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A member of a bomb squad arrive to take part in an anti-terrorist operation on tramway tracks in the Schaerbeek - Schaarbeel district in Brussels on March 25, 2016. Belgian police carrying out a fresh anti-terrorist operation today arrested a suspect, who suffered a slight injury, Schaerbeek Mayor Bernard Clerfayt told AFP. Police sources said the operation was connected to a foiled terror plot in France. / AFP / PATRIK STOLLARZ
Belgian police shoot suspect in terror raids - Kerry backs Brussels as Paris busts jihadist network
A member of a bomb squad arrive to take part in an anti-terrorist operation on tramway tracks in the Schaerbeek - Schaarbeel district in Brussels on March 25, 2016. Belgian police carrying out a fresh anti-terrorist operation today arrested a suspect, who suffered a slight injury, Schaerbeek Mayor Bernard Clerfayt told AFP. Police sources said the operation was connected to a foiled terror plot in France. / AFP / PATRIK STOLLARZBRUSSELS: Belgian...
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah with KFH PR Manager and his team.
Sheikh Salman hails KFH's role in recognizing youth - KFH sponsors first GCC Youth Conference
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah with KFH PR Manager and his team.KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah hailed the significant role of Kuwait Finance House (KFH) in recognizing the youth and supporting the society, which confirms the bank's firm belief in the importance of this pivotal and most...
South Africa's Quinton de Kock dives to make his ground as West Indies player Carlos Brathwaite tries to collect the ball during their ICC World Twenty20 2016 cricket match in Nagpur, India, Friday, March 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Windies into semis after win over S Africa
South Africa's Quinton de Kock dives to make his ground as West Indies player Carlos Brathwaite tries to collect the ball during their ICC World Twenty20 2016 cricket match in Nagpur, India, Friday, March 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)NAGPUR: The West Indies clinched a spot in the World Twenty20 semi-finals with a thrilling three-wicket win over South Africa at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur yesterday. Darren Sammy's side...
Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, left, and Erdem Gul, the paper's Ankara representative, speak to the media before the start of their trial in Istanbul, Friday, March 25, 2016. A group of writers, including Nobel laureates, are calling on Turkey to drop charges against two prominent journalists who face life imprisonment for their reports, and to end its crackdown on free expression. Dundar and Erdem Gul, go on trial on Friday accused of espionage and other charges for their reports on alleged government arms smuggling to Syrian rebels. (AP Photo)
Turkish journalists on trial for Syria arms smuggling - The erosion of media freedoms in Turkey
Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, left, and Erdem Gul, the paper's Ankara representative, speak to the media before the start of their trial in Istanbul, Friday, March 25, 2016. A group of writers, including Nobel laureates, are calling on Turkey to drop charges against two prominent journalists who face life imprisonment for their reports, and to end its crackdown on free expression. Dundar and Erdem Gul, go on...
In this Thursday, March 3, 2016 photo, Fadya Shehata Moussa, left, and Iman Shaker Hanna, mothers of two of four Coptic Christian teens convicted for contempt of Islam, sit in the house of one of the teens in Bani Mazar, Minya province, Egypt. The teen boys were playing around, satirizing the extremist group, and their school supervisor just happened to be videoing them as they were imitating Muslim prayers and beheadings of the Islamic State group, their defenders say. The result has been catastrophic: The boys were sentenced to prison under Egypt’s blasphemy laws. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)
Blasphemy cases rise in Egypt and Christians bear the brunt - An attempt to appease the Muslim masses
In this Thursday, March 3, 2016 photo, Fadya Shehata Moussa, left, and Iman Shaker Hanna, mothers of two of four Coptic Christian teens convicted for contempt of Islam, sit in the house of one of the teens in Bani Mazar, Minya province, Egypt. The teen boys were playing around, satirizing the extremist group, and their school supervisor just happened to be videoing them as they were imitating Muslim prayers and beheadings of the Islamic State...
A man lights a candle during a tribute to the victims of the Brussels terror attacks, in Trafalgar Square in central London on March 24, 2016.nGrieving Belgians observed a minute of silence on the third and final day of mourning for the 31 people killed in the March 22 attacks on the airport and a metro station, in the symbolic heart of Europe, putting security agencies across the continent on edge. / AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS
London holds vigil for Brussels terror victims - British charged with race crime
A man lights a candle during a tribute to the victims of the Brussels terror attacks, in Trafalgar Square in central London on March 24, 2016.Grieving Belgians observed a minute of silence on the third and final day of mourning for the 31 people killed in the March 22 attacks on the airport and a metro station, in the symbolic heart of Europe, putting security agencies across the continent on edge. - AFPLONDON: A British man has been charged...
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'Missing' bookseller Lee Bo on way back to China - In serious breach of an agreement
Bookseller Lee Bo, center, speaks to media near his home in Hong Kong Friday, March 25, 2016. The book editor whose disappearance nearly three months ago rattled civil liberties advocates in Hong Kong and sparked international concern returned home from the Chinese mainland Thursday, police said. Lee Bo met with Hong Kong immigration and police officers as part of an investigation upon his return but "did not provide thorough information" about...
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, accompanied by FBI Director James Comey, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 24, 2016. Seven hackers tied to the Iranian government were charged Thursday in a series of punishing cyberattacks on a small dam outside New York City and on dozens of banks _ intrusions that reached into American infrastructure and disrupted the financial system, U.S. law enforcement officials said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
US indicts hackers in effort to send a message to Iran - 'Name and shame' sends message to foreign governments
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, accompanied by FBI Director James Comey, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 24, 2016. Seven hackers tied to the Iranian government were charged Thursday in a series of punishing cyberattacks on a small dam outside New York City and on dozens of banks _ intrusions that reached into American infrastructure and disrupted the financial system, U.S. law enforcement...
In this March 19, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz. The multimillion-dollar Republican effort to tear down the party’s presidential front-runner, Trump, is providing Democrats with a playbook for the general election. The Associated Press found that 68 different anti-Trump advertisements have shown some 40,000 times on broadcast television, and the paid-media assault has intensified in the past month.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
'I will spill the beans on your wife' - Cruz-Trump spat over wives takes nastier turn
In this March 19, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Tucson, Ariz. The multimillion-dollar Republican effort to tear down the party’s presidential front-runner, Trump, is providing Democrats with a playbook for the general election. The Associated Press found that 68 different anti-Trump advertisements have shown some 40,000 times on broadcast television, and the paid-media assault has...
KFAED and Sri Lankan officials pose for a group photo.
Kuwait lends Sri Lanka KD 10 million
KFAED and Sri Lankan officials pose for a group photo.KUWAIT: Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) has signed a loan agreement with Sri Lanka yesterday at a value of KD 10 million (about $34 million) to contribute to financing construction of a complex for the Faculty of Healthcare Sciences, Eastern University.The project aims at enhancing the socio-economic living standards of the people of Sri Lanka, through construction of the...
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Kuwait discovers new oil-gas field - GCC urged to diversify income
KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) said in a statement that the new crude field was discovered in Al-Jathatheel in western Kuwait, "forecast to be substantial add to the State's output productivity and reserves of light oil and gas." The KOC Chief Executive Officer Jamal Abdelaziz Jaafar said that preliminary scans of the underground strata determined that the field is of highly economic feasibility.KOC teams are currently conducting main tests at...
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48 Kuwaitis among 411 TB cases in 2015
KUWAIT: Some 48 Kuwaitis are among 411 people diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in 2015, a senior Health Ministry official said yesterday. The ministry’s Public Health Department Director Dr Yousuf Mendakar revealed the figures during a ceremony marking the World Tuberculosis Day (March 24). TB patients constitute about 9.7 percent of each 100,000 people, of the total population in Kuwait - about 4,239,279 million, he added.According to...
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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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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