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KUWAIT: These handout photos provided by the Interior Ministry shows the four suspects in the murder of an Asian woman whose body was found on January 26.

One of four murderers apprehended

KUWAIT: These handout photos provided by the Interior Ministry shows the four suspects in the murder of an Asian woman whose body was found on January 26.KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior's security media and relations department said that criminal detectives managed to unfold the mystery of the murder of an Asian woman whose corpse was burned inside a truck that was found between Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh and Abdullah Mubarak on January...

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More suspects arrested in Mina Abdullah death case

KUWAIT: Following up the case of the murder of an Asian man whose body was dumped under tons of garbage in Mina Abdullah, security sources said that detectives arrested two other suspects of other Asians nationalities who had some problems with the victim. The suspects confessed that they initially killed the victim by burying him alive, then took the body and dumped it at a garbage collection point, where it was buried under tons of...

Dr Teresa Lesher

The first verses of the Holy Quran were revealed in Ramadan, 1449 lunar years ago (610 AD). During the course of 23 years, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) received Quranic verses as spoken addresses from the Creator - the Quran is considered the speech of God in the Arabic language. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) then recited the verses so that they could be memorized verbatim, and they were also recorded in writing. Before he died, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)...

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Tumbling Snakes

Nobody is perfect at all. It is only Almighty Allah that is perfect. Our Holy Prophet (PBUH) said that 'All Adam's children are sinners and that the best of them are those who repent.' For the past 50 years of my life, I have erred, but finally found how true the slogan used by the traffic department is: "To arrive late is better than not arrive at all." I started applying this to my daily life and everybody should follow my steps in this,...

TANGERANG: An Indonesian girl reads a copy of the Quran on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Tangerang yesterday. Muslim people around the world fast during the month of Ramadan abstaining from food, drink, smoking or having sex from the dawn to the dusk. — AFP

Holy Month begins - Muslims mark Ramadan, many under cloud of war

TANGERANG: An Indonesian girl reads a copy of the Quran on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Tangerang yesterday. Muslim people around the world fast during the month of Ramadan abstaining from food, drink, smoking or having sex from the dawn to the dusk. — AFPBEIRUT: More than a billion Muslims observed the start of Ramadan yesterday, but in the besieged cities of Syria and Iraq residents were struggling with how to...

People and security personnel stand outside the Jordanian intelligence agency office in the Baqaa camp north of the capital following a gun attack. — AFP

Five Jordan intel agents killed - Lone gunman opens fire in 'terror attack', escapes

People and security personnel stand outside the Jordanian intelligence agency office in the Baqaa camp north of the capital following a gun attack. — AFPBAQAA, Jordan: A gunman apparently acting alone killed five Jordanian intelligence agents yesterday in a daylight "terrorist attack" on their office in a Palestinian refugee camp north of the capital. Jordan is a leading member of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in...

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China restricts Ramadan fasting in Muslim region

BEIJING: Chinese officials have restricted civil servants, students and children in a mainly Muslim region from fasting during Ramadan, government websites said as the holy month began yesterday. The country's ruling Communist party is officially atheist and for years has banned government employees and minors from fasting in Xinjiang, home to the more than 10 million-strong mostly Muslim Uighur minority. It has also ordered some restaurants to...

IDLIB, Syria: Syrians help an injured man following reported air strikes on a residential neighborhood in this rebel-held northwestern city on Sunday. —AFP

Syrian army, Kurds advance on IS northern strongholds

IDLIB, Syria: Syrians help an injured man following reported air strikes on a residential neighborhood in this rebel-held northwestern city on Sunday. —AFPBEIRUT: Syrian regime troops supported by Russia and US-backed fighters pressed twin offensives against the Islamic State group yesterday as pressure built on the jihadists' northern strongholds in the war-torn country. The advance comes as 17 civilians - nearly half of them children - were...

DOHA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) meets with hundreds of Indian laborers at a workers’ camp in the Qatari capital on June 4, 2016. —AP

Qatar reassures India over labor reforms

DOHA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) meets with hundreds of Indian laborers at a workers’ camp in the Qatari capital on June 4, 2016. —APNEW DELHI: Qatar has reassured India that labor reforms will improve the conditions of more than half a million Indian migrants, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised concerns of abuses during a weekend visit to the Gulf state, a statement said yesterday. Qatar is home to 630,000 Indian...

SAINT-GEORGES-SUR-MEUSE, Belgium: A picture taken yesterday shows damaged trains following a collision between a goods train and a passenger train, killing at least three people. —AFP

Belgium probes deadly train crash

SAINT-GEORGES-SUR-MEUSE, Belgium: A picture taken yesterday shows damaged trains following a collision between a goods train and a passenger train, killing at least three people. —AFPSAINT-GEORGES-SUR-MEUSE, Belgium: Investigators worked through the wreckage of a high speed train crash in eastern Belgium yesterday that killed at least three people and injured nine others. A fast-moving passenger train late Sunday slammed violently into the...

SALAWA, Sri Lanka: Destruction caused by a mortar bomb which hit a home on the edge of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo is seen yesterday, hours after an explosion of an ammunition depot at the neighboring military complex. — AFP

Sri Lanka races to defuse bombs after depot blast - Thousands of villagers flee their homes

SALAWA, Sri Lanka: Destruction caused by a mortar bomb which hit a home on the edge of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo is seen yesterday, hours after an explosion of an ammunition depot at the neighboring military complex. — AFPCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan police were yesterday racing to defuse unexploded bombs that rained down on villages near the capital overnight, destroying homes and killing a soldier, after a fire at an ammunition depot. At least...

Richard Huckle

British pedophile gets life for Malaysia abuse

Richard HuckleLONDON: A British pedophile who preyed on Christian children in an impoverished part of Kuala Lumpur was sentenced yesterday to life with a minimum term of 25 years. Judge Peter Rook handed Richard Huckle 22 life sentences to be served concurrently after he pleaded guilty to 71 counts of child sex offences.Huckle, 30, held his hands together in prayer as the judge delivered his sentence, and remained impassive as his punishment was...

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