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Who created terrorism?
Salah Al-Sayer Is it enough that clergymen, religious experts and other religious men warn of terrorism in order to fight it? Is it enough that these people sermonize the public in mosques and through other media about how clement and tolerant Islam is?  Is it enough that they keep arguing that terrorist groups of various Islamic doctrines do not actually represent true Islam and that describing others as non-believers, terrifying and...
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Juvenile rescued from being kidnapped from school
KUWAIT: Passersby rescued a juvenile from being kidnapped by a citizen in front of his school in Jahra. The juvenile was surprised by the man dragging him, so he cried for help. The boy was rescued, but the alleged kidnapper escaped. Detectives are working on the case.InsultAn investigator and a policeman lodged a complaint against a lawyer for insulting them at the police station. An argument took place between the investigator and the lawyer,...
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Trio beat up mechanic over repair charges
KUWAIT: An Egyptian got three people help him to beat a mechanic and his brother after they had differences over the repair charges of his car in Khaitan. The victims lodged a complaint at the police station. Police are seeking the arrest of the attackers.SwindlingA former National Assembly candidate accused a well-known designer of swindling him after she took KD 10,000 to establish a beauty shop, but the project did not materialize. The former...
TOKYO: Saudi King Salman and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands before their meeting at Abe's official residence yesterday. - AP
King Salman, Abe eye boost in ties
Saudi deputy crown prince to meet Trump TOKYO: Saudi King Salman and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands before their meeting at Abe's official residence yesterday. - APTOKYO: Japan and Saudi Arabia agreed yesterday to explore ways to bolster Japanese investment and trade in the Middle Eastern nation, possibly by setting up special economic zones there. King Salman and about a thousand businesspeople from Saudi Arabia are in Japan for...
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Mubarak set to walk free
CAIRO: Hosni Mubarak, overthrown as president of Egypt in 2011 and the first leader to go on trial in the wake of the Arab Spring, will walk free this week for the first time in six years. The 88-year-old was cleared of murder charges this month in his final court appearance, having stood trial on charges ranging from corruption to ordering the killing of some of the protesters who ended his 30-year rule.Mubarak was initially arrested in April...
ALEPPO: Syrians stand in queue next to a water reservoir in the once rebel-held Shaar neighborhood of this the northern Syrian city on March 9, 2017. — AFP
Aleppo dares to dream of end to Syria war
ALEPPO: Syrians stand in queue next to a water reservoir in the once rebel-held Shaar neighborhood of this the northern Syrian city on March 9, 2017. — AFPALEPPO: When the army recaptured Aleppo in December, Mohammad Baqdul left Beirut and returned with his family to his native city, convinced the end of Syria's six-year war was near. Baqdul fled Syria's second city when rebels overran its east in 2012, posing one of the most serious threats...
ISTANBUL: A man reads a newspaper bearing a headline concerning diplomatic tensions between Turkey and The Netherlands, which translates as ìDog of Europeî yesterday. —AFP
Turkey-Netherlands crisis deepens
EU warns Erdogan - Ankara 'should re-evaluate' migrant deal ISTANBUL: A man reads a newspaper bearing a headline concerning diplomatic tensions between Turkey and The Netherlands, which translates as ìDog of Europeî yesterday. —AFPISTANBUL: The European Union yesterday warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to avoid inflammatory rhetoric as a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands deepened over the blocking of Turkish ministers...
MOGADISHU: Somali security men walk past a body at the scene of a car bomb attack yesterday. — AFP
Car bomb kills 6 near hotel in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU: Somali security men walk past a body at the scene of a car bomb attack yesterday. — AFPMOGADISHU: A suicide car bomber detonated near a hotel in Somalia's capital yesterday morning, killing at least six people and injuring four others, police said. The bomber detonated near the Weheliye hotel on the busy Maka Almukarramah road, Capt Mohamed Hussein said. Ambulances rushed to the scene. The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic extremist group...
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New 'enemy property' law targets Indian families who moved to Pakistan and China
MUMBAI: A controversial bill that amends a five-decade-old law to deny Indian families of those who moved to China and Pakistan the right to reclaim "enemy properties" seized by the state unfairly targets Muslims, analysts say. The Enemy Property Act of 1968, enacted after the India-Pakistan War three years earlier, gave the Indian government the right to seize assets of Indian nationals who had moved to Pakistan or China following wars with the...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is surrounded by security after a press conference at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila yesterday. — AP
Duterte wants mining ban, links miners to conspiracy
President says he'll do what's necessary to preserve land MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is surrounded by security after a press conference at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila yesterday. — APMANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday accused some miners of funding efforts to destabilize his government as he talked about a possible plan to impose a ban on mining given the environmental damage producers have...
ISLAMABAD: Commuters struck in a traffic jam in Islamabad yesterday. Pakistan will embark on the enormous task of conducting its first census in almost two decades, after years of bickering between politicians concerned about power bases and federal funding. —AFP
Pakistan to kick off first census in 19 years
ISLAMABAD: Commuters struck in a traffic jam in Islamabad yesterday. Pakistan will embark on the enormous task of conducting its first census in almost two decades, after years of bickering between politicians concerned about power bases and federal funding. —AFPISLAMABAD: Pakistan will this week embark on the enormous task of conducting its first census in almost two decades, after years of bickering between politicians concerned about power...
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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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