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KUWAIT: This photo released by the Interior Ministry yesterday shows four persons arrested for mugging in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh.

Four Syrians arrested for mugging in Jleeb

KUWAIT: This photo released by the Interior Ministry yesterday shows four persons arrested for mugging in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh.KUWAIT: A statement by the Interior Ministry's Relations and Security Information Department said criminal detectives arrested a Syrian gang that robbed people in Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh. The statement said many complaints were received from expats in Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh about being robbed of their money and their phones by...

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Your son has not been kidnapped but detained for breaking law; Indian robbed

KUWAIT: "Your son has not been kidnapped; rather he is a lawbreaker and is detained at the traffic department holding cell." This is what operations told a citizen who called them to say his son was kidnapped from Mina Zour from his car. A security source said police investigated the matter and found that the man was driving recklessly, and was chased and forced to stop, and was found without a license. So police arrested him to send him to...

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Egyptian worker dies after falling into manhole; 3 Syrian thieves caught

KUWAIT: An Egyptian man lost his life as he suffocated while working in a manhole, while his colleague was taken to the ICU. Police and firemen rushed to the scene and the two victims were taken to hospital, but one of them died en route.Thieves caughtFarwaniya detectives interrogated three Syrians to find out the magnitude of their crimes after confessing they robbed an Asian and took KD 200 from him, as he identified them in a lineup. A...

(Left) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrates winning the South Carolina primary in Spartanburg, South Carolina, yesterday. (Right) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves on stage with her husband and former President Bill Clinton at a Nevada Democratic caucus rally on Saturday in Las Vegas. — AFP/AP

Polls: Clinton, Trump running neck and neck

WASHINGTON: The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the White House has tightened with two months to go before Election Day, as a series of new polls Tuesday shows them essentially in a dead heat. Trump has edged ahead of Clinton in a new CNN/ORC poll, at 45 percent to 43 percent among likely voters, while an NBC News poll of registered voters meanwhile shows Clinton's lead holding at six percentage points - 48 percent to 42...

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British MP resigns over sex scandal

Keith VazLONDON: A senior British lawmaker resigned from his position as head of an influential parliamentary committee yesterday after becoming embroiled in a scandal involving drugs and male prostitutes. Keith Vaz from the opposition Labour Party, a married father of two and one of the first British Asian ministers, was recorded paying two escorts for their services, according to a report in the Sunday Mirror. "Those who hold others to account...

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Philippines’ Duterte vows to eat militants - Crime war claiming 44 lives a day: Police

Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteVIENTIANE: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks. "They will pay. When the time comes, I will eat you in front of people," Duterte told an audience of Filipinos late on Monday night while in Laos for a regional summit. "If you make me mad, in all honesty, I will eat you alive, raw."...

SANAA: Shiite tribesmen, known as Houthis, hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a tribal gathering showing support for the Houthi movement yesterday. — AP

Brazil's Taurus sold arms to trafficker for Yemen war

PORTO ALEGRE: Brazil's Forjas Taurus SA, the largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, sold guns to a known Yemeni arms trafficker who funneled them into his nation's civil war in violation of international sanctions, according to charges in court documents reviewed by Reuters. Federal prosecutors in southern Brazil charged two former executives of Forjas Taurus in May with shipping 8,000 handguns in 2013 to Fares Mohammed Hassan Mana'a, an...

Veiled mothers barred from entering school

MARSEILLE: Two Muslim mothers wearing headscarves were accosted and prevented from entering a nursery school on the French island of Corsica on Monday by two other parents, officials said. The incident happened as parents were dropping off their children at the start of the school day in Bonifacio, on the island’s southern tip.The two women, wearing Muslim headscarves, “were stopped by two men, two brothers, who thought it wasn’t right that...

The setting sun sets wispy clouds aglow above the skyline of the Dubai Marina in Dubai yesterday. —AP

Emirati terror suspect tried to kill US citizen

DUBAI: State-owned media in the United Arab Emirates is reporting a 29-year-old Emirati man faces charges after trying to kill a US citizen with his car.The National newspaper of Abu Dhabi reported yesterday that the man had allegedly pledged his support to the Al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jabhat Fatah Al-Sham in Syria, which was formerly known as the Nusra Front.The newspaper reports the man had allegedly plotted other attacks, including...

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) yesterday in Berlin. — AFP

Merkel’s rule collapsing?

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) yesterday in Berlin. — AFPBERLIN: For an outsider looking in, Germany's press appeared to suggest that Chancellor Angela Merkel is on her way out as leader of Europe's biggest economy after a vote debacle in her home state. "Merkel's rule collapses," declared the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, while a Spiegel Online headline charged that...

KABUL: Afghan security personnel and residents walk at the site of a car bomb blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Shar-e-Naw in Kabul yesterday. — AFP

Global charity attacked in wave of violence in Kabul

KABUL: Afghan security personnel and residents walk at the site of a car bomb blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Shar-e-Naw in Kabul yesterday. — AFPKABUL: Explosions rang out yesterday during an hours-long attack on an international charity in Kabul, the latest assault in a wave of violence in the Afghan capital that has killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens. The assault on CARE International began late Monday with...

LONDON: Emergency services surround protestors from the movement Black Lives Matter after they locked themselves to a tripod on the runway at London City Airport yesterday. — AFP

Black Lives Matter protesters shut London airport for hours

LONDON: Emergency services surround protestors from the movement Black Lives Matter after they locked themselves to a tripod on the runway at London City Airport yesterday. — AFPLONDON: Black Lives Matter protesters chained themselves together on the runway of London’s City Airport, forcing all flights in and out of the business travel hub to be diverted for six hours. Police were called at 5:40 am local time (0440 GMT) after protesters...

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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

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MOGADISHU: Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack on Aug 3, 2024. - AFP

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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