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Maoist rebels kill 24 police in central India

CORRECTION / This handout photo released by the Indian Defence Ministry on April 24, 2017 shows wounded Indian security personnel being treated in an army helicopter as they are airlifted to a hospital following an attack by Maoist rebels in Sukma district of Chhattisgargh state. Suspected Maoist rebels killed 24 paramilitary commandos and wounded six others on April 24 in a remote part of central India, a police official said, in one of the...

US Defence Secretary James Mattis (3R) is met by US Army Command Sergeant Major David Clark (L) and General Christopher Haas (2R) as he arrives at Resolute Support headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul on April 24, 2017. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit April 24, an American defence official confirmed, hours after his Afghan counterpart resigned over a deadly Taliban attack. Mattis, making his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, was due to meet top officials including President Ashraf Ghani less than two weeks after the US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State hideouts in the country's east. / AFP / POOL / JONATHAN ERNST

Pentagon chief visits Afghanistan after deadly Taliban attack

US Defence Secretary James Mattis (3R) is met by US Army Command Sergeant Major David Clark (L) and General Christopher Haas (2R) as he arrives at Resolute Support headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul on April 24, 2017. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit April 24, an American defence official confirmed, hours after his Afghan counterpart resigned over a deadly Taliban attack. Mattis, making his...

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, center, leaves his apartment, in Paris, Monday, April 24, 2017. French voters shut out the political mainstream from the presidency for the first time in modern history, and on Monday found themselves being courted for the runoff election between populist Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Rejected mainstream unites behind Macron

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, center, leaves his apartment, in Paris, Monday, April 24, 2017. French voters shut out the political mainstream from the presidency for the first time in modern history, and on Monday found themselves being courted for the runoff election between populist Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS: France's political mainstream, shut out of the presidency by...

TOPSHOT - French presidential election candidate for the left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon reacts after delivering a speech at the Maison de la Mutualite in Paris, on April 23, 2017, after the first round of the Presidential election. / AFP / PHILIPPE LOPEZ

France's Socialists on rocks after historic drubbing

TOPSHOT - French presidential election candidate for the left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon reacts after delivering a speech at the Maison de la Mutualite in Paris, on April 23, 2017, after the first round of the Presidential election. / AFP / PHILIPPE LOPEZPARIS: A "drubbing" suffered by the Socialist candidate in France's presidential election on Sunday dealt a devastating blow to the century-old party, analysts said. Benoit...

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Ooredoo reports 27% rise in net profit for Q1 2017

KUWAIT: National Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P - Ticker: OOREDOO, a member of Ooredoo Group, announced yesterday its financial results for the quarter ended 31 March 2017:Sheikh Saud Bin Nasser Al-Thani, Chairman of the Board of Directors commented: "Despite a highly competitive environment, Ooredoo increased the customer base by 5 percent to reach 25 million, testament to the company's award-winning network, a wide range of...

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LafargeHolcim CEO to step down over Syria probe

FILE - In this March 2, 2017 file photo Eric Olsen, CEO of Cement group LafargeHolcim, speaks during a press conference in Zurich, on the company's activities in Syria. Olsen announced Monday, April 24, 2017, that he will resign, citing "strong tensions" facing the Swiss-French cement maker since its admission last month that it had struck deals with armed groups in Syria ‚Äî allegedly including the radical Islamic State group. (Walter...

Guests watch video messages from US President Trump as they attend the World Jewish Congress on April 27, 2017 in New York. / AFP / KENA BETANCUR

Trump denounces anti-Semitism on Israel's annual Holocaust day

Guests watch video messages from US President Trump as they attend the World Jewish Congress on April 27, 2017 in New York. / AFP / KENA BETANCURNEW YORK: President Donald Trump vowed to wipe out anti-Semitism in a message to mark Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day after his administration was criticized for past statements about the genocide. In a four-minute taped video played to the World Jewish Congress in New York, the US leader...

Henri Van Breda arrives at the High Court in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, April 24, 2017. He is accused of murder of his parents and older brother in 2015. Breda pleaded not guilty to murder and to the attempted murder of his sister with an axe. (AP Photo)

South African pleads not guilty to slaying his wealthy family

Henri Van Breda arrives at the High Court in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, April 24, 2017. He is accused of murder of his parents and older brother in 2015. Breda pleaded not guilty to murder and to the attempted murder of his sister with an axe. (AP Photo)CAPE TOWN: In a case that has gripped South Africa, the 22-year-old son of a wealthy family pleaded not guilty yesterday to slaughtering his parents and brother in a frenzied axe attack....

Barcelona's Lionel Messi, right, celebrates with teammates after scoring the winning goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Barcelona, dubbed 'el clasico', at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Barcelona won 3-2. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Barcelona in dramatic win over Madrid

Barcelona's Lionel Messi, right, celebrates with teammates after scoring the winning goal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Barcelona, dubbed 'el clasico', at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, April 23, 2017. Barcelona won 3-2. -APMADRID: Lionel Messi struck his 500th Barcelona goal with the last kick of the game to blow the La Liga title race wide open with a thrilling 3-2 win at Real Madrid...

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Appeals court backs govt over petrol price hikes

KUWAIT: The court of appeals yesterday said that a decision by the government to raise the prices of petrol is legal and in line of the constitution, overturning a September verdict by the lower court that ruled the increase was unlawful. Ali Al-Ali and several other lawyers, who filed the lawsuit demanding the scrapping of the decision on procedural flaws, said they will now take the issue to the court of cassation, whose rulings are final.The...

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Badrya Darwish What superb timing! The government has decided to implement the increase in electricity and water tariffs. They made the decision and agreed on it last year, but its implementation will be on May 22, just four days before the start of Ramadan, when the whole nation - be it Kuwaiti or expat - will be busy shopping and stocking their kitchens for the cooking required during the holy month. Even when they implemented the...

Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Right of travel

Attorney Fajer Ahmed I always wonder what it would be to not have a passport, to be unable to leave a country, to be stuck between its buildings, to be unable to visit family. This topic is of growing concern internationally from visa issues, to employers illegally keeping passports, to over protective fathers. Traveling is a blessing but it is also a right, and unlike a freedom, a right is granted to us by authorities, where else we are born...

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