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Kuwaiti woman holds up elevator after rejected job application
KUWAIT: A female citizen in her fifties was arrested yesterday after she held up an elevator inside a famous tower in Sharq and refused to get off in protest after her job application was rejected because of incomplete documents and her age, said security sources. The sources added that the woman told the police that her application to work for a private company was rejected, which made her highly upset.Land plotsThe Municipal Council is...
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Egyptian Café workers deported for serving shisha to Lebanese girls
KUWAIT: Three Egyptian nationals are held pending deportation after they were arrested for serving shisha to three teenagers in a Farwaniya café. A security source said that the three men were caught red-handed while serving shisha to the Lebanese girls inside the café where they worked. The Interior Ministry had recently announced tougher penalties for cafés and restaurants that serve shisha to underage customers.MistrustAn Egyptian man told...
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Girl tears up passport to stop Jordanian woman traveling with boyfriend
KUWAIT: A girl tore apart the passport of a Jordanian woman to stop her from traveling with her boyfriend, after she caught them together in a café. The woman had busted her boyfriend sharing a table with another woman inside a café at Gulf Road. She approached him and asked who the other woman was, and he replied by saying that she was his coworker and they met to discuss their plans to go on a business trip together. Irked by her boyfriend's...
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Car thieves arrested
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested thieves who broke into cars and stole their contents in Sharq. The suspects used to take advantage of victims being engaged in prayers and targeted their cars, before escaping. Detectives figured out the times and places of the thefts and a team covered most mosques during prayer times, until an Egyptian man was arrested red-handed after he broke the window of a car. He confessed and led police to his partner,...
MELBOURNE: President Donald Trump and Melania Trump stand together during a campaign rally at the AeroMod International hangar at Orlando Melbourne International Airport. - AFP
Trump touts imaginary Sweden attack
MELBOURNE: President Donald Trump and Melania Trump stand together during a campaign rally at the AeroMod International hangar at Orlando Melbourne International Airport. - AFPWASHINGTON: Bowling Green, Atlanta and now... Sweden? US President Donald Trump was speaking to supporters on Saturday when he apparently referred to the Scandinavian country as the site of a terror incident - the latest example of his administration naming a non-existent...
ABU DHABI: Emirati armed forces show their skills during a military show at the opening of the International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in the Emirati capital yesterday. - AFP
Pentagon chief says military running smoothly
Deals galore at UAE arms show ABU DHABI: Emirati armed forces show their skills during a military show at the opening of the International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in the Emirati capital yesterday. - AFPABU DHABI: Fighter jets screaming overhead and theatrical explosions marked the opening of an arms show yesterday in Abu Dhabi, as a bullet-scarred Emirati armored personnel carrier served as a reminder of the country's ongoing...
Tanks and armored vehicles of Iraqi forces, supported by the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitaries, advance towards the village of Sheikh Younis, south of Mosul, after an offensive to retake the western side of Mosul from Islamic State group fighters commenced yesterday. - AFP
Iraq launches assault on west Mosul
Tanks and armored vehicles of Iraqi forces, supported by the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitaries, advance towards the village of Sheikh Younis, south of Mosul, after an offensive to retake the western side of Mosul from Islamic State group fighters commenced yesterday. - AFPAL-BUSEIF, Iraq: Iraqi forces seized 10 villages from the Islamic State group yesterday, launching a daunting operation to retake west Mosul which aid...
LOS ANGELES: People carry signs during the Immigrants Make America Great March to protest actions being taken by the Trump administration.
Trump drafts plan to speed deportations
LOS ANGELES: People carry signs during the Immigrants Make America Great March to protest actions being taken by the Trump administration.WASHINGTON: The Department of Homeland Security has prepared new guidance for immigration agents aimed at speeding up deportations by denying asylum claims earlier in the process. The new guidelines, contained in a draft memo dated February 17 but not yet sent to field offices, directs agents to only pass...
MOSUL: In this Nov 20, 2016 file photo, a woman fires to the air at a Popular Mobilization Units base. — AP
Mosul civilians divided over army advice to stay at home
MOSUL: In this Nov 20, 2016 file photo, a woman fires to the air at a Popular Mobilization Units base. — APARBIL: The first four months of the Iraqi offensive on Mosul were marked by relatively low displacement but the civilians who remain in the city's west face more dangers than ever. In the east, the Iraqi forces adopted a strategy of protecting civilians by keeping them at home, and the mass exodus expected by humanitarian organizations...
MOGADISHU: A man walks past the wreckage of shops destroyed by a blast in a market in the capital. — AP
Blast in Somalia kills 15 in Mogadishu marketplace
MOGADISHU: A man walks past the wreckage of shops destroyed by a blast in a market in the capital. — APMOGADISHU: A Somali police officer says a blast at a busy market in the western part of Somalia's capital killed at least 15 people. Capt Mohamed Hussein said the powerful blast thought to be from a car bomb tore through shops and food stands in Mogadishu's Madina district yesterday. He said the bomb also wounded more than 10 others and...
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Dutch Muslim groups slam Wilders' 'scum' comments
THE HAGUE: Muslim organizations in the Netherlands yesterday criticized disparaging comments about Moroccans made by anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, but say they are just the latest in a long string of insults. Launching his campaign Saturday for the Netherlands' March 15 parliamentary election, Wilders criticized Moroccan youths for making the Netherlands unsafe, although he qualified the comments by saying they didn't apply to all...
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China stages another mass anti-terror rally in Xinjiang
BEIJING: Chinese security forces have staged another mass anti-terror rally in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, parading hundreds of armed men through the streets of the regional capital Urumqi in a show of force after an uptick in violence. Hundreds have died in Xinjiang in the past few years, mostly in unrest between the Muslim Uighur people, who call the region home, and the ethnic majority Han Chinese. Beijing blames the unrest on...
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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
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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
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BERLIN: The CEO of German industrial conglomerate Siemens Roland Busch gives a speech during a ceremony for the laying of the corner stone for ‘Siemensstadt Square’, a new Siemens project in Berlin.- AFP
Siemens profits soar on software demand and AI ‘boom’
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BAGHDAD: Activists demonstrate against female child marriages in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024, amid parliamentary discussion over a proposed amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law. — AFP
Fears for women’s rights as Iraqi bill resurfaces