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People walk on the corniche of the Qatari capital Doha yesterday. – AFP

Qatar rejects ultimatum, could face fresh sanctions

All sides standing ground as Gulf deadline 'expires' People walk on the corniche of the Qatari capital Doha yesterday. – AFPDUBAI/DOHA: Qatar faces possible further sanctions by Arab states that have severed ties with Doha over allegations of links to terrorism, as a deadline to accept their demands was expected to expire yesterday night. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said the demands were made to be...

GAZA: A member of the Hamas security forces sets fire to a pile of confiscated bars of hashish and analgesic pills, seized since the beginning of the year in Gaza City, on May 11, 2017. - AFP

Stigma keeping drug addicts quiet in Gaza

GAZA: A member of the Hamas security forces sets fire to a pile of confiscated bars of hashish and analgesic pills, seized since the beginning of the year in Gaza City, on May 11, 2017. - AFPGAZA CITY: After Umm Mazen found her husband shivering in his bed and complaining of a migraine, he confessed he was addicted to painkillers and could no longer provide for the family. In the Gaza Strip, the tiny Palestinian territory sandwiched between...

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz heads the Council of Ministers meeting in the capital Riyadh. – AFPn

Saudi king orders columnist to stop piling on the praise

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has ordered an over-enthusiastic columnist to be suspended from his job after he equated him with God, Saudi media reported yesterday. Ramadan Al-Anzi's column in Al-Jazirah newspaper describing King Salman as "Haleem", or forbearing, and "Shadeed al-Eqab", strict in punishment - both terms associated in Islam with God - appeared to have gone too far.The newspaper published an apology late on...

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Abu Dhabi airport now exempt from US ban on laptops

DUBAI: The capital of the United Arab Emirates became the first city to be exempt from a US ban on laptop computers being in airplane cabins, the country's flag carrier said yesterday. Long-haul airline Etihad said it welcomed the decision by the US Department of Homeland Security, which comes "subject to enhanced security measures" at Abu Dhabi International Airport. That airport already has a US Customs and Border Protection facility that...

India woman attacked with acid for fifth time - AP

Indian woman attacked fifth time with acid

NEW DELHI: A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive liquid, Indian police said Sunday. The 35-year-old mother, who was allegedly gang-raped in 2008 over a property dispute, was at a women's hostel in Uttar Pradesh state capital Lucknow when a man scaled the walls and poured the chemical onto her. "She was filling water at the hand pump when the attack took place. The attacker...

DAMASCUS: Syrians inspect the site of a suicide bomb attack in Damascus’ eastern Tahrir Square district yesterday. — AFP

Suicide car bombers hit Damascus; 18 killed

DAMASCUS: Syrians inspect the site of a suicide bomb attack in Damascus’ eastern Tahrir Square district yesterday. — AFPDAMASCUS: A suicide car bomber pursued by security forces blew himself up in eastern Damascus yesterday, with a monitor reporting 18 killed in the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months. Syrian state media and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said security forces intercepted three car...

MARAWI, Philippines: Displaced residents and soldiers watch the World Boxing Organization welterweight boxing match between Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and challenger Jeff Horn of Australia at the Lanao Del Sur Capitol in this city on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao yesterday. - AFP

Boxing-Filipinos stunned by Pacquiao defeat in Australia

MARAWI, Philippines: Displaced residents and soldiers watch the World Boxing Organization welterweight boxing match between Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and challenger Jeff Horn of Australia at the Lanao Del Sur Capitol in this city on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao yesterday. - AFPMARAWI, Philippines: Millions of boxing fans in the Philippines, including those displaced by fighting with Islamist militants, walked away in...

This image grab released by Al-Jazeera television shows part of a video broadcast by the pan-Arab channel, in which three Western hostages taken captive in northern Mali by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Din movement, appear in an undisclosed location in Mali. — AFP

Qaeda releases a proof-of-life video of six foreign hostages

This image grab released by Al-Jazeera television shows part of a video broadcast by the pan-Arab channel, in which three Western hostages taken captive in northern Mali by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Din movement, appear in an undisclosed location in Mali. — AFPBAMAKO: Al-Qaeda's Mali branch has released a proof-of-life video of six foreign hostages, including elderly Australian surgeon Arthur Kenneth Elliott and Frenchwoman Sophie Petronin,...

SINALOA STATE: Investigators take pictures at the crime scene next to bodies lying on a road in the town of Navolato, Sinaloa state, Mexico. 59 AK type and AR-15 bullet casings were found in the area. — AP

19 killed as Mexican troops battle gang

SINALOA STATE: Investigators take pictures at the crime scene next to bodies lying on a road in the town of Navolato, Sinaloa state, Mexico. 59 AK type and AR-15 bullet casings were found in the area. — APCULIACAN: Mexican authorities said yesterday that at least 19 people died in clashes involving armed men and security forces in the gang-plagued northwestern state of Sinaloa, where homicides have spiked dramatically following the capture and...

PAKISTAN: A Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine to a child in Quetta yesterday.-AP

Polio worker shot dead in Pakistan

PESHAWAR: A health worker who had been immunizing children against polio was shot dead in Pakistan’s northwestern province Saturday, the provincial health department said. He was shot by two motorbike riders armed with assault rifes as he returned to his base from an outreach campaign.Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack but Taleban militants have attacked polio workers in the province in the past. More than 100 people have been killed...

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Bangladesh arrests 3 female militants

DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested three female members of an Islamist extremist group blamed for the deadly Dhaka cafe siege, officials said yesterday, as authorities continue to crack down on militant outfits a year after the attack.The three women were arrested late Saturday following a failed suicide bombing after their hide-out was raided in western Kushtia district’s Bheramara town, 228 kilometers from the capital Dhaka.Local police...

MANILA: Police officers investigate a dead body of an alleged drug dealer (his face covered with packing tape) in Manila. —AFP

Police use hospitals to hide drug killings in Philippines

MANILA: Police officers investigate a dead body of an alleged drug dealer (his face covered with packing tape) in Manila. —AFPMANILA: The residents of Old Balara hid in their homes when gunfire erupted in their Manila district last September. They didn't see the police operation that killed seven drug suspects that night. But they witnessed the gory aftermath and it haunts them still. That night, Herlina Alim said she watched police haul away...

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