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LOS ANGELES: LeBron James is reportedly considering retirement from basketball after the Los Angeles Lakers were swept out of the NBA playoffs by the Denver Nuggets on Monday. ESPN reported that the 38-year-old was thinking about “walking away” from the sport after the Lakers’ defeat brought the curtain down on his 20th season in the league.

YANGON: The United Nations launched on Tuesday an appeal for $333 million in emergency funding for 1.6 million people it said were affected after deadly Cyclone Mocha tore through Myanmar. Mocha brought lashing rain and winds of 195 kilometers per hour to Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh on May 14, collapsing buildings and turning streets into rivers. Myanmar’s junta has

DUBAI: The Saudi Fashion Commission, in partnership with the French Embassy and Alliance Francaise in the Kingdom, announced on Tuesday the launch of “France & Fashion Days” — a new initiative that will bring together fashion fans for conferences, workshops, exhibitions and training. The two-day event, which will take place at Art Pur Foundation in Riyadh, on May 27 and 28,

RIYADH: The UAE’s property market witnessed double-digit growth in sales and rental rates in the first quarter of 2023, according to the latest report from global consultancy firm CBRE. Prime office properties in Abu Dhabi and Dubai recorded 19.1 percent and 20.2 percent year-on-year growth, respectively, between January and March this year, the report stated. The increase was

MADRID: Seven people accused of racially abusing Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior have been arrested in Spain, police said Tuesday. Three were detained in Valencia for alleged abuse against Vinícius in a Spanish league match on Sunday. Four were arrested in Madrid for allegedly hanging an effigy of the player off a highway bridge in January. The arrests come after an

RIYADH: The Forbes Middle East Women’s Summit, being held for the first time in Riyadh, has set the stage alight with dozens of inspirational speakers from diverse backgrounds and industries. On Monday, the second day of the event, hundreds of delegates listened to presentations from women involved in sectors such as technology, healthcare, fashion and beauty, and travel and

MANILA: The Philippine Economic Zone Authority has announced it is promoting the domestic halal industry in the country to tap into the rapidly growing regional and global markets. With the world’s Muslim population accounting for about 1.8 billion people, the global halal market is estimated to be worth more than $7 trillion. A third of it is contributed by the halal food and

RIYADH: The UAE and Malaysia have agreed to negotiate a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the two countries said on Tuesday. It is a type of bilateral trade deal the UAE has been pursuing with various countries since 2021. The agreement will cover trade in goods and services, investments, economic cooperation, Malaysia’s Trade Ministry said in a statement. “The UAE

LONDON: A former UK Special Air Service soldier who took part in the 1980 storming of the Iranian Embassy in London has died. Mel Parry, who served nearly 20 years in the SAS, was one of a team of 32 commandos who rescued 26 people from the embassy after they were held hostage for six days by six armed Iranian-Arab men demanding independence for the Iranian province of

Amid the often unexpected twists and turns marring the decades-long struggle by Palestinians to achieve long-awaited justice for their cause, the defunding of UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency, has emerged as one of the primary goals of the Israeli political establishment and its subservient lawmakers in the US, especially since the far right in Israel began to move from