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Families wait to enter the Sincan Penal Institution at the 4th Heavy Penal Court near Ankara, on November 26, 2020. - A Turkish court will hand down verdicts on November 26 to nearly 500 suspects in one of the main trials stemming from the bloody 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim preacher who was once an Erdogan ally, is accused of ordering the failed putsch. His movement has been proscribed as a terrorist group by Ankara, although he strongly denies all charges. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)
Turkish court jails over 300 for life in a mass coup trial
ANKARA: Families wait to enter the Sincan Penal Institution at the 4th Heavy Penal Court near Ankara yesterday. A Turkish court handed down verdicts to nearly 500 suspects in one of the main trials stemming from the bloody 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. – AFP ANKARA: A Turkish court jailed more than 300 former pilots and other suspects for life in a mass trial stemming from a bloody 2016 coup attempt against...
TOPSHOT - People wade along a waterlogged road after heavy rains following Cyclone Nivar landfall, in Puducherry on November 26, 2020. - Accurate forecasting and the evacuation of several hundred thousand people helped avert any loss of life after a cyclone clobbered southeast India, authorities said on November 26, as rescuers worked to restore power and clear fallen trees. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)
Powerful cyclone buffets S India, pushing thousands into shelters
PUDUCHERRY: People wade along a waterlogged road after heavy rains following Cyclone Nivar landfall, in Puducherry yesterday. Accurate forecasting and the evacuation of several hundred thousand people helped avert any loss of life after a cyclone clobbered southeast India, authorities said on November 26, as rescuers worked to restore power and clear fallen trees. - AFP PUDUCHERRY: A powerful cyclonic storm hurtled into India's southeastern...
A member of the Amhara Special Forces sits at the 5th Battalion of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Army in Dansha, Ethiopia, on November 25, 2020. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
Ethiopia PM orders final offensive against dissident Tigray's leaders
DANSHA: A member of the Amhara Special Forces sits at the 5th Battalion of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Army in Dansha, Ethiopia. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday ordered Ethiopia's army to launch a final offensive against Tigray's dissident leaders in their regional capital Mekele, saying the deadline for surrender had expired. Abiy, the winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, late Sunday gave the Tigray People's...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 19, 2020 A man looks at flowers layed outside the Bois d'Aulne secondary school in homage to slain history teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by an attacker for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in his civics class, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. - Four teenage students have been charged in France over the killing of Samuel Paty, a judical source said Thursday, including three for allegedly pointing out the teacher to his murderer. Three other pupils were charged earlier this month with complicity over the beheading last month of Paty, who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as part of a lesson on free speech. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
French apex court backs closure of Muslim NGO for 'inciting hatred'
CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE: A man looks at flowers layed outside the Bois d'Aulne secondary school in homage to slain history teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by an attacker for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet in his civics class, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. - AFP PARIS: France's highest administrative court yesterday rejected appeals against the dissolution of a Muslim NGO and the six-month shuttering of a mosque...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 18, 2018 former US National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn arrives for his sentencing hearing at US District Court in Washington, DC. - US President Donald Trump plans to pardon his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI over his Russian contacts, US media reported on November 24, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)
Biden urges safe Thanksgiving amid coronavirus; Trump pardons ex-aide
WASHINGTON: In this file, former US National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn arrives for his sentencing hearing at US District Court in Washington, DC.- AFP WILMINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden pleaded with Americans on Wednesday to take steps to remain safe over the Thanksgiving holiday as COVID-19 cases soar, while President Donald Trump pardoned a former aide who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Biden gave a...
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The value of the right phone number
By Nawara FattahovaMany people are willing to pay thousands of dinars for a unique phone number. Although mobile phones can save hundreds of numbers so the caller no longer has to dial the digits individually and just has to click on a name to call, people are still buying expensive special numbers.Abdullah, owner of a phone shop in Riggae, sold a phone number for the incredible price of KD 14,500 four years ago. "This was the highest price...
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374 works of renowned calligraphers exhibited online
Farid Al-Ali, President of Kuwait Islamic Arts Center at the Grand Mosque of Kuwait. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By Ben GarciaThe International Virtual Exhibition for the Art of Arabic Calligraphy, under the sponsorship of Nasser Al-Saeed Foundation, is an online art exhibition with the participation of 32 countries and 103 artists from around the world. The exhibition's gallery has more than 374 works of renowned calligraphers worldwide. The...
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Al-Safat Investment Co AGM approves relisting on Boursa
Al-Safat Investment Co holds annual general meeting. KUWAIT: Chairman of Al-Safat Investment Co Abdullah Hamad AlTerkait stressed that the company is on the verge of a new phase of development and growth, in light of the balanced strategy it employs. AlTerkait said that the Board of Directors spared no effort in cooperating with the executive management to relist Al-Safat Investment shares in Boursa Kuwait, particularly after bringing the...
An airplane of budget airline flydubai lands at Israel's Ben Gurion aiport near Tel Aviv on November 26, 2020 on the first scheduled commercial service between the two cities, following the normalisation of ties between the UAE and Israel. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
First Flydubai flight lands in Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV: An airplane of budget airline flydubai lands at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport yesterday on the first scheduled commercial service between the two cities following the normalization of ties between the UAE and Israel. - AFP TEL AVIV: A flight operated by budget airline flydubai landed in Tel Aviv yesterday, the first scheduled commercial service between the two cities following the normalization of ties between the UAE and Israel. Israeli...
TOPSHOT - Farmers stop a police vehicle during a march to India's capital New Delhi to protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms, in Ambala on November 26, 2020. - Indian police fired tear gas and water cannon when they clashed with several thousand farmers marching to New Delhi to protest against recent agricultural reforms. (Photo by - / AFP)
Indian farmers clash with police over farm reforms
AMBALA, India: Farmers stop a police vehicle during a march to New Delhi yesterday to protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms. - AFP NEW DELHI: Indian police fired tear gas and water cannon yesterday in clashes with several thousand farmers marching to New Delhi to protest against recent agricultural reforms. The confrontation happened when police tried to stop the farmers, from the northern state of Punjab, crossing...
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Maradona's death plunges world into mourning
Fans gather outside the morgue where the late Argentine football star Diego Maradona's body was to undergo an autopsy in Buenos Aires. – AFP BUENOS AIRES: Fans worldwide paid tribute and Argentina was in mourning yesterday after Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died aged 60 after years of drug and alcohol problems. Thousands of mourners, many in tears, and many wearing the World Cup winner's number 10 Argentina...
Bayern Munich's Spanish midfielder Marc Roca (R) and Salzburg's Zambian midfielder Enock Mwepu vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League group A football match Bayern Munich v Salzburg in Munich, southern Germany on November 25, 2020. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP)
Holders Bayern, City book Champions League last 16
MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s Spanish midfielder Marc Roca (right) and Salzburg’s Zambian midfielder Enock Mwepu vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League group A football match Bayern Munich v Salzburg in Munich on November 25, 2020. - AFP PARIS: Robert Lewandowski set Bayern Munich on the way to a 3-1 Champions League win over Salzburg on Wednesday as the holders joined Manchester City in qualifying for the last 16 with two group games...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
Fears of Middle East war grow
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
Somalia beach attack kills 32
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests