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Man arrested for nurses recruitment scam
KUWAIT: An Indian national has been arrested for his involvement in a high profile nursing recruitment scam involving Kuwait. The man, who had fled to Abu Dhabi, was arrested at the Nedumbassery airport upon his return to India.Originally from Kottayam, the man allegedly used his firm to charge nurses interested in working in Kuwait around KD 9,000 each for a job here - thousands more than what is allowed by law in India. The recruitment agency...
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Police arrest sorcerer with VIP clients
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives put an end to the activities of a Sri Lankan sorcerer, who claimed his customers were VIPs and charged KD 250 for each job. The Sri Lankan became famous and many complaints were lodged at the criminal detectives departments to stop this "evil" man who breaks up families and makes those who deal with him believe he is able to bring lovers together and other claims. Detectives identified him and sent an undercover agent,...
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Citizen who appeared in a video clip disrobing a girl arrested
KUWAIT: Detectives arrested a citizen who appeared in a video clip disrobing a girl. He said in the video that he "gets" a girl every day from an educational institute. He was located and arrested by criminal detectives in Jabriya. The suspect told police about the girl who was with him, and she was brought in for questioning.Phone theftA thief stole the mobile phone of an Egyptian employee of Hawally residency affairs department while he was...
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Senior citizens trade charges
KUWAIT: A citizen in his seventies and a woman in her sixties exchanged charges of beating and verbal insults at Jabriya police station, as each claimed to be beaten by the other.Domestic violenceAn Egyptian man sought police help to rescue him from his wife's beatings. The Egyptian, who was taken to Mubarak Hospital, went with a medical report to the police station and told them that a minor dispute occurred with his wife, so she attacked and...
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk invoking Article 50 and signaling the United Kingdom’s intention to leave the EU, in the cabinet office inside 10 Downing Street in London on Tuesday.
No turning back: UK triggers Brexit
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk invoking Article 50 and signaling the United Kingdom’s intention to leave the EU, in the cabinet office inside 10 Downing Street in London on Tuesday.LONDON: Britain launched the historic process of leaving the EU yesterday, but its European partners were quick to warn of the difficult path that lies ahead. Prime Minister Theresa May...
UTTAR PRADESH: An Indian man chops meat at a meat shop in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state, India. Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state is running out of meat, with the government cracking down on illegal slaughterhouses and meat shops. — AP
BJP abattoir crackdown spreads, stoking unease
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: A crackdown on unlicensed abattoirs in India’s most populous state has spread to other states ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, as Hindu hardliners press a political agenda that risks alienating the country’s Muslim minority. The move started after Modi appointed Yogi Adityanath as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) landslide victory in elections there this...
NEW DELHI: An African woman walks through one of the few neighborhoods that rents apartments to people of African origin in New Delhi, India. Mobs of Indians have repeatedly attacked African students in a New Delhi suburb in recent days after rumors that a local boy had been kidnapped by Nigerians. — AP
Indian dad accused of burying baby girl alive
Incident highlights the scandal of female foeticideNEW DELHI: Indian police said yesterday they have arrested a man on suspicion of burying his newborn daughter alive because he wanted a boy. Local villagers rescued the baby over the weekend after spotting her feet sticking up from a shallow sand pit in farmland in the Jajpur district of the eastern state of Odisha. Police arrested her father Ramesh Chandra for attempted manslaughter. The...
MOSUL: Residents carry the body of several people killed during fighting between Iraq security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. — AP
Iraq forces besiege landmark mosque
Battle edges toward densely populated Old Mosul MOSUL: Residents carry the body of several people killed during fighting between Iraq security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. — APMOSUL: Iraqi Special Forces and police fought Islamic State militants to edge closer to the Al-Nuri mosque in western Mosul yesterday, tightening their control around the landmark site in the battle to recapture Iraq's second...
QARAQOSH: Photo shows a general view of the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (Hamdaniya), 30 kilometers east of the northern city of Mosul. — AFP
Freed from Islamic State, Iraq's Qaraqosh is now a ghost town
QARAQOSH: Photo shows a general view of the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (Hamdaniya), 30 kilometers east of the northern city of Mosul. — AFPQARAQOSH: In the Iraqi Christian town of Qaraqosh, time stands still. The Islamic State group was expelled in October 2016, but life has not returned to its once-vibrant and wealthy neighborhoods. It has a ghostly air: wide avenues silent but for the rattle of an empty tin can nudged by...
MONTEPUEZ: A geologist at the Gemfields Ruby mine performs the final stage of the sorting process in Montepuez, Mozambique. — AFP
Ruby rush brings gangland turf war to Mozambique
MONTEPUEZ: A geologist at the Gemfields Ruby mine performs the final stage of the sorting process in Montepuez, Mozambique. — AFPMONTEPUEZ: The stakes are high in Montepuez where the discovery of rubies has led to violence among miners that has turned the northern town into what some describe as Mozambique's own version of the Wild West. Discovery of the red gemstone in 2009 sparked a "ruby rush", with thousands of miners arriving to seek...
NEW DELHI: An African man exits a house in one of the few neighborhoods that rents to people of African origin in New Delhi, India. Mobs of Indians have repeatedly attacked African students in a New Delhi suburb in recent days. —AP
Mobs attack Africans in India - India urged to address racism and Afro-phobia
NEW DELHI: An African man exits a house in one of the few neighborhoods that rents to people of African origin in New Delhi, India. Mobs of Indians have repeatedly attacked African students in a New Delhi suburb in recent days. —APNEW DELHI: A Kenyan woman was attacked yesterday, Indian police said, in the same northern city where a mob had assaulted African students following the death of a local teenager from a suspected drug overdose. The...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi policemen patrol the area around the site of an attack in Dhaka, yesterday. Bangladeshi forces stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area where heavily armed militants held dozens of people hostage yesterday morning, rescuing some captives including foreigners. — AP
Bangladesh police raid Islamist hideouts
DHAKA: Bangladesh police came under grenade attack when they raided two suspected Islamist extremist hideouts yesterday, days after a major anti-militant drive in which 10 people were killed. Police said counter-terrorism officers raided two houses in Moulvibazar district in the northeast after receiving a tip-off that extremists were sheltering there.A stand-off ensued, with those inside the houses throwing grenades, local police Chief Rashedul...
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