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Citizen kills wife with axe in Jahra
KUWAIT: A citizen killed his wife yesterday with an axe in Jahra over a dispute, and was arrested by Taima detectives. Preliminary information indicates that after a fight broke out between the couple, the husband hit his wife with a solid object on the head, killing her instantly.By Hanan Al-Saadoun
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Govt innocent from Friday rain crisis
The recent catastrophic rainfall that flooded several roads, blocked others and trapped citizens in fear inside their vehicles for hours, is the result of a natural weather disaster the government cannot be blamed for because it happens in various countries worldwide. This is true, and I remember that it was used by governmental sources when previous similar disasters with the same magnitude took place. "Floods even happen in London and...
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Cleaner caught in fire
KUWAIT: An Indian cleaner received burns and was hospitalized after the room he was cleaning caught fire. The man, who was working alongside a Syrian colleague, was using combustible chemicals to clean a room when a machine in the room started up, sparking and causing the whole place to catch fire.Obscene gestureA citizen reported to Maidan Hawally police that he witnessed an unknown person make an obscene gesture in public. He provided the...
AYR: Palm trees blow in the wind in the town of Ayr in far north Queensland as Cyclone Debbie approaches yesterday. Lashing rain and howling winds battered northeast Australia as towns went into lockdown ahead of a ‘monster’ cyclone making landfall, with thousands evacuated amid fears of damage and tidal surges. — AFP
'Monster' cyclone batters northeast Australia
AYR: Palm trees blow in the wind in the town of Ayr in far north Queensland as Cyclone Debbie approaches yesterday. Lashing rain and howling winds battered northeast Australia as towns went into lockdown ahead of a ‘monster’ cyclone making landfall, with thousands evacuated amid fears of damage and tidal surges. — AFPAYR: A "monster" cyclone smashed into northeast Australia yesterday, cutting power, damaging buildings and uprooting trees,...
MOSUL: A man sits next to the body of Khadeer Hassan, who was killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State on the western side of Mosul. — AP
Civilian deaths force Mosul battle rethink
Police snipers close to symbolic mosque MOSUL: A man sits next to the body of Khadeer Hassan, who was killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State on the western side of Mosul. — APMOSUL: Perched in bombed-out apartments overlooking west Mosul, Iraqi police snipers have in the last few days advanced to within a few hundred meters of the mosque where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate...
PARIS: Demonstrators from the Asian community protest outside Paris’ 19th district’s police station yesterday. Violent clashes in Paris between baton-wielding police and protesters outraged at the police killing of a Chinese man in his home have seen three police officers injured and 35 protesters arrested. — AP
Violent protest in Paris; Chinese man shot dead
China urges France to protect Chinese community PARIS: Demonstrators from the Asian community protest outside Paris’ 19th district’s police station yesterday. Violent clashes in Paris between baton-wielding police and protesters outraged at the police killing of a Chinese man in his home have seen three police officers injured and 35 protesters arrested. — APPARIS: China yesterday urged France to protect its citizens in Paris after police...
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
Muslims in Uttar Pradesh state unnerved, lay low
Hardline Hindu priest - a handful for Modi in heartland India state 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. — APGORAKHPUR: Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stunned the political establishment by promoting a hardline Hindu priest to one...
African students in India often complain of racial assaults (AFP Photo/Noah Seelam)
Indian police arrest five over attack on Africans
Africans in India frequently face discrimination, violence African students in India often complain of racial assaults (AFP Photo/Noah Seelam)NEW DELHI: Police arrested five men yesterday after hundreds of angry residents of a north Indian city attacked Africans with sticks and metal chairs following the death of a local teenager from a suspected drug overdose. Around a dozen people were wounded in the violence late Monday in Greater Noida, a...
TEHRAN: Iran's Mehdi Taremi (L) plays against China's Zhang Linpeng during the 2018 World Cup qualifying football match between Iran and China at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran yesterday. - AFP
Iran close in on W Cup, Australia beat UAE
TEHRAN: Iran's Mehdi Taremi (L) plays against China's Zhang Linpeng during the 2018 World Cup qualifying football match between Iran and China at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran yesterday. - AFPSYDNEY:  Iran took a significant step towards qualifying for next year's World Cup finals with a 1-0 win over China yesterday that pushed Marcello Lippi's team closer to the brink of elimination.Mehdi Taremi scored the only goal of the game less than a...
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's forward Lionel Messi (2nd-R) argues with second assistant referee Marcelo Vangasse (2nd-L) next to Brazilian referee Sandro Ricci (L) and first assistant referee Emerson Augusto de Carvalho (R) in the half time of their 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia South American qualifier football match against Chile, at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, on March 23. FIFA yesterday suspended Messi for four Argentina games. -- AFP nn
Messi banned for four international matches
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's forward Lionel Messi (2nd-R) argues with second assistant referee Marcelo Vangasse (2nd-L) next to Brazilian referee Sandro Ricci (L) and first assistant referee Emerson Augusto de Carvalho (R) in the half time of their 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia South American qualifier football match against Chile, at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, on March 23. FIFA yesterday suspended Messi for four Argentina games. --...
DHARMSALA: Indian team poses with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after winning the Test cricket series against Australia in Dharmsala, India,nyesterday. India won the four-match series 2-1. – AP
'Unbelievable' India thrash Australia, take series
DHARMSALA: Indian team poses with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after winning the Test cricket series against Australia in Dharmsala, India,yesterday. India won the four-match series 2-1. – APDHARAMSALA:  Skipper Virat Kohli said Australia were no longer his friends after India wrapped up a bad-tempered Test series 2-1 with a thumping eight-wicket win in Dharamsala yesterday.  Chasing 106 on the penultimate day of the fourth Test, opener Lokesh...
KIB’s showjumping team
KIB's showjumping team earns new accolade
KIB’s showjumping teamKUWAIT: The Kuwait International Bank (KIB) showjumping team recently earned a new impressive accolade, adding to its growing roster of achievements, with jockey Ahmad Al-Mudaheka nabbing first place in the 135cm competition at the First Champion Show Jumping Competition.Al-Mudaheka, along with teammates Ghazi Al-Juraei Abdullah Hamadah and Ahmad Al-Ansari, compete locally and internationally under the banner of KIB's...
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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
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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
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