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KUWAIT: This handout photo provided by the Interior Ministry shows the five suspects following their arrest yesterday.

Five arrested for attacking officer

KUWAIT: This handout photo provided by the Interior Ministry shows the five suspects following their arrest yesterday.KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry's Relations and Security Information Department announced that police arrested a person who attacked a police officer yesterday along with four accomplices. Footage of the suspect who performed an indecent gesture then attacked the officer went viral on social media yesterday. The officer had to be...

ANKARA: A police officer clears the area of an explosion in the Turkish capital yesterday. – AP

Ankara blast kills 28

ANKARA: A police officer clears the area of an explosion in the Turkish capital yesterday. – APANKARA: Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens wounded in Turkey's capital Ankara yesterday when a car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and other government buildings. The Turkish military condemned what it described as a terrorist attack on the buses as they waited at traffic...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on stage during a campaign event. — AP

Trump attacked from every sides in bitter primary race - Obama says Trump will not be elected

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on stage during a campaign event. — APNORTH AUGUSTA: Donald Trump pushed back Tuesday against his rivals for the Republican nomination and criticism from President Barack Obama, as the real estate mogul sought to cement victory in South Carolina.With just four days until the state's crucial primary, Trump became yet again the focus of attacks by challengers to his frontrunner status,...

Yemenis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack that killed the Governor of Aden Jaafar Saad

14 dead in Aden IS suicide bombing

ADEN: A suicide bomber killed at least 14 soldiers in Aden yesterday, in the latest attack on Yemen's second city claimed by jihadists of the Islamic State group. The southern port city has been the headquarters of forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and his backers in a Saudi-led military coalition but has seen growing violence by IS and its jihadist rival Al-Qaeda."A man detonated his explosive vest among soldiers," a military...

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Prolific Egyptian political writer Heikal dies - Often described as 'the nation's authentic memory'

CAIRO: This file photo taken on February 6, 1999 shows Egyptian journalist Mohammad Hassenin Heikal (right) and comedian Adel Imam attending the funeral of Egyptian writer Lotfi Al-Kholi. —AFPCAIRO: Mohamed Heikal, a close confidant of Egypt's nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser since the 1950s and later author of insider accounts of his country's wars and peacemaking with Israel, has died. He was 92.State television said Heikal, whose...

NEW DELHI: An Indian activist carries an Indian national flag next to a police barricade at a protest outside Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). —AFP

Lawyers clash with protesters in India over student's arrest

NEW DELHI: An Indian activist carries an Indian national flag next to a police barricade at a protest outside Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). —AFPNEW DELHI: Dozens of lawyers, many with links to India's ruling nationalist party, yesterday attacked protesters who have been demanding the release of a university student leader arrested under colonial-era sedition laws.The clashes began shortly before a court hearing for Kanhaiya Kumar, the...

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Indian child activists slam Vatican for revoking ban

NEW DELHI: Children's activists in India yesterday criticized the Vatican for revoking the suspension of a Catholic priest who was convicted by a US court of sexually abusing a minor. Indian priest Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, 61, was suspended by his local diocese in India five years ago after being accused of sexually abusing two girls during a posting to Minnesota.He was later convicted of assaulting one of them, a 16-year-old, and served time...

This photo taken on February 16, 2016 shows schoolchildren watching as Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao works out during a training session at a sports complex in General Santos. —AFP

Pacquiao faces vote boycott for bigoted gay comments

This photo taken on February 16, 2016 shows schoolchildren watching as Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao works out during a training session at a sports complex in General Santos. —AFPMANILA: Gay and lesbian groups have called on voters in the Philippines to boycott boxing icon Manny Pacquiao as he bids for a Senate seat, after he described gays as "worse than animals". An online petition is also underway asking global sportswear company...

Dr Anwar Al-MudhafnChairman of Ahli United Bank

AUB profits rise 12.9% to KD 77.7m in 2015

Dr Anwar Al-MudhafChairman of Ahli United BankKUWAIT: Ahli United Bank (Kuwait) announced operating profits from core businesses of the bank rose to KD 77.7 million in 2015, up from KD 68.8 million in 2014, an increase of 12.9 percent over the same period. The bank reported net profits of KD 42.8 million compared with KD 47 million in 2014 following a onetime extra precautionary provision impact of KD 8 million and other necessary provisions to...

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‘World’s cheapest smartphone’ to be launched in India - Set to be priced at under $7.30

NEW DELHI: A little-known Indian company will launch a smartphone believed to be the cheapest in the world, targeting a market already dominated by lowcost handsets. Set to be priced at under 500 rupees ($7.30), domestic handset maker Ringing Bells’ Freedom 251 smartphone is about one percent of the price of the latest Apple iPhone. Ringing Bells was set up in September 2015 and began selling mobile phones via its website a few weeks ago under...

CUCUTA: A photo of aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a mosquito cage at a laboratory. — AP

UN: Stopping Zika may require genetically modified insects - Controversial methods may be a necessary

CUCUTA: A photo of aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a mosquito cage at a laboratory. — APGENEVA: The World Health Organization says it may be necessary to use controversial methods like genetically modified mosquitoes to wipe out the insects that are spreading the Zika virus across the Americas.The virus has been linked to a spike in babies born with abnormally small heads, or microcephaly, in Brazil and French Polynesia. The UN health agency has...

TED Prize director Anna Verghese (left) joins ‘real-world Indiana Jones’ (right) to unveil a wish that is part of the award won by Parcak, February 16, 2016 during the TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. — AFP

Modern 'Indiana Jones' on mission to save antiquities

TED Prize director Anna Verghese (left) joins ‘real-world Indiana Jones’ (right) to unveil a wish that is part of the award won by Parcak, February 16, 2016 during the TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. — AFPA technology-wielding archeologist billed as a real-world "Indiana Jones" called Tuesday for an online platform that entices just about anyone to help find undiscovered treasures and defend archeological wonders. Sarah Parcak...

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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.

Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system

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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan

Shamlan leaves Olympic Games

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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.

Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice

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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise

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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones