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Special payments common practice since 92: Speaker
KUWAIT: Extraordinary payments given to Kuwaiti MPs has been an established procedure dating back to more than a quarter of a century, Kuwait’s top lawmaker said yesterday. Speaking to the press, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem revealed that “MPs had been the recipients of monthly undeclared wages worth KD 650 ($2,100) since October 20, 1992.” “Parliament speakers have been asking ministers for undeclared salaries for MPs...
Ministers greatly elated Amir's evaluation of bourse promotion
KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Ahmad Al- Sabah (second from left) chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet held its regular weekly session at Seif Palace yesterday under chairmanship of the Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. The ministers expressed deep satisfaction at His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber...
Gunman mows down 58 at Las Vegas concert, 500 hurt
Trump calls shooting ‘act of pure evil’ * Amir sends condolences LAS VEGAS: People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard on Sunday. - AFPLAS VEGAS: At least 58 people were killed and more than 500 were injured when a heavily armed “lone wolf” gunman opened fire from a 32 -floor hotel room on an open-air concert on the Las Vegas Strip in the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The...
'Skin and bones': doctors fear for malnourished Rohingya children
14,100 kids are at risk of dying from malnutrition COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: A Rohingya Muslim refugee holds her child as she waits to see a doctor at a medical centre at Balukhali refugee camp near the town of Gumdhum in Cox’s Bazar. — AFPCOX'S BAZAR: The five-year-old Rohingya boy was so emaciated that doctors could not insert a drip into his tiny arm, one of thousands of children facing life-threatening malnutrition in overstretched...
Mountains of garbage and despair in India dirtiest city
GONDA CITY: A cow lays down amongst garbage along a road in Gonda district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. - AFPGONDA CITY: Flies throng over piles of faeces, the drains overflow with sewage and the foul smell in the air is inescapable. Welcome to Awas Vikas: one of the most exclusive parts of Gonda, a city suffering the ignominy of being branded the dirtiest in India. Even in such upmarket areas, garbage trucks are rarely seen, green...
Palestinian prime minister visits Gaza in reconciliation move with Hamas
Unity government to take administrative control of GazaHamas disbands Gaza shadow government BEIT HANUN: A man dressed as the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walks in the street as the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his government ministers arrive in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. — AFPGAZA: The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip yesterday in a move towards reconciliation...
Brother of Islamist radical faces trial
PARIS: The brother of the Islamist radical who shot dead seven people in southwest France in 2012, including three Jewish schoolchildren, went on trial yesterday accused of complicity in the first of a wave of attacks by homegrown jihadists. Mohamed Merah's March 2012 attack on Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, where he killed a teacher and three pupils, was the deadliest attack on Jews in France in three decades.The 23-year-old Toulouse native...
African migrants tortured
DUBAI: Migrants making their way from the Horn of Africa to Yemen are frequently abducted and tortured by “criminal gangs”, the UN Migration Agency warned yesterday. Despite a war that has killed thousands and pushed Yemen to the brink of famine, some 6,000 migrants enter the country every month, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM). They often come from Ethiopia and Somalia, hoping to make their way overland...
Russia busts ‘IS cell’
MOSCOW: Russia’s intelligence agency yesterday said it had arrested members of an Islamic State group “cell” which was preparing terror attacks. The FSB said in a statement it had “thwarted the illegal activities of... the international terrorist organization Islamic State” on September 30, by detaining all members of a cell in the Moscow region. It said they were all from Muslimmajority republics in the Caucasus but took orders from...
As sanctions bite, N Korean workers leave border hub
Latest sanctions affect 90% of North Korean exports PYONGYANG: A barbeque chef Ryu Gyong Hui (23) poses for a portrait at her stall outside a trade fair in Pyongyang. - AFPDANDONG: North Korean workers have begun to leave the Chinese border city of Dandong, following the latest round of sanctions seeking to restrict Pyongyang's ability to earn foreign currency income, local businesses and traders say. Almost 100,000 overseas workers, based...
Ocampos brace helps Marseille stun Nice, moves up to third in Ligue 1
Marcelo sent off as Lyon’s winless streak extend to five matches NICE: Olympique de Marseille’s French goalkeeper Steve Mandanda (C) jumps to stop the ball during the French L1 football match between Nice and Marseille on Sunday at the “Allianz Riviera” stadium in Nice. — AFPPARIS: Ten-man Marseille moved up to third in Ligue 1 after Lucas Ocampos hit a brace in a thrilling come-from-behind 4-2 win at Mediterranean rivals Nice on...
Wily Herath spins Sri Lanka to 21-run victory over Pakistan
Second Sri Lankan to bag 400 wickets ABU DHABI: Pakistan's Mohammad Amir bowled by Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath during their fifth day at First Test cricket match in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, yesterday. - APABU DHABI: Rangana Herath became the second Sri Lankan to bag 400 wickets as his six-wicket haul steered Sri Lanka to a thrilling 21-run win over Pakistan in the first Test in Abu Dhabi yesterday. The veteran left-arm spinner took 6-43 --...
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