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MAAR SHURIN, Syria: Syrians displaced from their homes arrive on the outskirts of Maaret Al-Numan in Syria's northwestern Idlib province yesterday. - AFP

Nearly 70 dead in Syria regime clashes with militants in Idlib

SURMAN, Syria: Two days of clashes between regime forces and armed groups in Syria's last major opposition bastion have killed nearly 70 on both sides, undermining a months-long ceasefire agreement, a war monitor said yesterday. The battles in the northwestern province of Idlib are "the most violent" there since a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement went into effect in late August, said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human...

BAYT AWWA: Hanan, the mother of 18-year-old Badawee Masalma, shows a picture of him on her phone during his funeral in this West Bank village southwest of Hebron yesterday. - AFP

Israel plans new Hebron settlement

BAYT AWWA: Hanan, the mother of 18-year-old Badawee Masalma, shows a picture of him on her phone during his funeral in this West Bank village southwest of Hebron yesterday. - AFP JERUSALEM: Israel's defense minister announced plans to build a new Jewish-only settlement in the heart of a flashpoint West Bank city yesterday, weeks after the United States said it no longer considered such communities illegal. The move in Hebron in the southern...

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UK PM vows to strengthen jail sentences

Terror checks intensified as London attack enters election fray LONDON: Britain's Boris Johnson said yesterday the security services were stepping up monitoring of convicted terrorists released early from prison, as the London Bridge attack became embroiled in the election campaign. The prime minister revealed around 74 people with terrorist convictions had been released early from prison in a similar way to Usman Khan, who left jail last...

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi student wave Bangladesh’s national flag as they block a road during a student protest yesterday following the deaths of two college students in a road accident . — AFP

Bangladesh jails 3 over crash that sparked protests

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court yesterday sentenced three transport workers to life for a road crash last year that killed two students and triggered major anti-government protests. Hundreds of thousands of students across the country took to the streets after the two teenagers were hit by an out-of-control bus that had been illegally racing through the streets of Dhaka in July 2018. The three workers, including two drivers, were found guilty of...

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Evacuations in Philippines as typhoon cancels sports events

People urged to leave homes, thousands in evacuation centresCLARK, Philippines: The Philippines has begun evacuating thousands of people, local officials said yesterday, as a powerful typhoon rumbling in from the Pacific forced Southeast Asian Games organizers to cancel or reschedule some events. Forecasters expect Typhoon Kammuri to make landfall today evening or tomorrow morning, packing gusts of 170 km per hour and maximum sustained winds of...

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NBK named 'The Bank of the Year in Kuwait' for 2019

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has been named "The Bank of the Year in Kuwait" for 2019 by the leading and internationally-renowned Financial Times magazine 'The Banker', in acknowledgment of its exceptional performance. The prestigious award highlights NBK's well-established presence among the global banking consortiums, its strong financial position, robust asset quality in addition to its innovative initiatives as well as banking...

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Jazeera Airways takes delivery of Airbus A320neo

KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways, Kuwait's leading low-cost airline, operating regionally and internationally, took delivery of a new Airbus A320neo aircraft which landed at Kuwait International Airport on the evening of Saturday, November30. This is the third A320neo to join the airline's fleet and the second to be delivered in 2019. The airline has one more A320neo on order to be delivered before the end of the year. As its predecessors, the latest...

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HIV campaign tackles sex taboos in S Sudan

JUBA: In Andrew Makech's home village near Rumbek in central South Sudan, few have ever heard of a condom, and broaching the topic of its use would be considered taboo. However the 35-year-old on Saturday joined hundreds in the capital Juba to get tested for HIV/Aids and learn about the use of condoms to combat the disease, in a rare public sex education campaign in the country wracked by six years of war. The campaign, launched by the Okay...

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Cambridge to return looted Benin statue

A Cambridge University college has said it will return a bronze cockerel statue looted from Nigeria, which formed the focus of protests over symbols of Britain's colonial past. The statue known as "Okukor" was taken in 1897 from the former kingdom of Benin, which is now part of southern Nigeria, and given to Jesus college in 1905 by the father of a student. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the college said the recommendation to return it was...

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K-pop star jailed for gang rape and spycam crimes

South Korean singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young was convicted Friday of gang rape and distributing videos of the assaults and other sexual encounters, and was jailed for six years in a scandal that has rocked K-pop. Jung and Choi Jong-hoon, a former member of boy band FT Island, were found guilty of gang-raping two different victims on two occasions in 2016. Separately, 30-year-old Jung was also convicted of filming himself having sex with other...

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Pakistan fight to avoid defeat against Australia in second Test

Yasir Shah smack a dogged maiden Test centuryADELAIDE: Pakistan was battling to stave off defeat in the day-night second Test against Australia yesterday after being forced to follow on, with Tim Paine's men needing seven wickets to clinch the series 2-0. The visitors, who have lost 13 consecutive Tests in Australia, were in big trouble at 39 for three when rain forced an early end, 248 runs behind with two days left and their top order...

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Indian engineers worst affected by degree accreditation decision

Many have lost their job titles, suffered pay cuts KUWAIT: The manpower authority last year mandated that all expat engineers should get a no-objection certificate from the Kuwait Society of Engineers (KSE) to have the title of “engineer” in their work permits. Indian engineers have been the most affected by this decision, as their degrees should be approved by India’s National Board of Accreditation (NBA) in order to get an NOC from KSE....

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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12

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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP

Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election

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Uruguay's midfielder #05 Manuel Ugarte scores in a penalty shoot-out to win the Conmebol 2024 Copa America tournament quarter-final football match between Uruguay and Brazil at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 6, 2024. — AFP

Uruguay beat Brazil on penalties to reach Copa America semi-finals

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A man looks at campaign posters for the Tokyo gubernatorial election in Tokyo on July 7, 2024. - Polls opened on July 7 to elect a new Tokyo governor with incumbent Yuriko Koike challenged by opposition figure Renho, two prominent women in Japan's male-dominated political sphere. — AFP

Women fight Tokyo election in male-dominated Japan