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Ahmad Al-Mutairi
Kuwaiti athlete wins 100m gold at Paralympics - Amir lauds victory
Ahmad Al-MutairiRIO DE JANEIRO: Kuwait's Ahmad Al-Mutairi came first in the men's 100 m athletics race at the Rio 2016 Paralympics on Saturday, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah announced. With this win in the competitions that started on Thursday, Mutairi, from the Kuwait Disabled Sport Club (KDSC), has made a national achievement for Kuwait at the international...
NEW YORK: A group walks with an American flag in Lower Manhattan. — AFP
‘Shock and awe’ response to 9/11 helped jihad’s spread
NEW YORK: A group walks with an American flag in Lower Manhattan. — AFPPARIS: While 9/11 failed to bring America to its knees as Al-Qaeda hoped, it ushered in an era of instability, especially in the Middle East, that Islamic extremists have skillfully exploited, analysts say. By reacting with a doctrine of "Shock and Awe" and invading Iraq in 2003, the US committed a series of missteps that indirectly helped foment jihadism, say...
GENEVA: US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shake hands at the conclusion of a joint press conference following their meeting. — AP
Syria ceasefire deal: Major diplomatic win for Russia - Coordination despite powers backing opposing sides
GENEVA: US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shake hands at the conclusion of a joint press conference following their meeting. — APMOSCOW: The ceasefire deal that could see coordinated US-Russia military action in war-torn Syria comes after months of Moscow calling on Washington to join its bombing campaign against jihadists. The agreement, which is also meant to end hostilities and ensure aid...
NEW YORK: US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives for a memorial service at the National 9/11 Memorial. — AFP
Clinton fending off outrage over remarks - Clinton seeks to recover after 'deplorable' gaffe
NEW YORK: US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives for a memorial service at the National 9/11 Memorial. — AFPWASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton seeks to recover yesterday from a major campaign blunder with just over two weeks to go before the first debate in her bitter battle with Donald Trump for the White House. Both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are set to be at a 9/11 ceremony in New York marking the...
A French police officer patrols in front of Notre Dame cathedral, in Paris, Friday Sept. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Woman charged over failed jihadist attack
PARIS: French anti-terror judges charged a woman Saturday over a failed jihadist attack near Paris's Notre Dame cathedral, where a car full of gas canisters was found last weekend. The mother of three, named as 29-year-old Ornella G, is one of several women detained in the past week on suspicion of planning new attacks in France, a country on high alert after a string of jihadist assaults in the past 18 months.According to investigators, her...
DHAKA: Police and medical staff carry a suspected wounded militant on a stretcher for treatment at a hospital. — AFP
Militant suspected in Bangladesh cafe attack killed himself: Police
DHAKA: Police and medical staff carry a suspected wounded militant on a stretcher for treatment at a hospital. — AFPDHAKA: A suspected militant believed by Bangladesh police to have been among the planners of a July cafe attack that killed 22 people killed himself during a police raid on a hideout in the capital, police said yesterday. The July attack in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State and was one of...
Angelique Kerber of Germany
Kerber beats Pliskova to win US Open
Angelique Kerber of GermanyNEW YORK: Angelique Kerber won the US Open on Saturday, marking her rise to world number one with a gritty victory over Karolina Pliskova to add a second Grand Slam crown to her magical 2016 season. “Being there as champion, this year, to hold this trophy, I can’t say it in words,” said Kerber, who added the US Open crown to the Australian Open title she claimed in January. Seeded second Kerber rallied from a...
BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (2nd R) vies with Alaves’ defender Victor Laguardia (2nd L) beside Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez (R) during the Spanish league football match FC Barcelona vs Deportivo Alaves at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona yesterday. — AFP
Enrique takes blame for shock Barca loss
BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (2nd R) vies with Alaves’ defender Victor Laguardia (2nd L) beside Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez (R) during the Spanish league football match FC Barcelona vs Deportivo Alaves at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona yesterday. — AFPBARCELONA: Barca boss Luis Enrique admitted he must take responsibility for the Spanish champions’ shock home defeat to newly promoted Alaves...
RIO DE JANEIRO: David Brown of the United States, second from right, accompanied by his guide Jerome Avery, and Venezuela’s Fernando Ferrer, left, accompanied by his guide Edison Medina, compete in the men’s 100-meter T11, round 1, heat 5, during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday. — AP
Algerian team faces possible expulsion from Paralympics
RIO DE JANEIRO: David Brown of the United States, second from right, accompanied by his guide Jerome Avery, and Venezuela’s Fernando Ferrer, left, accompanied by his guide Edison Medina, compete in the men’s 100-meter T11, round 1, heat 5, during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday. — APRIO DE JANEIRO: An Algerian women’s goalball team could be expelled from the Paralympics for...
CLEVELAND: Alistair Overeem, left, from the Netherlands, punches Stipie Miocic during a heavyweight title bout at UFC 203 yesterday, in Cleveland. —AP
UFC champ Miocic survives knockdown, wins by KO
CLEVELAND: Alistair Overeem, left, from the Netherlands, punches Stipie Miocic during a heavyweight title bout at UFC 203 yesterday, in Cleveland. —APCLEVELAND: Stipe Miocic wouldn’t let his hometown down. The heavyweight champion kept his title with another Cleveland comeback. Dropped by an early punch, Miocic recovered and knocked out Alistair Overeem at 4:27 of the first round to conclude UFC 203 on Saturday night in front of more than...
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Doing business in Kuwait 2016 - A World Bank Group Flagship Report
Source: Doing business databaseKUWAIT: Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority...
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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