zob Ahan their first defeat in Asia’s premier tournament this year on Monday.Al Ittihad, who won back-to-back Asian titles in 2004 and 2005, beat Zob Ahan 2-1 in the first leg of…
Al-Sahafi gives Saudi’s Al Ittihad crucial win over Zob Ahan
PARIS: Last season’s Champions League semifinalists Ajax recovered to earn a 2-2 draw on their trip to PAOK Thessaloniki in Tuesday’s first leg of the third qualifying round.Dutch champions Ajax came within seconds of reaching the final last term but again must come through a series of qualifiers despite landing a 34th national title in…
Ajax dealt tricky Champions League playoff after last season’s heartache
LONDON: Former England captain Wayne Rooney is to leave Washington-based DC United after agreeing a deal to become player-coach of English Championship side Derby County.The 33-year-old — the record goalscorer for both his country and Manchester United — signed an 18-month contract with the second-tier side, who under Rooney’s former England teammate Frank Lampard reached…
Bombardier signs $4.5 billion contract to build Cairo monorail
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks fell for a third consecutive session Tuesday in volatile trade, plunging nearly three percent at one point over US-China trade war worries but paring losses later in the session. The Nikkei 225 index lost 0.65 percent, or 134.98 points, to close at 20,585.31 while the broader Topix index was down 0.44 percent,…
Tokyo stocks close down for third straight session
FRANKFURT: Industrial orders in Germany rebounded strongly in June, official data showed on Tuesday, although the relief for the troubled manufacturing sector came mainly from a few large contracts. Producer firms reported 2.5 percent more orders month-on-month, after a 2 percent fall in May, federal statistics authority Destatis said in figures adjusted for seasonal and calendar…
Gold surges to 6-year high as trade worries lift safe-haven bets
MONTREAL: Canadian manufacturing group Bombardier announced on Monday it had signed a multi-billion dollar agreement to build two automated monorail lines in Egypt’s notoriously congested capital Cairo. The $4.5 billion (4 billion euro) agreement, which was signed with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels, is subject to “final signatures of supplementary documents,” Bombadier and its Egyptian…
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88
French boy thrown from London gallery suffered brain bleed and spine injuries, court told LONDON: A teenager appeared in court on Tuesday charged with attempted murder after a six-year-old French boy was reportedly thrown from a 10th-floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in central London.The 17-year-old male, who cannot be named for…
French boy thrown from London gallery suffered brain bleed and spine injuries, court told
BAMAKO: Twin attacks in Mali have killed four people, including two Malian soldiers, security sources said Tuesday, as the International Committee of the Red Cross suspended activities in Timbuktu due to “growing insecurity.”A gendarme was killed in an ambush in the Segou region, east of the capital Bamako on Tuesday, while at the scene of…
Thai army destroys thousands of land mines in jungle
NEW DELHI: Indian lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that strips the statehood from the Indian-administered portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir amid an indefinite security lockdown in the disputed Himalayan territory, actions that neighboring Pakistan warned could lead to war.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-led government submitted the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill for a vote by…
China ‘might escort ships’ in Gulf under US proposal
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has ordered the blocking of news site Bianet, known for its human rights coverage, on “national security” grounds, according to a decision published on Tuesday. The decision also targeted 135 other online addresses including YouTube and DailyMotion videos, as well as the Twitter account of Kurdish Member of Parliament Oya Ersoy. The…
US will prevent any ‘unacceptable’ Turkish incursion into Syria: Pentagon chief
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has ordered the blocking of news site Bianet, known for its human rights coverage, on “national security” grounds, according to a decision published on Tuesday. The decision also targeted 135 other online addresses including YouTube and DailyMotion videos, as well as the Twitter account of Kurdish Member of Parliament Oya Ersoy. The…
Yemen’s minister of information: internal probes of UN in Yemen should be publicized
ALGIERS: Algeria’s supreme court on Monday ordered two former ministers to be taken into custody over suspected corruption under former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, state television reported. The former Public Works and Transport Minister Abdelghani Zaalane and ex-Labor Minister Mohamed El Ghazi are the latest senior officials to be detained since protesters earlier this year demanded the…
Saudi Arabia stands in solidarity with Egypt and US amid terror violence
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered condolences on Tuesday for the victims of recent terrorist violence in Egypt and the US. At least 20 people were killed and almost 50 injured when an explosives-filled car crashed into other vehicles in central Cairo on Sunday night. Weekend attacks in the…
New Zealand Muslim community leader praises Hajj services
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered condolences on Tuesday for the victims of recent terrorist violence in Egypt and the US. At least 20 people were killed and almost 50 injured when an explosives-filled car crashed into other vehicles in central Cairo on Sunday night. Weekend attacks in the…
Hajj symposium guests treated to tour of holy cities
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered condolences on Tuesday for the victims of recent terrorist violence in Egypt and the US. At least 20 people were killed and almost 50 injured when an explosives-filled car crashed into other vehicles in central Cairo on Sunday night. Weekend attacks in the…
