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GRAUBUENDEN: A view of the village Bondo in Graubuenden in South Switzerland. -AP

8 missing after landslide in Swiss Alps

GRAUBUENDEN: A view of the village Bondo in Graubuenden in South Switzerland. -APGENEVA: Eight hikers are missing after a massive landslide swept away an entire mountainside in the Swiss Alps, ripping apart buildings and forcing the evacuation of a village, police said yesterday. The landslide, which struck on Wednesday, sent mud, rocks and dirt flooding down the Piz Cengalo mountain into the outskirts of the village of Bondo, near the Italian...

ROTTERDAM: A policeman stands as police evacuate the concert venue Maassilo, after a concert was cancelled because of a terror threat. - AFP

Dutch act on 'concrete' info of planned concert attack

ROTTERDAM: A policeman stands as police evacuate the concert venue Maassilo, after a concert was cancelled because of a terror threat. - AFPROTTERDAM: Dutch police yesterday stepped up a probe into a planned terror attack against a Rotterdam concert by a US rock band, having received a "concrete" tip-off from Spanish authorities. "There was concrete information from the Spanish police that an attack would be committed on that date, at this place...

nWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump salutes as he steps from Maine One to walk across the South Lawn of the White House. - AP n

Within 24 hours, a pair of different Trump speeches

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump salutes as he steps from Maine One to walk across the South Lawn of the White House. - APRENO: Within a 24-hour span, President Donald Trump delivered one speech in which he tore into the media and members of his own party, and a second in which he called for national unity and love. The about-face seemed to reflect the president's real-time internal debate between calls for moderation and his inclination to...

HYDERABAD: This file photo taken on January 18, 2017 shows an Indian visitor giving a thumb impression to withdraw money from his bank account with his Aadhaar or Unique Identification (UID) card during a Digi Dhan Mela, held to promote digital payment. – AFP

India's Supreme court rules privacy a fundamental right

Civil liberties campaigners hail landmark decision HYDERABAD: This file photo taken on January 18, 2017 shows an Indian visitor giving a thumb impression to withdraw money from his bank account with his Aadhaar or Unique Identification (UID) card during a Digi Dhan Mela, held to promote digital payment. – AFPNEW DELHI: India's Supreme Court ruled yesterday that citizens have a constitutional right to privacy, a landmark decision that could...

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Want to join China's army? Then stop masturbating

SHANGHAI: The Chinese military is fretting about the growing number of would-be recruits failing its stringent fitness test, but says it has the answer: avoid masturbation and computer games. People's Liberation Army chiefs aim to ensure that applicants are in tip-top condition to join the rank and file of the world's largest military force.This month the official PLA Daily spelt out on social media 10 reasons why so many potential recruits fall...

M777 Light Towed Howitzer in service with the 10th Mountain Division in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Logar Province, Charkh District, Afghanistan

US general vows allies will destroy IS in Afghanistan

KABUL: Afghanistan's security forces, with the help of US and NATO ground and air support, will annihilate the Islamic State group affiliate in the country and crush remnants of Al-Qaeda, Gen John Nicholson, the top US general in Afghanistan, vowed yesterday. Nicholson also had a message for the Taliban: "Stop fighting against your countrymen. Stop killing innocent civilians. Stop bringing hardship and misery to the Afghan people. Lay down your...

WEST BENGAL: Indian residents wade through flood waters in Malda. – AFP

Death toll from South Asia floods tops 1,000

WEST BENGAL: Indian residents wade through flood waters in Malda. – AFPNEW DELHI: The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said yesterday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region's worst monsoon disaster in recent years. Thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel have been deployed across India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where authorities say a total of 1,013 bodies have been...

Indian spiritual guru, who calls himself Saint Dr Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, arrives for a press conference ahead of the release of his new film ‘MSG, The Warrior Lion Heart,’ in New Delhi, India. — AP photos

Indian cities on lockdown for guru's rape verdict

PANCHKULA: Several north Indian cities were under a security lockdown yesterday, a day before a court was expected to issue a verdict in a rape case involving the flamboyant leader of a quasi-religious sect. With tens of thousands of followers camped along roads near the barricaded courthouse, police and paramilitary soldiers fanned out across the town of Panchkula and nearby areas.The bearded guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim...

MACAU: A fireman (C) is seen next to a fire truck in a cordoned off residential area in Macau on August 24, 2017, a day after Typhoon Hato hit the city. – AFP

Typhoon Hato leaves 16 dead after lashing southern China

Storm leaves a trail of destruction MACAU: A fireman (C) is seen next to a fire truck in a cordoned off residential area in Macau on August 24, 2017, a day after Typhoon Hato hit the city. – AFPMACAU: The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 yesterday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau's mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong's skyscrapers. Eight died in the gambling hub of...

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Oman's foggy cool monsoon season and festival draws tourists

People sitting in the Jabal Ayoub mountains north of Salalah, Oman.On the eastern edge of the Arabian peninsula, a region disappears under sky-wide blankets of fog as the desert blooms green. This is the Omani monsoon: a phenomenon that draws hundreds of thousands with cooler weather and stunning vistas for three months, beginning this year June 21. A 60-day festival draws about 50,000 people nightly for dagger-dance competitions, musical...

NEW YORK: Members of the media get a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 after it was unveiled at the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2017 event in New York.-AFP

Samsung eyes reset with new Galaxy Note

Bixby available in Note 8 phablet, price not disclosed NEW YORK: Members of the media get a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 after it was unveiled at the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2017 event in New York.-AFPNEW YORK: Samsung on Wednesday unveiled a new model of its Galaxy Note as it seeks to leave behind the debacle over exploding batteries in the previous generation of the device, and mount a renewed challenge to Apple and its soon-to-come iPhone...

nPITTSBURGH: In this photo, shoppers walk by the sign at a Sears store in Pittsburgh.-APn

Sears to close more stores, sales continue fall in 2Q

PITTSBURGH: In this photo, shoppers walk by the sign at a Sears store in Pittsburgh.-APNEW YORK: Sears continued to struggle in its second quarter with declining sales amid heightened competition. It now says it will close even more stores. The retailer has been trying to cut costs by closing stores, including 180 this year and already had plans to cut another 150 stores. It now plans to shutter an additional 28 Kmart stores. "The retail...

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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP

Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation

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VARANASI: Medical students shout slogans and hold posters as they protest the rape and murder of a young medic from Kolkata, in Varanasi on August 15, 2024. -- AFP

Protests sweep India over rape and murder of doctor

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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 Society for Relief’s second relief plane. - KUNA photos

Kuwait sends relief planeload to Sudan

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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.

Pearl diving trip winds up