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Myanmar, Burma, Rohingya; 3 key words leading to one issue
Muna Al Fuzai There is a lot of confusion about the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. I don't think many of us are fully aware of the root of the problem there. Perhaps the geographical dimension or preoccupation with our own problems has kept the Arab media inactive. I believe it is time to reconsider this issue seriously - and without any more delays. After reading many reports on this issue, I realized that knowing the history of these people...
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Kuwaiti and sons rescued in desert
KUWAIT: Saudi civil defense forces recently managed to locate and rescue the Kuwaiti citizen, Mohammed Bin Nasser Al-Ajmi and his two sons (9 and 5 years old ), who had been lost in the desert for two days during a trip from Riyadh to Kuwait. Al-Ajmi explained that he got lost as he was trying a new short cut on a desert road. He added that as soon as he got off the paved road, he reached an area filled with sand dunes and his vehicle’s four...
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Illegal residents found gambling
KUWAIT: MOI's relations and security media department announced that residency detectives had arrested three Asians while gambling including one who had been deported several times and somehow managed to illegally return to Kuwait. All three suspects were caught red-handed and all turned out to be illegal residents.Inspection campaignsMubarak Al-Kabeer municipality inspection team leader, Majed Al-Muttairi said that his team had recently...
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Parents lock kids at home
KUWAIT: Two Lebanese kids ( 5 and 7 years old) were recently rescued after their parents locked them in the family apartment in Sabah Al-Salem alone area alone. Sources claimed the kids were continuously crying and screaming for hours until the neighbors heard them and called the police to break open the door. The parents are now facing charges of negligence.Market raidAhmadi detectives raided a street market in Mahboula where vendors were...
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Dead body of girl dumped in garden
KUWAIT: A citizen reported finding a girl's body in his own garden. After identifying the girl, detectives quickly found out about her relation with a citizen in his twenties living in a nearby block in the same area. After the suspect's arrest, he told the police that the girl was with him at his home when she allegedly fell dead. He added that out of fear of being legally held accountable for her death, he carried the body and dumped it in the...
DOHA: In this Sunday, July 9, 2017 file photo, men wait for a bus in front of a building with the poster of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. — AP
Trump hails Kuwait mediation efforts
Qatar ruler phones Saudi crown prince; Arab states reactWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has hailed efforts by the leader of Kuwait, a staunch American ally, to mediate a festering diplomatic crisis involving Qatar and its Arab neighbors that could have implications for the US military presence in the region. However, the quartet of Arab nations now boycotting Doha issued a strongly worded statement early Friday morning dismissing some of HH...
LONDON: A Pro-EU demonstrator holds up a placard on a march through central London during the People's March for Europe yesterday. The pro-EU march is calling on politicians to 'unite, rethink and reject Brexit'. - AFP
Government urged to 'rethink, reject Brexit'
LONDON: A Pro-EU demonstrator holds up a placard on a march through central London during the People's March for Europe yesterday. The pro-EU march is calling on politicians to 'unite, rethink and reject Brexit'. - AFPLONDON: Thousands of people marched through central London yesterday calling on the government to "rethink and reject Brexit". A stream of protesters poured through Trafalgar Square and stopped to boo outside Prime Minister Theresa...
MARIGOT, St Martin: The Fort Louis Marina in Marigot is seen in Saint-Martin island, devastated by Hurricane Irma. — AFP
Mass exodus as Hurricane Irma eyes Florida, batters Cuba
Cuba officials report significant damage, no casualties yet MARIGOT, St Martin: The Fort Louis Marina in Marigot is seen in Saint-Martin island, devastated by Hurricane Irma. — AFPMIAMI: After laying waste to several Caribbean islands, Hurricane Irma was barreling yesterday towards Florida, where some 5.6 million people faced orders to evacuate as the monster storm made landfall in Cuba. Irma-which has killed at least 19 people and devastated...
MEXICO: Soldiers with specially trained dogs search for survivors amid the ruins of buildings knocked down Thursday night by a 8.1-magnitude quake, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico. — AFP
Race to rescue survivors of Mexico quake as storm Katia strikes the east
MEXICO: Soldiers with specially trained dogs search for survivors amid the ruins of buildings knocked down Thursday night by a 8.1-magnitude quake, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico. — AFPJUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico: Police, soldiers and emergency workers raced to rescue survivors from the ruins of Mexico's most powerful earthquake in a century, which killed at least 61 people, as storm Katia menaced the country's eastern coast yesterday with...
DEIR EZZOR: A picture shows Russian military vehicles carrying humanitarian aid parcels in the northeastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. — AFP
US-backed Syria force launches new anti-IS assault in Deir Ezzor
Coalition air strikes allow SDF to advance on the ground DEIR EZZOR: A picture shows Russian military vehicles carrying humanitarian aid parcels in the northeastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. — AFPABU FAS, Syria: US-backed fighters launched a new offensive yesterday to oust the Islamic State group from swathes of Deir Ezzor, the last Syrian province still largely under jihadist control. The oil-rich province borders Iraq and is a strategic...
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Seven killed in Boko Haram attack on displaced camp
KANO, Nigeria: At least seven people were killed when Boko Haram jihadists attacked a camp for people displaced by the conflict in northeast Nigeria, militia members and locals said Saturday. The attack on Friday evening in Ngala, near the border with Cameroon, came as two people were killed in an explosion outside another camp in Borno state capital, Maiduguri. In Ngala, a civilian militia member, Umar Kachalla, said jihadists in two pick-up...
FLORIDA: Northbound traffic on the turnpike near Sunrise Blvd. is backed up in the rain as motorist prepare for Hurricane Irma in Sunrise, Florida.—AP
Traffic nightmare as millions told to leave South Florida
FLORIDA: Northbound traffic on the turnpike near Sunrise Blvd. is backed up in the rain as motorist prepare for Hurricane Irma in Sunrise, Florida.—APMIAMI: The race to flee Hurricane Irma became a marathon nightmare as more than a half-million people were ordered to leave South Florida on Thursday. With the storm barreling toward the tip of Florida for perhaps a catastrophic blow this weekend, normally quick trips turned into daylong journeys...
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India
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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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ARLINGTON, US: An American Airlines jet takes off from Ronald Reagan International Airport in Arlington.. – AFP
Slowing global jet fuel demand adds to oil market concerns
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SUMY, Ukraine: Relatives, friends and fellow soldiers mourn over a coffin during the funeral of six Ukrainian servicemen, who were killed since Ukraine launched its offensive at the Russian border region of Kursk, in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on August 15, 2024. -- AFP
Ukraine, Russia claim advances in Kursk region
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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