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Kuwaiti couple arrested while committing indecent acts in a vehicle
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti couple was arrested while committing indecent acts in a vehicle parked in an open yard near the Ice Skating Rink, said security sources. They were taken to the proper authorities for further action.Bank forgeryAn Indian man reported that an unidentified person transferred KD 200 from his bank account to his own through online transactions. A forgery case was filed and further investigations are in progress.Two persons, Kuwaiti...
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47 arrested around Kuwait International Airport: Passenger interrogated
KUWAIT: Police officers at Kuwait International Airport arrested 47 people wanted for various cases, said security sources, noting that the suspects were arrested during a security inspection campaign in the airport's parking spaces and surrounding areas. The sources added that detectives examined 230 persons' IDs and found that 47 of them were wanted for forgery, theft, slander, assault and hit-and-runs.Passenger interrogatedA citizen was...
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Man arrested for attacking police; Brothel raided
KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives yesterday arrested a bedoon (stateless) man wanted for running over a police officer and fleeing a few days ago, said security sources, noting that the suspect's brother was caught on the spot while he fled the scene on foot, leaving his vehicle and his brother behind. Searching the vehicle, policemen found alcohol and a weapon. The suspect was hiding in a house in Firdous. Both suspects are facing charges of...
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian military spokesperson yesterday shows some debris that the search teams found in the sea after an EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed in the Mediterranean. — AFP
EgyptAir jet sent smoke warnings before crash
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian military spokesperson yesterday shows some debris that the search teams found in the sea after an EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed in the Mediterranean. — AFPCAIRO: Smoke was detected inside an EgyptAir plane shortly before it plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board, investigators said yesterday, offering clues but no answers about why it...
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Rajasthan tries coping with record heat wave
NEW DELHI: Authorities in a parched western Indian state sprinkled water in the streets and awaited the arrival of a special water train yesterday, two days after temperatures reached a record-high 51 degrees Celsius.Several hospitals in the desert state of Rajasthan, which has been hit worst by a heat wave that has spread to many parts of India, have set aside beds to treat heatstroke victims. Television video Saturday showed heatstroke patients...
ASHINGTON: A member of the US Secret Service Counter Assault Team is seen entering the White House in Washington after accompanying President Barack Obama’s motorcade back from Andrews Air Force Base. — AP
Secret Service shoots man outside the White House
ASHINGTON: A member of the US Secret Service Counter Assault Team is seen entering the White House in Washington after accompanying President Barack Obama’s motorcade back from Andrews Air Force Base. — APWASHINGTON: A US Secret Service officer shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret Service said. The White House was briefly placed on a security alert after the...
SHIMLA: Volunteers and medical personnel place an injured Indian bus passenger onto a trolley at The Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Shimla yesterday, after a bus fell into a gorge in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. — AFP
30 die in road accidents in north India mountains
SHIMLA: Volunteers and medical personnel place an injured Indian bus passenger onto a trolley at The Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Shimla yesterday, after a bus fell into a gorge in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. — AFPNEW DELHI: Two deadly road accidents in India's northern Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh killed at least 30 people and injured 24 others, police said yesterday. An overcrowded jeep fell into a...
COX BAZAR: Bangladeshi villagers make their way to shelter in Cox’s Bazar yesterday as Cyclone Roanu approached. — AFP
23 dead, 500,000 flee as cyclone hits Bangladesh
COX BAZAR: Bangladeshi villagers make their way to shelter in Cox’s Bazar yesterday as Cyclone Roanu approached. — AFPCHITTAGONG: Cyclone Roanu struck the Bangladesh coast yesterday killing six people and forcing hundreds of thousands more to flee their homes as the storm unleashed strong winds and heavy downpours. Authorities took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall just after noon local time (0600 GMT),...
COLOMBO: Flood-affected Sri Lankans struggle to cross a torrent of floodwaters in Kelaniya, on the outskirts of Colombo yesterday. — AFP
Foreign aid reaches flooded Sri Lankan capital, 71 dead - Extreme weather wreaking havoc in South Asia
COLOMBO: Flood-affected Sri Lankans struggle to cross a torrent of floodwaters in Kelaniya, on the outskirts of Colombo yesterday. — AFPCOLOMBO: Foreign aid began arriving in Sri Lanka yesterday, bringing help to half a million people forced out of their homes by heavy rains and landslides that have killed at least 71 in a week of extreme weather wreaking havoc in South Asia.As the heaviest rains in a quarter of a century battered Sri Lanka,...
PARIS: Serbia's Novak Djokovic trains ahead of the 2016 Roland Garros French Tennis Open in Paris yesterday. - AFP
Djokovic confronts greatest challenge as clock ticks
PARIS: Serbia's Novak Djokovic trains ahead of the 2016 Roland Garros French Tennis Open in Paris yesterday. - AFPPARIS: Twelve months after his latest bid to complete a career Grand Slam was thwarted, Novak Djokovic targets an elusive French Open title with time and history threatening to conspire against him. The world number one was left in tears in 2015 when Stan Wawrinka unleashed a battery of single-handed backhand winners to all corners...
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Liverpool ex-boss Rodgers named as Celtic’s manager
Brendan RodgersLONDON: Celtic have named former Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers as their new manager on a 12-month rolling contract, the Scottish Premiership champions said on Friday. Northern Irishman Rodgers, who has also managed at Swansea City, Reading and Watford, was sacked by Liverpool in October and replaces Ronny Deila at the Scottish club. “I am absolutely delighted to be named Celtic manager,” Rodgers, 43, said in a statement on...
AKIU, Japan: Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso (fifth from left in front row) poses with other finance ministers and heads of central banks of the Group of Seven for a group photo in Akiu, northern Japan, yesterday. — AP
G7 warns of Brexit 'shock' to economy - Leaders voice concern over global economy as currency row flares
AKIU, Japan: Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso (fifth from left in front row) poses with other finance ministers and heads of central banks of the Group of Seven for a group photo in Akiu, northern Japan, yesterday. — APSENDAI, Japan: A British vote to quit the European Union would inflict a "shock" on the global economy, G7 ministers said yesterday, presenting a united front against the prospect of a "Brexit".Among the most vocal was German...
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