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Strike on Sanaa market kills 119 - Saudi to scale down Yemen campaign; death toll rises
ADEN: Yemenis gather at the scene of two suicide blasts which provoked the explosion of a motorbike in Dar Sad, north of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden. – AFPSANAA: Saudi Arabia said yesterday its military coalition will scale down operations in Yemen, an announcement that came as the death toll from an airstrike by the alliance on a market north of the Yemeni capital this week nearly doubled, reaching 119.A UN official said 22 children...
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Indian police arrest Muslim students over beef rumors
NEW DELHI: Police in India arrested four Muslim students on charges of breaching the peace after rumors the men were cooking beef sparked protests, an officer said yesterday. Hundreds of fellow students and right-wing Hindu activists had gathered outside a university residence in the northern state of Rajasthan on Monday and were accusing the four of cooking beef-a taboo in parts of the Hindu-majority nation.Many Indian states including Rajasthan...
KABUL: Afghan actors perform in a play depicting the 2015 lynching of Afghan woman Farkhunda. - AFP
Protesters mark one year since mob killing of Afghan woman - 'A matter of great shame for our political systems'
KABUL: Afghan actors perform in a play depicting the 2015 lynching of Afghan woman Farkhunda. - AFPKABUL: Wearing masks bearing an impression of her bloodied face, dozens of Afghans protested in Kabul yesterday to demand justice for a woman savagely killed a year ago after being falsely accused of blasphemy. The mob killing of the 27-year-old woman known as Farkhunda in broad daylight last March triggered angry nationwide protests and drew...
KABUL: Pigeons fly outside Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque. -- AP
US military personnel punished for Afghanistan hospital attack - Aerial attack killed 42 civilian patients
KABUL: Pigeons fly outside Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque. -- APWASHINGTON: More than a dozen US military personnel have been disciplined, but face no criminal charges, for errors that led to the aerial attack on a civilian hospital that killed 42 people in northern Afghanistan last year, US defense officials say.The punishments, which have not been publicly announced, are largely administrative. In some cases the actions, such as letters of...
CAPE TOWN: Shock revelations about a wealthy Indian family's interference in South African government affairs set embattled President Jacob Zuma up for a high-pressure appearance in parliament. - AFP
Zuma under pressure in new graft scandal - Indian family interference still a crippling issue
CAPE TOWN: Shock revelations about a wealthy Indian family's interference in South African government affairs set embattled President Jacob Zuma up for a high-pressure appearance in parliament. - AFPCAPE TOWN: Shock revelations about a wealthy Indian family's interference in South African government affairs set embattled President Jacob Zuma up for a high-pressure appearance in parliament yesterday.The admission by deputy finance minister...
MUNICH: Bayern Munich's Polish striker Robert Lewandowski (center) celebrates scoring past Juventus' goalkeeper from Italy Gianluigi Buffon (left) during the UEFA Champions League match FC Bayern Munich v Juventus on March 16, 2016. - AFP
Bayern survive Juventus scare - Four-goal fight-back wows Guardiola
MUNICH: Bayern Munich's Polish striker Robert Lewandowski (center) celebrates scoring past Juventus' goalkeeper from Italy Gianluigi Buffon (left) during the UEFA Champions League match FC Bayern Munich v Juventus on March 16, 2016. - AFPMUNICH: Substitutes Thiago Alcantara and Kingsley Coman scored extra-time goals as Bayern Munich roared back to beat Juventus 4-2 in their Champions League last 16, second leg on Wednesday and win 6-4 on...
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Footballer suspended over Cheltenham urine incident
LONDON: An English second-tier football club has suspended one of its players after he was photographed urinating in public at horse racing's Cheltenham Festival. MK Dons said Wednesday they had fined midfielder Samir Carruthers two weeks' wages and suspended him for their next match after both he and Shrewsbury's James Collins, currently on loan at Northampton, were pictured in the Sun newspaper urinating in a glass on Tuesday's first day at...
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Salwa Cup - Players battle for top spot
KUWAIT: Kuwait International Table Tennis Tournament (Salwa Cup) will witness the strongest competition today at the late Khalid Yousuf Khalid Al-Marzouq Hall in Salwa Sports Club. Top world-ranked players will compete in their first matches in round 32. The competition will be hard and exciting with the return of China's Ma Long who won the previous Salwa Cup. Former champion Vladimir Samsonov (from Belarus) will also be competing today.On the...
Students practice ballet at the Baghdad School of Music and Ballet in the Iraqi capital.
Iraq’s only ballet and music school faces funding crisis
Students practice ballet at the Baghdad School of Music and Ballet in the Iraqi capital.Iraq's only music and ballet school has survived decades of war, sanctions and dictatorship, but now faces a funding crisis due to low oil prices and the costly war against the Islamic State group. On a recent day boys and girls in leotards warmed up on a practice bar before a mirror-lined wall, while an orchestra worked its way up scales in the next room,...
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Why 'Batman v Superman' is still a high-stakes bet
In an era in which comic-book heroes dominate the box office, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" might appear like a sure bet. Warner Bros.' March 25 release gives fans arguably the two biggest superheroes in the fantasy constellation, serving up Ben Affleck, one of the biggest stars of his generation, as the Caped Crusader, and Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel. At the helm is Zack Snyder, the director celebrated for creating the surprise hit...
BARCELONA: Barcelona's Argentinean forward Lionel Messi (left) celebrates a goal with Barcelona's Brazilian forward Neymar (center) and Barcelona's Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 second leg football match FC Barcelona vs Arsenal FC yesterday. - AFP n
Barca outgun Arsenal, book quarter-finals
BARCELONA: Barcelona's Argentinean forward Lionel Messi (left) celebrates a goal with Barcelona's Brazilian forward Neymar (center) and Barcelona's Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 second leg football match FC Barcelona vs Arsenal FC yesterday. - AFPBARCELONA: Neymar, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez were all on target as Barcelona piled more pressure on under-fire Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger by easing into...
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Al-Subaih refutes claims as Ashour blasts Social Affairs - Govt urged to refer 'public fund waste' to Prosecution
KUWAIT: The National Assembly asked the government yesterday to refer all 'public funds waste' incidents committed by cooperative societies to the Public Prosecution. In recommendations after the end of MP Saleh Ashour's grilling of Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Affairs Hind Al-Subaih, the parliament called for prosecuting cooperative societies' board members for abusing their positions...
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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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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care
‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns