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MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s Chilian midfielder Arturo Vidal (23) scores the first goal during the UEFA Champions League 1st leg quarter-final football match FC Bayern Munich v Real Madrid in Munich, southern Germany yesterday. — AFP

Ronaldo hits 100th goal as Real win at Bayern

MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s Chilian midfielder Arturo Vidal (23) scores the first goal during the UEFA Champions League 1st leg quarter-final football match FC Bayern Munich v Real Madrid in Munich, southern Germany yesterday. — AFPMUNICH: Cristiano Ronaldo netted his 100th European goal yesterday to give holders Real Madrid a 2-1 comeback win at 10-man Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final, first-leg. Arturo Vidal headed Bayern...

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Hope on positive changes among employers

Madam, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for raising burning issues in the Gulf, especially with regards to expatriates. It is indeed a pleasure to at least recognize our problem and hope it may bring some positive changes among employers, to be more humanitarian. It is always nice to see and meet like-minded people and I hope you excel more in your personal as well as professional areas. Every one of you is special and I...

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Police free women trafficked from Sierra Leone to Kuwait

Victims forced to work as domestic helpersKUWAIT: Anti-vice and human trafficking police arrested a gang that trafficked in people, led by a Ugandan national who brought women from Sierra Leone. According to investigations, the prime suspect (identified in the Interior Ministry's report by his initials 'S.M') smuggled the women to Guinea by land, making authorities there believe that they were heading to Senegal. They were then locked up for a...

KUWAIT: Pedestrians brave the blazing sun amid a heat wave that has raised temperatures to unprecedented levels. A recent international report identified Kuwait as one of the hottest spots on earth this year. ñ Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

40 C temperature predicted

KUWAIT: Meteorologist Essa Ramadan said temperatures are considerably rising in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and might rise up to 40 C degrees by noon, then return to normal by Saturday.

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Iraqi mayor alleges Kuwaiti violations against fishermen

KUWAIT: The mayor of Faw in Basra Waleed Al-Shareefi urged the Iraqi government to intervene to end what he described as violations committed by Kuwaiti marine patrols against Iraqi fishermen. Shareefi claimed an Iraqi fisherman was shot in the abdomen by a Kuwaiti marine patrol in Khor Abdullah, while other fishermen escaped to avoid injury. He added that 'Kuwaiti harassments' continued in Iraqi national waters and said that many objections and...

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Amir attends Shaheed Park 2nd phase opening

Park a touristic, cultural landmark: Diwan official His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah tours the second phase of Al-Shaheed Park.KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah patronized and attended yesterday the opening of the second phase of Al-Shaheed Park which is located in Sharq. Accompanied by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir was...

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Probe to determine company’s involvement in terror funding

KUWAIT: The State Security Department launched an investigation into possible involvement of a company that processes laborers' transactions in labor-exporting countries in terror funding, an informed source said.The investigation comes after detectives in the Philippines confirmed that a Kuwaiti man arrested there with his Syrian wife on charges of funding the Islamic State (IS) is a shareholder in the same company.Recent reports from the...

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Sudanese president ends official visit to Kuwait

Kuwait, Sudan share views on regional issues: Sudanese FM KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah bids farewell to Sudanese President Omar Hasan Al-Bashir yesterday. — KUNA photosKUWAIT: Sudanese President Omar Hasan Al-Bashir and his accompanying delegation left Kuwait yesterday, ending an official visit to the country. He was seen off at the airport by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber...

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Duo arrested for sexual assault

KUWAIT: A Somali woman and her friend were raped by two citizens near Wafra farms, according to their statements. The Somali woman told police that she recently started dating a citizen, and decided to meet him with her friend in Qadisiya, where he was joined by another man. The two men asked them to get in their car, and drove them to Wafra farms, where they assaulted them. The women lodged a complaint with Ahmadi detectives who sent them to...

KUWAIT: Fishermen pack up their gear at a Sharq harbor following a long day of work yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Indian fishermen recall Gulf ordeal

CHENNAI: For six months, Indian fisherman S George lived in fear on a boat, thinking he would never see his wife and children again. George was one of 15 fishermen from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu detained in October last year on charges of straying into Iranian waters while fishing in the region, officials said. Reaching their homes last week, after months with no contact with their families, the fishermen said nothing had prepared...

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Woman seeking asylum returned to Saudi Arabia

RIYADH: A Saudi woman claiming she sought asylum in Australia was stopped on a layover in the Philippines and returned to Riyadh yesterday. Dina Ali Lasloom said in self-recorded videos the Philippine authorities had held her at the Manila airport and confiscated her passport. The videos circulated widely on social media over the last two days. "My name is Dina Ali and I'm a Saudi woman who fled Saudi Arabia to Australia to seek asylum," she said...

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Bangladesh hangs three for British envoy attack

KASHIMPUR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh hanged three extremists including the leader of a banned militant outfit yesterday, after they were sentenced to death over a 2004 grenade attack on the British ambassador.The authorities hanged Mufti Abdul Hannan, the leader of Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (HuJI), and one of his associates at Kashimpur prison just outside Dhaka and another associate in a jail in the northeastern city of Sylhet, home minister...

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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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People walk past a poster of slain Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - AFP

Guards get new arms as Iran vows to punish Zionists

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VINHEDO, Brazil: An aerial view of the wreckage of an airplane that crashed with 62 people on board on Aug 10, 2024. - AFP

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