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UAE finds 38 guilty in terror case, issues 11 life sentences
DUBAI: The top security court in the United Arab Emirates yesterday sentenced 38 people to prison in connection to a cell accused of plotting terrorist attacks and seeking to overthrow the government to create an Islamic state. Prosecutors said the "Minaret Youth" cell included Emirati as well as non-Emirati members, though the nationalities and names of all the accused have not been made public.The group had also been charged with forming...
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Workers suffer in Saudi as Hariri firm falters
RIYADH: He's had no salary for six months, he cannot pay his children's school fees and his permit to reside in Saudi Arabia has expired. But Robert still holds out hope that things might improve for him and thousands of other workers at Saudi Oger Ltd, the once-mighty construction giant led by Lebanon's billionaire former prime minister Saad Hariri.Delayed receipts from a Saudi government whose oil revenues collapsed over the past two years have...
LAHORE: A woman injured in the bomb blast is comforted by a family member at a local hospital in Lahore yesterday. — AP
Pakistan blast kills 65 - Mostly women children victims in Lahore attack
LAHORE: A woman injured in the bomb blast is comforted by a family member at a local hospital in Lahore yesterday. — APLAHORE: At least 65 people were killed and more than 200 injured when an apparent suicide bomb ripped through the parking lot of a crowded park in the Pakistani city of Lahore where Christians were celebrating Easter Sunday, officials said. Dozens of ambulances were seen racing to the Gulshan-i-Iqbal park, situated near the...
DANE: Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and wife Heidi walk on stage before the candidate spoke at a campaign stop.-AP
Attacking Cruz's wife could hurt Trump's female votes - Rivals engage in increasingly bitter, personal battle
DANE: Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and wife Heidi walk on stage before the candidate spoke at a campaign stop.-APOSHKOSH: Donald Trump's latest rude comments about Ted Cruz's wife are raising new alarms among Republicans about the party front-runner's ability to win over women, especially in a potential fall presidential match-up with Hillary Clinton.Trump is under fire for jabs at Heidi Cruz, as the rivals engage in...
VATICAN CITY: This handout picture released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis addressing the crowd from the central loggia of St Peters’ basilica during the “Urbi et Orbi” blessing for Rome and the world following the Easter Sunday mass yesterday at St Peter’s square. —AFP
Pope criticizes ‘rejection’ of migrants in Easter message
VATICAN CITY: This handout picture released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis addressing the crowd from the central loggia of St Peters’ basilica during the “Urbi et Orbi” blessing for Rome and the world following the Easter Sunday mass yesterday at St Peter’s square. —AFPVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis yesterday spoke out against the “rejection” of migrants and refugees during his Easter message as Europe struggles with...
BRUSSELS: People react as they gather at a memorial site at the Place de la Bourse on Saturday. —AP
Agencies hunting eight linked to Brussels and Paris attacks
BRUSSELS: People react as they gather at a memorial site at the Place de la Bourse on Saturday. —APBERLIN: Europe’s security agencies are hunting for at least eight suspects believed to have assisted with the Islamist attacks in Paris and Brussels, Die Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported. Citing security sources, the paper said the suspects, most of whom are French and Belgium citizens, are believed to be either in Syria or on the run in...
MAKHMUR: Relatives sit next to the body of a girl who died during clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State group jihadists on Saturday. — AFP
Thousands of Iraqis flee fighting south of Mosul - 'IS will not allow the people to flee'
MAKHMUR: Relatives sit next to the body of a girl who died during clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State group jihadists on Saturday. — AFPMAKHMUR: Thousands of desperate civilians were fleeing fighting yesterday on the new front opened by Iraqi forces against the Islamic State group south of the city of Mosul.Families crammed in the back of pickup trucks, sometimes bringing dead and wounded with them, emerged from the dust after...
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Iraqi Christians fear extinction, see no relief from Islamic State
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Christians gathered in Baghdad this weekend to mark Easter but celebrations were tempered by fears Islamic State would eradicate their shrinking community, even as the army launched a US-backed offensive to retake Mosul, their ancestral homeland.In mid-2014, Christians in Mosul were forced to flee when Islamic State seized the northern city and began destroying centuries-old religious sites, ending a presence that once numbered in...
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Mob attack former Pakistan singer accused of blasphemy
ISLAMABAD: A video showing a group of angry men at a Pakistani airport assaulting a former pop star accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed's (PBUH) wife has gone viral, in the latest case of vigilante violence linked to blasphemy.Junaid Jamshed, one of the pioneers of Pakistani pop in the 1980s, was leaving Islamabad airport on Saturday night when he was set upon by a group of around six men who were waiting to attack him at the exit.The men,...
RAWALPINDI: Supporters of executed Islamist Mumtaz Qadri retreat from smoke after tear gas shelling by authorities during an anti-government protest yesterday. — AFP
Pakistan police clash with aiders of executed Islamist assassin - 'Will not let these fanatics prevail'
RAWALPINDI: Supporters of executed Islamist Mumtaz Qadri retreat from smoke after tear gas shelling by authorities during an anti-government protest yesterday. — AFPISLAMABAD: Pakistani police fired tear gas yesterday at thousands of stone-throwing supporters of an Islamist assassin, a month after he was hanged for killing a provincial governor for alleged blasphemy.The execution of Mumtaz Qadri on February 29 was described by analysts as a...
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Four Bangladeshis shot dead in Libya
DHAKA: Four Bangladeshis have been killed in gunfights between rival groups in the war-torn Libyan city of Benghazi, a minister said yesterday. State minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam told AFP authorities did not yet have full details on the dead. Alam said embassy officials had received three bodies and they were being stored in a hospital in Libya. The fourth body had not yet been recovered. “They died in clashes between two Libyan...
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DAESH planning more attacks in Europe
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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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
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation