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KUWAIT: This handout photo provided by the Interior Ministry shows the suspect with the drugs.
Man busted with 240,000 drug pills; Couple arrested for running apartment for immoral activities
KUWAIT: This handout photo provided by the Interior Ministry shows the suspect with the drugs.KUWAIT: Acting Director of Drugs Control General Department Colonel Waleed Al-Duraiee said the department received information about an Egyptian man who had drugs. When the information was confirmed, an undercover agent was asked to make an agreement with the suspect to buy 10,000 tablets for KD 8,000. The suspect was arrested inside his car with the...
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IS blasts in Syria kill nearly 150
TARTOUS: Syrians gather in front of a burning car at the scene where suicide bombers blew themselves up in this coastal town yesterday. - APDAMASCUS: More than 148 people were killed yesterday in bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria, the deadliest attacks yet in the regime's coastal heartland. Seven near-simultaneous explosions targeted bus stations, hospitals and other civilian sites in the seaside cities of Jableh...
ADEN: People gather at the scene after a pair of suicide bombings in this southern Yemeni city yesterday. — AP
41 killed in Aden bombings - Yemen foes hold direct talks after long pause
ADEN: People gather at the scene after a pair of suicide bombings in this southern Yemeni city yesterday. — APKUWAIT: Yemen's warring parties held their first face-to-face meeting in nearly a week yesterday after the government delegation ended a boycott, the UN envoy said. "A joint meeting between the two delegations to the Yemen peace talks has started in the morning," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Twitter. The troubled negotiations which...
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Minister: Indian women in Gulf jails need help
CHENNAI: Women domestic workers from India's southern Andhra Pradesh are languishing in jails in Gulf states after attempting to flee abusive employers or overstaying their visas, said an Indian state minister, urging the national government to help them. In a letter to India's foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj, Andhra Pradesh's minister for non-resident Indian welfare, Palle Raghunatha Reddy, called for action to bring back the women."Necessary...
VATICAN CITY: Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, talks with Pope Francis during a private audience in the Apostolic Palace yesterday. — AP
Pope, Azhar imam embrace in historic Vatican meeting
VATICAN CITY: Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, talks with Pope Francis during a private audience in the Apostolic Palace yesterday. — APVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis embraced the grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque at the Vatican yesterday in a historic encounter both sides hope will lead to greater understanding and dialogue between the two faiths. The first Vatican meeting between the leader of the world's Catholics and...
HANOI, VIETNAM: US President Barack Obama, left, and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang walk to a meeting after shaking hands at the Presidential Palace yesterday. — AP
Obama lifts decades-old arms ban in his 1st visit to Vietnam to bolster a government seen as a crucial partner
HANOI, VIETNAM: US President Barack Obama, left, and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang walk to a meeting after shaking hands at the Presidential Palace yesterday. — APHANOI, VIETNAM: US President Barack Obama yesterday lifted a half-century-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner in a region that he has tried to place at the center of his foreign policy legacy.Obama...
YINCHUAN, CHINA: A Chinese Hui Muslim student attending a class at the Ningxia Islamic Institute. —AFP
For Allah, China and Marx: theological mix for young imams
YINCHUAN, CHINA: A Chinese Hui Muslim student attending a class at the Ningxia Islamic Institute. —AFPYINCHUAN, CHINA: Every morning on his way to class at one of China's largest Islamic institutes, Wang Yue is reminded that the state comes before Allah.Emblazoned in gold etching on a white marble slab at the main entrance and repeated all over campus-is the slogan: "Love the nation, love religion". The contrast is even more striking than the...
QUETTA, PAKISTAN: Pakistani security officials and hospital staff stand next to unidentified dead bodies placed on stretchers at a morgue in a hospital on Sunday. — AFP
Obama confirms Death of Taleban chief Mansour - Will the faction come to the surface?
QUETTA, PAKISTAN: Pakistani security officials and hospital staff stand next to unidentified dead bodies placed on stretchers at a morgue in a hospital on Sunday. — AFPISLAMABAD: President Barack Obama confirmed yesterday that a US drone strike in southwest Pakistan had killed Taleban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, heralding a new chapter in the Afghan insurgency which had grown fiercer under him.Who will succeed him?Mansour was appointed head...
CHIANG RAI, THAILAND: The outside of a damaged school dormatory is seen yesterday where local police say 18 girls, ranging from 5 to 12 years old, died in a fire in. — AP
18 girls killed in fire at school dorm in northern Thailand
CHIANG RAI, THAILAND: The outside of a damaged school dormatory is seen yesterday where local police say 18 girls, ranging from 5 to 12 years old, died in a fire in. — APBANGKOK (AP) - A nighttime fire at a dormitory of a primary school in northern Thailand killed 18 girls, many of whom had been roused by a dorm-mate but went back to sleep, thinking it was a prank, officials and the girl who sounded the alarm said yesterday. The victims were...
MADRID: Barcelona’s players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Spanish ‘Copa del Rey’ (King’s Cup) final match FC Barcelona vs Sevilla FC at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on May 22, 2016. — AFP
Barcelona claim double, lift King’s Cup - Barca edge out Sevilla in bad-tempered Cup final
MADRID: Barcelona’s players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Spanish ‘Copa del Rey’ (King’s Cup) final match FC Barcelona vs Sevilla FC at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on May 22, 2016. — AFPMADRID: Jordi Alba and Neymar struck in extra-time as Barcelona completed a league and Cup double by lifting the Copa del Rey for a 28th time after a 2-0 win over Sevilla in a fiery game that saw three red cards on Sunday....
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United sack Van Gaal - Man Utd shares dip in choppy Frankfurt trading
Louis van GaLONDON: Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, several British media outlets reported yesterday, amid speculation he will be replaced by Jose Mourinho. Both Van Gaal and leading employment lawyer Paul Gilroy were seen entering United's Carrington training ground yesterday. Gilroy's clients have included David Moyes, whose sacking as United manager paved the way for Van Gaal's appointment. There has a yet been...
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Kuwait’s shooters shine in Todi, Italy
Group photo of shooters and officialsKUWAIT: Kuwaiti shooters Abdelrahman Al-Faihan and Khalid Al-Mudhaf won first and second places respectively in the Trap Event of the Green Cup tournament being held in Todi, Italy. ISSF vice president Luciano Rossi, President of UAE Shooting Federation President, head of the Gulf Organizing Committee Maj Generla Ahmad Al-Reesee and Lebanese Shooting Federation President Pier Jalakh were present during the...
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