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Winners and losers in IS disappearance
Reviewing the historically unprecedented global war against the magical, illogical and irrational IS organization shows that the fiercer it is fought, the stronger and wider it spreads, to the extent that it is becoming an empire on which the sun never sets. This organization that claims defending Islam and Sunnis recently had a suicide bomber blow himself up at the Maasheeq presidential palace in Aden after it assassinated its governor and chief...
TAINAN, Taiwan: A rescue team member searches for missing people in a collapsed building after an early morning earthquake yesterday. - AP
14 killed after Taiwan quake fells buildings - 150 people missing
TAINAN, Taiwan: A rescue team member searches for missing people in a collapsed building after an early morning earthquake yesterday. - APTAINAN: Relatives of residents trapped in a 16-storey apartment complex felled by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that killed 14 people were praying for miracles yesterday as rescuers sought survivors, with more than 150 missing in the quake zone. The cluster of buildings in the historic southern city of...
MERKA: This file photo taken on January 19, 2008 shows a man walking past the old buildings of the Southern Somalia's port town. - AFP
Somali, AU troops retake key port from Islamists
MERKA: This file photo taken on January 19, 2008 shows a man walking past the old buildings of the Southern Somalia's port town. - AFPMOGADISHU: Somali government troops backed by African Union peacekeepers yesterday recaptured the key port of Merka from Shebab insurgents, just one day after the Islamists swept into the city, the army and residents said."The Somali forces and AMISOM peacekeepers secured control of Merka again and now the...
SOUTH CAROLINA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at a campaign rally. -- AP
In Brazil, women urged caution with kissing
SOUTH CAROLINA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at a campaign rally. -- APRIO DE JANEIRO: In a sign of mounting global concern over the Zika virus, health officials on Friday warned pregnant women to think twice about the lips they kiss and called on men to use condoms with pregnant partners if they have visited countries where the virus is present.UN officials also called on many Catholic-majority countries...
A woman with her child walk alongside railway tracks as refugees wait at a refugee camp to be allowed to continue their journey to Macedonia, near the northern Greek village of Idomeni yesterday. — AP
Austria, Hungary warn over migrant influx - Greece must control the flux of refugees
A woman with her child walk alongside railway tracks as refugees wait at a refugee camp to be allowed to continue their journey to Macedonia, near the northern Greek village of Idomeni yesterday. — APAMSTERDAM: Austria and Hungary yesterday warned that if Greece cannot control the flood of refugees arriving from Turkey then the EU should consider reinforcing the borders of their Balkan neighbors.Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, whose...
A woman jokes with Dutch riot police during a Pegida demonstration against immigration and islamization of Europe, in Amsterdam, Netherlands yesterday. — AP
Anti-Islamic protesters arrested at banned rally in Calais
A woman jokes with Dutch riot police during a Pegida demonstration against immigration and islamization of Europe, in Amsterdam, Netherlands yesterday. — APCALAIS, France: Around 20 anti-migrant protesters were arrested in the French port of Calais yesterday after scuffles with police at a banned rally in support of a Europe-wide initiative by the Islamophobic Pegida movement.A crowd of around 150 protesters had gathered in central Calais...
COLOMBO: Supporters of the Sri Lankan opposition political parties backing former president Mahinda Rajapaksa protest outside the UN office. — AP
Human rights official arrives in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Supporters of the Sri Lankan opposition political parties backing former president Mahinda Rajapaksa protest outside the UN office. — APCOLOMBO: The top UN human rights official arrived yesterday in Sri Lanka on a four-day visit aimed at reviewing the measures taken by the island nation to investigate alleged atrocities committed during the long civil war that left tens of thousands dead.The visit by Zeid Raad Al-Hussein follows last...
QUETTA: Pakistani security officials stand beside the bodies of blast victims at the site after a bomb explosion targeting a security convoy. — AFP
Suicide bomber kills eight, injures dozens in Pakistan - 12 year old girl among the dead
QUETTA: Pakistani security officials stand beside the bodies of blast victims at the site after a bomb explosion targeting a security convoy. — AFPQUETTA: At least eight people were killed and 40 wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a military convoy in Pakistan's western city of Quetta yesterday, police and hospital officials said, the latest attack in a region home to the planned route of a $46 billion China-Pakistan economic...
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Hurling dildos ‘appalling’ for New Zealand, says PM
WELLINGTON: Dildo throwing is not a good look for New Zealand and an "appalling way" to behave on the country's national day, Prime Minister John Key said Saturday, angered by an attack on a senior government minister. Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce was hit in the face by a pink dildo thrown at him by a protester during national day celebrations in the northern town of Waitangi on Friday."It's appalling because that image has gone...
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Kuwaiti oil price down 66 cents to $26.75pb
KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil dropped 66 cents on Friday reaching $26.75 per barrel (pb) compared with $27.41 pb on Thursday, said the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yesterday. On global markets, oil price went up in Friday’s trading with an anticipation of reports on possible coordination between OPEC and non-OPEC producers.The future contracts of US oil for March delivery rose by three percent, climbing to $31.8 per barrel, however...
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Kuwait bourse gains on positive sentiment - BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET RERPORT
KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last week in the green zone. The Price Index closed at 5,198.37 points, up by 3.75 percent from the week before closing, the Weighted Index increased by 3.62 percent after closing at 357.34 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 840.55 points up by 3.81 percent. Furthermore, last week's average daily turnover increased by 29.51 percent, compared to the preceding week, reaching KD 16.38 million,...
OLINDA, Brazil: Brazilian Army soldiers distribute flyers with information on how to combat the Aedes aegypti during the “Burial of the Mosquito” carnival block parade. —- AP
Brazil’s anti-Zika war goes house to house
OLINDA, Brazil: Brazilian Army soldiers distribute flyers with information on how to combat the Aedes aegypti during the “Burial of the Mosquito” carnival block parade. —- APSAO PAULO: Sao Paulo resident Juliana Matuoka always thought her stunning tropical flowers were something to appreciate from afar. Now, however, they are enemy territory. “Here, I got one!” exclaimed Marcio Hoglhammer, a municipal health department worker who...
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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