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MEXICO CITY: People hurry to free possible victims out of the rubble of a collapsed building after a quake rattled Mexico City yesterday. - AFP
Earthquake, volcano, tremor hit Mexico, killing at least 225
Students send text messages from the rubble; Amir sends condolence MEXICO CITY: People hurry to free possible victims out of the rubble of a collapsed building after a quake rattled Mexico City yesterday. - AFPMEXICO CITY: Rescue workers scrabbled through piles of rubble yesterday in a harrowing search for dozens of children feared buried under a Mexico City school, among hundreds of buildings destroyed by the country's most lethal earthquake in...
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Qatar Emir calls for dialogue; row rages
Qatar Emir calls for dialogue as Gulf row ragesUNITED NATIONS: Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani has renewed a call for "unconditional dialogue" to end a crisis pitting Qatar against four Arab states while US President Donald Trump said he expected the dispute to be resolved quickly. Speaking from the podium of the 193-member United Nations General Assembly, Sheikh Tamim renewed the call "for an unconditional dialogue based on mutual...
SAN JUAN: Trees are toppled in a parking lot at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico yesterday during the passage of the Hurricane Maria. Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico yesterday, pummeling the US territory after killing at least two people on its passage through the Caribbean. — AFP
Hurricane Maria slams into Puerto Rico
Nature's fury continues to demolish region SAN JUAN: Trees are toppled in a parking lot at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico yesterday during the passage of the Hurricane Maria. Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico yesterday, pummeling the US territory after killing at least two people on its passage through the Caribbean. — AFPSAN JUAN: One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Puerto Rico pummeled the island yesterday,...
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Saudi university set to dismiss Brotherhood-linked academics
RIYADH: A large Saudi public university announced it would dismiss employees suspected of ties to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, adding to concerns that the government is clamping down on its critics in academia and beyond. Activists and rights groups say security forces have rounded up some 30 clerics, intellectuals and others in the past 10 days, in what Human Rights Watch has described as "a coordinated crackdown on dissent".Authorities have...
RAQA: A military convoy composed of 140 trailers used to carrying US-made armoured vehicles, bulldozers, and arms, through Simalka border crossing between Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan, and headed for SDF forces fighting. —AFP
US-backed force seizes 90% of Raqa from IS
In final stages of capturing stronghold RAQA: A military convoy composed of 140 trailers used to carrying US-made armoured vehicles, bulldozers, and arms, through Simalka border crossing between Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan, and headed for SDF forces fighting. —AFPBEIRUT: US-backed fighters have seized 90 percent of Raqa from the Islamic State group, a monitor said yesterday, as they announced they were in the "final stages" of capturing the...
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Saudi to allow women into stadium for national day
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has invited women to a sports stadium for the first time to attend annual national day celebrations with their families, state media said yesterday, opening up a previously male-only venue. Families will be allowed into the King Fahd stadium in Riyadh, used mostly for football matches, and seated separately from single men to mark the kingdom's 87th National Day this weekend."The stadium is ready to receive about 40,000...
NAIROBI: Opposition leader Raila Odinga, center, arrives at the Supreme Court. —AP
Kenya’s top court nixed poll because it couldn’t see data
NAIROBI: Opposition leader Raila Odinga, center, arrives at the Supreme Court. —APNAIROBI: Kenya's Supreme Court said yesterday it nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election largely because the electoral commission refused scrutiny of its computerized voting system. The court judges said because the electoral commission refused to allow scrutiny of its computer servers it had no option but to agree with the claim by Kenya's opposition...
BERLIN: A revolving billboard features a poster showing the Christian Democratic Union’s main candidate German Chancellor Angela Merkel (top) and a poster from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) (bottom) featuring the sentence “Stop Islamisation” with the word “stop” cut off. —AFP
Election may reflect Germany's management of migrant influx
BERLIN: A revolving billboard features a poster showing the Christian Democratic Union’s main candidate German Chancellor Angela Merkel (top) and a poster from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) (bottom) featuring the sentence “Stop Islamisation” with the word “stop” cut off. —AFPCOLOGNE: German Chancellor Angela Merkel adopted a mantra when citizens questioned her decision to open the country to refugees fleeing wars:...
BARCELONA: People holding ‘Esteladas’ (Catalan pro-independence flags) and a symbolic ballot box at a protest. —AFP
Angry protests in Barcelona as Spain arrest Catalan officials
Ban on referendum by Madrid being ignored BARCELONA: People holding ‘Esteladas’ (Catalan pro-independence flags) and a symbolic ballot box at a protest. —AFPBARCELONA: Thousands took to the streets of Barcelona yesterday as Spanish police detained 13 Catalan government officials in a crackdown ahead of an independence referendum which Madrid says is illegal. With tensions mounting, separatist organizations called for more people to protest...
Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait by the side of a road for news from family members about their new shelters near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh on Sept 18. Refugee camps were already beyond capacity and new arrivals were staying in schools or huddling in makeshift settlements with no toilets along roadsides and in open fields. (AP)
Midwives deployed to assist pregnant Rohingya women
MUMBAI: Dozens of midwives have been deployed to camps in Bangladesh to deliver babies and help young mothers among the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled across the border from Myanmar and are now living in squalid settlements. About 35 midwives trained by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to work in crisis situations have been attending to women and girls in the two government-run refugee camps in Cox's Bazar over...
JAKARTA: Suspected Indonesian militant Agus Supriyadi, center, raises his fist as he shouts “God is great!” during his sentencing hearing at East Jakarta District Court. — AP
Leader of Indonesia attack plot gets 11 year sentence
JAKARTA: Suspected Indonesian militant Agus Supriyadi, center, raises his fist as he shouts “God is great!” during his sentencing hearing at East Jakarta District Court. — APJAKARTA: An Indonesian militant linked to the Islamic State group smiled and raised one finger toward heaven after a court yesterday sentenced him to 11 years in prison for leading a plot to attack a presidential guard-changing ceremony in Jakarta. At the same...
MUMBAI: An aircraft of India’s Jet Airways lands during rain showers yesterday. —AFP
Plane stuck in the mud as rain causes Mumbai airport chaos
MUMBAI: An aircraft of India’s Jet Airways lands during rain showers yesterday. —AFPMUMBAI: Dozens of flights were diverted from Mumbai after a SpiceJet plane overshot the runway and became stuck in the mud as heavy rain lashed India's financial capital and caused travel chaos Wednesday. Schools and colleges also closed for the day as a precaution after severe monsoon rain late Tuesday and overnight led to fears of widespread flooding. The...
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Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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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
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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA
Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey
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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.
KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya
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Interior Minister orders removal of violations in Failaka