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4 yrs old Kuwaiti Child hospitalized with gun wound in her head

KUWAIT: A four-year-old Kuwaiti girl was rushed to Adan Hospital with a head injury, said security sources, noting that her parents initially claimed that she sustained the injury when she fell, then said that a piece of metal had penetrated in her head. However, x-rays showed there was a bullet in the child's head, and she was immediately rushed to Ibn Sina Hospital for surgery and the bullet was removed. The parents then confessed that her...

FALLUJAH: Fighters take a selfie while firing artillery against Islamic State militants in this May 29, 2016 photo. —AP

US falters in campaign to revive Iraqi regular army - Sectarian militias growing in power

FALLUJAH: Fighters take a selfie while firing artillery against Islamic State militants in this May 29, 2016 photo. —APBAGHDAD: A 17-month US effort to retrain and reunify Iraq's regular army has failed to create a large number of effective Iraqi combat units or limit the power of sectarian militias, according to current and former US military and civilian officials. Concern about the shortcomings of the American attempt to strengthen the...

ALEPPO: Malek Barghout (left) mourns over his father’s body, who was killed earlier in the day following an air strike by Syrian government forces on the rebel-held neighborhood of Al-Sakhour as he was volunteering with the Syrian civil defense members, known as the White Helmets, in this northern city yesterday. — AFP

Syria army thrusts into IS bastion - Kurds advance from north

ALEPPO: Malek Barghout (left) mourns over his father’s body, who was killed earlier in the day following an air strike by Syrian government forces on the rebel-held neighborhood of Al-Sakhour as he was volunteering with the Syrian civil defense members, known as the White Helmets, in this northern city yesterday. — AFPBEIRUT: Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into the Islamic State group's bastion province Raqqa yesterday, threatening to...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis and Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser exchange gifts during a private audience at the Vatican yesterday. — AP

Vatican to digitize Gulf manuscripts

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis and Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser exchange gifts during a private audience at the Vatican yesterday. — APVATICAN: The Vatican has signed an agreement with Qatar to digitalize Vatican manuscripts relating to the Arabian Gulf and other Islamic regions.The agreement was signed yesterday following a private papal audience with Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser, the president of the Foundation for Education, Science and...

OGONI, Nigeria: A soldier helps a fellow soldier to adjust his ammunitions belt during the launching of a cleanup operation of Ogoniland in the Ogoniland area of Rivers state in the Niger Delta region. Nigeria’s vice-president Yemi Osinbajo launched a $1 billion oil pollution clean-up program in the Niger delta, after President Muhammadu Buhari pulled out of visiting the restive region. Yemi Osinbajo stood in for Buhari, who had been due to attend the ceremony in the Ogoniland area of Rivers state in what would have been his first visit to the delta as president. — AFP

32 soldiers die as Boko Haram attack in southeastern Niger - Nigeria recovers $9.1 billion in stolen money, assets

OGONI, Nigeria: A soldier helps a fellow soldier to adjust his ammunitions belt during the launching of a cleanup operation of Ogoniland in the Ogoniland area of Rivers state in the Niger Delta region. Nigeria’s vice-president Yemi Osinbajo launched a $1 billion oil pollution clean-up program in the Niger delta, after President Muhammadu Buhari pulled out of visiting the restive region. Yemi Osinbajo stood in for Buhari, who had been due to...

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India hospital duped in kidney sale racket

NEW DELHI: One of India's top hospitals unwittingly removed the kidneys of organ-trafficking victims believing they were donating them to relatives, a hospital spokesman said yesterday, after police arrested five over the racket. A criminal gang including two workers at the upscale Apollo Hospital in New Delhi allegedly lured poor people to sell their kidneys for 300,000 rupees ($4,500) before selling the organs on for huge profits, police...

HERAT: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani attend the inauguration of a new dam backed by Indian investment in Herat. —AFP

Indian PM inaugurates $290 million dam in Afghanistan

HERAT: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani attend the inauguration of a new dam backed by Indian investment in Herat. —AFPHEART: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Afghanistan yesterday to inaugurate a $290 million hydroelectric dam with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, the latest Indian investment which highlights strengthening ties between the two countries. The 42 megawatt Salma dam in western...

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Philippine troops seize Islamic militant camp

BUTIG: Philippine troops captured an Islamic militant training camp after a 10-day battle, officials said, as part of operations to clear insurgents from a remote jungle region. The offensive against the Maute group, one of several Filipino Muslim armed organizations which have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, left four soldiers dead and 15 others wounded, a Philippine military commander told an AFP photographer at the scene.Surrounded by...

SANTA CLARA: Sebastian Perez #13 of Colombia controls the ball in front of Geoff Cameron #20 of United States during the 2016 Copa America Centenario Group match between the United States and Colombia at Levi’s Stadium on June 3, 2016. — AFP

Colombia shatter American dream in Copa opener

SANTA CLARA: Sebastian Perez #13 of Colombia controls the ball in front of Geoff Cameron #20 of United States during the 2016 Copa America Centenario Group match between the United States and Colombia at Levi’s Stadium on June 3, 2016. — AFPSANTA CLARA: Colombia wrecked the United States' hopes of a winning start to the Copa America Centenario as goals from James Rodriguez and Cristian Zapata gave the South Americans a comfortable 2-0...

Spain’s Garbine Muguruza

Muguruza stuns Serena to win French Open

Spain’s Garbine MuguruzaPARIS: Garbine Muguruza won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open yesterday defeating top seed and defending champion Serena Williams in the final. Twelve years younger than the American at 22, and playing in the first claycourt final of her career, the Venezuelan-born Spaniard upset the odds to win 7-5, 6-4. She is the first Spanish woman to win a Grand Slam title since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in Paris in 1998...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Sunil Narine celebrates dismissing South Africa’s Farhaan Behardien by a leg before wicket (LBW) during the first One-day International (ODI) cricket match between the West Indies and South Africa in the Tri-Nation Series in Georgetown, Guyana on June 3, 2016. —AFP

Narine sinks Proteas in West Indies romp

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Sunil Narine celebrates dismissing South Africa’s Farhaan Behardien by a leg before wicket (LBW) during the first One-day International (ODI) cricket match between the West Indies and South Africa in the Tri-Nation Series in Georgetown, Guyana on June 3, 2016. —AFPPROVIDENCE: Sunil Narine snared career-best figures of six for 27 on his return to West Indies colors as the hosts defeated South Africa by four wickets in the...

n this May 25, 1965 file photo, Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in Lewiston, Maine. — AP

'He will never die': World mourns Muhammad Ali

n this May 25, 1965 file photo, Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in Lewiston, Maine. — APSAN FRANCISCO: Tributes to Muhammad Ali poured in from across the sporting, cultural and political world after his death at age 74 with many saying there would never be another one like "The Greatest." Ali was fondly...

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