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LONDON: The British economy will avoid falling into recession this year, according to upgraded growth forecasts Tuesday from the International Monetary Fund. In its latest assessment of the UK economy, the Washington-based fund said domestic demand had proven more resilient than anticipated in the face of the surge in energy costs. The IMF now thinks the British economy will

LONDON: Meta announced on Monday that it has created new artificial intelligence models that can recognize more than 4,000 spoken languages and produce speech in more than 1,100. The recent Massively Multilingual Speech, or MMS, project would “help preserve the world’s languages and bring the world closer together,” wrote the social networking giant. To achieve this and to

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JIZAN: Members of the Saudi border patrol arrested seven people carrying khat at the Jizan border on Wednesday. The first arrest was of six people of Yemeni origin carrying an unspecified amount of khat. The second arrest was of a Saudi national carrying 114 kgs of the khat. Authorities also called on the public to help with the war on drugs by reporting any violations by

RIYADH: Gamers Without Borders, the world’s largest charitable esports event, has concluded this year’s edition by raising a total of $10 million for its humanitarian aid partners. The money will go to Direct Relief, International Medical Corps, UNICEF, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, the UN’s World Food Programme and the UNHCR. The donations were made by

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s journey to achieve the development goals outlined in Vision 2030 will not stop at the end of this decade, according to Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan. Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum on Wednesday in Doha, Al-Jadaan noted that Saudi Arabia has long-term infrastructure development plans. His comments came as he reflected on the Vision 2030

DUBAI: French Algerian model Loli Bahia opened Italian fashion label Versace’s cruise show in Cannes this week. For this collection, titled “La Vacanza,” Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace joined forces with British-Albanian singer Dua Lipa who co-designed the pieces. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Versace (@versace) To start the show,

ANKARA: Turkiye’s anti-immigrant Victory Party leader endorsed opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Wednesday, potentially boosting the challenger as he aims to make up ground and defeat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday’s runoff election. Umit Ozdag, head of the nationalist Victory Party that received 2.2 percent support in the May 14 parliamentary

JEDDAH: Saudi officials gathered here recently to discuss crowd-management and other issues in preparation for the upcoming Hajj. Abdulaziz bin Ali Al-Ayoubi, assistant president for Technical and Field Service Affairs of the General Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques, held the meeting with leaders of related agencies. Al-Ayoubi said the challenge is to ensure the smooth flow

MOSCOW: Moscow will respond to attacks on Russian soil “extremely harshly,” Russia’s defense minister warned Wednesday, after Russian jets and artillery fought off an armed group that crossed from Ukraine. “We will continue to respond promptly and extremely harshly to such actions by Ukrainian militants,” Sergei Shoigu told military officials, according to comments published