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FORT MEADE: Photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md, where the US Cyber Command is located. The American military services are looking for new ways to bring in more civilians with high-tech skills who can help fight Islamic State militants and prepare for the new range of technological threats the US will face. — AP

US army taps reservists with cyber skills to fight Islamic State militia

Pentagon disrupts enemy's recruitment, fundraising FORT MEADE: Photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md, where the US Cyber Command is located. The American military services are looking for new ways to bring in more civilians with high-tech skills who can help fight Islamic State militants and prepare for the new range of technological threats the US will face. — APWASHINGTON: A decade ago, he was a young Army...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan residents walk through damaged homes at the site of a collapsed garbage dump in Colombo yesterday. — AFP

Sri Lanka garbage dump toll death rises to 19

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan residents walk through damaged homes at the site of a collapsed garbage dump in Colombo yesterday. — AFPCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan soldiers dug through rubbish with their bare hands yesterday looking for survivors after a huge garbage mountain collapsed destroying 145 homes and killing at least 19 people. Four children were among the dead following Friday's incident at Kolonnawa on the northeastern edge of the capital, Colombo...

SWABI: Villagers carry a body of a student Mohammad Mashal for burial in Swabi, Pakistan. Police said that a group of students at the Abdul Wali Khan University in the northwestern city of Mardan attacked and killed Mashal, accusing him of sharing blasphemous content on Facebook. — AP

8 charged over Pakistani liberal student's murder

Pakistan army foils major terrorist attack SWABI: Villagers carry a body of a student Mohammad Mashal for burial in Swabi, Pakistan. Police said that a group of students at the Abdul Wali Khan University in the northwestern city of Mardan attacked and killed Mashal, accusing him of sharing blasphemous content on Facebook. — APPESHAWAR: Eight Pakistanis who brutally murdered a fellow university student over his liberal views were charged with...

BOHOL: People stand by boats which the military said were used by Abu Sayyaf militants to enter the Ibananga River in Bohol province, central Philippines, as government troopers continue clearing operations. — AP

Philippines foils attack by IS-linked extremists

Army detects, thwarts kidnapping plot BOHOL: People stand by boats which the military said were used by Abu Sayyaf militants to enter the Ibananga River in Bohol province, central Philippines, as government troopers continue clearing operations. — APMANILA: A foiled attack on a central Philippine resort island this week was a kidnapping and bombing mission by at least three extremist groups affiliated with the Islamic State group in one of...

GIJON: Real Madrid’s midfielder Isco (R) vies with Sporting Gijon’s Venezuelan defender Fernando Amorebieta during the Spanish league football match Real Sporting de Gijon vs Real Madrid CF at El Molinon stadium. — AFP

Isco winner takes Real six points clear

GIJON: Real Madrid’s midfielder Isco (R) vies with Sporting Gijon’s Venezuelan defender Fernando Amorebieta during the Spanish league football match Real Sporting de Gijon vs Real Madrid CF at El Molinon stadium. — AFPMADRID: Isco struck at the death to send Real Madrid six points clear of Barcelona at the top of La Liga after twice coming from behind to beat Sporting Gijon 3-2 yesterday. Madrid can all but secure a first league title in...

DORTMUND: Dortmund’s players hold the jersey of Dortmund’s Spanish defender Marc Bartra who was injured during the bus attack on April 11 after the German First division Bundesliga football match between Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt. —AFP

Bartra tributes as shaken Dortmund bounce back

DORTMUND: Dortmund’s players hold the jersey of Dortmund’s Spanish defender Marc Bartra who was injured during the bus attack on April 11 after the German First division Bundesliga football match between Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt. —AFPBERLIN: Borussia Dortmund players and fans paid tribute to defender Marc Bartra as they beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 yesterday in their first Bundesliga match since the midweek bomb attack on...

SAKHIR: Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the first practice session for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix, at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit. — AP

F1: Verstappen on top for Red Bull

SAKHIR: Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the first practice session for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix, at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit. — APMANAMA: Max Verstappen topped the times for Red Bull in yesterday’s hot, windswept and closely-contested final free practice ahead of today’s Bahrain Grand Prix. In a session that was halted briefly after Frenchman Romain Grosjean crashed in...

KIB Chairman Sheikh Mohammad Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah

KIB achieves KD 7.6m net profit for Q1 2017

Profits increase by 13%, Total assets rise by 7% KIB Chairman Sheikh Mohammad Al-Jarrah Al-SabahKUWAIT: Kuwait International Bank (KIB) reported a net profit of KD 7.6 million at the end of the first quarter of 2017, registering a growth of 13 percent compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, where the Bank reported net profits of KD 6.7 million.In this context, Sheikh Mohammed Jarrah Al-Sabah, Chairman of KIB, said that Bank's...

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Kuwait equities face selling pressure

KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait ended last week in the red zone. The Price Index closed at 7,007.89 points, down by 0.31 percent from the week before closing, the Weighted Index decreased by 0.89 percent after closing at 416.40 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 943.04 points declining by 1.56 percent. Furthermore, last week's average daily turnover decreased by 9.64 percent, compared to the preceding week, reaching KD 27.40 million, whereas...

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Google silently launches hyperlocal platform Areo

Sundar PichaiNEW YORK: Sneakily on Wednesday, Google launched its new hyperlocal services app, Areo, on the Play Store, with plans to get food and home services to customers' doorsteps in Bengaluru and Mumbai.It was reported that Areo has incorporated partners like UrbanClap (for a bouquet of home services), Zimmber, FreshMenu, Box8, and Faasos for food ordering.Google Areo was launched on the Google Play Store on Wednesday.According to the app...

NOIDA: Iraqi parents Gufran Ali (3L) and Sarwed Ahmed Nadar (3R) pose with their eight-month-old son Karam (C) and physicians: Executive Consultant, paediatric surgery Abhishek (L), Senior Consultant, plastic and reconstructive surgery Ashish Rai, (2L), Director, paediatric cardiac surgery Rajesh Sharma (3L), Senior Consultant, Orthopaedics and Joint replacement Gaurav Rathore (2R) and consultant plastic surgery Saurabh K. Gupta during a press conference at a hospital in Noida yesterday. — AFP

Iraqi baby with eight limbs gets new lease on life in India

NOIDA: Iraqi parents Gufran Ali (3L) and Sarwed Ahmed Nadar (3R) pose with their eight-month-old son Karam (C) and physicians: Executive Consultant, paediatric surgery Abhishek (L), Senior Consultant, plastic and reconstructive surgery Ashish Rai, (2L), Director, paediatric cardiac surgery Rajesh Sharma (3L), Senior Consultant, Orthopaedics and Joint replacement Gaurav Rathore (2R) and consultant plastic surgery Saurabh K. Gupta during a press...

Josh Gad, Daisy Ridley, Kelly Marie Tran, Mark Hamill, Katheen Kennedy and Rian Johnson attend the Star Wars: The Last Jedi panel during the 2017 Star Wars Celebration at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. — AFP

First 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' trailer thrills fans

Josh Gad, Daisy Ridley, Kelly Marie Tran, Mark Hamill, Katheen Kennedy and Rian Johnson attend the Star Wars: The Last Jedi panel during the 2017 Star Wars Celebration at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. — AFPDisney debuted its highly-anticipated first trailer for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" at a fan event in the United States Friday, sending the internet into a frenzy of excitement and speculation. The footage from the...

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PARIS: Gold medallists USA pose during the podium ceremony after the women's gold medal basketball match against France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena on Aug 11, 2024. - AFP

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