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Kuwait welcomes UN resolution condemning Jewish settlements

KUWAIT: The State of Kuwait Saturday welcomed UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution 2334 which condemned Israeli settlement activities and demanded stop of construction on occupied Palestinian lands. This resolution is in harmony with UNSC's "historic responsibilities" to preserve international peace and stability, a foreign ministry source, requesting anonymity, said in a statement.The source said the resolution affirmed the international...

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Syrian man 'drags' daughter's harasser to police station

KUWAIT: A Syrian man spotted two men harassing his daughter, so he dragged one of them to the police station, while the other fled. The man had left his daughter in the car as he entered a store in Bayan, but moments later she called him, saying that someone was asking for her phone number. The man returned to the car and caught the man. Police are investigating.Inmate beatenThe central prison administration reported to Sulaibiya police station...

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Aleppo not a Kuwaiti cause

We have never seen so much hateful sectarian divisions as we have been learning about, hearing and seeing in these dreadful days. We have never, either, seen people so attached and cheaply promoting foreign agendas as we see these days, when some of our own sons belonging to two opposite teams are waiting to charge at each other, holding their swords to behead them! Aleppo is a Syrian, regional, Arab and international cause, but it is definitely...

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting yesterday. - AP

Furious Netanyahu summons US envoy

10 others reprimanded JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting yesterday. - APJERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday summoned the US ambassador to Israel to discuss the US abstention in a UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building. Separately, the envoys of 10 other nations were called in to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded...

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All 92 onboard killed, including 64 from choir

Syria-bound Russia jet crashes SOCHI: Russian rescuers carry a stretcher with a body recovered after a Russian military plane crashed in the Black Sea, on a pier yesterday. - AFPMOSCOW: A Russian military plane heading to Syria crashed into the Black Sea yesterday, with no sign of survivors among the 92 on board, including Red Army Choir members on their way to celebrate the New Year with troops. The Tu-154 plane went down shortly after taking...

TEHRAN: An Iranian man takes a picture of Christmas decorations outside a shop in the capital on Christmas Eve. - AFP

Santa Claus is coming to Tehran

TEHRAN: An Iranian man takes a picture of Christmas decorations outside a shop in the capital on Christmas Eve. - AFPTEHRAN: Tehran might not seem like the most obvious pitstop for Santa Claus, but Iranians love the chintzy side of Christmas and it is also one of the safest places in the Middle East for Christians. The past month has seen shoppers flocking to the Armenian district of Somayeh - the biggest Christian area in the city - to pick up...

MOSCOW: Floral tributes in front of portraits of Russian TV journalists who were aboard the crashes military plane, displayed in Moscow yesterday. —AP

Russia’s Tu-154 plane: A history of accidents

MOSCOW: Floral tributes in front of portraits of Russian TV journalists who were aboard the crashes military plane, displayed in Moscow yesterday. —APMOSCOW: The Tupolev aircraft maker's Tu-154, the type of plane that crashed yesterday in the Black Sea with 92 people on board, is an ageing Russian workhorse whose record is plagued with accidents.Although Russian commercial airlines are no longer known to use the plane which first flew in...

CASTRO, Chile: A woman waits in her car to be evacuated due to a tsunami alert on Chile Island off the Pacific coast of southern Chile, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake yesterday. —AFP

Powerful earthquake rocks southern Chile

Coastal evacuations ordered after tsunami alert CASTRO, Chile: A woman waits in her car to be evacuated due to a tsunami alert on Chile Island off the Pacific coast of southern Chile, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake yesterday. —AFPSANTIAGO: Chilean authorities ordered coastal evacuations yesterday following a powerful Christmas Day earthquake offshore the south of the country that triggered tsunami alerts. The quake registered 7.7 on the...

This is File Photo - Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard as fishermen, who were released from a Pakistani jail, hold their belongings while they stand in a queue at the Wagah border, before crossing into India, on the outskirts of Lahore August 24, 2013. REUTERS/Mohsin Razan

Pakistan releases Indian fishermen

KARACHI: Pakistan released 220 Indian fishermen yesterday as a goodwill gesture aimed at easing tensions with its neighbor, officials said. The men were arrested more than a year ago, accused of entering Pakistani waters in an area of the Arabian Sea where the border is unclear.India is also holding Pakistani fishermen for the same reason and Pakistan hopes its gesture - on the birthday of the nation's father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, which coincides...

MANILA: Residents are assisted into a truck after the local government implemented preemptive evacuations at Barangay Matnog, Daraga, Albay province yesterday due to the approaching typhoon Nock-Ten. —AFP

Powerful typhoon slams into Philippines, spoiling Christmas

MANILA: Residents are assisted into a truck after the local government implemented preemptive evacuations at Barangay Matnog, Daraga, Albay province yesterday due to the approaching typhoon Nock-Ten. —AFPMANILA: A powerful typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines on Christmas Day, spoiling the biggest holiday in Asia's largest Catholic nation, where a governor offered roast pig to entice villagers to abandon family celebrations for...

Rakan Al-Hassawi, Nora Al-Qaoud came third and received a bronze and Ali Al-Kharafi ranked first and received the gold medal

Kuwait’s jockeys win medals at Qatar tourney

Rakan Al-Hassawi, Nora Al-Qaoud came third and received a bronze and Ali Al-Kharafi ranked first and received the gold medalDOHA: Kuwaiti jockeys have offered distinct performance at the QATAR International Show Jumping Championship 2016, Doha 22-24 December. Up to 170 horsemen from 12 countries took part in the three-day tournament that wrapped up competition Saturday night. Kuwaiti Ali Al-Kharafi ranked first and received the gold medal of the...

LONDON: Chelsea’s manager Antonio Conte celebrates with his players after they won the English Premier League soccer match between Crystal Palace and Chelsea at Selhurst Park stadium in London. —AP

Manager Conte revels in Chelsea’s Christmas cheer

LONDON: Chelsea’s manager Antonio Conte celebrates with his players after they won the English Premier League soccer match between Crystal Palace and Chelsea at Selhurst Park stadium in London. —APLONDON: Antonio Conte’s first few months as Chelsea manager could hardly have gone any better as his side head into the holiday period six points clear at the Premier League summit. The west London club face Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge today...

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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

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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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GAZA: In this March 25, 2017 photo, Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (right) and Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of slain Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City. - AFP

Hamas names Sinwar new chief