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Kuwait shooter Talal wins Grand Mondial Perazzi cup

Talal Al-RashidiKUWAIT: Kuwait shooter Talal Al-Rashidi won the first place and the cup of the second day of the Grand Mondial Perazzi tournament, he also won second place in the high tech rifle competition. The final results of the competition saw Russia's Alipov Alexey win first place, followed by Italy's Emanuele Bernasconi while Talal Al-Rashidi ended in third place, bearing in mind that more than 600 participants took part in the...

BEIJING: This photo shows a woman making purchases through her smartphone at a shop in Beijing.-AFP

China cashing out as mobile payment soars

BEIJING: This photo shows a woman making purchases through her smartphone at a shop in Beijing.-AFPBEIJING: Yang Qianqian holds out her smartphone to scan a barcode on the mobile of a vendor selling fresh fruit and vegetables at a bustling outdoor market in Beijing. The dance student is part of an explosion in the use of mobile payment platforms in China as consumers increasingly take out phones instead of cash to pay for everything from a...

DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan are welcomed by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at Doha International Airport at the start of his official visit to Qatar yesterday. - AFP

Qatar, Turkey praise Kuwait mediation

DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan are welcomed by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at Doha International Airport at the start of his official visit to Qatar yesterday. - AFPDOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Doha yesterday as part of a Gulf tour aimed at defusing a dispute between Turkey's ally Qatar and a bloc of Saudi-led Arab states. Erdogan was greeted by Qatari ruler...

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Iran ambassador to remain in Kuwait as ties downgraded

TEHRAN/KUWAIT: Iran said yesterday it was disappointed at Kuwait's decision to reduce the number of Iranian diplomats in the country, but said its ambassador would remain. Kuwait announced last week that 15 Iranian diplomats would have to leave within six weeks in response to the conviction of a "terror" cell with alleged links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. "We did not expect this from Kuwait," foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi...

WEST BANK: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces near the Jewish settlement of Beit El. - AFP

Israel Embassy shooting in Jordan complicates crisis

WEST BANK: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces near the Jewish settlement of Beit El. - AFPJERUSALEM: A deadly shooting at Israel's Embassy in Jordan further complicated Israeli government efforts yesterday to find a way out of an escalating crisis over a major Jerusalem shrine, including mass Muslim prayer protests and Israeli-Palestinian violence. The shooting, in which an Israeli security guard killed two Jordanians...

ISTANBUL: A journalist holds a banner on July 24, 2017 outside the headquarters of opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet. - AFP

Absurd: Turkey tries anti-Erdogan journalists on 'terror' charges

ISTANBUL: A journalist holds a banner on July 24, 2017 outside the headquarters of opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet. - AFPISTANBUL: Staff from one of Turkey's most respected opposition newspapers yesterday rejected as absurd "terror" charges against them on the first day of a trial which has intensified alarm over press freedom under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The 17 defendants from the Cumhuriyet daily were detained from October last...

LAHORE: Pakistani rescue workers try to move the bodies of victims at the site of an explosion. - AP

Blast kills at least 25 in Lahore

LAHORE: Pakistani rescue workers try to move the bodies of victims at the site of an explosion. - APLAHORE: An explosion killed at least 25 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, officials said, but the cause of the blast was not immediately clear. The powerful explosion hit a bustling main road in the south of Lahore and blew out windows in nearby buildings. Initial police...

BEIJING: Chinese paramilitary policemen practice self-defense tactic in the compound of the State Council Information Office. - AP

China warns India of its 'resolve' amid standoff

BEIJING: Chinese paramilitary policemen practice self-defense tactic in the compound of the State Council Information Office. - APBEIJING: China yesterday warned India not to "push your luck" by underestimating Beijing's determination to safeguard what it considers sovereign Chinese territory, amid an ongoing standoff between the two neighbors over a contested region high in the Himalayas. Defense ministry spokesman Col Wu Qian reiterated...

MARAWI: Rescuers carry a body bag containing the remains of a victim of Marawi siege during a mass burial at a public cemetery. - AFP

Duterte vows to continue drug war, end communist rebel talks

MARAWI: Rescuers carry a body bag containing the remains of a victim of Marawi siege during a mass burial at a public cemetery. - AFPMANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed yesterday to continue his bloody war on illegal drugs despite international and domestic criticism and warned that offenders will end up in "jail or hell." In his second state of the nation speech, Duterte also insisted he would not hold peace talks with communist...

KABUL: Footwear of victims are seen on the ground as Afghan residents inspect the site of a car bomb attack. - AFP

At least 26 killed in Kabul bomb claimed by Taleban

KABUL: Footwear of victims are seen on the ground as Afghan residents inspect the site of a car bomb attack. - AFPKABUL: At least 26 people were killed and 41 wounded Monday after a Taleban-claimed car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees through a Shiite neighborhood in Kabul, raising fears of sectarian violence in the Afghan capital. The assault came as a presidential spokesman said the Taleban also killed at least 35 civilians in...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sees off Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. - KUNA

Turkish President concludes official visit to Kuwait

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sees off Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. - KUNAKUWAIT: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his accompanying delegation left Kuwait yesterday, concluding an official visit to the country. He was seen off at the airport by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and His Highness the Prime Minister...

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New Ahmadi Hospital serves KOC's long-term strategy

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the cabinet's meeting yesterday. - KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) CEO Jamal Abdelaziz Jaafar said in an address to employees that the new Ahmadi Hospital comes as part of the company's long-term strategy for 2030, saying that it is the first public hospital to open in Kuwait since the 1980s. The hospital, which cost KD 94 million to build, is equipped...

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