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Qatar to levy $10 airport tax on passengers
DOHA: Qatar's government will levy a new airport tax on passengers from Tuesday as the country seeks new revenue streams amid falling oil prices. Every passenger leaving Qatar from Doha's Hamad International Airport, including transit passengers, will be charged 35 riyals ($9.61) for using airport facilities, according to a statement by the airport.The charge will apply to tickets issued after Aug 30 and for any travel starting on Dec 1 onwards...
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Nepalese maid beats Egyptian employer
KUWAIT: An Egyptian woman was beaten by her Nepalese maid with a broomstick that left her with various bruises. The woman sought her husband's help to take her to hospital, then went to the police station and told them that she was attacked by her hysterical maid. Police are looking for the maid, who escaped.Toddler died after jumping into poolA one-year-old bedoon child trying to walk drowned in a pool after falling in it. When his family...
DES MOINES, Iowa: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the 2nd annual Joni Ernst Roast and Ride event. — AP
Trump vows he will begin deportations immediately
DES MOINES, Iowa: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the 2nd annual Joni Ernst Roast and Ride event. — APWASHINGTON: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump linked illegal immigration and employment Saturday, pledging to start deporting offenders as soon as he is sworn in should he become the White House's next occupant. Trump all the while courted the black vote, claiming that the shooting of basketball star Dwyane...
AMMAN: In this photo taken yesterday, five members of the Jouriyeh family, Syrian refugees headed to the US as part of a resettlement program, pose for a photo in the Amman, Jordan office of the International Organization for Migration. — A P
10,000th Syrian reaches US in resettlement program
AMMAN: In this photo taken yesterday, five members of the Jouriyeh family, Syrian refugees headed to the US as part of a resettlement program, pose for a photo in the Amman, Jordan office of the International Organization for Migration. — A PAMMAN: The US will reach its target this week of taking in 10,000 Syrian war refugees in a year-old resettlement program, the US ambassador to Jordan said yesterday, after meeting families headed to...
DHAKA: Bangladeshis gather near a shooting scene in Narayanganj. — AP
Bangladesh police hunts more extremists ahead of Kerry visit
DHAKA: Bangladeshis gather near a shooting scene in Narayanganj. — APDHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday they were hunting more extremist leaders after shooting dead the suspected mastermind of a deadly cafe attack, on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry's first visit. Security forces stormed a militant hideout outside Dhaka on Saturday, killing three suspected Islamists including the Bangladesh-born Canadian accused of organizing...
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Pakistan: Militants behind 2009 cricket attack killed
LAHORE: Pakistani officials said Sunday that four Islamic extremists allegedly involved in a 2009 attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team were killed in a shootout with police. The attack on the cricket team killed six police and two bystanders, and wounded six cricket players. The Pakistani Taleban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an affiliated extremist group, claimed the attack, which was carried out by 10 gunmen.The shootout erupted late...
MANILA: Philippine Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) work at the scene where two suspects were shot dead following an encounter and shootout with police at a checkpoint along a highway in Manila yesterday. — AFP
Addict risks everything in Duterte's drug war - 'It's scary because I could be next'
MANILA: Philippine Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) work at the scene where two suspects were shot dead following an encounter and shootout with police at a checkpoint along a highway in Manila yesterday. — AFPMANILA: Pedicab driver Reyjin dives into a neighbor's house for a quick meth fix, fearful of taking a bullet to the head in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs but unable to quit. More than 2,000 people have...
MEDAN: People carry an unconscious friend to an ambulance in front of a church after a would-be suicide bomber failed to detonate explosives during Sunday service. — AP
Indonesian priest injured in church 'terror' attack
MEDAN: People carry an unconscious friend to an ambulance in front of a church after a would-be suicide bomber failed to detonate explosives during Sunday service. — APMEDAN: A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia yesterday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country. Priest Albert Pandiangan was holding a mass in the city of...
MARAWI CITY: A jail guard walks past a prison cell at the provincial jail yesterday, a day after members of Maute group, a Muslim extremist inspired by the Islamic State movement, rescued their jailed colleagues. — AFP
Philippine extremists stage mass jailbreak
MARAWI CITY: A jail guard walks past a prison cell at the provincial jail yesterday, a day after members of Maute group, a Muslim extremist inspired by the Islamic State movement, rescued their jailed colleagues. — AFPILIGAN: Muslim extremists carrying Islamic State group insignia have staged a daring jailbreak in the southern Philippines, freeing 28 detainees in the latest in a series of mass escapes, officials said yesterday. About 50...
MANCHESTER: Manchester City's English midfielder Raheem Sterling scores his second goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and West Ham United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, yesterday. —AFP
Man City go top with win over West Ham
MANCHESTER: Manchester City's English midfielder Raheem Sterling scores his second goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and West Ham United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, yesterday. —AFPMANCHESTER: Manchester City, Premier League champions in 2012 and 2014, went to the top of the table with a 3-1 victory over West Ham United yesterday. Superior goal difference took them above...
MADRID: Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio, right, challenges Celta’s defenders during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, yesterday. Real Madrid won 2-1. — AP
Kroos lifts Real Madrid to win, Atletico stumbles again
MADRID: Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio, right, challenges Celta’s defenders during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, yesterday. Real Madrid won 2-1. — APBARCELONA: Toni Kroos’ late score ensured Real Madrid won its home opener over a feisty Celta Vigo 2-1 on Saturday, while Atletico Madrid stumbled in a second straight round of the Spanish league. Atletico was...
220 shooters participate in Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Shooting Academy
220 shooters participate in Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Shooting Academy
220 shooters participate in Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Shooting AcademyKUWAIT: President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Eng Duaij Al-Otaibi attended the closing ceremony of Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Shooting Academy season and distributed medals and prizes to the winners of the tournament in which over 220 shooters participated.Al-Otaibi gave medals and cups to first place winners, as Abdelrahman Al-Nimran won the skeet event, Abdelaziz...
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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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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
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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