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ALABAMA: In this Saturday, March 2, 2013, photo, a cigarette burns in an ashtray at a home in Hayneville. A government study released yesterday shows that even though fewer US teens are smoking, exposure to secondhand smoke remains a big problem. —AP

Price of Saudi cigarettes doubles as first tax hits

RIYADH: The price of a pack of cigarettes doubled for Saudi Arabian smokers yesterday under first-time tax measures to help the kingdom cope with a drop in oil revenues. Residents of the world's biggest oil exporter long enjoyed a tax-free and heavily subsidized existence but a collapse in crude prices since 2014 sparked cutbacks and a search for new revenue. The "selective tax", effective from yesterday, raised the price of tobacco 100 percent,...

AL-KHAZIR: A displaced Iraqi woman carries a child at the Al-Khazir camp for internally displaced people, located between Arbil and Mosul. Tired and traumatized, Iraqi mothers who fled Mosul struggle to breastfeed or buy baby formula milk for their babies. _ AFP

Tired and traumatized Iraqi moms unable to breastfeed

AL-KHAZIR: A displaced Iraqi woman carries a child at the Al-Khazir camp for internally displaced people, located between Arbil and Mosul. Tired and traumatized, Iraqi mothers who fled Mosul struggle to breastfeed or buy baby formula milk for their babies. _ AFPKHAZIR: Wazira rocks her tiny baby pleadingly but he is inconsolable, crying for the milk his mother can neither produce herself nor buy in a camp near the Iraqi battleground city of...

DOHA: Photo shows pigeons flying above the corniche in Doha. Arab nations including Saudi Arabia and Egypt cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting extremism, in the biggest diplomatic crisis to hit the region in years. - AFP

Gulf residents are free to stay: Qatar

Iran sends tons of food to QatarDOHA: Qatar has said citizens of states that have cut ties with the emirate will be allowed to stay in the country despite measures against its own nationals. A statement carried on state media said Doha would "not take any measures against residents of Qatar who hold the nationalities of countries that severed diplomatic ties or lowered diplomatic representations with the state of Qatar, on the back of hostile and...

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Families split as Gulf crisis becomes humanitarian issue

Thousands of ‘Khaleejis’ affected, fear statelessnessDOHA: Rashed Al-Jalahma, 22, has lived almost his whole life in Qatar, but he now faces the decision of whether to stay or return "home" to Bahrain. The aeronautical engineer student is one of thousands of "Khaleejis" - Gulf citizens - impacted by a diplomatic crisis which has split the region, and the human cost of which is just beginning to show. "The people have nothing to do with this,...

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Iran arrests almost 50 after Tehran attacks

LONDON: Iran has arrested almost 50 people in connection with twin attacks on Tehran that killed 17 people last week, officials said, as security forces stepped up efforts to crack down on suspected militants. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings and gun attacks on parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Wednesday. Iran's intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi said on...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Nigerian IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons) hold a placard reading “we need peace to survive” during the visit of Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to the Bakassi IDPs camp on June 8, 2017. — AFP

Boko Haram food crisis: Farmers call to return home

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Nigerian IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons) hold a placard reading “we need peace to survive” during the visit of Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to the Bakassi IDPs camp on June 8, 2017. — AFPMAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region's starving millions. Subsistence...

An undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police, London shows fake suicide belts worn by one of the London Bridge attackers. —AP

Police release pics of London attackers’ fake bomb belts

An undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police, London shows fake suicide belts worn by one of the London Bridge attackers. —APLONDON: The London Bridge attackers wore fake suicide belts to create "maximum fear" as they carried out their rampage, police said yesterday. The Metropolitan Police released photographs of the blood-splattered belts, which were made from plastic water bottles wrapped in duct tape. Attackers Khuram Butt,...

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania: Members of a counter-protest group against anti-sharia protesters march on a street on Saturday. — AP

Rallies against sharia draw counter-protests across US

Demos held in more than two dozen cities HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania: Members of a counter-protest group against anti-sharia protesters march on a street on Saturday. — APSEATTLE: Demonstrators around the country rallied to protest Islamic law, saying it is incompatible with Western democracy. But many of the rallies drew even more raucous counter-protests by people who called such fears unfounded. The demonstrations were held in more than two...

MARAWI: In this June 9, 2017 photo, Nasir Abdul (second right) and other evacuees look as a military helicopter passes by black smoke from burning houses outside a temporary evacuation center. — AP

In fight for Philippine city, a painful window on war

Fears Islamic States' violent ideology gaining foothold MARAWI: In this June 9, 2017 photo, Nasir Abdul (second right) and other evacuees look as a military helicopter passes by black smoke from burning houses outside a temporary evacuation center. — APMARAWI, Philippines: From the third-storey window of a barren government office building he now squats in as a refugee, Nasir Abdul is watching his city being destroyed. Nearly every day for the...

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Lanka makes first arrest over hate crimes against Muslims

Galagodaatte GnanasaraCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan police have arrested a key figure from an extremist Buddhist organization blamed for a series of hate crimes against Muslims that has drawn international censure. The 32-year-old man from the radical Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or Buddhist Force, is the first suspect to be arrested in connection with arson attacks against Muslims that have stoked religious tensions. Police spokesman Priyantha Jayakody said...

PARIS: Spain's Rafael Nadal, right, holds the trophy as he celebrates winning his tenth French Open title against Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, left, in three sets, 6-2, 6-3, 6-1, during their men's final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, yesterday. – AP

Nadal wins record-breaking 10th French Open

PARIS: Spain's Rafael Nadal, right, holds the trophy as he celebrates winning his tenth French Open title against Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, left, in three sets, 6-2, 6-3, 6-1, during their men's final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, yesterday. – APPARIS: His clay-court prowess as unassailable as ever, Rafael Nadal won his record 10th French Open title by dominating 2015 champion...

LONDON: India's Yuvraj Singh and India's captain Virat Kohli (L) celebrate after winning the ICC Champions Trophy match between South Africa and India at The Oval in London yesterday. India beat South Africa by 8 wickets in The Champions Trophy. – AFP

Ruthless India cruise into Champions semi-finals

Bangladesh to face India in semi finals LONDON: India's Yuvraj Singh and India's captain Virat Kohli (L) celebrate after winning the ICC Champions Trophy match between South Africa and India at The Oval in London yesterday. India beat South Africa by 8 wickets in The Champions Trophy. – AFPLONDON: India swept into the Champions Trophy semi-finals and eliminated woeful South Africa as Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kholi inspired the holders’...

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