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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Belgian Ambassador to Kuwait Andy Detaille. — KUNA
Foreign Minister meets outgoing Belgian Envoy
Interior Minister calls for vigilance in last days of Ramadan KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Belgian Ambassador to Kuwait Andy Detaille. — KUNAKUWAIT: Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday received outgoing Belgian Ambassador to Kuwait Andy Detaille. During the meeting, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled lauded...
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Car fire kills motorist at Kabd highway
KUWAIT: A man was killed yesterday morning after an accident reported at Kabd highway. The man's vehicle reportedly caught fire and he could not escape from it, said security sources. An investigation was opened to determine the cause of the accident. Separately, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said that a fire broke out in a vehicle along Doha Spur and that on reporting to the scene, firemen found two men trapped inside the vehicle. The...
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Father admits that he sprayed pesticides in dead kids' room
KUWAIT: A man could face manslaughter charges after he admitted that he sprayed pesticides in a room where his two young children slept and where later found dead. The man had noticed that his seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter were unconscious in their Farwaniya apartment, so he rushed them to Farwaniya Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Police questioned the father who said that he entered his children's room at 11:00 am...
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Murder probe in toddler's death
KUWAIT: A three-year-old boy was taken to Adan hospital where he was pronounced dead. Doctors who examined him noticed bruises on his body, and his parents claimed that they were caused by a fall. Police authorities were informed; forensics went to the scene as the deputy prosecutor ordered the case be registered as a murder, in waiting for the coroner's report. This comes on the heels of the death of the two children in Farwaniya under...
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Stranded Indian migrant recounts ordeal in Gulf
My home was a goat shelter, Rajamarian saysCHENNAI: Gnanaprakasham Rajamarian was short on cash. Two years into his job at a construction site in Saudi Arabia, his sponsor demanded money to renew his work permit or to get back his passport to return home. But Rajamarian, who had left his home in the coastal district of Kanyakumari in south India in 1994, didn't have the money to buy his freedom. More than 20 years after he was stranded in Saudi...
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UAE court scraps Filipina maid death sentence
DUBAI: An Appeals Court in the United Arab Emirates acquitted a maid from Philippines of the murder of her employer and scrapped her death sentence, the Philippines Foreign Ministry and UAE media said yesterday. The maid, 30, was sentenced to death by a lower tribunal in the city of Al-Ain in May 2015 for fatally stabbing her Emirati employer in 2014, UAE-based newspaper The National said. She had argued she was acting in self defense after he...
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Bomb blast in Bahrain
DUBAI: A bomb in a Shiite village outside the Bahraini capital has killed one person, the second blast in a suburb of Manama this week, the interior ministry said yesterday. The Sunni-ruled Gulf state has been rocked by unrest among its Shiite majority since 2011, when security forces crushed Shiite-led protests demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister.The interior ministry gave no date for the latest bombing saying only...
This image released by the Minya governorate media office shows bodies of victims killed when gunmen stormed a bus in Minya, Egypt, Friday, May 26, 2017. Egyptian officials say dozens of people were killed and wounded in an attack by masked militants on a bus carrying Coptic Christians, including children, south of Cairo. (Minya Governorate Media office via AP)
Egypt boy recalls father’s killing
DAYR JARNOUS, Egypt: Egyptian schoolboy Mina Habib rarely leaves his house these days. The 10-year-old is still recovering from seeing Islamist gunmen kill his father for being Christian. In an attack claimed by Islamic State, gunmen ambushed a group of Coptic Christians travelling to a monastery in Minya in southern Egypt last month, killing 29 and wounding 24, with Mina's father Adel among the dead. A month later, residents of Dayr Jarnous, a...
LONDON: A man holds a banner reading “Finsbury Park - We Stand Together” as he stands outside the Finsbury Park Mosque in the Finsbury Park area of north London yesterday following a van attack on pedestrians nearby. — AFP
Police question ‘troubled’ anti-Muslim van attacker
Londoners hold vigil for terror attack victims LONDON: A man holds a banner reading “Finsbury Park - We Stand Together” as he stands outside the Finsbury Park Mosque in the Finsbury Park area of north London yesterday following a van attack on pedestrians nearby. — AFPLONDON: Police yesterday questioned a man suspected of deliberately mowing down Muslims in London, as the interior minister said Britain was "bruised but not broken" by a...
LONDON: Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn (left) meets locals at Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, after an incident where a van struck pedestrians in London. — AP
Britain Islamophobia breeds 'vicious circle'
LONDON: Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn (left) meets locals at Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, after an incident where a van struck pedestrians in London. — APLONDON: The attack at Finsbury Park Mosque was the depressingly logical outcome of demonization by tabloid headline writers and rightwing demagogues who portray Muslims as the enemy within, British commentators and Islamic leaders worry. From opposition politicians to JK Rowling and...
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Lightning kills 22 in Bangladesh
DHAKA: Lightning strikes have killed at least 22 people in Bangladesh in the last 48 hours, authorities said yesterday, a week after monsoon rains triggered a series of deadly landslides in the country.The deaths came as storms swept the country on Sunday and Monday, the head of the disaster management department Reaz Ahmed said. Among the dead were a couple and their young daughter who were working on a peanut farm when they were struck by...
LONDON: A van is seen at Finsbury Park in north London after the vehicle struck pedestrians yesterday. Police said a man who was driving the van has been arrested and taken to a hospital as a precaution. — AP
London attack suspect: Pub fights and anti-Muslim rants
LONDON: The 47-year-old accused of driving a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside a London mosque was "troubled", according to his family, while those who know him described a man who verbally abused Muslim children. Darren Osborne, a father of four from Cardiff in Wales, was arrested after the attack near Finsbury Park Mosque early Monday and is being questioned by police on suspicion of attempted murder and terrorism. According to...
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Boats are moored in waters in front of the Auckland city skyline, New Zealand. People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anemic, government statistics show. – AFP
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INCHEON, South Korea: This photo taken on Aug 8, 2024 shows a sniffer dog taking part in a demonstration of bedbug detection in passengers' luggage at Incheon International Airport. - AFP
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