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Filipina domestic helper raped
KUWAIT: A Filipina expat told Sabah Al-Salem police that she was raped by a man. She said the suspect came to the domestic help office where she works, and agreed with the owner to take her to a house where his wife was supposed to be and paid the fees. She said he took her to a flat where no one else was and raped her. She said she was able to escape when the suspect went to sleep. Mistreatment and abuse of domestic helpers is common in Kuwait....
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Six students hurt in a bus accident
KUWAIT: Six students were injured yesterday when the bus they were traveling overturned, an Education Ministry statement said. The students, all attendees of a special needs school, were on their way to campus when their bus overturned. All injured students were rushed to Amiri hospital and their parents have been informed, the statement added.Five of the six injured were discharged after receiving necessary medical treatment, the statement said....
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American man arrested for running gambling den
This handout photo shows an American man arrested for running a gambling den in his residence.KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested an American man for running a gambling den in his residence. Detectives learned about the American's activity, so investigations were conducted and proved the information were correct. The house, located in Egaila was raided, tools, money and liquor were found. He was sent to concerned authorities.Gasoline truck...
LARNACA: A man believed to be the hijacker of the EgyptAir Airbus A-320, which was diverted to Cyprus, leaves the plane before surrendering to security forces after a six-hour standoff on the tarmac at Larnaca airport yesterday. _ AFP
EgyptAir hijack drama ends; a blow to Egyptian security - Passengers freed unharmed; suspect arrested
LARNACA: A man believed to be the hijacker of the EgyptAir Airbus A-320, which was diverted to Cyprus, leaves the plane before surrendering to security forces after a six-hour standoff on the tarmac at Larnaca airport yesterday. _ AFPLARNACA: An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus yesterday but the passengers and crew were freed unharmed and the hijacker, whose motives remained a mystery, was...
TAIPEI: police escorting a man (C) who allegedly attacked and murdered a Taiwanese toddler along a street.-AFP
Taiwan beheading suspect beaten by an angry mob
TAIPEI: police escorting a man (C) who allegedly attacked and murdered a Taiwanese toddler along a street.-AFPTAIPEI: A Taiwanese man suspected of decapitating a four-year-old girl was beaten by an angry mob, as the case sparked fresh debate yesterday about the death penalty for child-killers.The man grabbed the child as she cycled to a Taipei metro station with her mother on Monday, and beheaded her with a kitchen knife, police said. The...
BRUSSELS: The press waits outside the home of Faycal Cheffou, the day after he was released following his arrest last week on suspicion of involvement in the attacks.—AFP
Belgium resumes hunt for airport suspect as criticism mounts
BRUSSELS: The press waits outside the home of Faycal Cheffou, the day after he was released following his arrest last week on suspicion of involvement in the attacks.—AFPBRUSSELS: Under-fire Belgian authorities hunted a fugitive bomber yesterday, a week after the attacks on the heart of Europe, as the city's airport warned it could take months to fully reopen despite holding a drill for a partial restart.As Brussels struggled to get back on...
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Bahrain court jails 10 over police attack
DUBAI: Yesterday Bahrain sentenced 10 people to between three years and life in prison for attacking police during a protest in a Shiite village, the prosecution said.The defendants were found guilty of involvement in “terrorist plots” and detonating explosives, the kingdom’s public prosecution said in a statement. “Four were sentenced to life in prison, while the remaining defendants were jailed for between three and 15 years,” it...
BAGHDAD: Municipality workers clean a street as civilians gather at the scene of a suicide bombing in Tayaran Square yesterday.— AP
Suicide bomber kills at least 7 civilians in Iraqi capital
BAGHDAD: Municipality workers clean a street as civilians gather at the scene of a suicide bombing in Tayaran Square yesterday.— APBAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say a suicide bombing in the capital has killed at least seven civilians and wounded 23. A police officer says the suicide bomber set off his payload among a group of day laborers in Baghdad’s Tayaran Square yesterday. A medical official confirms the toll. Both spoke on condition of...
Israeli citizens hold banners and Israeli flags during a demonstration in front of the Israeli Army Justice court in Kiryat Malakhi yesterday to support a soldier who was suspended after being caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground. — AFP
Israeli soldier who shot Palestinian appears in court
Israeli citizens hold banners and Israeli flags during a demonstration in front of the Israeli Army Justice court in Kiryat Malakhi yesterday to support a soldier who was suspended after being caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground. — AFPBAR-LEV MILITARY BASE: An Israeli soldier caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground appeared in a...
The missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. A teenager who surrendered before carrying out a suicide bombing attack in northern Cameroon has told authorities she was one of the 276 girls abducted from a Nigerian boarding school by Islamic extremists nearly two years ago. — AP
Doubts over the claim that suicide bomber is from Chibok
The missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. A teenager who surrendered before carrying out a suicide bombing attack in northern Cameroon has told authorities she was one of the 276 girls abducted from a Nigerian boarding school by Islamic extremists nearly two years ago. — APABUJA: Parents of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram say they are waiting to go to Cameroon to identify an arrested child suicide bomber who says she...
ISLAMABAD: Protesters from Pakistan’s Sunni Tehreek group chant slogans during a sit-in near the parliament building yesterday. — AP
Hundreds of Islamic extremists protest in Pakistan’s capital
ISLAMABAD: Protesters from Pakistan’s Sunni Tehreek group chant slogans during a sit-in near the parliament building yesterday. — APISLAMABAD: Hundreds of Islamic extremists resumed protests in Pakistan's capital yesterday over the execution of a man who killed a secular governor, in a show of defiance amid a government crackdown following a suicide attack two days earlier.The rally by Pakistan's Sunni Tehreek group brought more than 10,000...
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Bangladeshi woman to be executed for cutting lover’s heart out
DHAKA: A young woman who cut her lover’s heart out and slashed his throat has been sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court, a prosecutor said yesterday. Fatema Akhter Sonali, 21, acted out of revenge after the man refused to marry her and secretly kept recordings of the couple having sex, prosecutor Quazi Shabbir Ahmed said.She had also found video footage of him having sex with other women on his laptop, Ahmed said. “It’s rare for a...
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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