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23 year old girl escapes rapist

KUWAIT: A girl escaped being raped at a Kabd farm. The girl went to Sulaibiya police station and lodged a complaint. A security source said the 23-year-old girl said she received a dinner invitation at a farm and was hesitant, but the man assured her he plans to marry her. He told her not to be afraid as there will be other people there. She said that when dinner was over, and while on the way to her car, the man "tried to push me into a room,...

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Man hospitalized in botched suicide

KUWAIT: A Bangladeshi was admitted to Jahra Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) after attempting suicide by ingesting two cans of insecticide. The man was taken by his sponsor to Abdaly health center after he found him prone at his farm.Stab woundAn 18-year-old Kuwaiti man was admitted to Jahra Hospital with a stab wound. He said he fought with men he does not know in Taima, who then stabbed him and left him bleeding. A case was opened to...

A general view shows Jerusalem’s Old City’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound with the Dome of the Rock (center), Islam’s holiest site. — AFP

Muslims refuse to enter Aqsa site

JERUSALEM: Israel reopened an ultra-sensitive holy site yesterday that was closed after an attack that killed two policemen, but Muslim worshippers were refusing to enter due to new security measures including metal detectors and cameras. Crowds chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) as a number of initial visitors entered Jerusalem's Haram Al-Sharif compound. The flashpoint holy site includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.Calls...

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Rouhani brother held on financial crime charges

Hossein FereydounTEHRAN: Iran's judiciary yesterday announced the arrest of President Hassan Rouhani's brother Hossein Fereydoun on financial crime charges, in a long-running feud between two of the country's centers of power. "Multiple investigations have been conducted regarding this person, also other people have been investigated, some of whom are in jail," deputy judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie said in a televised press...

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, give a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. — AFP

Macron chides Netanyahu on settlements

Paris urges Israel on new Mideast talks PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, give a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. — AFPPARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron told Israel's visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday that Paris opposes Israel's expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory as he urged fresh Middle East peace talks....

DAKAR: People look at the scene after a wall collapsed at Demba Diop stadium in Dakar after a football game between local teams Ouakam and Stade de Mbour. — AFP

Eight dead in Senegal football stadium crush

DAKAR: People look at the scene after a wall collapsed at Demba Diop stadium in Dakar after a football game between local teams Ouakam and Stade de Mbour. — AFPDAKAR: Eight people were killed during Senegal's football league cup final in Dakar on Saturday, the sports minister said, as a wall collapsed onto clashing supporters triggering a panicked stampede. Sports minister Matar Ba said a young girl was among the dead, while around 60 injured...

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Turkey marks coup defeat with rallies, Erdogan warning to traitors

Erdogan warned Turkey could reintroduce capital punishment ISTANBUL: People stand under a collection of Turkish national flags as they gather on the ‘July 15 Martyrs Bridge’ (Bosphorus Bridge) in Istanbul. —AFPANKARA: Turkey on Saturday marked one year since the defeat of the failed coup bid with mass nationwide rallies seeking to showcase national unity and a stern warning by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "chop off the heads" of...

GUAM: This photo shows tourists on a beach in Guam’s capital Hagatna.—AFP

Guam eyes end to US colonial rule

GUAM: This photo shows tourists on a beach in Guam’s capital Hagatna.—AFPHAGATNA, Guam: As Guam prepares to celebrate Liberation Day this week, political leaders on the Pacific island say it's time to decide whether to remain a US colony or become an independent nation. Debate about independence has raged for decades but legal complications mean plans to take the issue to a vote have stalled several times. Former senator Eddie Duenas said a...

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel detain a suspected Islamist extremist after he surrendered in Ashulia, some 25 kms from Dhaka. —AFP

Islamist extremists surrender after shootout in Bangladesh

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel detain a suspected Islamist extremist after he surrendered in Ashulia, some 25 kms from Dhaka. —AFPDHAKA: Four suspected Islamist extremists surrendered yesterday after a night-long standoff with Bangladeshi police in which they detonated explosives and opened fire outside the capital Dhaka, an official said.Police said the armed militants belonged to a new faction of Jamayetul...

RAMBAN: Indian police personnel and locals carry injured and dead from the site of a bus accident in Ramban district, about 140km from Jammu yesterday. At least 16 pilgrims of Amarnath Yatra were killed and more than 30 injured when the bus carrying them fell in a gorge in Ramban district on Jammu Srinagar National Highway, media reports said. —AFP

16 pilgrims killed in bus crash in northern India

PM Modi offers his condolences to pilgrims RAMBAN: Indian police personnel and locals carry injured and dead from the site of a bus accident in Ramban district, about 140km from Jammu yesterday. At least 16 pilgrims of Amarnath Yatra were killed and more than 30 injured when the bus carrying them fell in a gorge in Ramban district on Jammu Srinagar National Highway, media reports said. —AFPSRINAGAR: At least 16 Hindu pilgrims were killed and...

MANILA: In this file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while addressing Filipino Muslim leaders during a reception at the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines.—AP

New kidnappings, jailbreak hit restive Philippine island

Forces ordered to destroy ransom-seeking militants MANILA: In this file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while addressing Filipino Muslim leaders during a reception at the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines.—APJOLO, Philippines: Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen abducted four workers in a school in a southern Philippine province where President Rodrigo Duterte visited troops waging an offensive against the militants,...

LONDON: Switzerland’s Roger Federer (L) and Croatia’s Marin Cilic pose with their trophies after Federer won their men’s singles final match, during the presentation on the last day of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, yesterday. Roger Federer won 6-3, 6-1, 6-4. — AFP

Federer wins record 8th Wimbledon

LONDON: Switzerland’s Roger Federer (L) and Croatia’s Marin Cilic pose with their trophies after Federer won their men’s singles final match, during the presentation on the last day of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, yesterday. Roger Federer won 6-3, 6-1, 6-4. — AFPLONDON: Roger Federer won a record eighth Wimbledon title and became the tournament's oldest champion...

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