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Dr Teresa Lesher
Prayer and Ramadan
Another Ramadan has arrived and more than a billion Muslims around the world abstain from food and drink from dawn until dusk for an entire month. While this is one of the main deeds that characterize Islam, there is one that is superior to the month-long fast:  it is the habitual daily prayer.  The daily prayer is the most significant act of a believer since, according to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), it is the deed most loved by God and "Between...
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Arab World's sustainable development challenges
Labeed Abdal The 103rd general assembly of the Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) executive council was recently held in Rabat. It was dedicated to discuss means of confronting the sustainable development challenges that Arab countries are currently facing. This is a major necessary step in the Arab world that is under endless threats, changes and attacks in recent years. Facing these challenges requires documenting...
LOS ANGELES: Hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. News that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s rarely used Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest accounts were briefly compromised should serve as a reminder that we’re all susceptible to hacking. — AP
Zuckerberg hacking serves as reminder to change passwords - The lesson: Everyone is susceptible to hacking
LOS ANGELES: Hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. News that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s rarely used Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest accounts were briefly compromised should serve as a reminder that we’re all susceptible to hacking. — APNEW YORK: Mark Zuckerberg can be hacked and so can you. The Facebook founder's rarely used Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest accounts were briefly compromised on Sunday, serving as a...
JEDDAH: Saudi Crown Prince and Minister of Interior Prince Mohammed bin Nayef (left), and deputy crown prince and Minister of Defense Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a cabinet meeting in coastal city of Jeddah. In a press conference in Jeddah, officials revealed sweeping plans to create some 450,000 non-government jobs by 2020, boost non-oil revenues and cut the cost of public wages.- AFP
Government to create jobs, cut subsidies - Saudi unveils reform plan
JEDDAH: Saudi Crown Prince and Minister of Interior Prince Mohammed bin Nayef (left), and deputy crown prince and Minister of Defense Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a cabinet meeting in coastal city of Jeddah. In a press conference in Jeddah, officials revealed sweeping plans to create some 450,000 non-government jobs by 2020, boost non-oil revenues and cut the cost of public wages.- AFPJEDDAH: Saudi Arabia plans to spend billions of riyals...
ISTANBUL: Turkish police officers work at the scene of a blast just after an explosion in Istanbul yesterday. - AP
11 killed as car bomb target Turkish police - Fourth major bombing in Istanbul this year
ISTANBUL: Turkish police officers work at the scene of a blast just after an explosion in Istanbul yesterday. - APISTANBUL: A car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour yesterday, killing 11 people and wounding 36 near the main tourist district, a major university and the mayor's office. The car was detonated as police buses passed, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters, in the fourth major...
CALIFORNIA: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives on stage for a rally at Long Beach City College on the final day of California campaigning in Long Beach, California.- AFP
Hillary Clinton 'makes history' - First US woman to be presidential candidate of a party
CALIFORNIA: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives on stage for a rally at Long Beach City College on the final day of California campaigning in Long Beach, California.- AFPLOS ANGELES: Hillary Clinton has captured enough delegates to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, according to tallies by two US media outlets, as she and rival Bernie Sanders faced off yesterday in contests in six states. A former senator and US...
AMRIYAT AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq: Displaced Iraqi families, who fled their homes in and around Fallujah due to fighting between Iraqi government forces and the Islamic State (IS) group, head to receive food rations and other emergency supplies at a camp run by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Monday. - AFP
Shops in Fallujah contain nothing but stale dates - Refugees say IS using food to enlist fighters
AMRIYAT AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq: Displaced Iraqi families, who fled their homes in and around Fallujah due to fighting between Iraqi government forces and the Islamic State (IS) group, head to receive food rations and other emergency supplies at a camp run by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Monday. - AFPGARMA, Iraq: Iraqis who fled Islamic State-held Fallujah as government and allied forces advanced on the city said they had survived on stale...
DAMASCUS: Syrians walk in Damascus' Al-Hamidiyah souk on the second day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan yesterday. - AFP
Residents flee Syrian town as forces close in
DAMASCUS: Syrians walk in Damascus' Al-Hamidiyah souk on the second day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan yesterday. - AFPBEIRUT: Thousands of civilians yesterday fled a key town along the Islamic State group's supply lifeline in northern Syria as US-backed fighters closed in from three sides. The offensive on the town of Manbij is one of two major assaults on the jihadist supply line from the Syrian-Turkish border to IS' bastion of Raqa. The...
In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, addresses a speech to the newly-elected parliament at the parliament building, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Assad has vowed to liberate every inch of the country the way government forces captured the historic town of Palmyra from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Facebook)
Assad hardens position in address to parliament - President says Aleppo to be Erdogan's graveyard
In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, addresses a speech to the newly-elected parliament at the parliament building, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Assad has vowed to liberate every inch of the country the way government forces captured the historic town of Palmyra from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Facebook)DAMASCUS: Syrian...
ARLINGTON, Virginia: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the unknown soldier watched by US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (second right) and United States Army Military District of Washington commander Major General Bradley Becker (right) at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. — AFP
Is Obama-Modi friendship real? - In India, many doubt it, see it as plain politics
ARLINGTON, Virginia: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the unknown soldier watched by US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (second right) and United States Army Military District of Washington commander Major General Bradley Becker (right) at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. — AFPNEW DELHI: It's a friendship between two powerful men that transcends politics, transcends...
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a speech on the upcoming EU referendum at the Savoy Place yesterday. — AFP
PM faces Brexit grilling as youth rush to register - Cameron seeks to regain momentum
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a speech on the upcoming EU referendum at the Savoy Place yesterday. — AFPLONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron will seek to regain the momentum in his campaign against a Brexit in a prime time appearance yesterday, as young people rush to register to vote ahead of a midnight deadline. Cameron is under pressure to deliver a convincing television performance after opinion polls gave a slender...
Brock Turner and Aaron Persky
Stanford University sex attack sparks outrage - Judge's leniency prompts calls for dismissal
Brock Turner and Aaron PerskyLOS ANGELES: The father of a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has come under fire for dismissing the crime as "20 minutes of action". The judge who oversaw the case in California, Aaron Persky, has also sparked outrage for sentencing Brock Turner to six months in prison and probation for the assault, saying that he feared a stiffer jail term would have "a severe...
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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi
Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank
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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP
HANIYEH ASSASSINATED
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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA
MoI: No one above the law
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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike
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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA
Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn