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Forum to provide platform for opportunities, exchange of ideas
GCC youth to contribute in re-mapping tourism in 15 years Nabila Al-AnjeriKUWAIT: Organizers of the first Kuwait Youth and Tourism Forum seek to transform the event into a comprehensive platform for opportunities and enhancing relations between young entrepreneurs, as well as promoting tourism as a supporter for true development.In this regard, Nabila Al-Anjeri, head of the organizing committee and General Manager of Leaders Group  for...
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Drugged driver caught with firearm
KUWAIT: Police arrested a man who was driving under the influence of drugs while holding a loaded AK-47 rifle, according to police. Officers had rushed to a location where several people reported in emergency calls that a man was driving while waving a mechanical weapon from his vehicle's window. Police were able to subdue to the man and place him under arrest. He was taken to the police station to be identified because he was too inebriated to...
DUBAI: Visitors look at screens displaying images of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park yesterday, at the solar plant in Dubai. – AFP
Dubai harvests desert sun at its solar plant
DUBAI: Visitors look at screens displaying images of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park yesterday, at the solar plant in Dubai. – AFPDUBAI: Dubai yesterday completed a solar plant big enough to power 50,000 homes as part of a plan to generate three-quarters of its energy from renewables by 2050. The 200 megawatt plant sprawls over 4.5 square kilometers of desert and includes some 2.3 million photovoltaic panels. It is the second...
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Indian traffickers widen their nets
MUMBAI: An Indian woman rescued from sex slavery in one of the Gulf nations was brought back to her hometown in Gujarat on Sunday amid concerns traffickers are widening their net to new parts of India. Two agents - one in Gujarat and another in Mumbai - have been arrested and the search is on for more agents, officials said. The woman, 35, had flown to Dubai about a year ago on the promise of a housemaid’s job and a monthly salary of about...
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Indonesia will continue to send maids abroad
JAKARTA: Indonesia said yesterday it would continue to send domestic helpers overseas, in an about-turn welcomed by campaigners who said it would help prevent women falling prey to human trafficking. Thousands of Indonesian women travel to places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia every year to become maids, attracted by promises of higher salaries despite reports of widespread abuses and near slave-like living conditions.Jakarta had...
MOSUL: Iraqis, who were displaced from Mosul due to the ongoing fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, return to their city on March 17, 2017. — AFP
IS force young men to fight in for Mosul say refugees
MOSUL: Iraqis, who were displaced from Mosul due to the ongoing fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, return to their city on March 17, 2017. — AFPMOSUL: Islamic State militants are forcing young men in western Mosul to fight for them in defense of the remaining pockets of their former stronghold against an Iraqi government assault, fleeing residents and Iraqi officers said yesterday. The forced recruitment is a...
MANAMA: In this file photo, Bahraini lawmakers participate in a special session of parliament to discuss how to handle the uprising in the Gulf island kingdom. — AP
Bahrain charges oppn with 'inciting hatred'
DUBAI: Bahraini liberal opposition figure Ibrahim Sharif was charged yesterday with "inciting hatred" against the regime with his tweets, a human rights group said. The Britain-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said Sharif was questioned by the Gulf state's public prosecution about comments he tweeted. Apart from voicing support for detained rights activists, Sharif questioned moves by the justice ministry to dissolve the...
NEW YORK: In this Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 photo, members of the Sisterhood Salaam Shalom, gather for a group photo after a unity vigil held at the Jewish Theological Seminary. — AP
US Muslims and Jews bolster bonds amid acts of bigotry
NEW YORK: In this Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 photo, members of the Sisterhood Salaam Shalom, gather for a group photo after a unity vigil held at the Jewish Theological Seminary. — APNEW YORK: They sat on either end of the congressmen's couch, one a Jewish healthcare executive whose parents fled Germany in 1936, the other the Kashmiri Muslim chairman of a well-known American furniture chain. The men, Stanley Bergman and Farooq Kathwari, came to...
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Paris airport attacker 'drunk and on drugs'
PARIS: The man shot dead at Paris's Orly airport after attacking a soldier was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time, a judicial source said Sunday. Investigators are still trying to understand what motivated Saturday's assault by 39-year-old Ziyed Ben Belgacem, which led to a major security scare and the temporary closure of the capital's second-busiest airport."Toxicology tests carried out on Sunday showed an alcohol level of...
CHAMAN: Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard while people wait for opening border crossing, in Chaman, Pakistan, yesterday, March 20, 2017. Pakistan’s prime minister ordered the reopening of the country’s border with Afghanistan yesterday, ending a protracted closure that has cost businesses on both sides millions of dollars and deepened tensions between the two neighbors. —AP
What is an Afghan life worth? That depends
Evaluating the cost of a human life CHAMAN: Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard while people wait for opening border crossing, in Chaman, Pakistan, yesterday, March 20, 2017. Pakistan’s prime minister ordered the reopening of the country’s border with Afghanistan yesterday, ending a protracted closure that has cost businesses on both sides millions of dollars and deepened tensions between the two neighbors. —APWASHINGTON: In March...
ADDIS ABABA: Zemed Derib (R), resident of the Koshe area, is pictured with a photograph of her mother, Yeshi Beyene, on March 18 2017, in Kosheon the outskirts of Addis Ababa. —AFP
Desperate choice of Ethiopia landslide survivor: Run or die
  ADDIS ABABA: Zemed Derib (R), resident of the Koshe area, is pictured with a photograph of her mother, Yeshi Beyene, on March 18 2017, in Kosheon the outskirts of Addis Ababa. —AFPADDIS ABABA: One minute, Zemed Derib stood negotiating with her precocious siblings who had locked themselves inside their uncle's home as a prank. The next, the playful scene gave way to horror as the hillside of the rubbish dump above them collapsed. With...
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Pakistan passes a landmark Hindu marriage register bill
ISLAMABAD: The president of mainly Muslim Pakistan has signed into law a bill allowing the Hindu minority to register their marriages for the first time since partition from India in 1947. The bill, signed by President Mamnoon Hussain on Sunday, will "safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Hindu families", a government statement said.It will also allow Hindus to file for divorce and remarry, and will protect the financial security of...
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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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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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