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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte review the honor guard upon the latter's arrival in the Saudi capital yesterday. - AFP
Philippine, Saudi leaders discuss labor, narcotics
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte review the honor guard upon the latter's arrival in the Saudi capital yesterday. - AFPRIYADH: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met yesterday with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, where hundreds of thousands of Filipinos work as nurses, domestic helpers, drivers, waiters and technicians. It was Duterte's first time meeting with the Saudi king. Philippine...
HONG KONG: Amnesty International East Asia Director Nicholas Bequelin (left) and Deputy Director of Global Issues Program James Lynch hold the copies of reports on the death penalty during a press conference in Hong Kong. —AP
China remains world's biggest executioner
Executions in China said to outpace world despite decline HONG KONG: Amnesty International East Asia Director Nicholas Bequelin (left) and Deputy Director of Global Issues Program James Lynch hold the copies of reports on the death penalty during a press conference in Hong Kong. —APBEIJING: China executed more people last year than the rest of the world combined, Amnesty said yesterday, defying a global decline with thousands of killings that...
Image made from a video provided shows a passenger being removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago. — AP
Online fury; passenger dragged off overbooked United Airlines
Passenger's removal sparks outrage in China Image made from a video provided shows a passenger being removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago. — APCHICAGO: The social media storm prompted by footage of United Airlines forcibly removing a passenger from an overbooked flight continued to spread Tuesday with accusations of perceived racism and calls for a boycott of the US carrier. Footage from the incident in which a Chinese-American...
ISLAMABAD: Journalists look a image of Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was arrested in March 2016, during a press conference by Pakistan's army spokesman and the Information Minister, in Islamabad, Pakistan. - AP
India warns Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Journalists look a image of Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was arrested in March 2016, during a press conference by Pakistan's army spokesman and the Information Minister, in Islamabad, Pakistan. - APNEW DELHI: India yesterday warned Pakistan of serious consequences for their bilateral relationship if it executes a retired Indian naval officer convicted of espionage and sabotage. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj...
ALABAMA: In this Saturday, March 2, 2013, photo, a cigarette burns in an ashtray at a home in Hayneville. A government study released yesterday shows that even though fewer US teens are smoking, exposure to secondhand smoke remains a big problem. —AP
China punishes official for not daring to smoke near Muslims
BEIJING: Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have punished a local official for declining to smoke in front of Muslim elders, seeing that as a sign he was insufficiently committed to the region's fight against religious extremism, according to a government report and state media yesterday. Jelil Matniyaz, Communist Party head of a village in Hotan Prefecture, was demoted for "not daring" to smoke in front of religious figures, said the...
MOSUL: A displaced Iraqi woman mourns her husband and sons, who were killed last week as they tried to flee their homes in Sekak neighborhood in western Mosul. — AFP
Babies starve as Iraqi war rages; Two patients to each bed
MOSUL: A displaced Iraqi woman mourns her husband and sons, who were killed last week as they tried to flee their homes in Sekak neighborhood in western Mosul. — AFPQAYYARA: The babies cry with hunger but are so severely malnourished that doctors treating them at a hospital in Iraq would make their condition worse if they fed them enough to stop the pangs. Many of the starving infants are from Mosul, where war between Islamic State militants...
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
9 dead; militants attack Philippine tourist island
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. — AFPMANILA: Nine people including four Philippine security officials were killed yesterday during clashes with the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group on a popular resort island as millions prepare to travel for the Easter holiday. The incursion on Bohol island would be the first...
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IS controls less than 7% of Iraq
BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three years ago, a military spokesman said yesterday. "Daesh controlled 40 percent of Iraqi land" in 2014, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told reporters, using an Arabic acronym for IS. "As of March 31 (this year), they only held 6.8 percent of Iraqi territory," said Rasool, the spokesman of the Joint Operations Command...
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Who's Mel? US terror case may unmask police mole
FILE- In this April 2, 2015 courtroom file sketch, defendants Noelle Velentzas, left and Asia Siddiqui, appear at federal court in New York after they were arrested for plotting to build a homemade bomb and wage jihad in New York City. By combing the web, attorneys for the two defendants say they have obtained a photograph and learned the real name of the undercover agent who helped nab the women by assumed a fake identity and going by the name...
GRANDE-SYNTHE: Photo shows burned remains of a migrant camp in the Dunkirk suburb of Grande-Synthe, northern France. — AP
A huge fire destroys France migrant camp
Migrants evacuated; 10 people injured GRANDE-SYNTHE: Photo shows burned remains of a migrant camp in the Dunkirk suburb of Grande-Synthe, northern France. — APGRANDE-SYNTHE: A huge fire, apparently started deliberately, tore through the Grande-Synthe migrant camp near the northern French city of Dunkirk late Monday, reducing it to "a heap of ashes", the regional chief said. Firefighters said at least 10 people had been injured in the blaze at...
Burgan Bank welcomes home world champ Tariq Al Qallaf
Burgan Bank welcomes home world champ Tariq Al Qallaf
Burgan Bank welcomes home world champ Tariq Al QallafKUWAIT: Burgan Bank was among the first to give Kuwait’s world champion in wheelchair fencing titleholder, Tariq Al Qallaf, a hero’s welcome at Kuwait national airport. The champion was returning from the World Fencing Championship for the disabled “US Epee Championship 2017” which was held in the state of Pennsylvania, US in which Al Qallaf won gold.Burgan Bank, who serves as a...
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Ultimate Soccer Academy supported by Nissan Al Babtain gears up for Mare Nostrum Cup
KUWAIT: Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Al Babtain Co. (AABC), the authorized agent of Nissan and the official sponsor of Ultimate Soccer Academy in Kuwait, is proud to announce that Ultimate Soccer Academy is gearing up for the ‘Mare Nostrum Cup’ Tournament, which will be taking place in the city of Barcelona during the 13th until the 17th of April 2017.After Ultimate Soccer Academy participated in the 2016 tournament, this year marks the Academy’s...
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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
Brazil plane crash kills 62