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Members of Muslim organisations gather at the Dam in Amsterdam, on March 25, 2016, to show their support and pay tribute to the victims of Brussels terror attacks which killed 31 people and wounded 300. / AFP PHOTO / ANP / Lex van Lieshout / Netherlands OUT
Bombers prepare 'satanic' cocktail
Members of Muslim organisations gather at the Dam in Amsterdam, on March 25, 2016, to show their support and pay tribute to the victims of Brussels terror attacks which killed 31 people and wounded 300. / AFP PHOTO / ANP / Lex van Lieshout / Netherlands OUTBRUSSELS: An empty apartment block on a quiet street turned out to be the perfect place for the three suspected Brussels attackers to prepare the home-made nail bombs used in Tuesday's airport...
Sri Lanka's Chamara Kapugedera (R) successfully completes a run as England's captain Eoin Morgan attempts to catch the ball during the World T20 cricket tournament match between England and Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla cricket ground in New Delhi on March 26, 2016. / AFP / PRAKASH SINGH
England down S Lanka to make World T20 semis
Sri Lanka's Chamara Kapugedera (R) successfully completes a run as England's captain Eoin Morgan attempts to catch the ball during the World T20 cricket tournament match between England and Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla cricket ground in New Delhi on March 26, 2016. / AFP / PRAKASH SINGHNEW DELHI: England qualified for the World Twenty20 semi-finals and knocked holders Sri Lanka out after a nailbiting 10-run victory in their do-or-die...
Iraqi onlookers and security forces gather on March 26, 2016 at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up the day before in a village near Iskandariyah, a town about 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the capital Baghdad.nnnA suicide bomber blew himself up on a football pitch as trophies were being presented after a local tournament, killing at least 30 people, police and medics said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack that wreaked carnage on the field where supporters, officials and security forces were gathered after the game.nn / AFP PHOTO / HAIDAR HAMDANI
Iraq buries young victims of football pitch bomb carnage - Death toll in football pitch carnage hits 32
Iraqi onlookers and security forces gather on March 26, 2016 at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up the day before in a village near Iskandariyah, a town about 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the capital Baghdad.A suicide bomber blew himself up on a football pitch as trophies were being presented after a local tournament, killing at least 30 people, police and medics said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the...
A general view taken on March 26, 2016, shows the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, northeast of the capital Damascus, during a military operation by Syrian pro-governement forces to retake the ancient city from the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group. Syrian troops backed by Russian ground and air forces on Saturday pushed deeper into the Islamic State group stronghold of Palmyra, as Washington considered boosting its anti-jihadist fight in neighbouring Iraq. / AFP / STRINGER
Syrian army pushes deeper into Palmyra - Al-Amiriyah - 'Daesh's gateway into the city'
A general view taken on March 26, 2016, shows the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, northeast of the capital Damascus, during a military operation by Syrian pro-governement forces to retake the ancient city from the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group. Syrian troops backed by Russian ground and air forces on Saturday pushed deeper into the Islamic State group stronghold of Palmyra, as Washington considered boosting its anti-jihadist fight in...
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Unique Saudi course puts women in vanguard of film study
Saudi students from Effat University are seen at a booth promoting their Visual and Digital Production programme on March 25, 2016 at the Saudi Film Festival the Gulf coast city of Dammam.Officially it's not called "filmmaking" because public cinemas are banned in Saudi Arabia. But making movies is exactly what about 150 students -- all of them women -- are doing at the kingdom's all-female Effat University in the Red Sea city of Jeddah./ AFP...
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Greece starts evacuating border camp as new arrivals slow - 'Maybe something better will happen tomorrow'
A girl holds a placard reading "human rights declaration: every human being has the right to live and to be free except Syrians", during a protest at the makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni on March 26, 2016, where thousands of refugees and migrants are stranded by the Balkan border blockade.Greece has begun evacuating migrants from the main Idomeni camp on the Macedonia border, while the flow of...
KUWAIT: This handout photo shows two suspects who managed to escape from the Zahra police station beforenbeing caught in Al-Rai yesterday.
Teen thief 'stabbed' to death - Jailbreak in Zahra
KUWAIT: This handout photo shows two suspects who managed to escape from the Zahra police station beforebeing caught in Al-Rai yesterday.KUWAIT: A 16-year-old bedoon (stateless) boy was instantly killed when he ran into a glass door while trying to escape from a mosque after stealing a worshiper's wallet. According to the police's report, the boy snatched the wallet and ran away, but crashed into a glass door that was shattered into pieces. One...
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N. Korea nukes Washington on video, threatens South - 'We will immediately hit them with nuclear'
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 25, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) inspecting the large-scale intensive striking drill of long-range artillery pieces of the KPA large combined units at an undisclosed location in North Korea. -AFP SEOUL: North Korea released a new propaganda video yesterday showing a nuclear strike on Washington and then threatened South Korea...
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Wrong number? Trump's TV phone interviews in spotlight - 'you'll take something over nothing'
NEW YORK: In television news, a telephone interview is typically frowned upon. Donald Trump's fondness for them is changing habits and causing consternation in newsrooms, while challenging political traditions. Two organizations are circulating petitions to encourage Sunday morning political shows to hang up on Trump. Some prominent holdouts, like Fox's Chris Wallace, refuse to do on-air phone interviews. Others argue that a phone interview is...
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3 Lebanese executives asked to leave Kuwait
KUWAIT: Well-informed security source said that a number of Lebanese who are reportedly affiliated to Hezbollah had been notified to leave Kuwait.The sources added that deportees include an executive secretary working for a company owned by a former minister in addition to two others working in a company owned by two current MPs. The sources noted that the three had been summoned, their residency visa cancelled and told to leave within a...
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Two expats arrested in restricted military area
KUWAIT: A Lebanese and a Yemeni were recently arrested when they drove their vehicle into a military maneuver area on a hunting expedition. Their vehicle broke down there, said security sources. Case papers indicate that MOE received a call of distress from two people whose vehicle broke down to the north of the country while they were on a hunting expedition. A police chopper and various land patrols had to be dispatched to look for the two men...
KUWAIT: Fire-fighters douse a fire that broke out in an animal fodder warehouse in Wafra agricultural area.n
Husband caused gas blast to kill Indian woman in Salmiya
KUWAIT: Following up the cooking gas cylinder explosion that claimed an Indian womanís life in Salmiya on February seventh, Hawally detectives found out that the husband had cut off the gas hose and set the house alight to kill his wife. Security source added that detectives had initially suspected the husband but had to wait until he recovered from his injuries to interrogate him. The man confessed that following severe matrimonial problems...
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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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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation
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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