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Indian child molester caught at airport
Kuwait: Salmiya police foiled the attempt of a haris (building janitor) who tried to flee the country after he was accused of molesting an American child. Colonel Majid Al-Adwani ordered airport officers to keep the suspect from escaping, and they stopped him minutes before leaving. A security source said the child's father told Salmiya police the eight year old was molested by the Indian haris while playing outside their apartment.No doctors...
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Infamous policeman caught with drugs
KUWAIT: The police officer who became infamous after a video clip went viral showing him forcing an Asian man to do push-ups while being kicked inside Sabah Al-Salem police station in 2014, was arrested by Qadisiya police in possession of shabu (the local name for crystal meth) and paraphernalia. He was sent to Drugs Control General Department (DCGD). A security source said that Najda police patrols suspected a person and asked for his ID and...
DAMASCUS: Syrian security forces and residents gather at the site of suicide bombings in the area of a revered shrine in the town of Sayyida Zeinab on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. - AFP
Bombings near Damascus shrine kill more than 60 - IS claims responsibility for deadly attack
DAMASCUS: Syrian security forces and residents gather at the site of suicide bombings in the area of a revered shrine in the town of Sayyida Zeinab on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. - AFPDAMASCUS: Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed more than 60 people and wounded dozens yesterday near a revered shrine outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The blasts, which came as the UN's Syria envoy struggled to convene fresh peace...
GENEVA: Syrian ambassador to UN and head of the government delegation Bashar Al-Jaafari (center) gestures as he holds a press conference during the Syria peace talks. — AFP
Syria peace talks in peril before they even begin - Main opposition group threatens to walk away
GENEVA: Syrian ambassador to UN and head of the government delegation Bashar Al-Jaafari (center) gestures as he holds a press conference during the Syria peace talks. — AFPGENEVA: The future of the biggest push to date to end Syria's tangled civil war looked highly uncertain yesterday with the main opposition group threatening to walk away before planned peace talks even begin in earnest. Representatives from the umbrella body for mainstream...
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2 policemen killed - Nine American 'terror' suspects held in Saudi
RIYADH: Saudi authorities have arrested nine American citizens among 33 "terror" suspects rounded up over the past days, the Saudi Gazette newspaper reported yesterday. Four Americans were arrested on Monday and five others over the past four days, the paper reported citing an unidentified source. The arrests also included 14 Saudis, three Yemenis, two Syrians, an Indonesian, a Filipino, an Emirati, a Kazakhstan national and a Palestinian, the...
Protesters stand in front of the Harney County Courthouse.
'Leave us alone': Oregon town tired of standoff
Protesters stand in front of the Harney County Courthouse.BURNS: People who live in Burns, the small high desert town near a wildlife refuge that has been occupied by an armed group for a month, say they are sick of the disruption to their lives. "We just want to go back to the way we were," Barbara Ormond, who owns a quilt store in downtown Burns, said Saturday. "We want everyone to leave us alone."Four people occupying an Oregon wildlife...
GORAYE: This file photo taken on March 24, 2006 shows sheep carcasses covering the ground on the path leading toward the crater of an extinct volcano in Goraye in the Borana district of southern Ethiopia. — AFP
Millions of Ethiopians facing worst drought for decades
GORAYE: This file photo taken on March 24, 2006 shows sheep carcasses covering the ground on the path leading toward the crater of an extinct volcano in Goraye in the Borana district of southern Ethiopia. — AFPADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia is struggling from its worst drought for 30 years with millions in dire need of life saving aid, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday. At least 10.2 million people need food aid in Ethiopia, a figure...
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Disabled passenger claims Air India made her 'crawl'
NEW DELHI: A disabled passenger said yesterday she was forced to crawl on New Delhi airport's tarmac after Air India failed to provide a wheelchair when her plane landed, an allegation the carrier denies. Anita Ghai, 53, a leading disability rights activist, said she was left stranded after arriving in Delhi from the northern Indian city of Dehradun on Saturday evening.After being helped down steps from the plane by airline staff and a friend,...
MELBOURNE: This combo of file photos shows Serbia’s Novak Djokovic kissing the Norman Brookes Trophy after his six victories — (top L to R) 2008, 2011, 2012 and (bottom L to R) 2013, 2015 and yesterday — in the men’s singles finals at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. Djokovic beat Andy Murray in straight sets to win his sixth Australian Open title yesterday. — AFP
Djokovic thrashes Murray for sixth Aussie Open title
MELBOURNE: This combo of file photos shows Serbia’s Novak Djokovic kissing the Norman Brookes Trophy after his six victories — (top L to R) 2008, 2011, 2012 and (bottom L to R) 2013, 2015 and yesterday — in the men’s singles finals at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. Djokovic beat Andy Murray in straight sets to win his sixth Australian Open title yesterday. — AFPMELBOURNE: World number one Novak Djokovic hammered a...
DOHA: The head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and FIFA presidential candidate, Bahraini Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa answers AFP journalists’ questions during an interview yesterday in the Qatari capital Doha. FIFA presidential frontrunner Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa told AFP that only he or Europe’s Gianni Infantino can win the race to become FIFA’s next president. — AFP
Sheikh Salman says FIFA race is duel with Infantino
DOHA: The head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and FIFA presidential candidate, Bahraini Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa answers AFP journalists’ questions during an interview yesterday in the Qatari capital Doha. FIFA presidential frontrunner Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa told AFP that only he or Europe’s Gianni Infantino can win the race to become FIFA’s next president. — AFPDOHA: FIFA presidential frontrunner...
CARLISLE: Everton’s Argentinian defender Ramiro Funes Mori (R) challenges Carlisle United’s English striker Alex Gilliead (L) during the English FA Cup fourth round football match between Carlisle United and Everton at Brunton Park, in Carlisle, north west England, yesterday. — AFP
Everton spoil Carlisle’s big day in the FA Cup
CARLISLE: Everton’s Argentinian defender Ramiro Funes Mori (R) challenges Carlisle United’s English striker Alex Gilliead (L) during the English FA Cup fourth round football match between Carlisle United and Everton at Brunton Park, in Carlisle, north west England, yesterday. — AFPCARLISLE: Carlisle United had dreamed of an FA Cup fairytale back at their Brunton Park home that had been so heavily damaged in December’s floods, but Everton...
Andy Murray of Britain
Dad-to-be Murray on 'next plane home' after Aussie loss
Andy Murray of BritainMELBOURNE:  Andy Murray declared "I just want to get home" and headed straight for the airport yesterday as he raced to be reunited with his pregnant wife after his Australian Open final defeat. Murray, who has been on baby alert all tournament with his wife, Kim Sears, due to give birth within weeks, said he was getting the next flight home after his loss to world number one Novak Djokovic. "I'm proud that I got into this...
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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