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Mother killer case gets further details
KUWAIT: Following up the case of the Lebanese who beat her mother to death in Kaifan, security sources said that an Indian car washer and the coroner's report proved that the suspect assaulted her mother at 7 pm and waited for three hours before she reported the matter to the police. The sources added that on taking the suspect to the crime scene, the car washer blamed her for waiting for three hours before reporting the incident. He explained...
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What's your mother's name?
How can women win their full rights in societies that still see shame to mention one's mother's name in public or before others? In such male-oriented societies, most men consider mothers' names as taboos and lifetime secrets that would ruin their lives if known. I recently watched Kuwaiti, Saudi, Algerian and Egyptian TV programs and found that most of those taking part refuse revealing their mothers' names in public and insist that declaring...
DUBAI: Customers gather at an Apple store during the launch of the new iPhones yesterday at the Mall of the Emirates. - AFP
iPhone 7 launch generates crowds, queues worldwide
DUBAI: Customers gather at an Apple store during the launch of the new iPhones yesterday at the Mall of the Emirates. - AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Apple's global iPhone launch Friday was marked by excitement and frustration as fans queued to find scarce models of the coveted smartphone. Scenes in Apple stores around the world on Friday were reminiscent of days before online ordering became a norm and people camped out for days to be first to get hands on...
DOUMA, Syria: Syrian children play on swings made from the remnants of exploded rockets in this rebel-held town on the eastern edges of the capital Damascus on Sept 14, 2016, on the third day of Eid Al-Adha. - AFP
Syrian kids play with 'rocket' swings
DOUMA, Syria: Syrian children love playgrounds like kids all over the world but in rebel-held towns near Damascus swing sets are made of spent rockets and jungle gyms are tucked underground. Eastern Ghouta, a besieged opposition stronghold east of Damascus, has been battered by regime air strikes and shelling since Syria's conflict erupted more than five years ago. Since then, children have grown accustomed to warnings not to play outside - but...
COLUMBUS, Ohio: Members of Tyre King’s family console each other during a vigil for 13-year-old Tyre King on Thursday. King was shot and killed by Columbus police Wednesday evening. —AP
Hatred drove gunman to shoot Philadelphia police - Ohio youth's BB gun 'almost identical' to real weapon
COLUMBUS, Ohio: Members of Tyre King’s family console each other during a vigil for 13-year-old Tyre King on Thursday. King was shot and killed by Columbus police Wednesday evening. —APPHILADELPHIA/COLUMBUS: A "rambling" note expressing hatred for police was found after a man opened fire on a Philadelphia police officer then went on a shooting spree, injuring a second officer, killing a woman and wounding three other people before he was...
HEBRON: Israeli security forces gather at the scene of a stabbing attack in this flashpoint West Bank city yesterday. — AFP
Israelis kill another Palestinian
HEBRON: Israeli security forces gather at the scene of a stabbing attack in this flashpoint West Bank city yesterday. — AFPHEBRON: Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier yesterday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron before being shot dead, the army said, in the fourth such attack in under 24 hours. A military statement said the attacker drew a knife during a routine security check in Hebron's Tel Rumeida neighborhood, wounding the...
LONDON: Demonstrators listen to speeches after taking part in a march calling for the British parliament to welcome refugees in the UK in central London yesterday. — AFP
20,000 refugee supporters march through London
LONDON: Demonstrators listen to speeches after taking part in a march calling for the British parliament to welcome refugees in the UK in central London yesterday. — AFPLONDON: Around 20,000 pro-refugee demonstrators took to the streets on London yesterday, according to police, to call on Prime Minister Theresa May to do more to tackle the migrant crisis.Protesters marched down the affluent Park Lane and the central thoroughfare Piccadilly...
JHELUM: Pakistani police officers escort, father Muhammad Shahid (fourth from right), and ex-husband Muhammad Shakeel, (second from right), of slain British-Pakistani woman Samia Shahid to present them in a court in Jhelum, in eastern Pakistan, yesterday. — AP
Pakistan court adjourns case of British woman's murder - Death toll in suicide bombing rises to 30
JHELUM: Pakistani police officers escort, father Muhammad Shahid (fourth from right), and ex-husband Muhammad Shakeel, (second from right), of slain British-Pakistani woman Samia Shahid to present them in a court in Jhelum, in eastern Pakistan, yesterday. — APJHELUM, Pakistan: A Pakistani court yesterday adjourned the case of a British-Pakistani woman's murder until Sept. 23 to give police more time to finalize charges against her father and...
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Pakistan court orders confiscation of Musharraf's property
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court trying former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over a deadly raid on Islamabad's radical Red Mosque passed an order yesterday confiscating his property, a lawyer said.Former president Musharraf, who left Pakistan for Dubai in March for what was described as urgent medical treatment, is facing a string of court cases connected to his 1999 to 2008 rule.Lower court judge Pervaiz Qadir Memon passed the order yesterday in a...
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Urine trouble: Japan train driver pees on track
TOKYO: Japanese train operator JR East has apologized after a driver urinated over the railway track while on duty because he did not want to delay services by using the toilet, media reported yesterday.The driver, in his 50s, felt the urge to go on Monday as his train stopped at Sakura station in Chiba, southeast of Tokyo, public broadcaster NHK and the Asahi Shimbun said. He then opened the cabin door away from the platform and urinated over...
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte
Duterte says militants ‘hungry’ for caliphate
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants were hungry to establish a caliphate, as he toughens his stance on the kidnap-for-ransom group accused of a deadly bombing in his home city this month. The fiery leader, who has threatened to eat the militants alive in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for the attack in Davao that killed 15 people, said the group was no longer just after money from criminal...
MANILA: Moro National Liberation Front chairman Nur Misuari gestures during a press conference in suburban Taguig, south of Manila. Abu Sayyaf extremists yesterday freed a Norwegian man kidnapped a year ago in the southern Philippines. —AP
Abu Sayyaf extremists free Norwegian hostage - Sekkingstad to meet Duterte today
MANILA: Moro National Liberation Front chairman Nur Misuari gestures during a press conference in suburban Taguig, south of Manila. Abu Sayyaf extremists yesterday freed a Norwegian man kidnapped a year ago in the southern Philippines. —APMANILA: Abu Sayyaf extremists yesterday freed a Norwegian man kidnapped a year ago in the southern Philippines along with two Canadians who were later beheaded and a Filipino woman who has been released by...
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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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Shereeda Al-Maousherji
CSC’s faceprint attendance rule sparks debate
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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
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Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.
Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
Fearful UK mosques on alert over far-right protests