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KOLKATA: Indian rescue workers and volunteers try to free people trapped under the wreckage of a collapsed fly-over bridge yesterday. — AFP
India flyover collapse kills 14; scores feared trapped
KOLKATA: Indian rescue workers and volunteers try to free people trapped under the wreckage of a collapsed fly-over bridge yesterday. — AFPKOLKATA: A flyover under construction in the bustling Indian city of Kolkata collapsed yesterday on to vehicles and street vendors below, killing at least 14 people with more than 100 people feared trapped. Residents used their bare hands to try to rescue people pinned under a 100-metre (110-yard) length of...
TAIPEI: A woman prays in front of a makeshift memorial offered with flowers and stuffed animals for a girl who was killed Monday by a knife-wielding assailant outside a subway station. —AP
Decapitation of 3-year-old sparks anger in Taiwan ‘I can’t accept this’
TAIPEI: A woman prays in front of a makeshift memorial offered with flowers and stuffed animals for a girl who was killed Monday by a knife-wielding assailant outside a subway station. —APTAIPEI: The apparently random decapitation of a 3-year-old girl in front of her mother in low-crime Taipei this week has sparked outrage, calls to save the death penalty and questions about the island’s state of mental health care. The attack on the child,...
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British comedy great Ronnie Corbett dies aged 85
Ronnie CorbettRonnie Corbett, one of Britain’s most successful comedians best known for “The Two Ronnies”, his double-act show with Ronnie Barker, has died aged 85, his publicist said yesterday. The show ran on the BBC from 1971 to 1987 and was one of the most popular light entertainment shows of the era. Its opening titles featured the two sets of spectacles worn by its stars and it regularly closed with one of the best-known catchphrases...
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Philippines recovers sums stolen from Bangladesh
MANILA: More than $4.5 million of tens of millions recently stolen from Bangladesh and funneled into Philippine casinos was recovered yesterday, as a lawmaker in Manila said almost half the haul could still be salvaged. On February 5, unidentified hackers shifted $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank’s account with the US Federal Reserve to a nondescript bank in Manila, and then to the casinos where the trail went cold.Representatives...
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Lionel Messi kicks the ball during a training session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. —AP
Messi provokes outrage in Egypt by donating boots
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Lionel Messi kicks the ball during a training session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. —APCAIRO: A charitable gesture by Argentinean football star Lionel Messi has provoked outrage in Egypt, where a lawmaker and football official took umbrage at the donation: his football boots. Messi, in an interview with the private satellite channel MBC Misr, had donated his boots to the channel to auction them off for charity....
DOHA: This file photo shows Kupttamon, an Indian laborer working in Qatar, sitting in his tiny over-crowded room at a private camp housing foreign workers in Doha. — AFP
Amnesty International accuses Qatar of abusing WCup workers
DOHA: This file photo shows Kupttamon, an Indian laborer working in Qatar, sitting in his tiny over-crowded room at a private camp housing foreign workers in Doha. — AFPDOHA: Qatar World Cup stadium workers have suffered abuse and been subjected to forced labor, Amnesty International said yesterday, for the first time alleging rights violations at a 2022 tournament venue.The London-based watchdog said laborers at the Khalifa International...
MUMBAI: West Indies players celebrate after winning the World T20 cricket tournament semi-final match against India at The Wankhede Cricket Stadium in Mumbai yesterday. - AFP
West Indies stun India book World T20 final
MUMBAI: West Indies players celebrate after winning the World T20 cricket tournament semi-final match against India at The Wankhede Cricket Stadium in Mumbai yesterday. - AFPMUMBAI: Late replacement Lendl Simmons led a charmed life to blast 82 not out and carry West Indies to a nail-biting seven-wicket win in the last over against India in the second semi-final of the World Twenty20 yesterday. Simmons was caught twice at the Wankhede Stadium, on...
KUWAIT: The Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Affairs Hind Al-Subaih (center) is pictured with some Kuwait MPs during the parliamentary session yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Assembly panel to discuss power rates next Sunday - MPs debate report on KIA offices, take no decision
KUWAIT: The Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Affairs Hind Al-Subaih (center) is pictured with some Kuwait MPs during the parliamentary session yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly Financial and Economic Affairs Committee MP Faisal A-Shaye said yesterday the panel received a government draft law stipulating increases to electricity charges. Shaye said...
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Civil ID fee raised from ‘KD 2 to KD 5’
KUWAIT: The Public Authority of Civil Information (PACI)’s director Musaed Al-Assoussi said that the new civil ID fees would be in effect from Sunday and that the fee would be KD 5 instead of KD 2.Al-Assoussi added that the decision includes increasing the fees re-issue in cases of loss or damage from KD 10 to 20. The civil ID fees could be paid online at the PACI’s website.By A Saleh
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Energy bill increase to hike rents, prices
KUWAIT: Kuwait has been buzzing with questions since the cabinet announced Monday approving a proposal to increase electricity and water fees, which would increase the cost four fold for consumers according to the indications of ordinary consumption. Furthermore, it is widely expected that the fees' increase will automatically and unwillingly reflect on other fields, starting with apartment rents, and includes factories that produce national...
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38 expat municipality employees terminated
KUWAIT: Thirty eight expatriate employees at Kuwait Municipality were informed by phone not to report to work starting at the end of this month, as they were relieved of their duties.The employees were hired under the ‘services assistance’ category which allows state departments to hire extra workers outside of their annual payroll budget.The employees were told that they were released because there was ‘no extra budget to cover their...
KUWAIT: Representatives of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and South Korean representatives of the Hyundai Engineering and Construction (HDEC) pose for a family photo after signing an agreement as part of a Liquefied Natural Gas import project yesterday at the KNPC headquarters in Al-Ahmadi. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait and Korean firms seal $2.9 billion LNG deal - KPC, BP to explore opportunities in oil, gas, petrochemicals
KUWAIT: Representatives of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and South Korean representatives of the Hyundai Engineering and Construction (HDEC) pose for a family photo after signing an agreement as part of a Liquefied Natural Gas import project yesterday at the KNPC headquarters in Al-Ahmadi. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday inked a $2.93 billion contract with three South Korean firms for the construction of the...
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation
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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP
Mideast seethes amid carnage
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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP
The impact of oil discoveries