MySql Select Unicode Characters using java?

Basically I have Column row with the value of:

   ID            Title
 ----- ----------------------------------
|  1  |ماهر زين - عليك صلى الله (Official) |
 ----- ----------------------------------

-

String Title = null;
DBConnect Database = new DBConnect();
Connection con = null;
PreparedStatement ps = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
try{
    con = Database.getcon();
    String query2="SELECT TITLE FROM table WHERE ID=?";
    ps = con.prepareStatement(query2);
    ps.setInt(1, 1);
    rs=ps.executeQuery();
    if(rs.next()){
        Title=rs.getString(1);
        System.out.println(Title);
    }
} finally {
    if(ps != null)
        ps.close();
    if(rs != null)
        rs.close();
    if(con != null)
        con.close();    
}

To connect to the DB I Do:

public DBConnect(){
    try{
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

        String unicode="useSSL=false&useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8";
        con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:15501/db?"+unicode, "root", "pwd");
        st = con.createStatement();
    }catch(Exception ex){
        System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
        System.out.println("couldn't connect!");
    }
}

But the Output I get is: ????? ??? ????? ? ??? ?? ????? (Official)

I also have tried:

ALTER DATABASE <name> CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE <table_name> CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

- I also tried:

select 
c.character_set_name 
from information_schema.tables as t,
 information_schema.collation_character_set_applicability as c
where c.collation_name = t.table_collation
and t.table_schema = "duckdb"
and t.table_name = "stackscontents";

The output I get is `utf8mb4

FYI: My my.ini file says default-character-set=utf8

Yet still i'm getting the output as: ????? ??? ????? ? ??? ?? ????? (Official)

All replies are much appreciated