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India protests rage against citizenship law, Modi defiant
NEW DELHI: Protests across Indian cities entered a sixth day yesterday, with police firing tear gas during clashes in the nation's capital as outrage grew over a new citizenship law critics say is anti-Muslim. In what has become a major challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets. Protests, riots and clashes have claimed six lives and injured dozens. The law, passed by parliament last week,...
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Egyptians in Qatar ready for Salah-mania despite boycott
DOHA: Qatar's large Egyptian community is clamoring to welcome their country's "icon" Mohamed Salah as Liverpool kick off their Club World Cup campaign. But a regional diplomatic crisis has frustrated travel plans for fans based in Egypt and complicated the desire of expats in Doha to celebrate their country's best-known player. The Egyptian diaspora in Qatar number around 300,000, according to official statistics, out of a total population of...
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Pakistan ex-military leader Musharraf sentenced to death
ISLAMABAD: Exiled former Pakistan military leader Pervez Musharraf was sentenced to death yesterday after being found guilty of treason, a verdict that drew swift condemnation from the country's armed forces which have ruled the country for almost half its 72-year history. The court's decision marks the first time a former leader of the armed forces has been convicted of treason and sentenced to death in Pakistan, where the military maintains...
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Trump admin says doesn't recognize Armenian genocide
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's administration said yesterday it does not consider the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 to be genocide, seeking to placate Turkey which was angered that the US Congress recognized it as such. "The position of the administration has not changed" after the votes by Congress, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a terse statement. "Our views are reflected in the president's definitive...
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Dozens wounded as groups clash with Lebanese police
BEIRUT: Dozens of people were wounded in overnight clashes between security forces and supporters of Lebanon's two main political parties, the civil defense said yesterday. It was the latest incident of violence in what have been largely peaceful protests since October 17 against a political class deemed inept and corrupt. The street movement pushed the prime minister to step down on October 29, but the country's bitterly divided political...
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Myanmar navy detains 200 fleeing Rohingya from Bangladesh's camps
Boat seizure comes just days after Suu Kyi's denial of persecution allegationsYANGON: Almost 200 Rohingya Muslims sailed more than 1,500 kilometers to escape Bangladesh refugee camps only to be arrested by Myanmar's navy, the country's military said yesterday. The boat seizure came just days after Myanmar's leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the UN's top court to deny allegations of a genocidal campaign against the ethnic...
This file photo taken on November 24, 2009 shows a police investigator gathering evidence next to bodies of victims after gunmen shot a group of people including media workers in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province. — AFP
Verdict due in Philippines' worst political massacre
This file photo taken on November 24, 2009 shows a police investigator gathering evidence next to bodies of victims after gunmen shot a group of people including media workers in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province. — AFP MANILA: The alleged masterminds of the Philippines' worst political massacre will learn their fate tomorrow when a Manila court issues its verdict, in a test of the justice system for a nation with a deep-seated culture of...
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Indonesia boosts Christmas security over terror threat
JAKARTA: Muslim-majority Indonesia will deploy nearly 200,000 security personnel nationwide ahead of Christmas to guard against potential terror attacks, police said yesterday. The Southeast Asian archipelago of 260 million has significant numbers of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists who have been targeted by radical Islamist groups. Yesterday, authorities said some 192,000 police and military personnel would be deployed to secure Christmas and...
Sherif Shawki — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
PwC's seminar discusses technological and regulatory impacts on Kuwaiti businesses
Seminar held in collaboration with Union of Investment Companies Sherif Shawki — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: PwC's annual seminar in collaboration with Union of Investment Companies in Kuwait attracted many Kuwaiti and multinational companies yesterday. The event was focused on providing updates around the business, tax and risk assurance landscape, and looked at the opportunities and challenges of doing business in Kuwait . The event...
A woman and child are seen in an enclosure made from fabrics at a makeshift camp for displaced Yemenis in Hajjah province on Monday. — AFP
In Yemen, 'sin' is blamed for surging climate losses
SAWIA VALLEY, Yemen: The torrential floods and brutal droughts of recent years have left their mark on this valley in southeast Yemen. A road that links Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout province, with its remote rural villages has been almost wiped out by repeated landslides. Giant boulders lie strewn along the road, alongside the trunks of downed trees. "The weather now is between two extremes: heavy drought or destructive brief floods and...
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'Star Wars' grips Hollywood with 'Rise of Skywalker' premiere
The final film in the epic "Star Wars" trilogy of trilogies brought Hollywood to a standstill, as a galaxy of VIPs from the space saga that began four decades ago descended on a glittering world premiere. Veterans Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) arrived Monday to bid farewell to the movies that launched their careers in style at a futuristic hangar filled with life-size X-wing starfighters in Los Angeles. They were...
Brazilian fashion designer and model Helena Schargel, 79, looks at a magazine during an interview with AFP in Sao Paulo on Nov 1, 2019. Schargel designs lingerie for senior women. – AFP photosn
Granny turned lingerie model shines light on older women
Brazilian fashion designer and model Helena Schargel, 79, looks at a magazine during an interview with AFP in Sao Paulo on Nov 1, 2019. Schargel designs lingerie for senior women. – AFP photos Wearing nothing but a lacy bra and matching panties, Brazilian grandmother Helena Schargel strikes a seductive pose during a photo shoot featuring her latest lingerie designs for women over 60. "Wonderful, marvelous," the photographer gushes as Schargel,...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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MAINPURI: A portrait of former police constable-turned-Hindu preacher Bhole Baba is displayed on the terrace of his ashram at Bichhawan village in Mainpuri district, in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on July 4, 2024. – AFP
Indian preacher not hiding after stampede: Lawyer
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TAICHUNG: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te ( C ) listens to a military official during an inspection of new conscripts at a military base in Taichung. – AFP
Taiwan says China coast guard harass fishing boat