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Academic assaulted
KUWAIT: An academic at Kuwait University was beaten and insulted by an unidentified person, thought to be a student, who chased him and forced him to pull aside. The suspect opened the door of the victim's car, pulled him out and beat him, all the while swearing at him, then fled. The academic went to Mubarak Hospital for treatment, then went to the police station and lodged a complaint.Thieves caughtHawally detectives arrested two bedoons who...
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Court rules Swiss Muslim girls must swim with boys
STRASBOURG, France: Muslim parents in Switzerland cannot refuse to send their daughters to school-run swimming lessons with boys, Europe's top rights court said yesterday, dismissing a challenge by a Turkish-Swiss couple claiming the rule violated their beliefs. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted that the refusal by Swiss authorities to exempt the couple's two daughters from the compulsory lessons interfered with their freedom of...
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Morocco bans production and sale of niqabs
RABAT: Morocco has banned the production and sale of burqa full-face Muslim veils, apparently for security reasons, media reports said yesterday. While there was no official announcement by authorities in the North African nation, the reports said the interior ministry order would take effect this week. “We have taken the step of completely banning the import, manufacture and marketing of this garment in all the cities and towns of the...
NEW YORK: This file photo taken on July 16, 2016 shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner standing onstage at the end of an event at the Hilton Midtown Hotel. – AFP
Trump names son-in-law as senior White House advisor
Ivanka to quit businesses NEW YORK: This file photo taken on July 16, 2016 shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner standing onstage at the end of an event at the Hilton Midtown Hotel. – AFPNEW YORK: Donald Trump yesterday named son-in-law Jared Kushner as senior White House advisor, rewarding the man widely credited as the brains behind his election but courting serious legal and...
A mugshot of Saber Hmidi is seen at a news conference at the police headquarters in Rome on Tuesday. (AFP)
Italy identifies prison jihadist recruiter
ROME: Italian authorities said yesterday they had identified an alleged jihadist recruiter operating in prison, two weeks after it emerged suspected Berlin truck bomber Anis Amri may have been radicalized in a Sicilian jail. Tunisian national Saber Hmidi, 34, was formally arrested in connection with new charges while serving a three year, eight months sentence for possession of an illegal weapon and assaulting a police officer."His goal was to...
KABUL: Afghan security personnel stand in front of damaged gate after twin blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul yesterday. — AFP
Twin Taliban blasts near Afghan parliament - 30 dead, 80 injured
KABUL: Afghan security personnel stand in front of damaged gate after twin blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul yesterday. — AFPKABUL: Twin Taliban blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul yesterday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 80 in a rush-hour attack that shattered a relative lull in violence in the capital. The bombings came just hours after a Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people in Lashkar Gah, the...
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Human Rights Watch urges Pakistan to investigate bloggers and activists abduction
ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Watch yesterday asked Pakistan to urgently investigate the apparent abductions of four bloggers who campaigned for human rights and religious freedom, saying their near simultaneous disappearances raised concerns of government involvement. The statement came as leftwing and liberal activists prepared to hold protests throughout the country demanding the bloggers' release. The missing men are Salman Haider, a poet and...
AFGHANISTAN: This file photo shows Afghan Taleban fighters as they listen to an unseen Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund, the newly appointed leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban, at Bakwah in the western province of Farah. —AFP
Afghans push for Taliban 'safe zone' to outflank Pakistan
'A bid to tackle the 15-year insurgency' AFGHANISTAN: This file photo shows Afghan Taleban fighters as they listen to an unseen Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund, the newly appointed leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban, at Bakwah in the western province of Farah. —AFPKABUL: Afghan officials are pushing to create a "safe zone" for Taliban insurgents in a bid to wean them away from traditional sanctuaries inside Pakistan, in a radical and...
PHILIPPINES: In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, members of the Philippine Coast Guard bring bodies of Filipino fishermen who were killed by suspected pirates in waters near Zamboanga City, southern Philippines yesterday. —AP
Eight Philippine fishermen shot dead in piracy troubled waters
PHILIPPINES: In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, members of the Philippine Coast Guard bring bodies of Filipino fishermen who were killed by suspected pirates in waters near Zamboanga City, southern Philippines yesterday. —APZAMBOANGA, Philippines: Eight local fishermen have been found shot dead in their boat off the piracy-plagued southern Philippines, the military said yesterday. The outrigger boat was attacked in the Moro...
ZURICH: FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a press briefing after a meeting of the FIFA executive council yesterday at FIFA headquarters. – AFP
FIFA approves 48-team World Cup
ZURICH: FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a press briefing after a meeting of the FIFA executive council yesterday at FIFA headquarters. – AFPZURICH: FIFA voted to expand the World Cup to 48 teams from 2026 in a victory yesterday for its president Gianni Infantino but derided by critics as driven by money and politics. In a deeply divisive move which will enrich scandal-tainted FIFA’s coffers, its ruling council unanimously...
Malaysian Mohd Faiz Subri celebrates with the trophy after winning the FIFA Puskas Award award during the FIFA Awards 2016 gala at the Swiss TV studio in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)
Malaysia delights in Faiz’s goal of the year award
Malaysian Mohd Faiz Subri celebrates with the trophy after winning the FIFA Puskas Award award during the FIFA Awards 2016 gala at the Swiss TV studio in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian soccer fans heaped praise on Mohd Faiz Subri yesterday after the Penang FA player received the Puskas Award for the best goal of 2016 at a FIFA ceremony in Zurich.Mohd Faiz’s long-range, swerving...
MELBOURNE: Andy Murray of Britain (R) talks with coach Ivan Lendl during a break in his tennis training session at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne yesterday. Top players from around the world are arriving in Melbourne in the lead up to the Australian Open from January 16 to 29. – AFP
Five men to watch at the Australian Open
MELBOURNE: Andy Murray of Britain (R) talks with coach Ivan Lendl during a break in his tennis training session at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne yesterday. Top players from around the world are arriving in Melbourne in the lead up to the Australian Open from January 16 to 29. – AFPMELBOURNE:  Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic will be big favourites for the Australian Open when it begins in Melbourne on Monday.  Here are five players who...
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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA
Kuwait army alert, govt prepared
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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.
A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates
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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP
Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh
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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos
Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened
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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP
One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse