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Licensed companies can provide IPTV cable TV services
KUWAIT: Before submitting his resignation yesterday, Minister of Communications and Minister of State For Municipal Affairs Essa Al-Kandari issued a decision allowing companies licensed by the information ministry to provide IPTV cable TV services through the NGN network and to reduce the cost of Internet services by 40 percent to KD 3,600 annually per 100 mbps and KD 24,000 per one gbps, plus KD 1,000 each ISP pays to the ministry for...
Kuwaiti explorer Lamees Najim
Kuwaiti female explorer to participate in North, South Poles expeditions
Kuwaiti explorer Lamees NajimKUWAIT: Kuwaiti explorer Lamees Najim was chosen to take part in expeditions to explore the North and South Poles alongside fellow British explorer Felicity Aston. The trip, set for next April, will include 12 female explorers from different countries, aiming to share their experiences and cultures, Najim said yesterday.The expedition will showcase the strong will of Kuwaiti and Arab women to face challenges and...
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Teen escapes from kidnapers
KUWAIT: A 17-year-old female citizen reported that four young men abducted her in the southern chalets area, but she managed to escape and hide from them in a deserted chalet. The girl added that the four kidnappers searched the area but could not locate her. The girl provided detectives with the alleged kidnappers' description.Drug dealerFollowing up the arrest of a popular actor and producer for drug trafficking, the suspect told detectives...
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Envoy: Top Filipino drug kingpin arrested in UAE
DUBAI: A man named by Philippines’ president as a major drug kingpin was arrested in the capital of the United Arab Emirates after apparently fleeing his country, a Filipino diplomat said yesterday. Rolando “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr was arrested Sunday night in an apartment in Abu Dhabi, Ambassador Constancio Vingno Jr told AP. Abu Dhabi investigators used intelligence gathered by the Philippine National Police to locate Espinosa, Vingno said....
KHANPUR: A Pakistani rescue team works on the wreckage of a deadly accident involving two buses, in Khanpur yesterday. —AP
Buses collide head-on in Pakistan, killing 24
KHANPUR: A Pakistani rescue team works on the wreckage of a deadly accident involving two buses, in Khanpur yesterday. —APMULTAN: Two passenger buses collided head-on in central Pakistan yesterday, killing 24 people and injuring 69, officials said. The accident, which occurred on a dangerous curve in Khanpur town in Rahim Yar Khan district, was likely caused by speeding, said police official Jamshid Shah.Several children, college students and...
AZ ZINJ, Bahrain: File photo shows a Bahraini cleric (left) walking past a cardboard cutout bearing the portrait of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Shiite opposition movement Al-Wefaq, during a protest against his arrest, at Al Wefaq headquarter building, in the village of Zinj. A top court yesterday overturned a nine-year jail term against Shiite opposition chief cleric Ali Salman, convicted of inciting hatred and calling for forceful regime change. — AFP
Top court overturns jail term of Bahrain's opposition chief - Court of Cassation ordered a retrial
AZ ZINJ, Bahrain: File photo shows a Bahraini cleric (left) walking past a cardboard cutout bearing the portrait of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Shiite opposition movement Al-Wefaq, during a protest against his arrest, at Al Wefaq headquarter building, in the village of Zinj. A top court yesterday overturned a nine-year jail term against Shiite opposition chief cleric Ali Salman, convicted of inciting hatred and calling for forceful regime...
This file photo shows Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi. — AFP
War-weary Libyans miss life under Gaddafi
This file photo shows Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi. — AFPTRIPOLI: Five years after an uprising killed Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, residents in the chaos-wracked country's capital joke they have grown to miss the longtime dictator as the frustrations of daily life mount. Those living in the capital say they are exhausted by power cuts, price hikes and a lack of cash flow as rival authorities and militias battle for control of the fragmented...
BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria: This Sept 27, 2012 file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler’s birth house. — AP
Austria to tear down Hitler birth house - Govt wants to prevent building from becoming neo-Nazi shrine
BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria: This Sept 27, 2012 file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler’s birth house. — APVIENNA: The house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born is to be torn down to stop it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine, the government said yesterday, after years of bitter legal wrangling with the current owner. "The Hitler house will be torn down. The foundations can remain but a new building will be erected. It will be used...
ABS, YEMEN: An elderly man walks next to his donkey at a camp for internally displaced people near the town of Abs, located on Yemen’s western coastal plain below towering desert mountains. — AP
Town destroyed, displaced Yemenis languish in a field
ABS, YEMEN: An elderly man walks next to his donkey at a camp for internally displaced people near the town of Abs, located on Yemen’s western coastal plain below towering desert mountains. — APABS, Yemen: The cornfield is dotted with tents, mud-brick shelters and huts made of sticks and plastic sheets, home to around 900 Yemenis who fled the front-lines of their country's war. Buried in the field's soil are the bodies of loved ones they...
MALAKAL: Soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) patrol near to dead bodies of rebel soldiers in Lelo, outside Malakal, northern South Sudan. — AFP
60 killed as South Sudan war rages - A worrying surge of violence in world's youngest nation
MALAKAL: Soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) patrol near to dead bodies of rebel soldiers in Lelo, outside Malakal, northern South Sudan. — AFPMALAKAL: At least 56 rebels and four government troops were killed in heavy weekend clashes in northeastern South Sudan, in a worrying surge of violence in the world's youngest nation. Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) spokesman Brigadier General Lul Ruai Koang said Monday that...
MOSCOW: Moscow State University student Varvara Karaulova sits inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing at Moscow’s District Military Court. — AFP
Student who followed IS lover to Syria faces trial
MOSCOW: Moscow State University student Varvara Karaulova sits inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing at Moscow’s District Military Court. — AFPMOSCOW: Police in bullet-proof vests guard a military court for the terrorism trial of Varvara Karaulova, a slim 20-year-old with braided hair who clutches a page of handwritten notes. Karaulova was studying philosophy at the renowned Moscow State University when she tried to enter Syria last...
MONYWA, Myanmar: Government rescue personnel from the Myanmar Fire Services Department transport a victim’s body during a search operation after a ferry capsized on the Chindwin River near Monywa city in Sagaing region. — AFP
32 bodies found in Myanmar ferry disaster; toll mounts - A total of 154 people rescued
MONYWA, Myanmar: Government rescue personnel from the Myanmar Fire Services Department transport a victim’s body during a search operation after a ferry capsized on the Chindwin River near Monywa city in Sagaing region. — AFPYANGON: Searchers have recovered 32 bodies after an overloaded ferry sank in central Myanmar and expect to find dozens more dead, officials said yesterday, as workers began raising the boat from the riverbed. A total of...
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GAZA: A woman mourns over the bodies of children killed in Zionist bombardment on the Hassan Salama and Al-Nasser schools housing displaced Palestinians on Aug 4, 2024 at the at Al-Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital in Gaza City. - AFP
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DHAKA: A garment store is set ablaze amid protests on Aug 4, 2024. - AFP
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Ministries of Awqaf discuss ways to counter extremism, terrorism