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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 ‘free of curse’ after police kill militant

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s prime minister said the nation was “free of another curse” yesterday after police stormed a militant hideout, shooting dead the suspected mastermind of an horrific attack on a cafe that killed 22 hostages. The bodies of three Islamist extremists were retrieved after police staged an hour-long gun battle with militants in Narayanganj, a city 25 kilometers south of Dhaka, officers said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina praised...

LAS VEGAS: In this Feb 23, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a caucus night rally. — AP

Nevada becomes one of Trump’s big hopes for swing state win

LAS VEGAS: In this Feb 23, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a caucus night rally. — APLAS VEGAS: Russ Wheeler bears the financial scars of Nevada’s lost decade, and he hopes Donald Trump can heal them. He worked for a Las Vegas roofing company when the real estate bust crushed the state’s economy. He took two pay cuts before getting laid off. He had to commute into the California desert to find...

MOSCOW: Colleagues and relatives of dead workers from Kyrgyzstan react as they gather next to the burnt building of a printing plant’s warehouse. — AP

At least 16 migrants die in Moscow warehouse fire

MOSCOW: Colleagues and relatives of dead workers from Kyrgyzstan react as they gather next to the burnt building of a printing plant’s warehouse. — APMOSCOW: At least 16 migrant workers mostly from Kyrgyzstan died in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse early yesterday, Russian authorities said. “When the fire was being put out, a room that had been cut off by the flames was discovered,” TASS news agency quoted the regional branch...

TANAY PROVINCE: In this Wednesday, Aug 24, 2016, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures with a fist bump during his visit to the Philippine Army’s Camp Mateo Capinpin. — AP

Filipinos seen backing Duterte despite rising drug killings - ‘A necessary evil in the pursuit of a greater good’

TANAY PROVINCE: In this Wednesday, Aug 24, 2016, file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures with a fist bump during his visit to the Philippine Army’s Camp Mateo Capinpin. — APMANILA: On the day he was sworn into office, President Rodrigo Duterte went to a Manila slum and exhorted residents who knew any drug addicts to “go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.” Two months...

LAUDERHILL: India’s Lokesh Rahul, right, plays a shot as West Indies’ Andre Fletcher watches the ball during the first Twenty20 international cricket match, yesterday, in Lauderhill, Fla. —AP

W Indies beat India by one run in record run blitz

LAUDERHILL: India’s Lokesh Rahul, right, plays a shot as West Indies’ Andre Fletcher watches the ball during the first Twenty20 international cricket match, yesterday, in Lauderhill, Fla. —APFORT LAUDERDALE: West Indies defeated India by one run in a record run-laden Twenty20 clash yesterday after piling up the third highest ever total in the game’s shortest format. Set 246 to win, India needed two runs off the last ball for a famous...

England’s Joe Root

Root stars as England beat Pakistan in 2nd ODI

England’s Joe RootLONDON: Joe Root’s 89 saw England to a fourwicket win over Pakistan in the second one-day international at Lord’s yesterday. Victory put England 2-0 up in the five-match series after their 44-run rain-affected success at Southampton on Wednesday. Aggressive pace bowling, with Chris Woakes and Mark Wood taking three wickets apiece, left England chasing a modest target of 252. Pakistan had collapsed to two for three before...

LONDON: Chelsea’s Brazilian midfielder Willian jumps a tackle during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Burnley at Stamford Bridge in London yesterday. — AFP

Hazard back to his best as he inspires Chelsea win

LONDON: Chelsea’s Brazilian midfielder Willian jumps a tackle during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Burnley at Stamford Bridge in London yesterday. — AFPLONDON: One of the villains in Chelsea’s feeble title defence last season, Eden Hazard has been at the centre of the Stamford Bridge club’s sizzling 100 percent start to the Premier League campaign. The Belgium winger opened the scoring in yesterday’s 3-0...

HULL: Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, left, wins the header from Hull City’s Andrew Robertson during the Premier League soccer match Hull City versus Manchester United at the KCOM Stadium, Hull, England, yesterday. — AP

Rashford strikes to extend United’s perfect start

HULL: Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, left, wins the header from Hull City’s Andrew Robertson during the Premier League soccer match Hull City versus Manchester United at the KCOM Stadium, Hull, England, yesterday. — APKINGSTON UPON HULL: Marcus Rashford extended Manchester United’s 100 percent start to the Premier League season with a dramatic strike two minutes into stoppage time to seal a 1-0 win at Hull City yesterday....

Fares Hammami

Mezzan Holding appoints Fares Hammami as new Group CFO

Fares HammamiKUWAIT: Mezzan Holding KSC, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of food, beverage, FMCG and pharmaceutical products in the Gulf, yesterday announced former NBK Capital Director of Investment Banking Fares Hammami will join the company as its new Group CFO. Hammami, who joins the company following a 13-year track record in investment banking, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, the last 10 years of which with...

Turkey allows policewomen to wear Islamic headscarf

.Turkey has for the first time allowed policewomen to wear the Islamic headscarf as part of their uniform, according to a ruling published in the official gazette yesterday. Women serving in the police force “will be able to cover their heads” under their caps or berets so long as the headscarf is “the same color as the uniform and without pattern”, said the ruling published in the official gazette. Rulings published in the official...

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Burkina Faso bans big buttocks beauty contest

The government of Burkina Faso has banned an annual beauty contest for women with the biggest buttocks, saying such events are sexist. Adverts for this weekend’s third edition of ‘Miss Bim-Bim’, carrying an image of two fully clothed women with exaggeratedly large behinds, provoked an outcry on social media.“Our role is to do everything to avoid damaging the image of women,” said Minister Laure Zongo in a statement, adding that social...

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DHAKA: Anti-Discrimination Student Movement held a rally at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on August 3, 2024, to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide violence during anti-quota protests. -- AFP

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