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KUWAIT: 1963 — State of Kuwait and Iraq signed, in Baghdad, a minute regarding restoration of cordial relationship and recognition. The minute was submitted to the UN as an official document.1998 — The Kuwaiti government approved establishment of Sabbiya city and construction of a causeway between Kuwait and Sabbiya cities. The new city was projected to house 250,000 people.2012 — Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) signed a KD 107 million (USD 352 million) contract with South Korean company for engineering and construction (SK) to build power stations in the south and east of Kuwait.2014 — Rashed Al-Mutairi won the over 84kg…

TOKYO (AP) — In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democrats, and likely next prime minister, is an ultra-conservative star of a male-dominated party that critics call an obstacle to women’s advancement.Sanae Takaichi, 64. admires former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is a proponent of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative vision for Japan. Takaichi is the first female president of Japan’s predominantly male ruling party that has dominated Japan’s postwar politics almost without interruption. First elected to parliament from her hometown of Nara in 1993, she has served…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The streets of Damascus barely showed sign Saturday a parliamentary election was set to take place the next day. There were no candidate posters on the main streets and squares, no rallies, or public debates. In the days leading up to the polling, some residents of the Syrian capital had no idea a vote was hours away, the first since Islamic insurgents ousted former President Bashar Assad in a lightning offensive in December.“I didn’t know — now by chance I found out that there are elections of the People’s Assembly,” said Elias al-Qudsi, a shopkeeper in…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — As the European Union pushes to fully sever its reliance on Russian energy and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump urges NATO members to abandon Russian oil, one country’s populist government stands firm.Hungary and its leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, have long argued Russian energy imports are indispensable for the country’s economy and switching to fossil fuels sourced from elsewhere would cause an immediate economic collapse.Orbán, who has long had the friendliest ties to the Kremlin of any EU leader, has vigorously opposed the bloc’s efforts to sanction Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine in…

Almost 60% of young people in the U.K. are interested in starting their own businesses, per the Generation Entrepreneur Report.Connect Images/ci-start | Connect Images | Getty ImagesYoung Brits are catching flak for their apparent lack of entrepreneurial drive, sparking a broader debate on whether the U.K. startup scene is facing an ambition deficit.It started when U.K. Business Secretary Peter Kyle criticized British university students for lacking the same interest in starting a business as their American peers.”In Britain, if you went to a group of undergraduates, how big would that group have to be before you found someone that said…

Pictured here is Louis Vuitton’s new cruise ship-shaped store in Shanghai, China, on June 28, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China’s economic slowdown isn’t discouraging U.S. and European brands from revamping their strategies to reach Chinese shoppers.Instead, the allure of the world’s second-largest consumer market is forcing companies to adapt in the face of growing competition from local brands.In the case of Kraft Heinz, getting more people in China to buy ketchup this year also meant hiring a local agency to help create catchy campaigns — decorating subway station columns to mimic ketchup bottles and promoting the condiment…

BANGKOK (AP) — Matmo regained strength on Saturday morning, becoming a typhoon again as it left the Philippines and moved toward southern China’s Hainan province, after it had earlier weakened into a storm.The typhoon had sustained wind speeds of 118 kph (73 mph) on Saturday, according to China’s National Meteorological Center. It is expected to strengthen further before it makes landfall on Sunday in Guangdong and Hainan provinces.Flights from Haikou, the capital of Hainan, will be cancelled starting Saturday night at 11 p.m., according to the official China National Radio. The city also said classes will be cancelled and public…

MALE, Maldives (AP) — Police in Maldives arrested eight people during an overnight protest Friday accusing the government of corruption and curtailment of basic freedoms.The protesters violated conditions agreed upon before the march, used unauthorized roads and threw rocks and water bottles, the Maldives Police Service said in a post on social media platform X. The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party issued a statement condemning police for using pepper spray and riot shields to stop the march and called on the government of President Mohamed Muizzu to free all the protesters unconditionally. The MDP organized the demonstration to demand the government…

The old Western Empires fell to a new Western order – modern liberalism. Now, they are rising from the ashes, threatening liberalism. The US may be tempted to become an empire, too, but can it win when its adversaries are better at it? And can modernity survive without liberalism? In 1918, three empires – the Holy Roman, Russian and Ottoman, spanning centuries of Mediterranean history and all claiming the legacy of the ancient Roman Empire – came to their ends. They all asserted a special link with the divine. In Russia and Turkey, the czar and the sultan were also…

The Philadelphia Union clinched the 2025 Major League Soccer Supporters’ Shield with a game to spare, after beating New York City FC 1-0 on Saturday night at Subaru Park.Philadelphia has 66 points in 33 games, with none of the contending teams, including last year’s winners Inter Miami, able to catch up in the remaining matches.- Messi gets 3 assists, Alba scores 2 in Miami winThe Union went into Saturday’s game knowing a win would seal the Shield as the best regular-season team, but anything less could have pushed the drama to the final day, with Miami, FC Cincinnati, the Vancouver…