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Employer foils his Nepalese maid's suicide attempt
KUWAIT: A citizen foiled a suicide attempt by his Nepalese domestic helper in his Waha house, after she ingested cleaning chemicals. She was taken to Jahra Hospital and underwent a gastric lavage. A security source said the citizen rushed his unconscious maid to hospital, saying she drank detergents. She was kept in the ICU, and charged with attempted suicide.TheftAn Indian man's car was broken into while parked in front of a Fahaheel mall. The...
JEDDAH: British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond (right) looks at his Saudi counterpart Adel Al-Jubair during a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in this coastal city yesterday. — AFP
Tehran says its nationals will not join pilgrimage this year - Riyadh slams Iranian hajj demands as ‘unacceptable’
JEDDAH: British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond (right) looks at his Saudi counterpart Adel Al-Jubair during a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in this coastal city yesterday. — AFPJEDDAH: Saudi Arabia yesterday denounced as “unacceptable” Iranian demands over its pilgrims joining the annual hajj this year, after Tehran accused Riyadh of raising obstacles. “Iran has demanded the right to organize... demonstrations and to have...
REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy: The Italian Navy ship “Vega” arrives with more than 600 migrants and refugees yesterday in this port in southern Italy. — AFP
Med shipwrecks claim 700 lives - Dozens of children drown; 14,000 migrants rescued
REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy: The Italian Navy ship “Vega” arrives with more than 600 migrants and refugees yesterday in this port in southern Italy. — AFPROME: A week of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean culminated yesterday with 700 migrants feared dead and survivors giving harrowing testimony of dozens of small children drowned. Survivors brought to safety in the Italian ports of Taranto and Pozzallo told the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) and...
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire an antitank cannon on the frontline near Hasan Sham village, some 45 km east of the city of Mosul, during an operation aimed at retaking areas from the Islamic State group yesterday. — AFP
Iraqi forces poised for Fallujah assault - Thousands flee IS offensive in northern Syria
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire an antitank cannon on the frontline near Hasan Sham village, some 45 km east of the city of Mosul, during an operation aimed at retaking areas from the Islamic State group yesterday. — AFPBAGHDAD: Elite Iraqi troops were poised yesterday to assault one of the Islamic State group's most emblematic bastions, Fallujah, as the jihadists counterattacked in both Iraq and neighboring Syria. The fighting prompted...
SARAJEVO: Bosnian Muslim women are seen in front of Sarajevo’s central “Gazi-Husref Bey mosque. Hadzic heads a congregation of nearly 100 Muslim Salafists who refused to join official Bosnian Islamic community and continue to practice Islam in a more orthodox way. — AFP
Bosnia's 'radical' Muslims defy crackdown
SARAJEVO: Bosnian Muslim women are seen in front of Sarajevo’s central “Gazi-Husref Bey mosque. Hadzic heads a congregation of nearly 100 Muslim Salafists who refused to join official Bosnian Islamic community and continue to practice Islam in a more orthodox way. — AFPOSVE, Bosnie-Herzégovine: Two veiled women work the land while a man collects eggs in a bucolic Bosnian village-now notorious for exporting fighters to Syria. "This is how...
KIEV: Officials load body bags into a truck at the site of a fire in the village of Litochky, yesterday. Seventeen people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of yesterday, the latest tragedy to shake the conflictriven country. — AFP
17 killed as fire ravages home for elderly in Kiev - The latest tragedy to shake conflict-riven Ukraine
KIEV: Officials load body bags into a truck at the site of a fire in the village of Litochky, yesterday. Seventeen people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of yesterday, the latest tragedy to shake the conflictriven country. — AFPKIEV: Seventeen people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of...
HERAT: Members of a breakaway faction of the Taleban fighters walks during a gathering, in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi said yesterday he was willing to hold peace talks with the Afghan government but would demand the imposition of Islamic law and the departure of all foreign forces. — AP
Breakaway Taleban faction voices support for peace talks
HERAT: Members of a breakaway faction of the Taleban fighters walks during a gathering, in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi said yesterday he was willing to hold peace talks with the Afghan government but would demand the imposition of Islamic law and the departure of all foreign forces. — APSHINDAND, Afghanistan: A breakaway Taleban faction is willing to hold peace talks with the Afghan government but...
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10 killed in Bangladesh local election violence
DHAKA: At least 10 people have been killed and thousands injured in clashes between supporters and candidates of rival parties during the latest Bangladesh local elections, police and poll monitors said yesterday. Unprecedented levels of violence and allegations of poll rigging have marred local council elections held in phases since March, with at least 90 people killed in total, according to monitors.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ruling Awami...
African students in India often complain of racial assaults - AFP
Police arrest 5 in India over attacks on African residents - Official denies attacks were racial, says stray incident
NEW DELHI: Police in New Delhi said yesterday that they have arrested five people who assaulted six Africans in the Indian capital last week, as African diplomatic missions urged India's government to ensure the safety of Africans living in the country.Police officer Ishwar Singh said the two scuffles on Thursday night were not racial attacks but were stray incidents triggered by objections to drinking and loud music by the Africans. The Africans...
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Hyderabad beat Bangalore by 8 runs in IPL final
David WarnerBANGALORE, India: Skipper David Warner's sparkling half century helped Sunrisers Hyderabad survive a punishing blitz by Chris Gayle to edge out Royal Challengers Bangalore by eight runs in the Indian Premier League final yesterday. Defending 208 to claim their maiden IPL title, Hyderabad restricted Virat Kohli's Bangalore to 200 for seven at the M Chinnaswamy stadium with Gayle's 38-ball 76 in vain. With 18 runs required off the...
PARIS: Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka clenches his fist after winning a point as he plays Serbia's Viktor Troicki during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium. - AP
Wawrinka sets up Ramos-Vinolas clash in French Open last-eight
PARIS: Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka clenches his fist after winning a point as he plays Serbia's Viktor Troicki during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium. - APPARIS: Defending champion Stan Wawrinka moved into the French Open quarter-finals yesterday where he will face a Spanish left-hander who isn't named Rafael Nadal. That honor falls to unheralded Albert Ramos-Vinolas who reached his...
MILAN: Real Madrid’s French coach Zinedine Zidane poses with the trophy after Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League final football match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at San Siro Stadium. — AFP
Zizu assured place in Real Madrid hearts
MILAN: Real Madrid’s French coach Zinedine Zidane poses with the trophy after Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League final football match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at San Siro Stadium. — AFPMILAN: In leading Real Madrid to their 11th European Cup less than five months after inheriting an unhappy team from Rafael Benitez, Zinedine Zidane has cemented his heroic status at the Bernabeu and appears to have assured his immediate...
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