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Gulf Bank posts 10% rise in net profit for H1 2017

Gulf Bank Chairman Omar AlghanimKUWAIT: Gulf Bank K.S.C.P. announced yesterday its financial results for the first half of 2017. The Bank recorded a net profit of KD 22.8 million in the first 6 months of 2017, an increase of 10 percent over the same period of 2016. The Bank was able to generate a net interest income of KD 63.5 million and an operating profit of KD 60.5 million during the first half of 2017, recording an increase of 7.5 percent...

US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (L) and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang pose for a photo before an opening session at a US and China comprehensive Economic Dialogue at the US Department of the Treasury July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. After riding a wave of anti-trade feeling to the White House, the Trump administration is taking a more traditional approach to resolving issues with China: a formal structure of talks that makes gradual, sometimes glacial progress. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski

US seeks 'fair, equitable and reciprocal' trade with China

US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (L) and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang pose for a photo before an opening session at a US and China comprehensive Economic Dialogue at the US Department of the Treasury July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. After riding a wave of anti-trade feeling to the White House, the Trump administration is taking a more traditional approach to resolving issues with China: a formal structure of talks that makes...

A truck set ablaze by opposition activists blocking an avenue during a protest burns in Caracas, on July 18, 2017. The Venezuelan opposition called for a 24-hour national civic strike next Thursday to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to withdraw the call to a National Constituent Assembly, after achieving a massive vote of rejection in a symbolic plebiscite. / AFP / JUAN BARRETO

Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro defies Trump over constitution re-write

A truck set ablaze by opposition activists blocking an avenue during a protest burns in Caracas, on July 18, 2017. The Venezuelan opposition called for a 24-hour national civic strike next Thursday to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to withdraw the call to a National Constituent Assembly, after achieving a massive vote of rejection in a symbolic plebiscite. / AFP / JUAN BARRETOCARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro said that controversial plans to...

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Quartet drops 13 demands, sets 6 principles for Qatar

UNITED NATIONS: Four Arab nations that cut ties with Qatar urged the Gulf nation Tuesday to commit to six principles on combatting extremism and terrorism and negotiate a plan with specific measures to implement them - a step that could pave the way for an early resolution of the crisis. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain broke diplomatic relations with Qatar in early June largely over their allegations that it supports...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump leaves after speaking during the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House yesterday. - AFP

Can Trump save his presidency?

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump leaves after speaking during the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House yesterday. - AFPWASHINGTON: Donald Trump's first six months in the White House have been a riot of scandal, chaos and outrage that - absent a major course correction - could spell doom for his entire administration. All US presidents...

PARIS: This photo taken on July 14, 2017 shows French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Chief of the Defense Staff, French Army General Pierre de Villiers, riding aboard a command car during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue. - AFP n

French military chief resigns

PARIS: This photo taken on July 14, 2017 shows French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Chief of the Defense Staff, French Army General Pierre de Villiers, riding aboard a command car during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue. - AFPPARIS: France's top military chief resigned yesterday after a war of words with Emmanuel Macron over budget cuts that posed the biggest test yet of the new president's authority....

In this Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, senior adviser to the Royal Thai Army Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen arrives at the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand. A Thai court, Wednesday, is issuing rulings in a major human trafficking trial with more than 103 defendants, including a senior army officer, who were arrested in 2015 after 36 bodies were discovered in shallow graves in southern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Court finds Thai general guilty of human trafficking

In this Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, senior adviser to the Royal Thai Army Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen arrives at the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand. A Thai court, Wednesday, is issuing rulings in a major human trafficking trial with more than 103 defendants, including a senior army officer, who were arrested in 2015 after 36 bodies were discovered in shallow graves in southern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)BANGKOK: A Thai general was found...

TOPSHOT - Members of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) arrive on the frontline on the eastern outskirts of Raqa on July 18, 2017, during the ongoing offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are made up of an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. The US-backed coalition has captured around 30 percent of Raqa city since it entered the IS bastion in June after a months-long operation to capture territory in the surrounding province. / AFP / BULENT KILIC

Sold by IS, Yazidi female fighters back for revenge

TOPSHOT - Members of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) arrive on the frontline on the eastern outskirts of Raqa on July 18, 2017, during the ongoing offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are made up of an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. The US-backed coalition has captured around 30 percent of Raqa city since it entered the IS bastion in June after a months-long...

Suspected Islamic State members sit inside a small room in a prison south of Mosul, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Hundreds of suspected Islamic State members swept up by Iraqi forces in Mosul are being held in a cramped and stifling prison just outside the city. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Iraqi PM: Rights violations in Mosul were 'individual acts'

Suspected Islamic State members sit inside a small room in a prison south of Mosul, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Hundreds of suspected Islamic State members swept up by Iraqi forces in Mosul are being held in a cramped and stifling prison just outside the city. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces committed human rights violations during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, the country's prime minister...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference held after the talks of Netanjahu with heads of government of the Visegrad Group or V4 countries in the Pesti Vigado building in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, july 19, 2017. Netanyahu is staying on a four-day official visit in Hungary. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

On hot mic, Israeli PM raps crazy EU, admits Syria strikes

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference held after the talks of Netanjahu with heads of government of the Visegrad Group or V4 countries in the Pesti Vigado building in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, july 19, 2017. Netanyahu is staying on a four-day official visit in Hungary. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)BUDAPEST: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was caught...

Abdaly terror cell

Authorities call for info on absconding convicts

Abdaly terror cellKUWAIT: The Interior Ministry yesterday said that anyone withholding information on the whereabouts of convicts involved in the "Abdaly terror cell" should contact authorities immediately or face legal repercussions. A statement provided by the ministry urged anyone with information on the criminals to come forward and contact 112, after authorities "received evidence that some of the convicts are at large".The interior...

In this Monday, July 17, 2017 photo, Kevin Howard, a 28-year old former U.S. military contractor from California, who fights with an Assyrian militia, that is part of the U.S-backed forces battling Islamic State group militants, gives an interview to The Associated Press, on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. Several U.S. and British volunteer fighters are on the front lines in the decisive battle against IS for the Syrian city of Raqqa. They joined the U.S.-allied militias in Syria for different reasons, some motivated by testimonies of survivors of the unimaginable brutality that IS flaunted in establishing its self-proclaimed caliphate. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US and British volunteers battle IS in Syria's Raqqa

In this Monday, July 17, 2017 photo, Kevin Howard, a 28-year old former U.S. military contractor from California, who fights with an Assyrian militia, that is part of the U.S-backed forces battling Islamic State group militants, gives an interview to The Associated Press, on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. Several U.S. and British volunteer fighters are on the front lines in the decisive battle against IS for the Syrian city of...

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