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A handout satellite image shows the military-run Saydnaya prison, one of Syria's largest detention centers located 30 km north of Damascus. - AFP

Amnesty: 13,000 hanged at Syria jail

A handout satellite image shows the military-run Saydnaya prison, one of Syria's largest detention centers located 30 km north of Damascus. - AFPBEIRUT: Amnesty International yesterday accused Syria's government of hanging up to 13,000 people at a notorious prison over five years in a "policy of extermination", two weeks before planned peace talks. The damning report, titled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya...

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Man attempts to set himself on fire near Kaaba

MAKKAH: Saudi police arrested an apparently “mentally disturbed” man who tried to set himself on fire at Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Makkah, a police spokesman said yesterday. The man, in his 40s and a Saudi citizen, “poured petrol on himself and tried to set it alight”, Grand Mosque police spokesman Major Sameh Al-Salami said. “His behavior gives the impression that he is mentally disturbed.”The incident happened on...

TEHRAN: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stands as air force commanders salute during their meeting in Tehran yesterday. — AP

Trump reveals America's 'real face': Khamenei

Israeli and UN leaders align on Iran TEHRAN: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stands as air force commanders salute during their meeting in Tehran yesterday. — APTEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday he was grateful to US President Donald Trump for revealing "the real face of America". "We are thankful to this gentleman... he showed the real face of America," Khamenei said in a speech to military...

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS: Photo shows the remains of a car burnt by protesters on Monday night, in Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris, France. French police say over 20 protesters were detained during an eruption of violence against police in the Paris suburbs in which a police car was torched. — AP

Police accused of rape; black man 'sodomized'

Protesters denounce police brutality in France AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS: Photo shows the remains of a car burnt by protesters on Monday night, in Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris, France. French police say over 20 protesters were detained during an eruption of violence against police in the Paris suburbs in which a police car was torched. — APPARIS: Hundreds of people took to the streets of a Paris suburb yesterday to denounce police brutality, after a...

KABUL: Police officers inspect the site of suicide attack at the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. —AP

Suicide bomber kills at least 19 at Afghanistan top court

KABUL: Police officers inspect the site of suicide attack at the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. —APKABUL: A suicide bomber attacked Afghanistan's Supreme Court just as staff were leaving work yesterday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 41 in the second attack on government institutions in under a month. The bomber, who was on foot, detonated the device in the parking lot as employees were boarding a bus to go home,...

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (center by the podium) speaks to erring policemen during an audience at the Presidential Palace grounds in Manila yesterday. — AP

Philippines leader angrily scolds 228 police officers

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (center by the podium) speaks to erring policemen during an audience at the Presidential Palace grounds in Manila yesterday. — APMANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte angrily berated more than 200 allegedly erring policemen on national TV yesterday and said he would send them to a southern island to fight extremists dreaded for their beheadings. Duterte's expletive-filled outburst against the...

OSAKA: An illustration of Christian samurai Ukon Takayama (1553-1615), depicted by Japanese artist Kazuko Mimaki, is projected onto a screen during Takayama’s beatification ceremony in Osaka yesterday. — AFP

Catholic Church beatifies Japanese samurai

OSAKA: An illustration of Christian samurai Ukon Takayama (1553-1615), depicted by Japanese artist Kazuko Mimaki, is projected onto a screen during Takayama’s beatification ceremony in Osaka yesterday. — AFPTOKYO: A Japanese Christian samurai who died in exile about 400 years ago after refusing to renounce his faith was beatified by the Catholic Church in an elaborate mass yesterday. About 12,000 people attended the ceremony for Takayama...

BANGALORE: In this photo taken on January 10, 2017, start-up companies work out of Nasscom's Startup Warehouse facility, which incubates start-up tech companies. — AFP photos

Start-up fever grips tech-savvy Indians

Young India capitalizing on hard-won financial security BANGALORE: In this photo taken on January 10, 2017, start-up companies work out of Nasscom's Startup Warehouse facility, which incubates start-up tech companies. — AFP photosBANGALORE: In the basement of a Bangalore building, hundreds of young Indians sit in neat rows of desks typing furiously, all dreaming of becoming the new Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. A quarter of a century after...

Mederic Payne, CEO of Home Centre

Home Centre ranked Top Retailer in Siegel+Gale's

Global Brand Simplicity Index for the Middle East Mederic Payne, CEO of Home CentreKUWAIT: Home Centre, the region's leading home retailer, has been identified as the best in its class for providing consumers with a seamless and convenient shopping experience in Siegel + Gale's Global Brand Simplicity Index for the Middle East.Having earned the tenth rank on the index, Home Centre is also the only retail brand listed in the top 10 rankings....

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Al Mazaya Holding’s Operating Revenue amounts to KWD 55.17 million

KUWAIT: Al Mazaya Holding has announced its financial results for the fiscal year that ended on December 31st of2016 with the company reporting a net profit of KWD 10.25 million.Speaking after the company’s board of directors meeting on February 5, 2017, Board Chairman, Rashid Yaqoub Youssef Al-Nafisi, said, that in 2016, Al Mazaya Holding managed to maintain its robust financial results. He underlined the company’s ability to grow and...

Wael El Kabbany

Tawasul Telecom teams up with BT

Improving Cyber Security in Kuwait Wael El KabbanyKUWAIT: Tawasul Telecom, the leading provider of MPLS networking services in the Middle East and the Gulf region, announced a new agreement with BT, one of the world's leading providers of communications services and solutions, to resell BT Security Threat Monitoring in Kuwait. Tawasul Telecom customers will be able to anticipate cyber threats, and protect their assets, customers and...

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Surgery on Bangladesh 'tree girl' successful

DHAKA, Dhaka Division : Bangladeshi patient Sahana Khatun, 10 -- the first female known to be afflicted with the so-called "tree man syndrome"-is seen after her surgery to remove bark-like growths from her face in Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.-AFPDHAKA: Bangladeshi doctors yesterday conducted surgery to remove bark-like growths from the skin of a young girl believed to be the first female to suffer from a condition known as "tree man...

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GAZA: Palestinians surround bodies lying on the ground at the Al-Maamadani hospital after they were killed in a Zionist strike on a school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Aug 8, 2024. - AFP

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DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (center) takes the oath of office as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's new interim government, administered by President Mohammed Shahabuddin (left) on August 8, 2024. - AFP

Yunus sworn in as Bangladesh leader

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Digital nomads: New-age employees freely roaming around ever-changing job market

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KUWAIT: Workers take shelter from the sun under a tree in Kuwait City amidst a heatwave. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

‘Inadequate’ heat protection for Gulf migrant workers

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Minister of Information and Bahrain's Minister of Tourism sign an executive program of tourism cooperation agreement for 2024, 2025, and 2026. – KUNA photos

Kuwait and Bahrain ink executive program for tourism cooperation