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TANTA: Blood stains pews inside the St George Church after a suicide bombing, in Tanta, Egypt. — AP

Egypt's leader juggles insurgency, economy

Sisi fends off criticism of rights violations and authoritarianism TANTA: Blood stains pews inside the St George Church after a suicide bombing, in Tanta, Egypt. — APCAIRO: The deadly bombings of two churches have left Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi grappling with the question of how to defeat a tenacious Islamic State insurgency that three years of warfare have failed to crush. He's also trying to repair a broken economy, carrying out...

CAIRO: An Egyptian Coptic nun weeps as she looks at damage inside the St Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing. —AP

After Egypt church bombings, Copts complain of extremists

CAIRO: An Egyptian Coptic nun weeps as she looks at damage inside the St Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing. —APCAIRO: For years, Egyptian Copt Michel Fahmy could hear a Muslim preacher invoking God's wrath on Christians in sermons blared over loudspeakers from a mosque near his home. The radical message, he says, is a reason for jihadist attacks on his minority like the twin bombings of churches on Sunday that killed 45...

MOSUL: Two boys pose for a photo while sitting atop a destroyed house in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces from Islamic State militants, in west Mosul, Iraq. — AP

Street turned to rubble in Mosul - Food remains a problem

MOSUL: Two boys pose for a photo while sitting atop a destroyed house in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces from Islamic State militants, in west Mosul, Iraq. — APMOSUL: Two houses are all that remain standing on the street with no name in western Mosul, just blocks from the front lines of the battle to retake Iraq's second-largest city from the Islamic State group. The once-bustling neighborhood has been reduced to...

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Daily Mail apologizes to First Lady Melania Trump

US First Lady Melania TrumpLONDON: Britain's Daily Mail newspaper yesterday apologized to US First Lady Melania Trump and agreed to pay her damages over an article that included allegations that she worked as an escort in the 1990s. "The defendant is here today publicly to set the record straight, and to apologize to the claimant for any distress and embarrassment that the articles may have caused her," Catrin Evans, the lawyer for Associated...

The damaged bus of Borussia Dortmund is pictured after an explosion some 10km away from the stadium prior to the UEFA Champions League 1st leg quarter-final football match BVB Borussia Dortmund v Monaco in Dortmund, western Germany on April 11, 2017. Germany

German police investigate 'Islamist link' in explosions

DORTMUND: German police investigated a possible Islamist link to three explosions that rocked the Borussia Dortmund football team bus as the club vowed yesterday it won't give in to "terror". Dortmund's Spanish international Marc Bartra and a policeman were injured in the roadside blasts set off as the team headed to a Champions League game against Monaco on Tuesday night. The match was put back yesterday amid a ratcheting up of security around...

ALLAHABAD: Hindu devotees walk towards the Sangam river confluence in Allahabad. —AFP

Women live in the shadow of constant fear

Pakistan Hindu women hope for 'protection' in new law ALLAHABAD: Hindu devotees walk towards the Sangam river confluence in Allahabad. —AFPISLAMABAD: Sapna Gobia is busy preparing for her wedding in Pakistan in a few weeks. In many ways, her wedding will follow traditions passed down through generations, with the bride and groom circling a sacred fire lit by their families. But unlike the marriage of her parents, Gobia's will be formalized by a...

DHAKA: Activists from a Bangladesh Islamist group shout slogans as they take part in a protest calling for a statue referred to as a ‘Greek goddess’ installed at the Supreme Court to be destroyed or removed in Dhaka. —AFP

Bangladesh PM backs Islamists on controversial statue

DHAKA: Activists from a Bangladesh Islamist group shout slogans as they take part in a protest calling for a statue referred to as a ‘Greek goddess’ installed at the Supreme Court to be destroyed or removed in Dhaka. —AFPDHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been accused of "kowtowing" to hardline Islamists after expressing dislike for a controversial statue that religious radicals want removed from the Supreme Court. The...

TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man holds his dog during a gathering to demand establishment of a government department to protect dogs and cats from their owners who abused or dumped the animals. Taiwan has banned the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat and increased the penalty for animal cruelty. — AP

Taiwan bans eating dogs and cats

TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man holds his dog during a gathering to demand establishment of a government department to protect dogs and cats from their owners who abused or dumped the animals. Taiwan has banned the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat and increased the penalty for animal cruelty. — APTAIPEI: Taiwan has banned the eating of dogs and cats, lawmakers said yesterday, as pressure grows to improve animal welfare after a spate of cruelty...

JAKARTA: A youth ferries a friend on a rented bicycle on the main square of Jakarta’s old town. — AFP

One third of Indonesian women face physical or sexual violence

UN calls for urgent action JAKARTA: A youth ferries a friend on a rented bicycle on the main square of Jakarta’s old town. — AFPJAKARTA: One third of Indonesian women have faced physical or sexual violence, according to new government data, prompting calls by a United Nations agency for urgent action to protect women. The government's first national survey on violence against women showed 33 percent of women aged between 15 and 64 - around 26...

INABANGA: Police and soldiers take position as they engage with the Abu Sayyaf group in the village of Napo, Inabanga town, Bolo province, in the central Philippines yesterday. — AFP

Philippine militants flee after foiled kidnap raid

MANILA: Islamic militants who landed on a Philippine tourist island triggering deadly clashes with security forces had planned to stage a mass kidnapping, the military said yesterday as it pursued five fighters still on the loose. The army said the Abu Sayyaf group, notorious for a kidnap-for-ransom spree that has targeted foreigners, had planned to snatch up to a dozen tourists around Easter Sunday when resorts are packed. The group of 11 gunmen...

Tamim Loutfi Elabed, project manager of the construction of Lusail stadium, the 80,000-seater venue which will host the opening and final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, holds the football to be used in the starting match at the site in Lusail, some 20 kilometres north of the capital Doha, on April 11, 2017. Work has begun on Lusail Stadium, tournament organisers in the Gulf have said, as they allowed cameras onto the site for the very first time. Officials said they hope the stadium would be completed by 2020. / AFP / KARIM JAAFAR

Work starts on Qatar W Cup final stadium

Tamim Loutfi Elabed, project manager of the construction of Lusail stadium, the 80,000-seater venue which will host the opening and final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, holds the football to be used in the starting match at the site in Lusail, some 20 kilometres north of the capital Doha, on April 11, 2017. Work has begun on Lusail Stadium, tournament organisers in the Gulf have said, as they allowed cameras onto the site for the very first time....

PROVIDENCE: Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan celebrates winning the 3rd and final ODI match between West Indies and Pakistan at Guyana National Stadium, Providence, Guyana, on Tuesday. – AFP

Malik ton as Pakistan down West Indies to take series

PROVIDENCE: Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan celebrates winning the 3rd and final ODI match between West Indies and Pakistan at Guyana National Stadium, Providence, Guyana, on Tuesday. – AFPPROVIDENCE: Shoaib Malik scored an unbeaten century as Pakistan beat West Indies by six wickets to clinch victory in their one day international series in Guyana on Tuesday. Malik sealed the win-and his ton-in spectacular fashion, smashing a six off West Indies...

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