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KUALA LUMPUR: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Business and Investment Summit in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. — AP
Amir invites India PM Modi to visit Kuwait
Two agencies to run 6 Indian embassy outsourcing centersKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has extended an official invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Kuwait. The invitation has been delivered to the prime minister and a date of his visit will be finalized soon, said Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain during a press conference at the Indian embassy here on Thursday."Both countries will finalize...
Saad Al-Ajmi hugs his children upon his return home late on Thursday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Ajmi returns to Kuwait
Saad Al-Ajmi hugs his children upon his return home late on Thursday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Saad Al-Ajmi, former spokesman of the opposition Popular Action Movement, returned home to Kuwait late on Thursday. Ajmi, who was deported to Saudi Arabia after his citizenship was revoked, returned through the Nuwaiseeb border outlet after two years in exile. An elated Ajmi thanked HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,...
PARIS: Kuwaiti Minister for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Mohammad Mubarak Al- Sabah speaks during the ceremony. —KUNA
France expresses great appreciation for Kuwait's generous support for culture
PARIS: Kuwaiti Minister for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Mohammad Mubarak Al- Sabah speaks during the ceremony. —KUNAPARIS: France on Thursday gave lavish praise to Kuwait's role in supporting cultural development down through the decades and on several levels and particularly on this occasion by helping refurbish the library in the Arab World Institute (IMA) in the French capital.The inauguration ceremony for the new...
BUDAPEST: Former Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah delivers a lecture organized by Antall Jozsef Knowledge Center (AJKC). —KUNA
Former Kuwaiti FM blames racism, foreign intervention for Mideast crises
BUDAPEST: Former Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah delivers a lecture organized by Antall Jozsef Knowledge Center (AJKC). —KUNABUDAPEST: Racism, intolerance, and foreign intervention in the Middle East have led to countless wars, conflicts, and crises that will have grave repercussions on world affairs, said former Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah.Problems in Syria, Iraq,...
KUWAIT: The scene of one of the accidents reported yesterday.
Man dead, several injured in multiple accidents
KUWAIT: The scene of one of the accidents reported yesterday.KUWAIT: A citizen died in a car accident reported on Sixth Ring Road yesterday. Jahra firemen headed to the scene accompanied by paramedics in response to an emergency call reporting the accident. Upon arrival, they found two persons apparently injured outside their of vehicles, but discovered upon examination that one of them had already succumbed to his injuries while the other was...
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Drug dealers arrested
KUWAIT: Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives arrested three Bangladeshis in Adan for drug trafficking. The trio were caught with possession of 157 Tramadol tablets. Detectives had received tips about the suspects' activities, so an undercover agent was assigned to make a deal with them. One of the suspects was put under arrest red-handed while receiving the money from the undercover agent, and his accomplices were also detained in his residence where the...
PARACHINAR: Pakistani mourners gather as they shout slogans during a protest following a powerful bomb explosion at a market in Parachinar, the capital of the Kurram tribal district yesterday. —AFP
Bomb near Pakistan mosque kills 22
Islamist militant group TTP claims responsibility PARACHINAR: Pakistani mourners gather as they shout slogans during a protest following a powerful bomb explosion at a market in Parachinar, the capital of the Kurram tribal district yesterday. —AFPPARACHINAR: A bomb apparently targeting a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Parachinar killed at least 22 people yesterday and wounded dozens in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taleban. The...
Indonesian Muslims take part in a protest to demand Jakarta's Christian governor be jailed for allegedly blaspheming Islam, in Jakarta on March 31, 2017.nThousands of Indonesian Muslims held its latest rally on March 31 to demand Jakarta's Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known for his nickname Ahok, be jailed for allegedly blaspheming Islam. / AFP PHOTO / BAY ISMOYO
Indonesia arrests Muslim leader for treason
Thousands protest against Christian governor JAKARTA: Indonesian Muslims take part in a protest to demand Jakarta’s Christian governor be jailed for allegedly blaspheming Islam yesterday. —AFPJAKARTA: Indonesian police arrested five people, including a Muslim leader, for suspected treason yesterday, signaling a clampdown on hardline Islamist groups that have agitated against Jakarta's Christian governor ahead of a mid-April election in the...
MOSUL: Iraqi families walk down a road as they flee Mosul during an offensive by security forces to retake the western parts of the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters.- AFP
Ghosts of Mosul stalk Iraq's fleeing children
HASAN SHAM CAMP: The children proudly wield donated plastic water bottles like freshly dug nuggets of treasure, smiling despite the fear and death and destruction they have faced in their ruined city. With the impetuousness that only children can muster, they forget for a moment the hell they've endured in Mosul. "We had a big house, but Daesh bombed and burned it," says 10-year-old Nora, her undersized frame draped in a hand-me-down dress with a...
LISMORE: A handout photo shows flooding in a small town just north of Bowen in Queensland after the area was hit by cyclone Debbie. —AFP
Australians cling to roofs as floodwaters swamp towns
One dead, 20,000 people told to evacuate LISMORE: A handout photo shows flooding in a small town just north of Bowen in Queensland after the area was hit by cyclone Debbie. —AFPSYDNEY: Flooding rivers swamped towns along Australia's east coast yesterday forcing tens of thousands of people to be evacuated as fast-flowing waters cut roads and destroyed bridges after the remnants of a powerful cyclone swept through the region. The disaster zone...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with US manufacturers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House yesterday. —AFP
Trump to name, shame trade 'cheats'
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with US manufacturers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House yesterday. —AFPWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was to launch an investigation yesterday to root out unfair trade practices around the world, threatening to target countries that contribute to America's substantial trade deficit. In a symbolic move, Trump was to sign an executive order tasking staff to pinpoint...
MEERUT, India: In this photograph taken on March 25, 2017, Haji Shadab, the managing director of an abattoir, looks on inside the empty abattoir. — AFP
India is world's largest buffalo meat exporter
Cow crackdown puts meat industry on edge MEERUT, India: In this photograph taken on March 25, 2017, Haji Shadab, the managing director of an abattoir, looks on inside the empty abattoir. — AFPMEERUT, India: Not a buffalo in sight as businessman Haji Shadab paced the silent abattoir, his meat shipments indefinitely on hold as India reels from a crisis threatening its reputation as the world's largest buffalo meat exporter. A zealous campaign to...
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