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Envoy urges Pakistanis to stand united, work hard
Pakistanis in Kuwait mark 70th Independence Day - Amir congratulates PakistanKUWAIT: Pakistanis in Kuwait marked their country's 70th Independence Day yesterday. The ceremony was held at the embassy premises in Jabriya and was attended by community leaders and invited guests. Pakistani Ambassador to Kuwait Ghulam Dastagir told Kuwait Times that Pakistani people in Kuwait are well-placed in various sectors and are contributing tremendously to the...
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Beaten and raped by ex husband
KUWAIT: A citizen who works for the Health Ministry lodged a complaint at Saad Al-Abdullah police station against her ex-husband for beating and raping her. The woman refused to be examined by doctors, but the prosecutor went ahead and filed charges.Lover 'cheated'A citizen accused a man, his mother and his Moroccan girlfriend of cheating after he made her believe that he was in love and promised to marry her. He claimed to be a dentist, then...
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Officer's cars set ablaze
KUWAIT: Jahra detectives are investigating the case of two cars owned by a police officer that were torched. The officer said that on Saturday morning, one of his cars was torched, then on Thursday, a pick-up truck was set ablaze. It was discovered that flammable material was used in both cases. Farwaniya firemen dealt with a cooking gas leak and explosion in a house in Rehab. A sidewall collapsed and the kitchen's contents were scattered.Forging...
OUAGADOUGOU: People evacuate from the area of a restaurant yesterday following a deadly attack by gunmen, resulting in 18 deaths. - AFP
Two Kuwaitis among 18 killed in Burkina attack
Gunmen target Turkish restaurant in Ouagadougou OUAGADOUGOU: People evacuate from the area of a restaurant yesterday following a deadly attack by gunmen, resulting in 18 deaths. - AFPOUAGADOUGOU: At least 18 people including two Kuwaiti clerics were gunned down in a Turkish restaurant in Burkina Faso, officials said yesterday, the latest West African attack to target a spot popular with expats. Kuwaiti media reports named the two Kuwaiti clerics...
SANAA: A police officer executes Hussein Al-Saket, 22, who was convicted of raping and murdering a four-year-old girl Safaa Al-Matari, in Tahrir Square yesterday. - AFP
Yemeni man executed for rape, murder of 4-yr-old
SANAA: A police officer executes Hussein Al-Saket, 22, who was convicted of raping and murdering a four-year-old girl Safaa Al-Matari, in Tahrir Square yesterday. - AFPSANAA: Yemenis gathered yesterday in the rebel-held capital to witness the putting to death of a man convicted of raping and killing a child, in the second such public execution in weeks. Hussein Al-Saket, 22, was found guilty of abducting, raping and murdering a four-year-old...
FREETOWN: Bystanders look on as floodwaters rage past a damaged building yesterday, after landslides struck the Sierra Leonean capital. - AFP
Floods kill 312 in Sierra Leone, 175 in South Asia
FREETOWN: Bystanders look on as floodwaters rage past a damaged building yesterday, after landslides struck the Sierra Leonean capital. - AFPFREETOWN/ Janakpur, Nepal: At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless yesterday when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown, leaving morgues overflowing and residents desperately searching for loved ones. An AFP journalist at the scene saw bodies being carried away and...
PESHAWAR: In this Tuesday, Aug 8, 2017 photo, people from Pakistan Sikh community visit their temple. — AP photos
A dwindling minority, Pakistan's Sikhs feel less at home than ever before
Sikhs search for home 70 years after Partition PESHAWAR: In this Tuesday, Aug 8, 2017 photo, people from Pakistan Sikh community visit their temple. — AP photosPESHAWAR: Radesh Singh's grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his village in India's Punjab province to move to Peshawar, in the far northwest of the country on the border with Afghanistan. The year was 1901: The British ruled the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan wasn't even a...
ZAATARI: In this Monday, Aug. 6, 2017 photo, a girl walks to school in the Zaatari Refugee Camp for Syrian refugees. — AP
A Third of Syrian refugee kids not in school, despite pledges
Syria aid plagued by persistent funding shortfalls ZAATARI: In this Monday, Aug. 6, 2017 photo, a girl walks to school in the Zaatari Refugee Camp for Syrian refugees. — APMANSHIYEH, Jordan: Since his family fled civil war in Syria five years ago, 15-year-old Ali Al-Sbehi hasn't set foot in a school. Instead, he has put in 12-hour shifts in a supermarket, a fast food stand and now a coffee shop, enduring abuse from employers, back-breaking work...
GORAKHPUR, India: An Indian woman looks after her child at the encephalitis ward of the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in this city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday. — AFP
India restores hospital oxygen as anger mounts
GORAKHPUR, India: An Indian woman looks after her child at the encephalitis ward of the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in this city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday. — AFPGORAKHPUR, India: Indian health authorities yesterday delivered oxygen to a public hospital where 63 people have died of encephalitis in recent days, nearly half of them children, as it ran out of medical supplies because of unpaid bills, triggering public...
This file photo taken on May 19, 2017 shows French President Emmanuel Macron (C) and Defence minister Sylvie Goulard (2-L) visiting the troops of France’s Barkhane counter-terrorism operation in Africa’s Sahel region.— AFP
French 'falling out of love' with Macron after 100 days
No president has seen such a steep drop in popularity This file photo taken on May 19, 2017 shows French President Emmanuel Macron (C) and Defence minister Sylvie Goulard (2-L) visiting the troops of France’s Barkhane counter-terrorism operation in Africa’s Sahel region.— AFPPARIS: Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old former investment banker who was catapulted to the French presidency in May, faces widespread disillusionment as he prepares to...
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India to deport Rohingya despite UN registration
NEW DELHI: All of an estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India are illegal immigrants, even those registered with the UN refugee agency, and the government aims to deport them, a senior government official told Reuters. Junior interior minister Kiren Rijiju told parliament last week the central government had directed state authorities to identify and deport illegal immigrants including Rohingya, who face persecution in Buddhist-majority...
In this undated video grab provided by the RU-RTR Russian television via APTN on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, Russian FSB officers arrest a man on suspicion of plotting a series of attacks outside Moscow, Russia. Russia's main intelligence agency said on Monday it has foiled a plot led by two Soviet-born militants fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria. The FSB did not say when the arrests took place. (AP)
Foiled IS-led suicide bomb attacks in Moscow: Police
In this undated video grab provided by the RU-RTR Russian television via APTN on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, Russian FSB officers arrest a man on suspicion of plotting a series of attacks outside Moscow, Russia. Russia's main intelligence agency said on Monday it has foiled a plot led by two Soviet-born militants fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria. The FSB did not say when the arrests took place. (AP)MOSCOW: Russia's FSB security service...
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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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Indians mark Independence Day
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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