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In this Thursday, April 6, 2017 photo made in Israeli controlled Golan Heights, An Israeli military medic talks to a badly wounded Syrian woman. Seven wounded Syrians crossed into Israeli controlled Heights Thursday night have received immediate treatment and were hospitalized later on. They are the latest group of Syrians receiving free medical care through an Israeli military program operating since 2013. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Israel treating thousands of war-wounded Syrians

In this Thursday, April 6, 2017 photo made in Israeli controlled Golan Heights, An Israeli military medic talks to a badly wounded Syrian woman. Seven wounded Syrians crossed into Israeli controlled Heights Thursday night have received immediate treatment and were hospitalized later on. They are the latest group of Syrians receiving free medical care through an Israeli military program operating since 2013. -AP GOLAN HEIGHTS: Seven wounded...

This photo taken on April 7, 2017 shows Myanmar soldiers and members of a rescue team carrying the body of a ferry passenger after the ship sank in the Nga Wun River in Pathein, a port city west of the commercial capital Yangon.nAt least 20 people were killed when a boat carrying scores of wedding guests collided with a river barge at night in western Myanmar, authorities said on April 8, with more feared drowned as rescue workers renewed their search in daylight. / AFP PHOTO / STR

20 killed in Myanmar wedding boat crash

This photo taken on April 7, 2017 shows Myanmar soldiers and members of a rescue team carrying the body of a ferry passenger after the ship sank in the Nga Wun River in Pathein, a port city west of the commercial capital Yangon.At least 20 people were killed when a boat carrying scores of wedding guests collided with a river barge at night in western Myanmar, authorities said on April 8, with more feared drowned as rescue workers renewed their...

KUWAIT: The visiting South Korean National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun and his accompanying delegation examine the project site of Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad bridge, executednby a South Korean company. — KUNA

S Korean speaker visits Jaber Bridge site

KUWAIT: The visiting South Korean National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun and his accompanying delegation examine the project site of Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad bridge, executed by a South Korean company. — KUNAKUWAIT: The visiting South Korean National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun and his accompanying delegation examined yesterday the project site of Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad bridge, executed by a South Korean company. The information office of...

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Truck slams into crowd in Sweden; many killed

Emergency services work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, April 7, 2017.A truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm on Friday, causing "deaths" in what the prime minister described as a "terror attack." - AFPSTOCKHOLM: A truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm yesterday,...

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Russia 'furious' as US fires missiles on Syria

In this image released by the US Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/Released) US President Donald Trump ordered a massive military strike on a Syrian air base on Thursday in retaliation for a "barbaric" chemical attack he blamed on President Bashar al-Assad. The missiles were fired from the USS Porter and the...

FILE - In this Sunday, April 24, 2016 file photo, Jemima Sumgong of Kenya wins the women's race in the 2016 London Marathon in London. Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong tested positive for the blood booster EPO in a surprise test in Kenya, the IAAF said Friday, April 7, 2017, another damaging blow to the credibility of the East African country's famed distance-running program. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Olympic champ Sumgong fails drug test

FILE - In this Sunday, April 24, 2016 file photo, Jemima Sumgong of Kenya wins the women's race in the 2016 London Marathon in London. Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong tested positive for the blood booster EPO in a surprise test in Kenya, the IAAF said Friday, April 7, 2017, another damaging blow to the credibility of the East African country's famed distance-running program. -AP NAIROBI: Jemima Sumgong, the first Kenyan woman to win an...

Myo Yan Naung Thein (C), a researcher for Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party, talks to the media after a hearing at court in Yangon on April 7, 2017. Myo Yan Naung Thein, an official working for Aung San Suu Kyi's government, was sentenced to six months in jail by a Yangon court on april 7 for criticising Myanmar's army chief in a Facebook post. / AFP / Ye Aung THU

Myanmar govt staff sentenced to jail for criticizing army

Myo Yan Naung Thein (C), a researcher for Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party, talks to the media after a hearing at court in Yangon on April 7, 2017. Myo Yan Naung Thein, an official working for Aung San Suu Kyi's government, was sentenced to six months in jail by a Yangon court on april 7 for criticising Myanmar's army chief in a Facebook post. - AFP YANGON: An official working for Aung San Suu Kyi's government was sentenced to six months in...

Civilians who were injured during the ongoing conflict between government forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in Mosul are treated by medics at a trauma field hospital on March 29, 2017, which was recently opened under the collaboration of the Federal Ministry of Health, Ninewa Department of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Athbah in western Mosul. Amnesty International said the US-led coalition was not doing enough to protect civilians in the battle to retake Iraq's Mosul with cases of entire families killed in their homes. / AFP / AHMAD GHARABLI

Pride and pain as Mosul doctors treat their own

Civilians who were injured during the ongoing conflict between government forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in Mosul are treated by medics at a trauma field hospital on March 29, 2017, which was recently opened under the collaboration of the Federal Ministry of Health, Ninewa Department of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Athbah in western Mosul. Amnesty International said the US-led coalition was not doing enough to...

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Duo arrested for installing cameras inside girl's house

KUWAIT: A citizen and his brother were recently arrested in Jahra for illegally installing seven surveillance cameras inside a girl's house, blackmailing and threatening to kill her unless she married him, said security sources. The man had repeatedly proposed to the girl related to him but was rejected by her. He thought of sneaking into her house and installing seven surveillance cameras including one in her bathroom.He had then connected the...

A vendor prepares fresh fish for a customer (R) at a market in Beijing on April 7, 2017. / AFP / NICOLAS ASFOURI

Capital controls seen trimming outflows

A vendor prepares fresh fish for a customer (R) at a market in Beijing on April 7, 2017. -AFP BEIJING: China's foreign exchange reserves stayed above $3 trillion in March, during which a pause in the dollar's rally aided Beijing's efforts to contain capital outflows. Reserves rose $3.96 billion during March - less than the $5 billion predicted in a Reuters poll - to total $3.009 trillion, compared with $3.005 trillion at the end of February. In...

TOPSHOT - US First Lady Melania Trump (R) and President Donald Trump (2nd R) pose with Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd L) and his wife Peng Liyuan (L) upon their arrival to the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. / AFP / JIM WATSON

Trump, Xi meet again - in shadow of missile strikes on Syria

US First Lady Melania Trump (R) and President Donald Trump (2nd R) pose with Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd L) and his wife Peng Liyuan (L) upon their arrival to the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. -AFP PALM BEACH: North Korea's nuclear ambitions and the US-China trade imbalance as well as other points of tension between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are being overshadowed by the...

TOPSHOT - Venezuelan opposition activists clash with the police during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro on April 6, 2017 in Caracas. Violence erupted for a third straight day at protests against the government, escalating tension over moves to keep the leftist leader in power. / AFP / JUAN BARRETO

One dead as Venezuela police, protesters clash

TOPSHOT - Venezuelan opposition activists clash with the police during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro on April 6, 2017 in Caracas. Violence erupted for a third straight day at protests against the government, escalating tension over moves to keep the leftist leader in power. -AFP CARACAS: Violence erupted for a third straight day at protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, leaving one demonstrator dead...

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