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Harasser jailed followed by deportation
KUWAIT: Criminal court sentenced a Gulf national to two years in jail followed by deportation for compromising the reputation of his friend's wife, as he wanted to have a relation with her. The suspect stole the woman's number from her husband's phone, and then harassed her. When she admonished him, he sent voice and written messages with indecent words including threats to expose her to her family, so she told her husband.AssaultAn Egyptian man...
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Prince kidnaps children
KUWAIT: A Gulf prince is wanted by the Interpol after he kidnapped his son and daughter from his Kuwaiti ex-wife, and escaped to a Gulf country. A source said the citizen who was divorced by the prince after having two children from him, and has custody for both, allowed her husband to take them out and bring them back at the end of the day but he did not, so she informed police. Police investigations revealed that the prince had left the country...
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Child molester arrested
KUWAIT: A bedoon in his twenties was arrested for molesting three children after luring them from schools and in front of their homes. Farwaniya detectives moved after crimes were committed against three Egyptian girls, and were able to arrest him. The crimes took place at the end of the school year, and were discovered when an Egyptian man took his 12-year-old daughter to Andalus police station and told them she was kidnapped and raped by a man...
ANKARA: Turkish President and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during AK Party’s group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey yesterday. —AFP Photos
Erdogan slams ‘inhumane’ isolation of Qatar
US envoy to Qatar to step down - Saudis offers 'aid' to Qatar ANKARA: Turkish President and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during AK Party’s group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey yesterday. —AFP PhotosISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday slammed the economic and political isolation of Qatar as inhumane and contrary to Islamic values after...
AL-KHAZIR: Iraqis staying at the Al-Khazir camp swim in a river near the camp for internally displaced people, located between Arbil and Mosul. —AFP
Mass food poisoning in Iraq
AL-KHAZIR: Iraqis staying at the Al-Khazir camp swim in a river near the camp for internally displaced people, located between Arbil and Mosul. —AFPHASSAN SHAM U2 CAMP, Iraq: A mass food poisoning at a camp for the displaced near the northern city of Mosul killed at least two people and sickened over 700, Iraq's health minister said yesterday, becoming the latest battleground in the crisis engulfing Qatar and a string of other Arab nations. A...
BANDARBAN: Bangladeshi fire fighters search for bodies after a landslide in Bandarban yesterday. — AFP
Heavy rain, landslides kill at least 92 in Bangladesh
Rain-triggered landslides bury homes; 7 missing BANDARBAN, Bangladesh: A Bangladeshi woman mourns next to bodies of relatives after a landslide yesterday. - AFPCHITTAGONG: Heavy monsoon rains and landslides have killed at least 92 people in southeast Bangladesh, burying many in their homes as they slept, authorities said yesterday. Three young children from the same family were among those killed in the disaster, which comes just weeks after a...
Prostitutes stand on the street in Benin City, Nigeria's capital for illegal migration. International Organization for Migration has recorded an explosion in the number of Nigerian women trafficked into Europe. (AFP)
Ticket to Europe? Nigeria girls lured into sex slavery
Prostitutes stand on the street in Benin City, Nigeria's capital for illegal migration. International Organization for Migration has recorded an explosion in the number of Nigerian women trafficked into Europe. (AFP)BENIN CITY, Nigeria: In Benin City, Nigeria's capital of illegal migration, no one says the word "prostitution". The word on the street for the young girls who leave for Italy or France is "hustling". About 37,500 Nigerians arrived...
CARACAS: Anti-government demonstrators attack the administration headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice as part of protests against President Nicolas Maduro on Monday. —AFP
Opposition leaders calling for return to streets
Venezuela attorney general says officials threatened her family CARACAS: Anti-government demonstrators attack the administration headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice as part of protests against President Nicolas Maduro on Monday. —AFPCARACAS: Venezuela's attorney general on Monday said intelligence officials had threatened and harassed her family after she openly challenged President Nicolas Maduro over the country's political crisis. A...
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Gunman injures three at German rail station
MUNICH: Police officers secure the area around a commuter rail station in Unterfoehring, where shots were fired yesterday. — AFPMUNICH: A German police officer was critically wounded and two passers-by hurt yesterday when a lone gunman fired shots at a commuter rail station near the German city of Munich before being injured himself and detained, police said. A Munich police spokesman told reporters there was no indication of a "political or...
MARAWI, Philippines: Philippine soldiers patrol a deserted street in this city on the southern island of Mindanao yesterday. — AFP
Philippines army struggles as city siege enters fourth week
Military rejects IS claim it occupies 2/3 of Marawi MARAWI, Philippines: Philippine soldiers patrol a deserted street in this city on the southern island of Mindanao yesterday. — AFPMARAWI CITY, Philippines: Fighting in Marawi City in the southern Philippines entered its fourth week yesterday with military officials conceding that troops were struggling to loosen the grip of Islamist fighters on downtown precincts despite relentless bombing....
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‘Women Football Tournament’ Championship match tonight
.KUWAIT: The championship match to decide the winner of the ‘Women Football Tournament’ is scheduled to take place tonight at the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium. The final game kicks off at 9 pm and awards ceremony will take place at 10 pm. For easy access to the stadium, please enter through gate number three. The event is being held under the patronage of and in the presence of H.E. Khaled Nasser Al- Roudan, Minister of Commerce and...
MELBOURNE: Diego Andrade (L) of Brazil scores his second goal during the friendly international football match between Brazil and Australia in Melbourne yesterday. — AFP
Souza’s quickfire goal sparks Brazil to win over Australia
MELBOURNE: Diego Andrade (L) of Brazil scores his second goal during the friendly international football match between Brazil and Australia in Melbourne yesterday. — AFPMELBOURNE: The world’s number one team Brazil demolished Australia 4-0 fired by a Diego Souza goal after just 12 seconds in their international friendly in Melbourne yesterday. The Socceroos held the five-times World Cup champions to 1-0 at half-time but the dazzling...
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