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Dates, Al-Safat, Al-Manakh -traditional Kuwaiti markets

.KUWAIT: The Dates, Al-Safat, Al-Manakh, and Al-Ferrdah markets were vital business hubs which steered Kuwait’s economic growth in the past. Set for different purposes, these markets played an important role in importing and exporting goods to and from Kuwait as well as providing local products to customers in the old days.Speaking about the historical significance of the markets, researcher Mohammad Abdulhadi Jamal said that despite being a...

Sales of secondhand items booming in Kuwait

.Sales of secondhand or lightly used items are booming in many parts of Kuwait. One would wonder why such a demand exists in a rich country like Kuwait, but there are many compelling reasons for this. The expat population is transient, while wealthy locals frequently replace old items for new ones.Home goods such as furniture and decorative items, books, carpets, clothes and shoes are easily accumulated as time goes by. These items usually end...

KUWAIT: Some of the dancers showcase their talents during an event called ‘A night on Almo’ez Street’.

Feeling at home in a foreign land

KUWAIT: Some of the dancers showcase their talents during an event called ‘A night on Almo’ez Street’.Homesickness can be a real problem for those who travel away from home for a long time. Most expats in Kuwait have felt homesick at some point in their lives. You might miss your family, friends, pets, house or neighborhood.In Ramadan, many people feel nostalgic about the gatherings and traditions of their countries. But once the new...

ISTANBUL: Family members, colleagues and friends of the victims of Tuesday blasts gather for a memorial ceremony at the Ataturk Airport yesterday. — A

13 detained over Istanbul airport attack - Chilling details emerge of suicide bombers assault

ISTANBUL: Family members, colleagues and friends of the victims of Tuesday blasts gather for a memorial ceremony at the Ataturk Airport yesterday. — AISTANBUL: Turkey yesterday detained 13 suspected Islamic State jihadists over the deadly Istanbul airport attack, as chilling details emerged of how suicide bombers launched their assault. The death toll from Tuesday's gun and suicide bomb spree at Ataturk airport has risen to 43, the interior...

LONDON: Brexit campaigner and former London mayor Boris Johnson addresses a press conference in central London yesterday. — AFP

UK in shock as Johnson avoids leadership bid; Popular front-runner rules himself out

LONDON: Brexit campaigner and former London mayor Boris Johnson addresses a press conference in central London yesterday. — AFPLONDON: The race to become Britain's next prime minister took a dramatic, unexpected turn yesterday as former London Mayor Boris Johnson - popular with the public and widely considered to be a front-runner - ruled himself out of contention after the defection of a key ally. In a morning of political machinations and...

GARISSA: This file photo taken on April 2, 2015 shows paramedics helping a student who was injured during an attack by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab gunmen on the Moi University campus. — AFP

Islamic State makes inroads into Kenya

GARISSA: This file photo taken on April 2, 2015 shows paramedics helping a student who was injured during an attack by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab gunmen on the Moi University campus. — AFPNAIROBI: Recent arrests show the Islamic State's growing presence in East Africa, where they are recruiting young Kenyans for jihad abroad and raising fears some of them will return to threaten the country. Kenyan intelligence agencies estimate that...

FALLUJAH: A member of the Iraqi government forces stands near a body lying on the road next to a charred vehicle southwest of Fallujah on June 29, 2016 after Iraqi forces airstrikes destroyed 260 vehicles carrying militants from the Islamic State group trying to flee after their defeat in Fallujah. — AFP

Iraq: IS ripped apart by air strikes as it fled Fallujah; 260 vehicles were destroyed, 150 militants killed

FALLUJAH: A member of the Iraqi government forces stands near a body lying on the road next to a charred vehicle southwest of Fallujah on June 29, 2016 after Iraqi forces airstrikes destroyed 260 vehicles carrying militants from the Islamic State group trying to flee after their defeat in Fallujah. — AFPBAGHDAD: Iraqi commanders said yesterday that Islamic State group fighters fleeing their once emblematic bastion of Fallujah had taken a heavy...

CEDAR TOWN: In this Saturday, April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a “white pride” rally in rural Paulding County. — AP

Ku Klux Klan dreams of rising again 150 years after founding - Merging with larger groups to build strength

CEDAR TOWN: In this Saturday, April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a “white pride” rally in rural Paulding County. — APBIRMINGHAM: Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights in the 1960s. Membership dwindled, a unified group fractured, and one-time members went to prison for a string of...

Blood is seen on the floor where Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, was murdered at his home in Dhaka on August 7, 2015. A gang armed with machetes hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka August 7, 2015, sparking protests in the capital over the fourth such murder in Bangladesh this year. AFP PHOTO

Home-grown militants and former major behind Bangladesh attacks; Bloggers, foreigners, religious minorities targeted

DHAKA: Early in June, a man walked into the Dhaka premises of the Ramakrishna Mission, a Hindu centre for spirituality and learning in the Bangladesh capital, and delivered a handwritten note warning of an attack by Islamic State. Days later, armed policemen were sitting inside the mission's compound among orange-robed monks, the gates outside were closed and fewer people than normal showed up at a medical clinic it runs for the neighborhood."We...

NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj (left) meets 12 year-old boy, Sonu (second left) and his parents at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP

Kidnapped Indian boy returns from Bangladesh after 6 years

NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj (left) meets 12 year-old boy, Sonu (second left) and his parents at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi yesterday. — AFPNEW DELHI: A 12-year-old Indian boy who was kidnapped from New Delhi and taken to neighboring Bangladesh six years ago finally returned home yesterday to be reunited with his parents. Sonu, who goes by one name, landed at Delhi airport escorted by security...

KABUL: Afghan policemen look on as the wreckage of a bus is removed from the site of a suicide bomb attack that targeted a convoy of buses transporting police cadets on the outskirts of Kabul yesterday. — AFP photos

Taleban bombers hit police cadets in Kabul, killing 30 - Bloodshed condemned as 'crime against humanity'

KABUL: Afghan policemen look on as the wreckage of a bus is removed from the site of a suicide bomb attack that targeted a convoy of buses transporting police cadets on the outskirts of Kabul yesterday. — AFP photosKABUL: The Taleban claimed responsibility yesterday for a twin suicide attack targeting a convoy of buses transporting Afghan police cadets in Kabul, which Afghanistan's interior ministry said killed 30 and wounded 58. The...

MANILA: In this photo provided by the News and Information Bureau, Malacanang Palace, new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, second from right, takes his oath before Philippine Supreme Court Associate Justice Bienvenido Reyes during inauguration ceremony in Malacanang Palace yesterday. — AP

Duterte, ‘the punisher’, sworn in as Philippines’ president - Political shake-up raises doubt about economic, China policies

MANILA: In this photo provided by the News and Information Bureau, Malacanang Palace, new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, second from right, takes his oath before Philippine Supreme Court Associate Justice Bienvenido Reyes during inauguration ceremony in Malacanang Palace yesterday. — APMANILA: Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the Philippines' 16th president yesterday, capping the unlikely journey of a provincial city mayor whose brash...

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