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Death brings home reality of Gulf workers
KUWAIT: A worker is seen at a construction site yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatJAGTIAL, India: On a hot, sleepy afternoon at Kalleda village in the southern Indian state of Telangana, Laxmi Malaya sat on the porch of her house where the body of her husband Chittam - a daily wage laborer in Dubai - was to be brought the next day. Chittam, 45, was the second migrant worker from the village to have died in Dubai in September and among the...
nGAZA: The bodies of Palestinians killed after Israel blew up a tunnel are seen at a morgue at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah yesterday. - AFP nn
Six dead as Israel blows up tunnel
GAZA: The bodies of Palestinians killed after Israel blew up a tunnel are seen at a morgue at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah yesterday. - AFPGAZA CITY: Six Palestinians were killed yesterday as Israel blew up what it said was a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into its territory, a rare case of such an incident since a devastating 2014 war. Ashraf Al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-led Gazan health ministry, confirmed six men had been...
AT SEA: A handout photo taken shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) transiting in the Pacific Ocean. An US destroyer has come to the aid of an Iranian fishing boat after a pirate attack off Yemen, the US Navy said. Iran’s coast guard called the US naval command in Bahrain to report the incident and to ask for help following the attack south of Yemen’s Socotra Island, the US Navy said in a statement.— AFP
Bahrain court convicts 19 Shiites for spying for Iran
Bahraini woman, relatives jailed for 'fake bomb' AT SEA: A handout photo taken shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) transiting in the Pacific Ocean. An US destroyer has come to the aid of an Iranian fishing boat after a pirate attack off Yemen, the US Navy said. Iran’s coast guard called the US naval command in Bahrain to report the incident and to ask for help following the attack south of Yemen’s...
nnSINGAPORE: A Cruise ship is docked at the Marina Bay cruise centre terminal in Singapore yesterday. - AFP n
Singapore bans foreign Islamic preachers on religious cruises
Preachers accused of promoting disharmony, segregation  SINGAPORE: A Cruise ship is docked at the Marina Bay cruise centre terminal in Singapore yesterday. - AFPSINGAPORE: Singapore has barred two foreign Islamic preachers from entering the country to preach during religious-themed sea cruises, the interior ministry said yesterday. The pair had earlier applied to preach in the city-state but their applications were rejected. However authorities...
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Woman in 'love jihad' case
NEW DELHI: India's Supreme Court has ordered a 24-year-old woman whose marriage to a Muslim man was annulled at her Hindu father's request to give evidence in person, saying only she could decide her own fate. The decision to annul the marriage and force the woman, Akhila Ashokan, to return to live with her parents has caused outrage among women's rights campaigners in India. Earlier this year Ashokan's father asked the high court in the southern...
nnnBARCELONA: Some people wave flags from Occitania, Flanders, Wallonia and Catalonia in front of the 'Generalitat' palace (Catalan government headquarters) yesterday. - AFP n
Who is in charge? Catalonians wonder as Spain takes control
Sacked regional leaders may face criminal charges  BARCELONA: Some people wave flags from Occitania, Flanders, Wallonia and Catalonia in front of the 'Generalitat' palace (Catalan government headquarters) yesterday. - AFPBARCELONA: Catalonia's civil servants returned to work yesterday for the first time since Spain's central government rejected an independence declaration by imposing direct control, as Madrid warned that sacked regional leaders...
Street sellers in Mumbai. - Reuters
Crackdown on Mumbai street vendors sparks a row over public spaces
Street sellers in Mumbai. - ReutersMUMBAI: A crackdown on street vendors in Mumbai after they were blamed for a stampede at a train station last month highlights the diminishing access to public spaces for the city's poor and marginalized communities, activists said. A report on the rush-hour stampede during a monsoon downpour that killed 22 people, said vendors crowding a narrow footbridge were partly to blame. Since then, city officials have...
BALO-I, Philippines: Young evacuees cook rice in front of their tent at an evacuation centre in Balo-i town, Lanao del Sur province, on the southern island of Mindanao. —AFP
Losses, looting as Filipinos return to Marawi city
BALO-I, Philippines: Young evacuees cook rice in front of their tent at an evacuation centre in Balo-i town, Lanao del Sur province, on the southern island of Mindanao. —AFPMARAWI CITY: Khaliluddin Ismail returned home yesterday after five months of war in the southern Philippines to find his house ransacked. But he's still smiling. "At least we have something left," he said, standing in a room with clothes, toys, ornaments and damaged...
TOKYO: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (left) delivers his speech beside Japanese Prime Minister ShinzonAbe during the joint remarks announcement at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo yesterday. —AFP
Japan offers Philippines aid for fighting terrorism, rebuilding
Military campaign leaves over 1,100 fighters, civilians dead  TOKYO: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (left) delivers his speech beside Japanese Prime Minister ShinzoAbe during the joint remarks announcement at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo yesterday. —AFPTOKYO: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won pledges from Japan of help with fighting terrorism and assistance in building the country's crumbling infrastructure, as he met with...
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PSG, Barcelona on verge of Champions League last 16
Man Utd among teams to book last-16 place PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian defender Dani Alves controls the ball during a training session at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, western Paris yesterday, on the eve of the UEFA Champions League football match against Anderlecht. -- AFPPARIS: Big-spending Paris Saint-Germain, five-time champions Barcelona and Jose Mourinho's Manchester United are among the teams looking to book a Champions League last-16...
MEXICO CITY: Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning his fourth Formula One world title despite finishing the Mexican Grand Prix in ninth place, at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City. — AFP
Hamilton wins fourth career F1 title at Mexican Grand Prix
MEXICO CITY: Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning his fourth Formula One world title despite finishing the Mexican Grand Prix in ninth place, at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City. — AFPMEXICO CITY: Lewis Hamilton won his fourth career Formula One season championship on Sunday with a ninth-place finish at the Mexican Grand Prix in a race won by Red Bull's Max Verstappen. Hamilton had to overcome...
ABU DHABI: William D Magwood, IV, Director General, Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD-NEA) speaks during the Nuclear Power in the 21st Century International Ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi yesterday. — AFP
Saudi plans to extract uranium domestically
Key step toward ‘self-sufficiency’ in producing atomic fuel ABU DHABI: William D Magwood, IV, Director General, Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD-NEA) speaks during the Nuclear Power in the 21st Century International Ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi yesterday. — AFPABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia plans to extract uranium domestically as part of its nuclear power program and sees this as a...
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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos
Alain Delon: Women he loved and left
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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka
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The sun sets behind electricity pylons in this file photo. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait swelters amid power cuts
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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP
Hezbollah reveals its military muscle