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Salah Al-Sayer

National 'Chaos' Day

Each year, some very disgraceful behaviors and shameful practices take place all over Kuwait's streets and squares during the national and liberation celebrations, where many people find joy in frivolity, uncontrollability, harassment, violating other's privacy, blocking traffic and littering in a seasonal 'chaotic' scene that indicates a great deal of contradiction where everybody 'fails' on a day of 'success'. Well, the phenomenon is not a...

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

GCC declares Hezbollah a terrorist organization - Hariri backs move as Nasrallah steps up criticism

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. – APRIYADH: Gulf states yesterday declared Lebanon’s Hezbollah a “terrorist”...

IRBID, Jordan: Jordanian security forces secure a street in this town near the border with Syria yesterday following a security operation – AFP n

Jordan raid foils IS attacks

IRBID, Jordan: Jordanian security forces secure a street in this town near the border with Syria yesterday following a security operation – AFPAMMAN: Jordan said yesterday that it had thwarted planned attacks by the Islamic State group on its soil, killing seven suspected militants in a major security operation near the Syrian frontier. The kingdom, which also borders Iraq, has for years struggled with homegrown Islamists and is part of a...

Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Trump, Clinton score big victories - Clinton wins 7 states, Sanders 4; Trump wins 7 states, Cruz 3, Rubio 1

Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonWASHINGTON: Donald Trump's triumphal march toward the Republican presidential nomination left his party in disarray yesterday as Democrats coalesced around their White House frontrunner Hillary Clinton after her slew of Super Tuesday victories. Both candidates emerged the clear winners after party nominating contests in...

ZAMBOANGA: This screen grab taken from video on Tuesday shows medical personnel transferring Saudi preacher Sheikh Ayed Al-Qarni into hospital in this southern Philippine city after he was wounded during an assassination attempt. —AFP

Philippines probes attack on top Saudi cleric

ZAMBOANGA: This screen grab taken from video on Tuesday shows medical personnel transferring Saudi preacher Sheikh Ayed Al-Qarni into hospital in this southern Philippine city after he was wounded during an assassination attempt. —AFPZAMBOANGA, Philippines: Philippine authorities were yesterday probing an assassination attempt against an influential Saudi preacher who was on an Islamic State hit list, after the gunman was killed and two...

JALALABAD: Afghan security personnel inspect the site of an attack in front of the Indian consulate in Jalalabad yesterday. - AFP

Militants mount deadly attack on Indian consulate in Afghanistan

JALALABAD: Afghan security personnel inspect the site of an attack in front of the Indian consulate in Jalalabad yesterday. - AFPJALALABAD: Gunfire and an explosion echoed yesterday as militants attacked India's consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing three people in the latest in a string of assaults on Indian installations in the country. No group has so far claimed the brazen attack, which coincided with a NATO...

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Malawi mob burns 7 to death over witchcraft

BLANTYRE: A mob in southern Malawi burned seven men to death for allegedly possessing human bones for use in witchcraft, police said yesterday. The seven were “found in possession of human bones and the mob took it upon themselves to burn them with petrol,” Kirdy Kaunga, head of the Nsanje district police said.A traditional chief said local suspicions were aroused as a result of the movements and telephone conversations of one of the seven,...

MOSCOW: A woman, identified as 38-year-old Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, holds the severed head of a child near a metro station in northwest Moscow. — AFP

Killer nanny in court - Uzbek woman arrested after brandishing child's head

MOSCOW: A woman, identified as 38-year-old Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, holds the severed head of a child near a metro station in northwest Moscow. — AFPMOSCOW: A woman suspected of beheading a child in her care before brandishing the severed head outside a Moscow metro station said yesterday Allah had ordered her to commit the crime. Police on Monday wrestled to the ground Gulchekhra Bobokulova, a 38-year-old divorced mother of three from the...

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Pakistani murders sisters in latest 'honor killings'

LAHORE: Pakistani police were yesterday hunting a man who shot dead both his sisters in an apparent "honor killing", days after a Pakistani director won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders. Mohammad Asif had previously murdered his mother four or five years ago, according to police, before being pardoned at the time by his family and set free. The latest killings occurred in the village of Noorshah in Sahiwal district, in the central...

PADANG: A man pushes a relative who lies on a hospital bed as they were told to leave the building following an earthquake, at a hospital in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia yesterday. —AP

Powerful quake in western Indonesia sparks panic

PADANG: A man pushes a relative who lies on a hospital bed as they were told to leave the building following an earthquake, at a hospital in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia yesterday. —APPADANG: A powerful and shallow earthquake struck yesterday off Indonesia's Sumatra island, sending panicked residents rushing from their homes in a region hit hard by quakes and tsunamis in the past. Local authorities initially issued a tsunami warning but...

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Platini appeals against ban amid resign calls

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