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KUWAIT: Firefighters and emergency medical technicians talk with a woman after saving her from a suicide attempt she had attempted in an apartment where she says she was locked for four days.

Firefighters thwart suicide attempt by Filipina - Held hostage for 4 days

KUWAIT: Firefighters and emergency medical technicians talk with a woman after saving her from a suicide attempt she had attempted in an apartment where she says she was locked for four days.KUWAIT: Hawalli firefighters yesterday succeeded in saving a 33-year-old Filipina who attempted suicide by jumping off a second floor apartment in a Hawalli building. The woman was held hostage inside the apartment for four days, said security sources,...

TEHRAN: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) meets Chinese President Xi Jinping as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani looks on yesterday. — AP

Iran, China vow tighter ties

TEHRAN: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) meets Chinese President Xi Jinping as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani looks on yesterday. — APTEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday hailed a "new chapter" in relations with China after talks with President Xi Jinping, who is touring the region to boost Beijing's economic influence. The Asian giant and the Middle East's foremost Shiite power aim to build economic ties worth up...

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A female citizen driving under the influence of alcohol

KUWAIT: A female citizen wanted for financial claims was arrested while driving her vehicle under the influence of alcohol in Hawally, said security sources. Case papers indicate that a police patrol noticed that a vehicle was being driven erratically and on stopping it, the driver reeked of alcohol and had three bottles of whiskey. On checking her ID, detectives found that she was wanted. A case was filed and the suspect was referred to relevant...

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Student in Jordan shot during fight

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti student studying pharmacology in Jordan was injured when he was shot after he fought with three Jordanians over parking rights, said security sources, noting that the shooters fled the scene. The student's father told security sources that during the fight with the three suspects, one of them drew a gun and fired six shots, and one of them hit his son's foot. The father added that his son was rushed to hospital where the bullet...

RIYADH: US Secretary of State John Kerry meets Saudi King Salman yesterday at the king’s farm on the outskirts of the capital. — AFP

Kerry reassures Gulf allies

RIYADH: US Secretary of State John Kerry meets Saudi King Salman yesterday at the king’s farm on the outskirts of the capital. — AFPRIYADH: US Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to Saudi Arabia, sought yesterday to reassure Gulf allies concerned about a perceived warming of ties between Washington and Iran. He also announced that the Syria Support Group of 20 nations and organizations will meet "very shortly" to help push peace in the...

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Saudi-Iranian proxy war spreads to Davos - Zarif, Turki exchange barbs in closed-door meeting

DAVOS: Senior Saudi and Iranian figures clashed behind closed doors at a private meeting convened by the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to try to promote peace in Syria, participants said. The barbed exchange between Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at an invitation-only meeting on Wednesday underlined the hostility between the two Gulf rivals, who are waging proxy wars in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.Riyadh...

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Uganda bans maids to Saudi Arabia

KAMPALA: The government of Uganda said on Friday it will stop sending housemaids to Saudi Arabia, eclipsing a deal between the two nations to ship workers to the wealthy Gulf nation amid complaints of poor conditions and mistreatment. The ban will remain until working conditions in Saudi Arabia are "deemed fitting," the Ugandan government said.The two nations had signed a deal in July for the deployment of university graduates to work in oil-rich...

WASHINGTON: A pedestrian walks in the center of a snow-covered residential street in yesterday. – AFP

At least nine killed in storm-related deaths 'Snowzilla' blizzard pummels US

WASHINGTON: A pedestrian walks in the center of a snow-covered residential street in yesterday. – AFPNEW YORK/WASHINGTON: A monster blizzard that has paralyzed the US East Coast intensified yesterday afternoon as it barreled into New York City, prompting a travel ban on area highways as high winds whipped up record-setting tides in New Jersey and Delaware. After dumping nearly two feet (60 cm) of snow on the suburbs of Washington, DC,...

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You shocked us... with all it means

When the country is stripped of its people's loyalty and priorities for its love differ...when the name of the country is lost, all types of loyalties emerge...then the only diagnosis for this is for the country to commit suicide. When MP so and so, and MP so and so among the nine MPs boycotted the National Assembly session in protest of as an expression of their stand towards the Abdaly cell verdict, they did not write on the announcement of...

SASKATCHEWAN: Candles and flowers placed as a memorial lay near the La Loche junior and senior high school as police investigate the scene of a daytime shooting at the school yesterday. - AP

Four dead in worst Canada school shooting in decade - Suspect killed two of his brothers

SASKATCHEWAN: Candles and flowers placed as a memorial lay near the La Loche junior and senior high school as police investigate the scene of a daytime shooting at the school yesterday. - APWINNIPEG/VANCOUVER: The gunman suspected of killing four people and injuring several others in Canada's worst school violence in a decade first shot his two brothers at home before opening fire at the remote community high school, a family friend and the...

OUAGADOUGOU: A view of the Splendid Hotel, destroyed earlier this month by jihadists during an attack, in Ouagadougou.— AFP

UN council, AU meet for Burundian crisis talks

OUAGADOUGOU: A view of the Splendid Hotel, destroyed earlier this month by jihadists during an attack, in Ouagadougou.— AFPADDIS ABABA: UN Security Council ambassadors and African Union leaders met yesterday for crisis talks on Burundi, after the government refused a proposed AU force to stem violence in the troubled country. The meeting, in the AU headquarters in Ethiopia, comes a day after the UN envoys met with President Pierre Nkurunziza...

MIDDLETOWN: A sign rests at an entrance to St George’s School in Middletown, RI. —AP

Sex abuse scandal rocks exclusive US prep school - Dozens of former students 'raped or molested'

MIDDLETOWN: A sign rests at an entrance to St George’s School in Middletown, RI. —APMIDDLETOWN: For more than a century, St George's School has been part of the pedigree of some of America's richest and most influential families. Astors, Vanderbilts and Bushes have attended the exclusive boarding school, where students can go sailing, play on world-class squash courts or simply enjoy a sweeping view of the sea from the hilltop campus. But...

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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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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise

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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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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones