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IRAQ: Citizens inspect the scene after a car bomb explosion at a crowded outdoor market in the Iraqi capital’s eastern district of Sadr City, Iraq, yesterday. —AP
Suicide attacks kills 20 in eastern Baghdad
'Series of attack kill more than 80 in a week' IRAQ: Citizens inspect the scene after a car bomb explosion at a crowded outdoor market in the Iraqi capital’s eastern district of Sadr City, Iraq, yesterday. —APBAGHDAD: Suicide bombs at two marketplaces in Baghdad, one of them claimed by Islamic State, killed at least 20 people yesterday, police and medics said, the latest in a spate of militant attacks in the Iraqi capital that have left...
BANGALORE, India: French Minister of Foreign, Affairs and International Development Jean-Marc Ayrault (L), speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017 event in Bangalore yesterday.-AFP
French FM to bolster ‘strategic partnership’ with India visit
‘Stress strategic partnership and move it into a higher gear’ BANGALORE, India: French Minister of Foreign, Affairs and International Development Jean-Marc Ayrault (L), speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017 event in Bangalore yesterday.-AFPNEW DELHI: French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault began a four-day visit to India with a meeting yesterday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bolster the...
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Germany’s growing Islamist scene poses greater challenges
BERLIN: Germany's domestic security chief warned yesterday that the country's radical Islamist scene is not only growing, but becoming more decentralized, posing greater challenges to surveillance operations. In an interview with national news agency DPA, Hans-Georg Maassen also defended security officials under fire after it emerged that Berlin truck attack suspect Anis Amri had slipped through their net, saying they had done everything they...
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Four leftist social media activists vanish in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: At least four Pakistani activists known on social media for their secular leftist views have gone missing this week, relatives and NGO workers said yesterday, as analysts voiced rights concerns. Two of the men-Waqas Goraya and Asim Saeed-disappeared on January 4, according to a cyber security NGO, while Salman Haider vanished Friday and Ahmed Raza Naseer Saturday, relatives said.  The interior ministry has said it will investigate the...
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India rights panel says police raped tribal women in Maoist stronghold
NEW DELHI: India's rights watchdog said more than a dozen tribal women were raped and sexually assaulted by police in restive Chhattisgarh state, with the victims' lawyer slamming authorities over delays in arresting the accused yesterday. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said at least 16 women were "victims of rape, sexual and physical assault" after it concluded an investigation into reports that police attacked several villages in...
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Philippine police raid Islamic centre before Catholic event
MANILA: Police have killed a foreign insurgent during a skirmish with a pro-Islamic State group in the southern Philippines, an official said yesterday. The firefight erupted as police were hunting down members of the Ansarul Khilafa Philippines (AKP) group on the restive southern island of Mindanao Saturday, local police spokesman Superintendent Romeo Galgo said. "A foreign national initially identified as Abu Naila and one female member...
ISTANBUL: This file photo shows flowers laid in front of the Reina night club, in Istanbul, one day after a gunman killed 39 people, including many foreigners, in a rampage at an up market nightclub in Istanbul where revelers were celebrating the New Year. — AFP
Istanbul nightclub attacker identified as Uzbek jihadist
ISTANBUL: This file photo shows flowers laid in front of the Reina night club, in Istanbul, one day after a gunman killed 39 people, including many foreigners, in a rampage at an up market nightclub in Istanbul where revelers were celebrating the New Year. — AFPISTANBUL: The attacker who shot dead 39 people on New Year’s night at an Istanbul nightclub has been identified as an Uzbek jihadist who belongs to the extremist Islamic State (IS)...
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US dollar stable against KD at 0.305
KUWAIT: The exchange rate of the US dollar remained stable against the Kuwaiti dinar at 0.305, while the euro went up to reach KD 0.322, said the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) yesterday. The CBK also said that the pound sterling was down to KD 0.375, while the Swiss franc remained unchanged at KD 0.300. The Japanese yen stood firm at KD 0.002.
LONDON: Chelsea's John Terry, top, heads the ball under pressure from Peterborough United's Michael Bostwick, center, during the English FA Cup third round soccer match between Chelsea and Peterborough United at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, yesterday. - AP
Terry off as Chelsea cruise in FA Cup
LONDON: Chelsea's John Terry, top, heads the ball under pressure from Peterborough United's Michael Bostwick, center, during the English FA Cup third round soccer match between Chelsea and Peterborough United at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, yesterday. - APLONDON:  John Terry’s dismissal took the gloss off Chelsea’s comfortable 4-1 victory over third-tier Peterborough United yesterday, which took the Premier League leaders into the FA...
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Mattek-Sands dethrones Mirza as world number one
Sania MirzaLONDON: American Bethanie Mattek-Sands will rise to number one in the world when the WTA doubles rankings are released today.Mattek-Sands sealed top spot after winning her 23rd WTA doubles title in Brisbane on Saturday with partner Sania Mirza. She ended her Indian partner's 91-week reign as world number one."Being number one is something that you dream of from the time you pick up a racket," Mattek-Sands, whose daring outfits and...
BAY OVAL: New Zealand players celebrate winning the series after the 20/20 International cricket match between New Zealand and Bangladesh at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui yesterday. - AFP
Anderson powers New Zealand to T20 sweep
BAY OVAL: New Zealand players celebrate winning the series after the 20/20 International cricket match between New Zealand and Bangladesh at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui yesterday. - AFPMOUNT MAUNGANUI:  Corey Anderson bludgeoned 94 off just 41 balls as New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 27 runs in the third Twenty20 at Bay Oval yesterday to sweep the series.  Anderson, who put on 124 runs for the fourth wicket with Kane Williamson (60), hit a New...
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Kuwait Winter Sports Club opens ice hockey school for students
.KUWAIT: Kuwait Winter Sports Club opened the Kuwait Ice Hockey School Saturday, to educate and train sprouts and juniors aged four to fourteen, in the presence of lovers of the game, in cooperation with and sponsorship from the "sports for all departments," at the Public Authority for Sports.Club President Fuhaid Al-Ajmi spoke following the opening of the school at the Ice Skating Rink, saying that training at the school will be three days a...
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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