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Kuwaiti commits ‘suicide’; Asian arrested over CDs
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti was found hanging in his house in Abdullah Mubarak, said security sources. .Asian arrested over CDsAn Asian was arrested for illegally publishing CDs containing movies and indecent scenes, said security sources, noting that 100,000 CDs were confiscated on raiding the suspect's store. The sources estimated the confiscated CDs are worth over KD 130,000. The suspect's partner is still at large.Mock drill in AdanIn collaboration...
KUWAIT: The wreckage of a bus that overturned after colliding with another vehicle, injuring 17 students, is seen yesterday. (Inset) One of the injured students is seen at Jahra Hospital.
17 students injured in school bus accident
KUWAIT: The wreckage of a bus that overturned after colliding with another vehicle, injuring 17 students, is seen yesterday. (Inset) One of the injured students is seen at Jahra Hospital.KUWAIT: Seventeen boys were injured yesterday when their private school bus turned over along Jahra Road while heading to school in the early hours of the morning. Nine ambulances were dispatched to the scene and the injured students were rushed to Jahra...
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34-year-old Briton 'Under the influence' tried to enter Shaab Palace holding a sword
KUWAIT: A 34-year-old Briton under the influence of drugs was arrested after he tried to enter Shaab Palace holding a sword he waved around. Security sources noted that the suspect damaged a police patrol car's windshield with the sword before policemen controlled and arrested him. Also, two bedoons were arrested in Salmiya with drugs, said security sources. Students attackedA young man and a 'tomboyish' girl barged into a private university...
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Kuwait Airport- feel sorry and disgusted
On each visit to Kuwait International Airport, I feel very sorry and disgusted with it, especially when I reminisce about how the very same airport used to look like when I was younger, before it was disfigured and tampered with. I still remember how some hotshot genius came up with the idea of expanding the airport into a massive, chaotic shopping mall with shops occupying the majority of its area, leading to unbearable congestions. What use...
WASHINGTON: This frame grab from video shows the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill yesterday, as the Senate acted decisively to override US President Barack Obama’s veto of Sept 11 legislation. – AP
Congress rejects Obama veto of 9/11 bill - Saudi Arabia has ways to hit back at lawsuit effort
WASHINGTON: This frame grab from video shows the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill yesterday, as the Senate acted decisively to override US President Barack Obama’s veto of Sept 11 legislation. – APWASHINGTON: The US Congress voted overwhelmingly yesterday to override Barack Obama's veto of a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, the first such rebuke of his eight-year presidency. The Senate overrode the veto in a 97-1 vote,...
Quranic exhibition
Troubled Saudi firm lays off Quran printers
RIYADH: Woes deepened yesterday for employees of troubled conglomerate Saudi Oger which laid off more than 1,300 staff at a printing plant for the Holy Quran, a newspaper reported.The once-mighty firm led by Lebanon's billionaire former prime minister Saad Hariri has been hit by a drop in income from its core construction business after Saudi Arabia delayed or cancelled projects in the face of plummeting oil revenues.The Saudi Gazette said the...
BAGHDAD: This file photo taken on January 26, 2016 shows US soldiers speaking as they train Iraq's 72nd Brigade taking part in a live-fire exercise in Basmaya base.-AFP
US to send 'around 600' more troops to Iraq - GIs to train local forces
BAGHDAD: This file photo taken on January 26, 2016 shows US soldiers speaking as they train Iraq's 72nd Brigade taking part in a live-fire exercise in Basmaya base.-AFPWASHINGTON: The United States is ready to send around 600 troops to Iraq to train local forces for an upcoming offensive on the Islamic State group stronghold of Mosul, US officials told AFP on Wednesday.IS seized Mosul along with other areas in June 2014, but the country's forces...
ALEPPO: A wounded Syrian child is rushed into a hospital after she was hit by mortar shells that targeted Aleppo’s government-controlled Aziziyah and Suleimaniyah neighbourhoods yesterday. — AFP
Warplanes knock out Aleppo hospital as Russian-backed assault intensifies - Turning point in the civil war
ALEPPO: A wounded Syrian child is rushed into a hospital after she was hit by mortar shells that targeted Aleppo’s government-controlled Aziziyah and Suleimaniyah neighbourhoods yesterday. — AFPBEIRUT: Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked a major Aleppo hospital out of service yesterday, hospital workers said, and ground forces intensified an assault on the city's besieged rebel sector, in a battle that has become a potentially decisive...
GILZE-RIJEN, CENTRAL NETHERLANDS: In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 file photo, journalists take images of part of the reconstructed forward section of the fuselage after the presentation of the Dutch Safety Board’s final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board, during a press conference.—AP
Probe: Malaysian jet downed by missile launcher from Russia - Solid evidence
GILZE-RIJEN, CENTRAL NETHERLANDS: In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 file photo, journalists take images of part of the reconstructed forward section of the fuselage after the presentation of the Dutch Safety Board’s final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board, during a press conference.—APNIEUWEGEIN, NETHERLANDS: Dutch-led criminal investigators said...
LONDON: The European Union (EU) flag (left), the British Union flag (centre), and the City Hall flag, flying outside City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Authority in London. Britain could be plunged into a year-long recession and lose hundreds of thousands of jobs if it voted to leave the EU next month, the government warned. — AFP
UK opens secret files about ‘Jewish terrorists’ in 1940s
LONDON: The call to British military security forces came early in the morning, shortly after 1 a.m., and could not be ignored. The informant’s message was alarming: Assassins planned to kill the commander of British forces in Palestine the following morning; evasive action was needed. The source didn’t know the details of the plan, but warned that Gen. Evelyn Barker would be attacked on the brief journey between his home in Jerusalem and his...
KATHMANDU, NEPAL: This file photo taken on November 27, 2014 shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2L) point a finger at Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2R) during the closing session of the 18th SAARC summit.—AFP
India-Pakistan tensions threaten South Asia summit - 4 countries pull out
KATHMANDU, NEPAL: This file photo taken on November 27, 2014 shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2L) point a finger at Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2R) during the closing session of the 18th SAARC summit.—AFPNEW DELHI: A key South Asian summit was in doubt yesterday after India and three other countries pulled out following a deadly attack on an army base that New Delhi blames on a Pakistan-based group.India has sought to...
Al-Mutairi receiving the award
KFH honors gold medalist Al Mutairi with 2kg gold award
Al-Mutairi receiving the awardKUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) offered 2 kg gold award to the gold medalist Ahmad Al-Mutairi in recognition of his triumph in capturing the gold medal in the wheel-chair competition for 100m at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, held in Brazil.This recognition emanates from KFH’s long standing endeavors to support and patronize the Kuwaiti champions who raise the name of Kuwait at the international forums and global...
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(Left) Demonstrators brandish placards and flags of Palestine during a rally in Rabat on Aug 3, 2024, protesting the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Right) Protesters rally in London during the "National March for Gaza", calling to end the genocide, stop arming the Zionist entity and no Middle East war on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP photos
Fears of Middle East war grow
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CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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NOTTINGHAM: Protesters are detained on Aug 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' demonstration. - AFP
Britain hit by worst rioting in 13 years
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Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’
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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP
Somalia beach attack kills 32