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Probe in Ardiya woman’s death
KUWAIT: A citizen finally missed his daughter after not seeing her for three days, then discovered her body in her room. The coroner recovered the body to determine the cause of death. The citizen, who lives in Ardiya, told police he found his daughter unconscious in her room. Police and paramedics rushed to the scene, and found the woman was dead. The death was registered as suicide, as police wait for the coroner's report.Drug possessionAhmadi...
AMATRICE, Italy: A man walks amid rubble after an earthquake yesterday. — AP
Powerful Italy quake kills 120; Amir expresses sorrow - Myanmar quake damages temples
AMATRICE, Italy: A man walks amid rubble after an earthquake yesterday. — APACCUMOLI, Italy: A powerful earthquake rattled a remote area of central Italy yesterday, leaving at least 120 people dead and scenes of carnage in mountain villages. With 368 people injured and an unknown number trapped under rubble, the figure of dead and wounded was expected to rise in the wake of the pre-dawn quake, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi warned. "This is not a...
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Saudis police foil mosque bombing - Cafe attack thwarted
RIYADH: Saudi police shot dead a would-be suicide bomber targeting a mosque in the Shiite-dominated district of Qatif, the interior ministry said yesterday. It was one of two attacks disrupted in the kingdom's Eastern Province since early August, when a Syrian and a Saudi were arrested on their way to bomb a restaurant, the ministry said. Yesterday's attempted attack - the latest targeting the kingdom's minority Shiites - happened around sunset...
PHILADELPHIA: In this Aug 16, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks. — AP
'Clintons set up a business to profit from public office' - Clinton in eye of a Trump storm over charity donors
PHILADELPHIA: In this Aug 16, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks. — APNEW YORK: Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on Hillary Clinton Tuesday as her campaign battled to silence suggestions that donors to her family's charity paid for access when she was America's top diplomat. The Democratic nominee, looking to make history as America's first female commander-in-chief, is polling well ahead of her...
In this July 28, 2016 picture 17-year-old Yazidi girl stands on the balcony of her home. — AP
Raped and tortured by IS, damaged Yazidi women recover in Germany - Long after rescued, the trauma remains
In this July 28, 2016 picture 17-year-old Yazidi girl stands on the balcony of her home. — APVILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN: The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent. Petrified by the thought of again facing rape and abuse at their hands, 17-year-old Yasmin vowed to make herself undesirable. So she doused herself in gasoline and lit...
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Karachi’s next mayor will run city from behind bars
KARACHI: The imprisoned politician who is almost certain to be the next mayor of Pakistan's largest and richest city of Karachi will run the teeming metropolis via "video link" from his prison cell, his lawyer said yesterday. Waseem Akhtar, who was arrested last month on suspicion of aiding alleged militants, arrived in an armored police vehicle at the British-era Karachi Metropolitan Corporation building to cast his vote in the final round of...
ANAND: In this Nov 5, 2015 file photo, a couple from Britain hold their baby, born on Oct. 17 by a surrogate. — AP
India plans surrogacy ban for foreigners, unmarried couples - Concerns about exploitation of poor Indian women
ANAND: In this Nov 5, 2015 file photo, a couple from Britain hold their baby, born on Oct. 17 by a surrogate. — APNEW DELHI: India's government yesterday approved plans to ban the booming commercial surrogacy industry, a move that would block thousands of foreign couples who flock to centers to have a baby. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said cabinet cleared a bill to restrict surrogacy services to local married couples, following concerns...
ALAHABAD: An aerial photo shows a cluster of houses marooned in floods. — AP
Floods have killed over 175 in India
ALAHABAD: An aerial photo shows a cluster of houses marooned in floods. — APNEW DELHI: Heavy monsoon rains have ended two successive drought years in India with the Ganges River and its tributaries rising above the danger level, triggering evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from flooded homes in north and eastern India, an official said yesterday. Drowning, electrocution or injuries from collapsed houses have killed at least 175...
PATTANI: A forensics unit inspects the site of a deadly bomb blast from previous night outside of a hotel. — AFP
One dead, dozens wounded in latest Thai car bombing
PATTANI: A forensics unit inspects the site of a deadly bomb blast from previous night outside of a hotel. — AFPPATTANI: A car bomb exploded in a nightlife district in Thailand's deep south, killing one and wounding more than 30, in a nation already on edge after a bombing spree that targeted tourist towns. The latest blast struck late Tuesday outside a hotel in Pattani, one of three Muslim-majority southern provinces battered by a...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Kusal Perera plays shot against Australia as Mathew Wade watches during their second one day international cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday. — AP
S Lanka beat Australia, level ODI series 1-1
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Kusal Perera plays shot against Australia as Mathew Wade watches during their second one day international cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday. — APCOLOMBO: Skipper Angelo Mathews yesterday led from the front with his allround showing to help Sri Lanka register a comprehensive 82-run win against Australia in the second one-day international to level the series at 1-1 in Colombo. Australia, who were chasing a...
SHENZHEN: This file photo taken on July 28, 2016 shows Borussia Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele (R) playing the ball during the 2016 International Champions Cup football match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong province. Borussia Dortmund’s CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke claims they beat Bayern Munich to sign French starlet Ousmane Dembele, but admits it will be harder to halt the Bavarians bid for a fifth straight German league title. — AFP
Dortmund beat Bayern to sign Dembele: CEO
SHENZHEN: This file photo taken on July 28, 2016 shows Borussia Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele (R) playing the ball during the 2016 International Champions Cup football match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong province. Borussia Dortmund’s CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke claims they beat Bayern Munich to sign French starlet Ousmane Dembele, but admits it will be harder to halt the Bavarians bid for a...
TOKYO: Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike (5th R), Japan Olympic Committee officials and their Rio de Janeiro Olympic squad leaders pose with flags during the offical flag arrival ceremony at the Tokyo’s Haneda airport yesterday. The Olympic flag arrived in Tokyo yesterday, as Japan’s capital gears up to host the 2020 Games, with officials promising smooth sailing after Rio’s sometimes shaky 2016 instalment. —AFP
Olympic flag arrives in Tokyo for 2020 Games
TOKYO: Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike (5th R), Japan Olympic Committee officials and their Rio de Janeiro Olympic squad leaders pose with flags during the offical flag arrival ceremony at the Tokyo’s Haneda airport yesterday. The Olympic flag arrived in Tokyo yesterday, as Japan’s capital gears up to host the 2020 Games, with officials promising smooth sailing after Rio’s sometimes shaky 2016 instalment. —AFPTOKYO: The Olympic flag arrived...
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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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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
Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience
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Stop smoking, Quit smoking for health.
Many smokers quit as ‘chests cannot stand two fires’
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Late Information Minister Bader Al-Ya'agoub checking the damage.-KUNA
Invasion could not confiscate KUNA’s will, national role