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.KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality's Public Relations Department said Hawally emergency team carried out a campaign to remove encroachments on state property, especially around power transformers. A total of six encroachments were removed. Meanwhile unlicensed 446 advertisements were removed from streets.By Hanan Al-Saadoun
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Road dispute leads to assault
KUWAIT: Arabi Sports Club water polo player Mohammad Najem was beaten in Dasma by six men for honking while driving. The player was driving in Kuwait City when a car steered towards him, so he honked to alert the driver, and kept driving. On reaching Dasma, men from the same car along with three others attacked him with sharp objects, leaving him with a head injury and other injuries before escaping. The victim was taken to Amiri Hospital as...
South Korean Marine amphibious assault vehicles fire smoke shells to land on the seashore during a joint landing operation by US and South Korean Marines in the southeastern port of Pohang yesterday. The drill is part of the annual joint exercise Foal Eagle to enhance the combat readiness of the US and South Korea supporting forces in defense of the Korean Peninsula. - AFP
US urges China to take 'action' against North Korea
South Korean Marine amphibious assault vehicles fire smoke shells to land on the seashore during a joint landing operation by US and South Korean Marines in the southeastern port of Pohang yesterday. The drill is part of the annual joint exercise Foal Eagle to enhance the combat readiness of the US and South Korea supporting forces in defense of the Korean Peninsula. - AFPWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump warned in an interview published...
SARGHODHA: Pakistani volunteers and local residents gather around the bodies of people who were killed in a local shrine, outside the morgue of a hospital. — AP
20 tortured to death at Pakistan shrine
Victims were given intoxicants before being slaughteredISLAMABAD: The custodian of a Pakistani religious shrine and two accomplices have been arrested for torturing and murdering 20 worshippers with knives and clubs early yesterday, police said. Four women were among those killed in the attacks at the Sufi Shrine to Mohammad Ali in Punjab province. Victims were apparently given intoxicants before being slaughtered and some of the bodies were...
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Filipino youth stage musical against Duterte's drugs war
MANILA: A Philippine youth theatre club staged a musical at a Manila park yesterday, challenging President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs. The 20-minute show features a casket salesman whose funeral parlor is doing brisk business as corpses pile up. But the salesman and his friends end up as statistics, falling to vigilante-style killings that have gripped the Southeast Asian nation and alarmed the international community. "The play talks...
PESHAWAR: In this picture taken on Thursday, March 28, 2017, Pakistani lawyer Shandana Naeem, right, listens to a caller with her colleague Nayab Hassan at their office. — AP
Pakistan sets up a life-saving helpline for women in need
Recording, aiding the horrifying tales of distraught women PESHAWAR: In this picture taken on Thursday, March 28, 2017, Pakistani lawyer Shandana Naeem, right, listens to a caller with her colleague Nayab Hassan at their office. — APPESHAWAR: When Durdana married for a second time and to a man of her own choosing, her parents threatened to kill her if she tried to see her new husband. They imprisoned her in their home, but she still had her...
DEOLS: French presidential election candidate for the far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon waves on stage during a campaign rally. — AFP
Putin, friend or foe? Russia looms over French election
 'A divided Europe means that Putin is the boss' DEOLS: French presidential election candidate for the far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon waves on stage during a campaign rally. — AFPPARIS: Russia looms large over France's presidential election, with candidates on the hard left, right and far right all promising to improve ties with the Kremlin, accused by some of meddling in the vote. As US authorities press their...
SHARM EL SHEIKH: A picture taken through the window of an airplane shows the Red Sea’s Tiran (foreground) and the Sanafir (background) islands in the Straits of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. — AP
Egypt court ruling backs islands’ transfer to Saudi
SHARM EL SHEIKH: A picture taken through the window of an airplane shows the Red Sea’s Tiran (foreground) and the Sanafir (background) islands in the Straits of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. — APCAIRO: An Egyptian court ruled yesterday that a judicial decision to block the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia was invalid, lawyers said, in a blow for opponents of a handover. The urgent matters court in...
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Mortaza suspended for slow over rate
COLOMBO: Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has been suspended for one match for a slow over rate during the third one-day international against Sri Lanka, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday. This means he will be barred from playing in the first ODI against Ireland at a tri-nations tournament in May.The right-arm paceman was also fined 40 percent of his match fee, with the other players losing 20 percent of their fees. His...
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Sindhu beats Marin to lift India Open badminton title
PV SindhuNEW DELHI: India's PV Sindhu defeated top seed Carolina Marin of Spain in straight games to win the final match of the India Open badminton tournament in New Delhi yesterday.Third seed Sindhu beat the Spaniard 21-19, 21-16 in a match that lasted 46 minutes at the Siri Fort Sports Complex. The 21-year-old Olympic silver medallist took an early lead in the match and continued to dominate the game throughout in front of a cheering home...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi speaks during the Iraq Energy Forum at Al-Rashid Hotel in the capital Baghdad yesterday. Leaders and the ministers of oil and electricity met to discuss Iraq’s energy sector at the forum. —AFP
Iraq vows full compliance with oil cut deal
Baghdad to boost crude oil production by year-end BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi speaks during the Iraq Energy Forum at Al-Rashid Hotel in the capital Baghdad yesterday. Leaders and the ministers of oil and electricity met to discuss Iraq’s energy sector at the forum. —AFPBAGHDAD: Iraq has assured OPEC it will fully comply with an agreement to cut oil supply in order to bolster crude prices, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed...
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Boursa Kuwait suspends shares of 13 companies
KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait yesterday suspended trading of shares of 13 companies that failed to submit their annual financial statements for the year 2016. Boursa Kuwait said on its website that trading was halted over the shares of the International Financial Advisors (IFA), Arzan Financial Group For Financing And Investment, Al-Madar Finance and Investment CO.The suspension also included Noor Financial Investment, Kuwait Bahrain International...
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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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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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