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Two dead in Abdali highway accident

.KUWAIT: Two unidentified people were killed yesterday after they lost control over their vehicle and rammed into a lamppost along Abdali highway. The car overturned and caught fire, said security sources, noting that the two men burned to death.Building fireKuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said firefighters were dispatched to control a fire in an under-construction building in Farwaniya. The fire was controlled and prevented from...

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

Driver plows a van into crowd of Muslims, 1 dies

4th terror strike in a tumultuous 4 months; Amir denounces attack 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. — APLONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed yesterday to fight terrorism in all its forms after a white driver ploughed his van into a crowd of Muslims in a suspected...

DOHA: Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani holds a press conference on Sunday. —AFP

Qatar wants ‘blockade’ lifted before talks

UAE: Isolation could last ‘years’ - Turkish troops in Qatar for exercises DOHA: Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani holds a press conference on Sunday. —AFPDOHA: Qatar's foreign minister yesterday called on neighboring states to lift their "blockade" of his country before Doha takes part in any negotiations on ending the Gulf diplomatic crisis. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani called measures to isolate...

Security forces including a bomb disposal unit attended the scene - AFP

Paris Champs-Elysees 'attack' - Car crashes into police van

Security forces including a bomb disposal unit attended the scene - AFPPARIS: A car loaded with gas canisters rammed into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris yesterday, leaving the driver dead in what the interior minister said was an attempted attack. Police sources said that a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles were found in the white Renault Megane. Video showed orange smoke pouring from the car after the impact as the...

Photo shows Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, charged with murdering 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in Sterling, Virginia. — AFP

Muslim girl assaulted, murdered in Virginia

Photo shows Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, charged with murdering 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in Sterling, Virginia. — AFPVIRGINIA: A 17-year-old American Muslim girl was beaten and abducted after leaving a mosque in Virginia on Sunday by a man who police later arrested on suspicion of murder after her body was found dumped in a pond, authorities said. The attack spurred an outpouring of grief and horror in a Muslim community that has been...

MOSUL: An Iraqi forces member fires a 23 mm anti-aircraft gun as they advance towards the Old City of Mosul yesterday during an ongoing offensive to retake the last district still held by Islamic State (IS) group fighters.— AFP

Iraq forces push into Mosul, warn Islamic State group 'surrender or die'

MOSUL: An Iraqi forces member fires a 23 mm anti-aircraft gun as they advance towards the Old City of Mosul yesterday during an ongoing offensive to retake the last district still held by Islamic State (IS) group fighters.— AFPMOSUL: Iraqi forces pushed deeper into Mosul's Old City yesterday after launching a final assault on the Islamic State group, warning civilians to stay inside and telling militants to "surrender or die". Iraqi forces...

GAZA: This photo taken on June 13, 2017 shows Palestinian children at home reading books by candlelight due to electricity shortages in Gaza City. —AFP

Israel reduces Gaza power after Abbas cuts payment

Energy crisis part of PA-Hamas dispute GAZA: This photo taken on June 13, 2017 shows Palestinian children at home reading books by candlelight due to electricity shortages in Gaza City. —AFPGAZA CITY: Israel yesterday began reducing electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, despite warnings the move could increase suffering and tensions in the Palestinian enclave. The cut will reduce the mains power flow to Gaza to as little as two hours a day,...

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Ivanka TrumpWASHINGTON: Getting nowhere with her father, liberal advocacy groups have been looking for an ally in Ivanka Trump. They haven't had much luck. In recent weeks, activists have been appealing to the younger Trump for help on climate change, international labor conditions and immigration. But the first daughter, an influential adviser to President Donald Trump in her own right, largely has sought to stay out of the fray. Still the...

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: This screen grab image taken yesterday from a video released on Youtube by Islamist group Boko Haram shows Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau making a statement.—AFP

Suicide bombers kill 16 in northeast Nigeria

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: At least 16 people were killed in suicide bomb attacks near a camp for those made homeless by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said yesterday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the attacks took place at about 8:45 pm (1945 GMT) on Sunday close to the Dalori camp at Kofa village, near the Borno state capital Maiduguri. NEMA northeast region spokesman Abdulkadir Ibrahim said two...

Fire can be seen by the swimming pool of the Campement Kangaba, a tourist resort near Bamako, on Sunday. —AP

4 militants killed, 5 held after Mali resort attack

Fire can be seen by the swimming pool of the Campement Kangaba, a tourist resort near Bamako, on Sunday. —APBAMAKO: Mali's government said yesterday five suspected militants were in custody after an assault on a popular tourist resort near the capital, Bamako, which left two civilians dead. Four attackers were killed at the scene, Security Minister Salif Traore told AFP, while 36 hostages were freed following the incident at the Kangaba Le...

LONDON: Handout picture released by the Metropolitan Police shows the inside of the Grenfell Tower in west London after a fire engulfed the 24-storey building. —AFP

79 people presumed dead in London tower fire

LONDON: Handout picture released by the Metropolitan Police shows the inside of the Grenfell Tower in west London after a fire engulfed the 24-storey building. —AFPLONDON: Seventy-nine people are dead or missing and presumed dead following a devastating blaze in a London tower, police said yesterday, as Britain held a minute's silence for the victims. "I'm afraid to say there are now 79 people that we believe are either dead or missing and I...

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi distributes cake as she celebrates her 72nd birthday at the parliament building yesterday. —AFP

Myanmar religious tensions simmer as madrassas closed

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi distributes cake as she celebrates her 72nd birthday at the parliament building yesterday. —AFPYANGON: Chit Tin, a 55-year-old Muslim man has prayed at the same madrassa in eastern Yangon his whole adult life, most of it spent under a junta that crushed opposition, ruined Myanmar's economy and turned it into an international pariah state. But even as the father-of-four endured poverty...

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