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Hotel orders 'Jewish guests' to shower before swimming

GENEVA: A Swiss hotel that posted signs telling Jewish clients to shower before using the pool and restricting their access to the facility's freezer has unleashed outrage and official complaints from Israel. The Paradies apartment hotel in the Alpine village of Arosa in eastern Switzerland is being accused of anti-Semitism after an outraged guest posted to Facebook a picture of a notice plastered outside the hotel pool."To our Jewish Guests,...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia: Matthew Heimbach voices his displeasure at the media after a court hearing for James Alex Fields Jr in front of the court on Monday. — AP

White nationalists threaten Charlottesville just a start

Supremacists buoyed by large turnout CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia: Matthew Heimbach voices his displeasure at the media after a court hearing for James Alex Fields Jr in front of the court on Monday. — APBIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda following the violence that left a woman dead and dozens injured. The...

FREE TOWN: In this Monday photo, crowds gather outside the Connaught Hospital waiting for loved ones outside a mortuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. —AP

Thousands left homeless after S Leone mudslide

FREE TOWN: In this Monday photo, crowds gather outside the Connaught Hospital waiting for loved ones outside a mortuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. —APDAKAR: Thousands of people in Sierra Leone left homeless by a mudslide which killed at least 270 people urgently need food, shelter and healthcare, aid agencies said yesterday, as they raced to prevent outbreaks of fatal diseases such as cholera and typhoid. A mountainside collapsed on the...

EDINBURG, Texas: In this Aug 13 photo, US Border Patrol officers escort a group of immigrants to a van after a group was found in the tractor-trailer. — AP

16 found locked in Texas rig

EDINBURG, Texas: In this Aug 13 photo, US Border Patrol officers escort a group of immigrants to a van after a group was found in the tractor-trailer. — APEDINBURG, Texas: Police in Texas acting on a tip found 16 immigrants locked inside a tractor-trailer parked at a gas station about 30 km from the border with Mexico, less than a month after the deaths of 10 people who were packed in a hot truck in San Antonio. Edinburg Assistant Police Chief...

KABUL: Afghan security personnel keep watch at the site of car bomb attack at the gate of a government office in the Puli Mahmood Khan neighbourhood yesterday. — AFP

Three aid workers killed in Afghanistan: officials

KABUL, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Three Afghan aid workers employed by Catholic Relief Services were gunned down and killed in central Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. The attack happened on Monday near the capital city of Ghor province, an area once relatively peaceful but now home to active Taliban and Islamic State militants. "We are shocked and heartbroken over the loss of our colleagues in Afghanistan," CRS spokeswoman Megan Gilbert said in a...

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Militants preparing chemical attacks nabbed: Indonesia

BANDUNG, Indonesia: Indonesian police said they arrested five suspected Islamic militants yesterday and seized chemicals that were to be used for attacks on several locations, including the presidential palace. West Java police spokesman Yusri Yunus said the militants arrested in the city of Bandung were members of Jemaah Anshorut Daulah, a network of about two dozen Indonesian extremist groups that formed in 2015 and pledges allegiance to...

Pakistani security forces transfer victims injured in a bombing, at a hospital in Peshawar, on March 7, 2016. (AFP )

Roadside bomb blast kills 8 soldiers in SW Pakistan

QUETTA, Pakistan: A roadside bomb killed eight soldiers in a remote district in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan, a government official said yesterday, the second attack within days in the troubled region.The blast late on Monday in Harnai district was some 160 km (100 miles) east of the provincial capital, Quetta, where a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into an army truck yesterday, killing eight soldiers and seven civilians....

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the country’s Independence Day from the ramparts of the historical Red Fort in New Delhi yesterday. — AP

Modi urges India to reject violence in name of religion

Indian PM addresses nation on 70th anniversary NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the country’s Independence Day from the ramparts of the historical Red Fort in New Delhi yesterday. — APNEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged India yesterday to reject religious violence, after a series of attacks against minorities sparked debate about whether a surge of Hindu nationalism is undermining the country's...

Zinedine Zidane

Zidane angered by five-game Ronaldo ban

Zinedine ZidaneMADRID: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane expressed his anger yesterday at a five-game ban handed to Cristiano Ronaldo for pushing a referee after being sent-off against Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup. Madrid hold a 3-1 first leg lead going into the second leg against their fierce rivals today (2100 GMT), but will have to do without Ronaldo.The World Player of the Year was controversially shown a second yellow card for diving...

Rafael Nadal

Federer out of Cincinnati with bad back, Nadal # 1

Rafael NadalMASON: Wimbledon champion Roger Federer withdrew Monday from the Western & Southern Open because of a back injury. He has won the Masters series tournament seven times. The move was announced on the first full day of matches. This US Open warmup has now lost five of the top six players in the men’s rankings. Federer, a 19-time major champion, said in a statement he “tweaked” his back last week at the Rogers Cup in Montreal,...

NOTTINGHAM: This file photo taken on July 14, 2017 shows England's Stuart Broad during play on the first day of the second Test Match between England and South Africa at Trent Bridge cricket ground in Nottingham, central England. Stuart Broad is looking forward to seeing England step into the unknown when the first day/night Test to be staged in cricket's birthplace starts later this week. – AFP

Broad backs Anderson to fire in Ashes

NOTTINGHAM: This file photo taken on July 14, 2017 shows England's Stuart Broad during play on the first day of the second Test Match between England and South Africa at Trent Bridge cricket ground in Nottingham, central England. Stuart Broad is looking forward to seeing England step into the unknown when the first day/night Test to be staged in cricket's birthplace starts later this week. – AFPLONDON: Stuart Broad is “very confident”...

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Kuwait shooting champions returns home

KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry, Acting State Minister for Youth Affairs Khalid Al-Roudhan said "We congratulate Kuwait's champions and the Shooting Sport Federation for their achievement, as Asia's top shooting champions, and was able to top many countries like China, India along with many others." He said "we are used to Kuwait shooters raising Kuwait's flag in many arenas."He thanked the KSF administration as well as shooters who...

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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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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

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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