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FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2016 file photo FIFA President Gianni Infantino, right, and Vitaly Mutko, Russia's deputy prime minister in charge of sport, tourism and youth policies, arrive for a news briefing ahead of the draw for the soccer Confederations Cup 2017, in Kazan, Russia. Russia World Cup head Mutko has been barred from seeking re-election to FIFA's top decision-making body after failing an eligibility check because of his role as a deputy prime minister of Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, file)

Russia's Mutko 'barred from FIFA post'

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2016 file photo FIFA President Gianni Infantino, right, and Vitaly Mutko, Russia's deputy prime minister in charge of sport, tourism and youth policies, arrive for a news briefing ahead of the draw for the soccer Confederations Cup 2017, in Kazan, Russia. Russia World Cup head Mutko has been barred from seeking re-election to FIFA's top decision-making body after failing an eligibility check because of his role as a...

TOPSHOT - A general view shows the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, on March 10, 2017, as Iraqi forces shell enemy positions during an offensive to retake the western parts of the city from the jihadists. / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE

Resistance weakening as Iraq battles Islamic State

TOPSHOT - A general view shows the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, on March 10, 2017, as Iraqi forces shell enemy positions during an offensive to retake the western parts of the city from the jihadists. -AFP MOSUL: Iraqi Special Forces battled the Islamic State group yesterday in west Mosul, where a commander said jihadist resistance is showing signs of weakening under repeated assaults. The jihadists are also facing...

Men sit together at a temporary refugee protest camp at the Central railway station in Helsinki, Finland on March 10, 2017. Asylum seekers protest against the Finnish goverment's deportation policy. - Finland OUTn / AFP / Lehtikuva / Vesa Moilanen

Roman citizens help migrants, defy laws

Men sit together at a temporary refugee protest camp at the Central railway station in Helsinki, Finland on March 10, 2017. Asylum seekers protest against the Finnish goverment's deportation policy. - AFP ROME: Volunteers served macaroni in marinara sauce to dozens of migrants outside one of Rome's biggest train stations this week, offering help to travelers largely ignored by institutions on the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis. While...

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KUWAIT: A female citizen recently called the police - reporting that her husband had beaten her up for coming late after going out with some female friends. She claimed that she locked herself up in a room to escape his assault. According to security sources, policemen rushed to the house and took her to the hospital for a medical report. However, the woman dropped all charges when her husband threatened to divorce her.Reckless drivers...

(FILES) This file photograph taken on May 23, 2009 shows a general view of thousands of UNHCR tents, occupied by Internally Displaced People (IDP), in Manik Farm in Sri Lanka. President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish predecessor and presenting the island with its first real shot at a lasting peace. But that optimism has been sorely tested as Sirisena, having missed a two-year deadline to investigate war-era abuses, declared he would never prosecute his soldiers, rejecting outright fresh UN calls for an international trial. / AFP / Joe KLAMAR / TO GO WITH Sri Lanka-politics-Sirisena-rights, FOCUS by Amal JAYASINGHE

Sri Lanka risking censure as prez falters on war legacy

(FILES) This file photograph taken on May 23, 2009 shows a general view of thousands of UNHCR tents, occupied by Internally Displaced People (IDP), in Manik Farm in Sri Lanka. President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish predecessor and presenting the island with its first real shot at a lasting peace. But that optimism has been sorely tested as Sirisena, having missed a...

Shoppers walking down Oxford Street are seen through a railing in London on March 10, 2017. / AFP / CHRIS J RATCLIFFE

G20 plan to stave off debt crises stalls

Shoppers walking down Oxford Street are seen through a railing in London on March 10, 2017. - AFP LONDON: Global efforts to create a market for growth-linked bonds that could help avert debt crises have stalled because none of the wealthy economies backing the drive are willing to take the lead and be the first to issue, sources told Reuters. Growth-linked, or GDP-linked, sovereign bonds allow a country's repayments to fluctuate depending on...

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This image provided by Jim Morin of the Miami Herald in February 2017 shows his editorial cartoon made for 2017's Sunshine Week. In 2005, the American Society of Newspaper Editors launched the first national Sunshine Week, a celebration of access to public information that has been held every year since to coincide with the March 16 birthday of James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution and a key advocate of the Bill of Rights. (Jim Morin via AP)

Media the enemy? Trump is an insatiable consumer

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This image provided by Jim Morin of the Miami Herald in February 2017 shows his editorial cartoon made for 2017's Sunshine Week. In 2005, the American Society of Newspaper Editors launched the first national Sunshine Week, a celebration of access to public information that has been held every year since to coincide with the March 16 birthday of James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution...

Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari disembarks from an aircraft upon his arrival at the Nigerian Airforce base in Kaduna, on March 10, 2017.nBuhari arrived back in Nigeria on March 10 after nearly two months in London receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. The 74-year-old landed at the airport in the northern city of Kaduna at about 7:40 am (0640 GMT) and was flown by helicopter to the capital, Abuja. / AFP PHOTO / STRINGER

Ailing Nigerian President comes home, needs 'rest'

Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari disembarks from an aircraft upon his arrival at the Nigerian Airforce base in Kaduna, on March 10, 2017.Buhari arrived back in Nigeria on March 10 after nearly two months in London receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. The 74-year-old landed at the airport in the northern city of Kaduna at about 7:40 am (0640 GMT) and was flown by helicopter to the capital, Abuja. - AFP ABUJA: Nigerian President...

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MP proposes ban on govt medicine for expats

File Photo of MP Safaa Al-Hashem is seen during a session of the National Assembly. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem yesterday continued targeting expatriates in Kuwait with hostile proposals by calling on authorities to stop giving medicines at public clinics and hospitals to foreign patients.Hashem, the only woman in the 50-member national assembly, said in the latest proposal that the KD 1 and KD 2 fees expatriates pay...

WASHINGTON: In this file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.-AP

1,000 US troops to Kuwait to fight against Islamic State

WASHINGTON: In this file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.-APKUWAIT/WASHINGTON: Washington is preparing to send at least 1,000 US troops to Kuwait to bolster a reserve force in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. US officials quoted by wire agencies said that the Trump administration is weighing the deployment in the attempt to speed up the ongoing US-led offensive...

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Public Works eyes shorter timeframe for airport project

KUWAIT: A project to build a new terminal in Kuwait International Airport will now be completed in four years, down from the initial estimate of six years, Minister of Public Works Abdulrahman Al-Mutawa said yesterday.In a statement to the press on the sidelines of a ceremony feting employees of the Ministry of Public Works for being the recipients of a pair of awards given by the Arab League, Al-Mutawa said that the ministry will examine the...

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Final warning to Sawaber residents

KUWAIT: The State property department announced that Al- Sawaber complex must be evacuated starting next week under the administrative evacuation law. State property department gave residents of 15 flats, whose owners are refusing to hand over three days to process transactions related to reclaiming and receive their financial dues.For years, the government has sought means of emptying the complex of residents in order to have it demolished. The...

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