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Israel shows off new F-35 stealth fighters
TEL AVIV: Israel showed off its new F-35 stealth fighter jets recently delivered from the United States yesterday as part of an air show marking its annual Independence Day celebrations. Three of Israel's five stealth fighters took to the skies along the Mediterranean coast off Tel Aviv as thousands of people gathered at the waterfront to watch. The F-35s, made by US-based Lockheed Martin, were the highlight of the show, which marked 69 years of...
MOSUL: Mosul residents reach out for freshly baked cookies at a food distribution in western Mosul, Iraq yesterday. —AP
Mosul's kids feared 'lost to poverty and conflict'
Thousands of children out of school MOSUL: Mosul residents reach out for freshly baked cookies at a food distribution in western Mosul, Iraq yesterday. —APMOSUL: Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when Islamic State swept into Mosul and declared a caliphate in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the militants, his parents took him out of school. Three years later, he sells ice cream at a refugee camp for internally displaced...
In this Monday, April 25, 2016, file photo, USA Today, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers are displayed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, in Chicago. A little more than half of American adults regularly pay for news, through newspaper and magazine subscriptions, apps on electronic devices or contributions to public media, according to the Media Insight Project released Tuesday, May 2, 2017, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
Pay for news? More than half of Americans do pay
NEW YORK: A battered news industry can find some flickers of hope in a survey that gauges public willingness to pay for journalism, as long as its leaders plan judiciously.  A little more than half of American adults regularly pay for news, through newspaper and magazine subscriptions, apps on electronic devices or contributions to public media, according to the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The...
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Electric shocks: Chechen gay men recount days of torture
Tanya LokshinaMOSCOW: Anzor was lying on a dirty floor as a man in army boots jumped on his back.  His agony worsened when his captors started torturing him with electric shocks. "It's a feeling like they are breaking every bone of every joint in your body at the same time," he said. Anzor is a gay man from Chechnya, the predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia where dozens of men suspected of being gay were reportedly detained and...
SOCHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi yesterday. —AFP
Merkel meets with Putin on rare Russia visit
SOCHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi yesterday. —AFPSOCHI, Russia: German Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks yesterday with President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine and Syria in a signal of renewed dialogue despite profound rifts on her first visit to Russia since 2015.  "We cannot but use this visit to discuss bilateral relations and the most...
The girl had been told her knee-length dress was 'seductive and a temptation from a certain angle far, far away
Girl barred from Malaysia chess competition over ‘seductive’ dress
KUALA LUMPUR: A 12-year-old girl was barred from a Malaysian chess tournament over her "seductive" dress, her coach has claimed, igniting public outrage against the organizers of the competition in the Muslim-majority nation. The Malaysian Chess Federation yesterday said it would investigate and denied that religious sensitivities had prompted the decision to exclude the young player, as it seeks to curb the public backlash.In a widely-shared...
In this April 27, 2017 file photo, US Army soldiers install the missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, at a golf course in Seongju, South Korea. — AP
China demands halt to US missile shield in S Korea
THAAD system becomes operational In this April 27, 2017 file photo, US Army soldiers install the missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, at a golf course in Seongju, South Korea. — APBEIJING: China demanded yesterday an immediate halt to a controversial US missile shield hours after Washington announced that the defense system was now operational in South Korea. Washington and Seoul agreed to the Terminal...
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US aims to eliminate IS from Afghanistan this year
WASHINGTON:  After dropping a monster bomb on its fighters, then targeting its leader, the US military is looking to destroy the Islamic State group's Afghan branch before battle-hardened reinforcements arrive from Syria and Iraq. While US and Kabul government forces have mainly been combatting Taleban fighters since 2001, IS's local offshoot-also known as Islamic State-Khorasan, or ISIS-K-has a stronghold in eastern Afghanistan.First emerging...
WATFORD: Liverpool’s German midfielder Emre Can connects with this overhead kick to open the scoring in the English Premier League football match between Watford and Liverpool at Vicarage Road Stadium. — AFP
Crazy Can cracker tightens Liverpool’s hold on third
WATFORD: Liverpool’s German midfielder Emre Can connects with this overhead kick to open the scoring in the English Premier League football match between Watford and Liverpool at Vicarage Road Stadium. — AFPWATFORD: Emre Can scored a sensational overhead bicycle kick as Liverpool galvanized their grip on third place in the Premier League by winning 1-0 at Watford on Monday. Having seen top-four rivals Manchester City, Manchester United and...
PUNE: Rising Pune Supergiants cricketer Ben Stokes (L) watched by Gujarat Lions cricketer Dinesh Karthik plays a shot during the 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Rising Pune Supergiant and Gujarat Lions at The Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium. — AFP
Million-dollar Stokes hits first T20 century
PUNE: Rising Pune Supergiants cricketer Ben Stokes (L) watched by Gujarat Lions cricketer Dinesh Karthik plays a shot during the 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Rising Pune Supergiant and Gujarat Lions at The Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium. — AFPNEW DELHI: Rising Pune Supergiant’s record-breaking investment in Ben Stokes has paid dividends, with the England allrounder delivering a blistering maiden...
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Bangladesh ban bowler for conceding 92 off four balls
DHAKA: Bangladesh yesterday imposed a 10-year ban on a bowler who deliberately lost a match by conceding 92 runs off just four legal deliveries in protest at umpiring decisions. Sujon Mahmud from Lalmatia Club was found guilty by the Bangladesh Cricket Board of bringing the game into disrepute. Lalmatia Club were barred indefinitely from competition, with their coach, captain and manager punished with five-year bans from the Dhaka Second Division...
Majed Essa Al Ajeel, Chairman of Burgan Bank Group.
Burgan Bank reports 25% rise in net income in Q1
Group announces earnings for Q1 2017 Majed Essa Al Ajeel, Chairman of Burgan Bank Group.KUWAIT: Burgan Bank Group announced yesterday its first quarter earnings of financial year 2017. The selective growth approach clubbed with the focus on operating efficiencies enabled earnings strength to continue at both top line & bottom line levels, amid regional operating environment complexities. Reported net income grew by 25 percent reaching KD17.8...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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BELFAST: Protestors attend a "unity over division" protest called to oppose an anti immigration demonstration in Northern Ireland on Aug 9, 2024. - AFP
N Ireland violence shocks Muslims amid sectarianism
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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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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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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah