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Indian police arrest alleged mastermind of US tax scam
MUMBAI: Indian police have arrested the alleged mastermind of a multi-million dollar racket in which callers posing as US officials tricked Americans into paying bogus tax bills, officials said. Sagar Thakkar, 24, was making more than 10 million rupees ($155,000) a day at the height of the scam, which operated for nearly a year before it was exposed last October, police said.Thakkar is accused of calling victims in the United States and berating...
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US Marine’s fervor for killing transgender Filipina upheld
MANILA: The conviction of a US Marine for killing a transgender Filipina in a case that reignited long-simmering anti-American sentiment in the Philippines was upheld by a court yesterday. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was found guilty of homicide in 2015 for the killing of Jennifer Laude in a Philippines motel a year earlier, prompting his lawyers to file an appeal. But the Philippine Court of Appeals rejected the appeal yesterday,...
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Indonesian men face caning for gay sex
BANDA ACEH: Indonesia’s Aceh looks set to cane two men who admitted having sex in contravention of Islamic laws, an official said yesterday, the first such punishment of a gay couple in the conservative province. They face up to 100 strokes if found guilty of breaking Aceh’s sharia regulations after they were caught in late March by a group of vigilantes who raided a boarding house, said Marzuki, a spokesman for Aceh’s sharia police....
ANHUI PROVINCE: In this March 17, 2017 photo, Tao Yingsheng, the imam at the Nangang mosque, stands in the mosque in Hefei central China’s Anhui province. — AP
Unfettered online hate speech fueling Islamophobia in China
Exacerbating simmering ethnic and religious tensions ANHUI PROVINCE: In this March 17, 2017 photo, Tao Yingsheng, the imam at the Nangang mosque, stands in the mosque in Hefei central China’s Anhui province. — APHEFEI: The flood of angry anti-Muslim rhetoric on social media was the first sign of how fiercely the suburban middle-class homeowners in this central China city opposed a planned mosque in their neighborhood. It quickly escalated...
GUYANA: Hasan Ali (R) of Pakistan celebrates the dismissal of Jason Holder (L) of West Indies during the 2nd ODI match between West Indies and Pakistan at Guyana National Stadium, Providence, Guyana, on Sunday. – AFP
Pakistan level series with easy win over WI
GUYANA: Hasan Ali (R) of Pakistan celebrates the dismissal of Jason Holder (L) of West Indies during the 2nd ODI match between West Indies and Pakistan at Guyana National Stadium, Providence, Guyana, on Sunday. – AFPPROVIDENCE:  A superb unbeaten 125 from Babar Azam and a five-wicket haul to Hasan Ali led Pakistan to a comfortable 74-run victory in its second one-day cricket international against the West Indies in Providence, Guyana on...
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Kuwait wins 15 medals at int'l martial arts event
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti team has won 15 gold, silver and bronze medals at the world martial arts championship yesterday in Portugal.  In the final day of competing, the Kuwaiti athletes managed to increase their medal record to reach 50 medals, which include 19 gold, 20 silver and 11 bronze medals.  In a phone call with KUNA on Monday, the team's manager Abdullah Taqi said he was proud of his team's achievement during this tournament and raising...
LONDON: A freight train transporting containers laden with goods from the UK, departs from DP World London Gateway’s rail freight depot in Corringham, east of London, yesterday en route to Yiwu in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. — AFP
First ‘Silk Road’ train from UK leaves for China
Britain eyes new opportunities after it leaves EU LONDON: A freight train transporting containers laden with goods from the UK, departs from DP World London Gateway’s rail freight depot in Corringham, east of London, yesterday en route to Yiwu in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. — AFPSTANFORD-LE-HOPE, United Kingdom: The first-ever freight train from Britain to China started its mammoth journey yesterday along a modern-day "Silk...
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Kuwait inflation holds steady at 3.2% - NBK GCC MARKETS REPORT
KUWAIT: Inflation in consumer prices stood pat at 3.2 percent year-on-year (y/y) in February, as inflation across most components came in steady or unchanged. Local food inflation maintained its weakness as inflation in global food prices remained subdued. Core inflation, which excludes food prices, was unchanged at 4.1 percent y/y on the back of lower inflationary pressures from the housing component. Inflation is expected to see renewed, albeit...
MOSUL, Iraq: In this file photo, Intisar Jadan Sultan, left, sits with her family in a tent at the Khazer refugee camp, in east Mosul, Iraq.—AP photos
Iraqis haunted by war overwhelm mental health facilities
MOSUL, Iraq: In this file photo, Intisar Jadan Sultan, left, sits with her family in a tent at the Khazer refugee camp, in east Mosul, Iraq.—AP photosKHAZER, Iraq: Six-year-old Mustafa suffers nightmares, cries at the sound of airplanes and occasionally wets himself, symptoms that worsened last year when an explosion in Mosul killed his cousin and wounded his father before his eyes. He was a young witness to more than two years of Islamic...
(From left) Photo shows Norton de Andrade Mello Rapesta, Ambassador of Brazil to Kuwait, musicians Olivia and Francis Hime posing yesterday in Kuwait. — Photo by Joseph Shagra
Brazilian ‘Bossa Nova’ couple performs in Kuwait
(From left) Photo shows Norton de Andrade Mello Rapesta, Ambassador of Brazil to Kuwait, musicians Olivia and Francis Hime posing yesterday in Kuwait. — Photo by Joseph ShagraThe Embassy of Brazil, in cooperation with Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, organized 'Waves of Brazil', a bossa nova concert originally developed and popularized in Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s. The event was held at Yarmouk Cultural Center. The performers - famous couple...
Musicians are seen playing the Kuwaiti traditional music on different traditional percussions such as the mirwas, tar, twaisat, metal mortar, sea drums and others. —Photos by Ali Al-Roumi
Kuwaiti folk music.. a collection of traditional percussions
Musicians are seen playing the Kuwaiti traditional music on different traditional percussions such as the mirwas, tar, twaisat, metal mortar, sea drums and others. —Photos by Ali Al-RoumiKuwaiti traditional music has its own instruments to perform different arts such as Al- Samri, Al-Khammari, Al-Ardah and Liwa. Among these traditional percussions are the mirwas, tar, twaisat, metal mortar, sea drums and others, used by different generations...
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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
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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