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Spain: Devastating wildfires have spread across parts of southern Europe, tearing through the Spanish and Greek countryside and forcing around 1,000 people from their homes on the Italian island of Sardinia. Sardinia’s local government declared a state of emergency on Sunday, due to what it described as a “disaster without precedence.” “It is still not possible to estimate the damages caused by the fires that are still ongoing in the Oristano area,” the president of the Sardinia region, Christian Solinas, said in a statement Monday. “Vegetation destroyed, businesses and homes burnt and animals killed,” he added. CNN

Tokyo: USA gymnast Simone Biles said she’s not injured following her decision to withdraw from the women’s gymnastics team event today. She said she decided to take “a step back” to prevent possible future injuries. She told, “No injury, thankfully, and that’s why I took a step back because I didn’t want to do something silly out there and get injured,” . USA went on to win silver while the Russian gymnasts took gold. “I thought it was best if the girls took over and did the rest of the job which they absolutely did,” she said of her team. It’s been…

China : The Chinese internet giant Tencent said  it had temporarily suspended new user registrations for its hugely popular WeChat app, raising fears of new regulatory pressures even as it insisted the outage was the result of a technical upgrade. Tencent said in a statement that the shutdown, which affected only new users and groups registering for the app, would be over by early August and was part of a fix to its security technology. The timing of the suspension left investors uneasy, with concerns mounting that a regulatory rampage aimed at the technology sector could heavily affect Tencent, China’s…

Bahrain: History, arts, and food will forever be associated with the rich culture of Italy. But little did many living outside Europe know that sports in the country has a long tradition. Like in most European nations, football is widely popular in Italy. The national team has won the FIFA World Cup on four different occasions, most recently in 2006. Meanwhile, automobile racing comes in as a close second with many Italian engineers and drivers having contributed much to the said sport. When it comes to combat sports, Italy has produced a handful of notable names such as fencer Edoardo…

Bahrain: Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Women (SCW), Hala Al-Ansari, has asserted that the SCW is making strenuous efforts to continue the policies and plans to integrate women’s needs in the kingdom’s development process, by supporting all national efforts aimed at enhancing Bahraini women’s participation in public life, including their family stability, and their access to decision-making positions. “The advancement of Bahraini women is one of the main priorities of our society, and we are working to make gender balance a sustainable reality, Al-Ansari said in an interview with the OBG  magazine. She also indicated that Bahrain continues to…

California : Intel Corp said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd by 2025. Amazon.com Inc will be another new customer for the foundry chip business, said Intel, which for decades held the lead in technology for manufacturing the smallest, fastest computing chips. But Intel has lost that lead to TSMC and Samsung, whose manufacturing services have helped Intel’s rivals Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Nvidia Corp produce chips that outperform Intel’s.…

Washington: The United States will not lift coronavirus entry restrictions imposed on foreign travelers due to the spread of the Delta variant, the White House said on Monday. “We will maintain existing travel restrictions at this point for a few reasons,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said. “The more transmissible Delta variant is spreading, both here and around the world. Driven by the Delta variant, cases are rising here at home, particularly among those who are unvaccinated,” she said, adding that infections are set to keep climbing “in the weeks ahead,” Deutsche press agency (dpa) reported. The United States currently…

Manama: His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has today received, at Al Sakhir Palace, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus marking his visit to Bahrain to open the WHO Office. HM the King commended the opening of the office which embodies decades-long relations and joint cooperation and cooperation between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the World Health Organisation (WHO). HM the King commended the organisation for announcing Manama as the first Capital Health City in the East Mediterranean region in recognition of the quality primary healthcare services and initiatives to promote health awareness and combat chronic…

Kuwaiti shooter Abdullah Turgi Al-Rashidi won a bronze medal with a score of 46 in the Olympic men’s skeet shooting competition on Monday. The US Vincent Hancock took the gold with an Olympic record score of 59 and Denmark’s Jesper Hansen won the silver with 55, according to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). Some 30 competitors took part in the over two days from Sunday at the Asaka Shooting range, with the top six advancing to the finals.

Bahrain Clear (BHB) announced that it has successfully distributed the cash dividend distribution for the year ended December 31, 2020, with BD 121.82 million of dividends for 23 listed securities to the entitled investors with updated IBAN details at Bahrain Clear representing 82% of overall dividends declaration. Bahrain Clear managed the distribution process on behalf of 23 listed securities that declared dividends for the last year on Bahrain Bourse and all investors received their dividends via IBAN bank transfers. In accordance with Ministerial Cabinet Resolution No. 2020/48-2, Bahrain Bourse established the ‘Amanat’ Investor Protection Funds Program to ensure investor protection…