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Two killed in landmine explosion
KUWAIT: A Sudanese man was instantly killed and a Bangladeshi national was injured when they stepped on a landmine at Al-Abraq desert area, said security sources.TrespassingAn Iranian ship captain was recently arrested after he left Doha harbor for shopping without obtaining a security permission to do so, said security sources. They noted that after failing to get the permission, a safety and security officer escorted the skipper himself in his...
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Gunmen attack Saudi Shiite town - Pakistani, child killed
DUBAI: Saudi authorities blocked roads in a flashpoint Shiite town yesterday, residents said a day after security officials said gunmen killed a two-year-old boy and a Pakistani man. The gunfire targeted a construction site in a neighborhood of the Shiite town of Awamiya slated for redevelopment, the Interior Ministry said late Friday. Workers in Almosara district "came under fire and their vehicles were targeted by explosives" from within the...
TOUNA EL-GABAL: Photo shows mummies lying in catacombs following their discovery in the Touna El-Gabal district of the Minya province, in central Egypt. - AFP
Egypt archaeologists discover 17 mummies
TOUNA EL-GABAL: Photo shows mummies lying in catacombs following their discovery in the Touna El-Gabal district of the Minya province, in central Egypt. - AFPTOUNA EL-GABAL: Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in desert catacombs in Minya province, an "unprecedented" find for the area south of Cairo, the antiquities ministry announced yesterday. Archaeologists found the non-royal mummies in a series of corridors after following...
BIARRITZ: Passengers en route to London check in at Biarritz airport, southwestern France. US is expected to broaden its ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from the European Union, a move that would create logistical chaos on the world’s busiest corridor of air travel. — AP
US plans to ban laptops on Europe flights
Ban would create logistical chaos on world’s busiest corridor BIARRITZ: Passengers en route to London check in at Biarritz airport, southwestern France. US is expected to broaden its ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from the European Union, a move that would create logistical chaos on the world’s busiest corridor of air travel. — APBRUSSELS: The US is expected to broaden its ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to...
TABQA: A fighter from the SDF carries weapons as he looks toward the northern town of Tabqa, Syria. A top Syrian Kurdish official said that the US decision to arm Kurdish fighters with heavier weapons will help legitimize the force, which is denounced as a terrorist organization by Turkey. — AP
Syria army seizes airbase from IS
TABQA: A fighter from the SDF carries weapons as he looks toward the northern town of Tabqa, Syria. A top Syrian Kurdish official said that the US decision to arm Kurdish fighters with heavier weapons will help legitimize the force, which is denounced as a terrorist organization by Turkey. — APBEIRUT: Syria's army captured an airbase in eastern Aleppo from the Islamic State group yesterday, after more than two months of fierce clashes, a...
ABIDJAN: Ivorian soldiers patrol in their vehicle near Ivory Coast’s army headquarters, the Gallieni military camp, in Abidjan as they fired shots in the air just hours after a spokesman for the protesters publicly apologized for an earlier mutiny. — AFP
Mutinous soldiers cut off Ivory Coast's second city
Gunfire heard in several towns ABIDJAN: Ivorian soldiers patrol in their vehicle near Ivory Coast’s army headquarters, the Gallieni military camp, in Abidjan as they fired shots in the air just hours after a spokesman for the protesters publicly apologized for an earlier mutiny. — AFPABIDJAN: Disgruntled soldiers cut off access to Ivory Coast's second largest city, Bouake, and gunfire rattled in other towns yesterday as protests over a pay...
This combination of pictures shows President Donald Trump and former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey. — AFP
Comey crisis could bedevil Trump on health care, tax
Congress reels from Comey's fallout This combination of pictures shows President Donald Trump and former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey. — AFPWASHINGTON: US Republicans struggling to pass a health care overhaul and tax reform this year have seen their path narrow, as Congress reels from fallout over President Donald Trump's firing of his FBI director. The shock dismissal of James Comey-and the White House's bungling...
LEIRIA: The airplane carrying Pope Francis taxies on the tramac upon his departure from Portugal on its way to Rome, at Monte Real air base, in Leiria, yesterday.—AFP
Pope makes Fatima child shepherds who saw Virgin Mary saints
LEIRIA: The airplane carrying Pope Francis taxies on the tramac upon his departure from Portugal on its way to Rome, at Monte Real air base, in Leiria, yesterday.—AFPFATIMA, Portugal: Two young, barely literate shepherds who had visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago in Fatima, a Portuguese site now a global draw for pilgrims, were declared saints yesterday by Pope Francis.In an emotional outdoor service on a packed esplanade at the...
KATHMANDU: In this photograph taken on May 11, 2017, Nepalese activists parade with political party flags during campaigning in Kathmandu, ahead of forthcoming local elections in the Himalayan nation. —AFP
Nepal’s high hopes for first local polls in 20 years
KATHMANDU: In this photograph taken on May 11, 2017, Nepalese activists parade with political party flags during campaigning in Kathmandu, ahead of forthcoming local elections in the Himalayan nation. —AFPKATHMANDU: Nepal holds its first local elections in two decades yesterday hoping to cement a fraught transition to democracy and fill an institutional void that has seen corruption flourish.The last local representatives were elected in 1997...
ISLAMABAD: People carry the casket of a victim of Friday’s suicide attack in southwest Baluchistan province, for funeral prayers in Islamabad, Pakistan yesterday.—AP
10 shot dead near China ‘Belt and Road’ projects in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: People carry the casket of a victim of Friday’s suicide attack in southwest Baluchistan province, for funeral prayers in Islamabad, Pakistan yesterday.—APQUETTA, Pakistan: Ten laborers were gunned down in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday while working on link roads to connect outlying towns to the country's $57-billion Chinese "Belt and Road" initiative, security officials confirmed.The attack on the Pakistani laborers took place...
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Sri Lanka rejects Chinese request for submarine visit
Denial comes as India PM visits island nationCOLOMBO: Sri Lanka has rejected China's request to dock one of its submarines in Colombo this month, two senior government officials said yesterday as the Indian prime minister landed in the island nation.Sri Lanka last allowed a Chinese submarine to dock in the capital of Colombo in October 2014, a move that triggered fierce opposition from its northern neighbor India, which worries about growing...
RunKuwait 230-Km
Jazeera Airways hails success of RunKuwait 230-Km Run sponsorship
RunKuwait 230-KmKUWAIT: JAZEERA Airways, the first private airline in Kuwait and the Middle East, is proud to have concluded its sponsorship of the first-of-its-kind RunKuwait 230-kilometer run, from the northern to the southern borders of the country. The motivational challenge, organized by RunKuwait in collaboration with Jazeera Airways, aimed at encouraging aspiring athletes and determined runners from diverse communities to push their...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
US orders nuclear submarine to Mideast
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DHAKA: A Hindu shopkeeper (left) helps a woman put on a traditional conch shell bangle at a shop selling traditional prayer items in Shakhari Bazar, a Hindu majority area, in Dhaka on August 9, 2024. — AFP
Misinformation from India, vandalism frighten Hindus in Bangladesh
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
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KURSK: This handout photograph taken and released by the Government of Kursk region of Russia on August 9, 2024, shows women and children being evacuated from the town of Rylsk in Kursk region. — AFP
Putin orders Russian army to ‘dislodge’ Ukrainian forces