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Bangladesh Cricket players Arafat Sunny and Taskin Ahmed suspended for illegal action

Arafat Sunny and Taskin AhmedNEW DELHI, March 19, 2016 (AFP) - Bangladesh's World Twenty20 hopes were dealt a major blow Saturday when Arafat Sunny and Taskin Ahmed were suspended from bowling for illegal actions, the International Cricket Council announced.Off-spinner Sunny and fast bowler Ahmed were reported by the umpires during a preliminary World T20 match against the Netherlands last week. They were ordered to undergo tests in the Indian...

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Boubyan Bank lifts prestigious AUB Cup

KUWAIT: Abid Mustaq once again came to the rescue of Boubyan Bank as he struck a vital 36 runs to guide Boubyan Bank to successfully chase a target of 86 runs in the Cup finals of the Ahli United Bank trophy against National Bank of Kuwait at Kuwait Cricket’s Sulaibiya turf ground. Kuwait Cricket, the official body of cricket in Kuwait has been conducting cricket tournaments for banks affiliated to Kuwait Banks club and a total of 5 tournaments...

LONDON: Crystal Palace's Damien Delaney, left, Martin Kelly, right, and Leicester's Jamie Vardy challenge for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Crystal Palace and Leicester City at Selhurst Park stadium in London, yesterday. - AP

Leicester take another step to league title

LONDON: Crystal Palace's Damien Delaney, left, Martin Kelly, right, and Leicester's Jamie Vardy challenge for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Crystal Palace and Leicester City at Selhurst Park stadium in London, yesterday. - APLONDON: More than 15 minutes after the final whistle, Leicester fans were still singing, finally ready to believe their team will become the unlikeliest of champions."We're going to win the...

Hezbollah fighters hold flags as they attend the funeral procession in this southern village yesterday of Hezbollah senior commander Ali Fayyad, who was killed last week during an offensive by Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters in Syria,. Gulf nations formally branded Hezbollah a terrorist organization yesterday, ramping up the pressure on the Lebanese group. – AP

1,100 Lebanese and Syrians can’t renew visas due to ties with Hezbollah

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti authorities banned around 1,100 Lebanese and Syrian nationals from renewing their residency visas in the country due to their affiliations with Hezbollah, Al-Qabas reported yesterday quoting security sources. These people have either direct ties or simply sympathize with the group that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has recently branded as a terrorist organization, said the sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Some...

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Minister promises to solve Farwaniya problems

Oil minister Ali Al-OmairKUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Ali Al- Omair promised residents in Farwaniya Governorate’s areas to work on solving problems and removing obstacles they are facing.The minister made his remarks to reporters during a tour he carried out with MP Saad Al-Khanfour Al-Rasheedi around the governorate Thursday night. The minister further indicated that a committee that was formed to investigate the ‘flying pebbles’...

MEXICO CITY: Kuwait’s Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Lieutenant General Sulaiman Al-Fahad (center) presents a memento to the Federal General Commissioner and Police Chief Damian Canales (right), as Kuwait’s Ambassador Sameeh Hayat looks on. — KUNA photos

Mexico, Kuwait agree on security cooperation

MEXICO CITY: Kuwait’s Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Lieutenant General Sulaiman Al-Fahad (center) presents a memento to the Federal General Commissioner and Police Chief Damian Canales (right), as Kuwait’s Ambassador Sameeh Hayat looks on. — KUNA photosMEXICO CITY: Kuwait’s Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary Lieutenant General Sulaiman Al-Fahad, currently on a visit to Mexico, held talks with the Federal General Commissioner and...

KUWAIT: British Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge speaks during a press conference at the event. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

British Council holds ‘Edukex 2016’

KUWAIT: British Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge speaks during a press conference at the event. — Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Over 35 colleges and universities from the United Kingdom participated in a recent education expo, held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Farwaniya. The event, titled ‘EDUKEX2016’ and organized by the British Council Kuwait, was attended by various prospective senior high-school students along with their parents....

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Man arrested in Sulaibiya on multiple crimes

The suspect pictured with stolen items found in his house.KUWAIT: Criminal Investigation Department officers arrested in Sulaibiya a Gulf national who committed multiple crimes that have previously been filed against unknown assailants. The suspect was involved in seven misdemeanors and felonies, the Interior Ministry’s Relations and Security Information Department said in a statement.His crimes include stealing a diplomatic vehicle’s...

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Paris attacks fugitive Abdeslam captured

BRUSSELS: After an intense four-month manhunt across Europe and beyond, police yesterday captured the top fugitive in the Paris attacks in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up. Abdeslam was shot in the leg and detained by police during a raid in Molenbeek, said Ahmed El Khannouss, the neighborhood’s deputy mayor. Police are still searching for another suspect who is holed up in a house that is just a few dozen meters from two...

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Kuwait ‘rejects deal to lift Olympic ban’ - Athletes cannot compete under Kuwait flag at Game

BERLIN: The government of Kuwait twice refused to sign a deal hammered out in negotiations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that would have lifted the Olympic ban on the country, the IOC said yesterday.Kuwait was suspended in October, 2015, for the second time in five years due to government interference in the country’s Olympic Committee over a new sports law. Despite negotiations in January and Kuwaiti representatives twice...

BRUSSELS: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (center left) shakes hands with European Council President Donald Tusk, center right, during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels yesterday. —AP

EU, Turkey strike deal to send back migrants - All illegal migrants who reach Greece from Turkey will be returned

BRUSSELS: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (center left) shakes hands with European Council President Donald Tusk, center right, during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels yesterday. —APBRUSSELS: The European Union and Turkey have reached a landmark deal to ease the migrant crisis and give Ankara concessions on better EU relations, The Czech prime minister announced yesterday. Near the end of a two-day summit, Bohuslav...

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Indian men arrested over doctored image

NEW DELHI: Indian police said yesterday they had arrested two young Muslim men on charges of obscenity for posting a doctored image of a hardline Hindu leader dressed as a woman on social media.The image showed the head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a controversial Hindu right-wing group with close links to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, dressed in a tight pair of women’s trousers and black high heels. The image of RSS chief Mohan...

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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA

Kuwait weather to remain unstable

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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported

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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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‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns