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Mugasees’ Market
In the decades before Kuwait struck oil, we had many old markets. Some of these still exist, while others have vanished and ceased to exist. These include 'Wajef' (standing), Harem (women), Ibn Duaij, Jatt (fodder), Meat, Fish, Vegetable, Tin, Blacksmiths, Charcoal, Water, Dates, Al-Mojel, White, Jews, Inner, Besht (cloak) and Mugasees markets. The Mugaseess market is one of those that are not needed anymore. It used to convene following the...
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Man murders wife with hammer, screwdrivers
KUWAIT: A citizen killed his wife yesterday with a hammer during a fight in their house in Salwa. Hawally detectives arrested the suspect, identified as 45- year-old Sayed Ibrahim Khalil, after relatives called the police.Security sources said detectives found two screwdrivers and a hammer the suspect used to kill his 36-year-old wife, also a Kuwaiti. The sources added the suspect is undergoing psychiatric treatment.By Hanan Al-Saadoun
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Coastguard officer caught with drugs
KUWAIT: A coastguard agent was arrested for abusing meth and walking around in his uniform in Hawally without realizing where he was going. The man was taken to the Drug Control General Department (DCGD) for further action.Fatal accidentAn Asian was killed and five others, including an American, were injured when six vehicles collided into each other along Abdaly highway. In other accidents, a Yemeni man was arrested for running over a...
HUB, Pakistan: Rescue workers and volunteers unload an injured victim of a bomb blast at a Sufi shrine from an ambulance upon his arrival at a local hospital in this town near Karachi yesterday. — AP
Pakistan shrine blast kills 43
HUB, Pakistan: Rescue workers and volunteers unload an injured victim of a bomb blast at a Sufi shrine from an ambulance upon his arrival at a local hospital in this town near Karachi yesterday. — APQUETTA, Pakistan: At least 43 people died and scores of others were injured when a bomb exploded at a remote Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan's restive Balochistan province yesterday, officials said. The blast, claimed by militant group Islamic...
BAGRAM, Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s National Army soldiers block the main road to the Bagram Airfield’s main gate yesterday. — AP
Four Americans killed in US base attack in Afghanistan
BAGRAM, Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s National Army soldiers block the main road to the Bagram Airfield’s main gate yesterday. — APKABUL: Four Americans were killed yesterday in a suicide bombing inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said, in a major breach of security. The Taleban claimed responsibility for the bombing inside the heavily fortified Bagram Airfield, north of the capital Kabul, which...
HASSAN SHAM, Iraq: Displaced Iraqi men, who fled from Mosul, carry mattresses at a camp for internally displaced people east of Mosul yesterday. — AP
'Intense' fighting rages in Mosul as civilians flee
Forces making progress towards Raqqa HASSAN SHAM, Iraq: Displaced Iraqi men, who fled from Mosul, carry mattresses at a camp for internally displaced people east of Mosul yesterday. — APMOSUL: Elite Iraqi forces engaged in "intense" fighting with militants in eastern Mosul yesterday, an officer said, as civilians who had been trapped by the fighting sought to flee the city. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to retake the country's...
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Key Paris attacks suspect ‘radicalized’ after arrest
Inset Salah AbdeslamTHE HAGUE:  The main Paris attacks suspect, Salah Abdeslam, has become  even more radicalized since being imprisoned for his presumed role in the slaughter of 130 people a year ago, his former lawyer has said. "He's got a beard, he's become a true fundamentalist whereas before he was a kid wearing Nike trainers," Belgian lawyer Sven Mary told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant's yesterday edition.Belgian-born French national...
BELGRADE: Migrants and refugees walk near the village of Simanovci along a motorway that links the Serbian capital Belgrade to the Croatian border yesterday. Some 100 migrants in Belgrade, mostly young men from Afghanistan and Pakistan, began a march and set off on foot towards the Croatian border in the hope of entering the European Union. — AFP
From Brexit to Trump, EU reels from year of crises
FMs from 28 countries to meet in Brussels today BELGRADE: Migrants and refugees walk near the village of Simanovci along a motorway that links the Serbian capital Belgrade to the Croatian border yesterday. Some 100 migrants in Belgrade, mostly young men from Afghanistan and Pakistan, began a march and set off on foot towards the Croatian border in the hope of entering the European Union. — AFPBRUSSELS: The European Union's founders believed its...
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Bangladesh arrests suspect in blogger, publisher murders
DHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday they had arrested an Islamist militant leader wanted in connection with the murder of a blogger and publisher. Khairul Islam "directly took part" in the killings of Niloy Chottopadhay and Faisal Arefin Deepan last year, police said, two of the dozens of deadly attacks on secular activists and foreigners.Detectives nabbed the 24-year-old, an intelligence wing leader of the banned outfit Ansar al-Islam, also...
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Woman set on fire in Japan restaurant
TOKYO: A man set a woman on fire following an argument in a restaurant in Japan, local media reported yesterday, in a rare act of violence in the country.The 52-year-old Iranian man was seen pouring liquid over his 36-year-old Filipina girlfriend before setting her alight at the eatery in Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Friday, reports cited police as saying. Workers at the restaurant called an ambulance, saying: “People are burning.”...
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Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters surrender in Chad
Military task force says 240 ex-fighters in detentionDAKAR: Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered in Chad in the past month, security and UN sources said, in a sign the military campaign against them is making headway. Boko Haram, which has killed and kidnapped thousands of people, had seized an area approximately the size of Belgium in northeastern Nigeria by last year but has since lost significant ground amid...
COLUMBUS: Carlos Vela #11 of Mexico battles for the ball with Jermaine Jones #13 and Matt Besler #5 of the United States in the second half during the FIFA 2018 World Cup Qualifier at MAPFRE Stadium on Friday in Columbus, Ohio. — AFP
Marquez header earns Mexico’s dramatic win
COLUMBUS: Carlos Vela #11 of Mexico battles for the ball with Jermaine Jones #13 and Matt Besler #5 of the United States in the second half during the FIFA 2018 World Cup Qualifier at MAPFRE Stadium on Friday in Columbus, Ohio. — AFPOHIO: Rafael Marquez headed in a late winner to secure Mexico’s dramatic 2-1 victory over the United States in a CONCACAF World Cup qualifier match in Ohio on Friday. With emotions running high, ‘El Tri’...
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Flag of Kuwait, visa application form and passport on table
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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait population hits 4.919 million
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DHAKA: Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace on Aug 5, 2024. - AFP
People power rocks Bangladesh
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Al-Sawaber Complex
Kuwait’s historic buildings should be preserved