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CALIFORNIA: Cars are submerged in a flooded neighborhood in San Jose, Calif. Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats carrying dozens of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek Tuesday. — AP

Flooding forces hundreds from homes in California

CALIFORNIA: Cars are submerged in a flooded neighborhood in San Jose, Calif. Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats carrying dozens of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek Tuesday. — APCALIFORNIA: Murky, waist-high floodwaters swamped neighborhoods along a rain-swollen creek in the northern California city of San Jose on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue...

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Kabul to set penalties for subculture of boy sex slaves

KABUL: Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for "bacha bazi"-sexual slavery and abuse of boys-for the first time, officials say, in a landmark move against the deeply entrenched practice. AFP revealed last year how the Taleban were exploiting rampant bacha bazi in police ranks to mount deadly insider attacks, exposing a hidden epidemic of kidnapping of young boys for institutionalized sexual slavery.The revelations intensified...

This photograph taken on October 31, 2016 shows an Afghan boy, who was held as a child sex slave, sitting at a restaurant in an unidentified location in Afghanistan. — AFP

Bacha bazi: practice of child sex slavery

KABUL: Afghanistan is set to criminalize the practice of "bacha bazi", sexual exploitation of boys, with a slew of stringent punishments laid out for the first time in a revised penal code. The move comes after an AFP report last year found the Taleban are exploiting the centuries-old practice, one of the most egregious violations of human rights in the country, to mount deadly insider attacks in the volatile south. Here are some key answers...

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Jazeera Airways raises the Kuwaiti flag high

Jazeera AirwaysKUWAIT: JAZEERA Airways, the first private airline in Kuwait and the Middle East has embellished an aircraft from their fleet and dedicated gates at Kuwait International Airport with the national colors of patriotism to commemorate Kuwait's National and Liberation days.During the most celebrated month of the year, the Airbus with registration CAJ is furnished with the Kuwaiti flags alongside captivating text that reads 'daaam...

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the President of Croatia

Croatia's Reaktor signs joint venture with Kuwaiti tech provider AEA Manufacture

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the President of CroatiaKUWAIT: With the recent visit of the Croatian president to the State of Kuwait to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah two companies playing in the innovation and engineering market segment signed Joint Venture. AEA Manufacture, one of the first IoT manufacturers in Kuwait and one of the top innovation and engineering companies in...

FRANCE: Duck breeders load ducks into a truck to bring them to a slaughterhouse at a poultry farm in Saint Aubin, southwestern France

France slaughtering all ducks in key region due to bird flu

FRANCE: Duck breeders load ducks into a truck to bring them to a slaughterhouse at a poultry farm in Saint Aubin, southwestern FrancePARIS: France’s agriculture ministry has ordered all remaining 600,000 ducks in a key poultry-producing region slaughtered to try to stem a growing outbreak of bird flu. A previous cull in southwestern France failed to stop the spread of the H5N8 virus, which has hit ducks and other birds in more than 300 French...

This image released by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Allison Williams, Betty Gabriel and Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from, ‘Get Out.’ — AP

Review: In 'Get Out,' the two-faced horrors of racism

This image released by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Allison Williams, Betty Gabriel and Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from, ‘Get Out.’ — APFifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date's liberal family in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," writer-director Jordan Peele has crafted a similar confrontation with altogether more combustible results in "Get Out." "Do...

Karrueche Tran and rapper Chris Brown

Chris Brown restrained from model after abuse account

Karrueche Tran and rapper Chris BrownTroubled singer Chris Brown has been ordered to stay away from an ex-girlfriend, model Karrueche Tran, after she said he punched her and threatened to kill her. In documents made public Tuesday, a Los Angeles court granted a restraining order requested by Tran, with Brown facing arrest if he comes near her. Tran, who has had an on-off relationship with Brown, said that the 27-year-old singer punched her in...

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New friends in North America

SEVILLA: Sevilla's Argentinian midfielder Joaquin Correa (C) celebrates after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match Sevilla FC vs Leicester City at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Sevilla yesterday. – AFP

Vardy gives Leicester hope in Sevilla defeat

SEVILLA: Sevilla's Argentinian midfielder Joaquin Correa (C) celebrates after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match Sevilla FC vs Leicester City at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Sevilla yesterday. – AFPSEVILLE: Jamie Vardy's first Champions League goal gave Leicester City a lifeline in their last 16 tie despite going down 2-1 to Sevilla in yesterday's first leg. Goals from Pablo Sarabia...

CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand’s Ross Taylor bats during the second one-day international (ODI) cricket match between New Zealand and South Africa at the Hagley Park Oval in Christchurch yesterday. — AFP

N Zealand beat South Africa in second ODI, levels series

CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand’s Ross Taylor bats during the second one-day international (ODI) cricket match between New Zealand and South Africa at the Hagley Park Oval in Christchurch yesterday. — AFPCHRISTCHURCH: Ross Taylor set a national record for most centuries in one-day international cricket with an unbeaten 102 that guided New Zealand to a tense, series-leveling six-run win over South Africa yesterday.Taylor reached his 17th one-day...

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Zain concludes main sponsor of Kuwait International Arabian Horse Festival

Kuwait International Arabian Horse FestivalKUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, concluded its main sponsorship of the Kuwait International Arabian Horse Festival 2017 during the All Nations Cup - Straight Egyptians competition. The event was organized by the Arabian Horse Center - Bait Al Arab under the patronage of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah.Zain took part in awarding the winners 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

Brazil plane crash kills 62

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MOSCOW: Muscovites crowd the counter of a Soviet bank to change their rubles into foreign currency in Moscow in this file photo. -- AFP

Russian economic growth dips in second quarter as inflation rises

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An operator with the call sign Yuri demonstrates the capabilities of a robot dog at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Aug 7, 2024. - AFP

Ukraine to let robodogs loose on frontlines

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VIENNA: Fans of US singer Taylor Swift, swifties, gather after the singer's concerts were cancelled in Vienna, Austria, on August 8, 2024. — AFP

Plot to attack Taylor Swift show in Austria linked to Islamic State