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Turkish man reports his Filipina wife missing; Saudi woman arrested for fraud
KUWAIT: A Turkish man reported that his Filipina wife had deserted their house in Jahra and had switched off her mobile phone. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress.FraudA Saudi women in her thirties was arrested for fraud, said security sources. Case papers indicate that policemen at a routine checkpoint in Ahmadi noticed that the suspect was trying to back off to evade the checkpoint. Stopping and checking on her, the...
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Good Samaritan mugged
KUWAIT: A citizen reported that four unidentified people assaulted and robbed him in Sulaibiya when he stopped to offer help. The man added that he was driving when he spotted the suspects' vehicle and the four standing out. Thinking they might need help, he stopped, but they immediately assaulted him and stole his mobile phone and KD 500. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress.Drug possessionFarwaniya detectives arrested a...
This handout photo taken on September 3, 2016 and released by the Presidential Photographers Division (PPD) shows President Rodrigo R. Duterte (C) inspecting the site of a bomb blast at the night market in Davao City, in southern island of Mindanao.
Duterte declares ‘state of lawlessness’ after attack
This handout photo taken on September 3, 2016 and released by the Presidential Photographers Division (PPD) shows President Rodrigo R. Duterte (C) inspecting the site of a bomb blast at the night market in Davao City, in southern island of Mindanao.DAVAO: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared a nationwide “state of lawlessness” yesterday after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists detonated a bomb that killed 14 people and wounded about 70...
DHAKA: File photo shows Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mir Quasem Ali waving as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court in Dhaka. A wealthy tycoon who was a chief financier for Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party could be executed in days after losing his final appeal yesterday, against a death sentence from a controversial war crimes tribunal. — AFP
Bangladesh hangs Islamist financier
DHAKA: Bangladesh hanged a wealthy tycoon and top financial backer of its largest Islamist party late yesterday for war crimes, dealing a massive blow to the group’s ambitions in the Muslim-majority nation. Mir Quasem Ali, a key leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed after being convicted by a controversial war crimes tribunal for offences committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan.The 63-year-old was hanged at the...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi policemen patrol the area around the site of an attack in Dhaka, yesterday. Bangladeshi forces stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area where heavily armed militants held dozens of people hostage yesterday morning, rescuing some captives including foreigners. — AP
Bangladesh police kill alleged militant tied to Dhaka attack
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh police launched an overnight raid and killed a man who allegedly trained the Islamist militants believed to have carried out the July hostage-taking in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter that left 20 people dead including 17 foreigners Details of the Friday night raid in Dhaka’s Mirpur neighborhood emerged slowly, and authorities on Saturday confirmed the death of a man they identified as Murad, saying he also went by Jahangir...
SURUC, Turkey: A Turkish army tank is stationed near the Syrian border yesterday. —AP
More Turkish tanks roll into Syria - Ankara-backed rebels opening new line of attack
SURUC, Turkey: A Turkish army tank is stationed near the Syrian border yesterday. —APELBEYLI, Turkey/BEIRUT: Turkey and its rebel allies opened up a new line of attack in northern Syria yesterday as Turkish tanks crossed the frontier from Kilis province, making a western thrust in an operation to sweep militants from its border. The incursion from Kilis - which has been repeatedly targeted by Islamic State rockets from inside Syria over the...
KOLKATA: A giant picture of Mother Teresa is displayed outside the Missionaries of Charity Mother house in Kolkata yesterday. — AP
Mother Teresa’s legacy under cloud as sainthood nears
KOLKATA: A giant picture of Mother Teresa is displayed outside the Missionaries of Charity Mother house in Kolkata yesterday. — APKOLKATA: As the Vatican prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint this Sunday, in the Indian city where she rose to fame, claims of medical negligence and financial mismanagement at her care homes threaten to cloud her legacy. Pope Francis approved the canonisation of the widely beloved Roman Catholic nun last...
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a Rally on Saturday.-AP
FBI releases files of Clinton email probe - Trump says Hillary's answers "defy belief"
WASHINGTON: The FBI on Friday poured fresh fuel on the fire sparked by Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, releasing heavily redacted notes on its probe, which White House rival Donald Trump seized on to attack her fitness for office. The 58 pages - 14 of which were entirely blacked out - showed that the FBI found no evidence her email system was compromised but decided it could not be ruled out because some of...
BAD DOBERAN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (fourth right) and Christian Democrats’ top candidate Lorenz Caffier (left) pose with members of a shanty choir during an election campaign event in Bad Doberan, Germany, yesterday. —AP
Merkel: Refugees not taking away benefits of Germans - Nationalists seek gains in Merkel's bastion
BAD DOBERAN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (fourth right) and Christian Democrats’ top candidate Lorenz Caffier (left) pose with members of a shanty choir during an election campaign event in Bad Doberan, Germany, yesterday. —APBERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose conservative party faces possible defeat in an election in her home state today, rejected charges by anti-immigrant critics that her government was spending less on...
Women hold signs reading “Is it not a provocation, just my freedom of conscience” during a “headscarf march” organized by the Collective against Islamophobia “Respect Equality Dignity” in Avignon, southern France. — AFP photos
French uproar creates opportunity for Israeli burkini makers
Women hold signs reading “Is it not a provocation, just my freedom of conscience” during a “headscarf march” organized by the Collective against Islamophobia “Respect Equality Dignity” in Avignon, southern France. — AFP photosFrance's burkini controversy is boosting the bottom line for Israeli makers of modest women's swimwear. The country, home to large populations of conservative Jewish and Muslim women, has cultivated a local...
In this June 26, 2016, file photo, Gabrielle Union, from left, Nate Parker and Aja Naomi King present the award for Dr. Bobby Jones best gospel/inspirational award at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. — AP
'Birth of a Nation' star, rape survivor faces complex issues
In this June 26, 2016, file photo, Gabrielle Union, from left, Nate Parker and Aja Naomi King present the award for Dr. Bobby Jones best gospel/inspirational award at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. — APAs a rape survivor, victim's advocate and an actress in "The Birth of a Nation," Gabrielle Union has found herself in an impossible position. Union recently, along with the much of the world, learned that her film's...
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KCB offered 566 real estate loans worth KD 16.33m in Aug
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Credit Bank (KCB) offered 566 real estate loans in August, worth KD 16.335 million, it said yesterday. Total portfolio loans last month hit 30 ones worth KD 293,000 the KCB added in a statistical report.Up to 22 loans, worth KD 1.201 million, were presented for building on private plots of land. Similar government loans were 81, worth KD 5.619 million.According to the report, the KCB provided 42 loans worth 2.876 million to buy...
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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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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