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Saleh: Low oil chance for economic reforms - Abadi lauds Kuwaiti financial support to Iraq
DAVOS, Switzerland: The sharp drop in the price of oil, the lifeblood of Gulf economies, is an opportunity to end subsidies and introduce reforms in the energy-rich region, ministers said yesterday. "With low prices... it is the right time" to cut subsidies on oil products, Kuwait's Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In a panel on the future of economic reform in the Arab world, Saleh - also...
Sofia Garcia shovels the sidewalks in front of her house as snow falls, Friday morning, Jan. 22, 2016, in Lynchburg, Va. (Jill Nance/News & Daily Advance via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
Monster blizzard hits US
Sofia Garcia shovels the sidewalks in front of her house as snow falls, Friday morning, Jan. 22, 2016, in Lynchburg, Va. (Jill Nance/News & Daily Advance via AP) MANDATORY CREDITWASHINGTON: A massive blizzard began dumping snow on the southern and eastern United States yesterday, with mass flight cancelations, five states declaring states of emergency and more than 60 cm predicted for Washington alone. The National Weather Service said the...
TOPSHOT - Russia's Maria Sharapova returns against Lauren Davis of the US during their men's singles match on day five of the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 22, 2016. AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN-- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE / AFP / SAEED KHAN
Super Serena, Djokovic soar into 4th round - Federer defuses Dimitrov; Sharapova hits 600
TOPSHOT - Russia's Maria Sharapova returns against Lauren Davis of the US during their men's singles match on day five of the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 22, 2016. AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN-- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE / AFP / SAEED KHANMELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic underlined his supremacy in men's tennis on Friday as he marched unstoppably into the Australian Open fourth...
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Tunisia imposes curfew amid spreading unrest - Five years on, 'Arab Spring' model tested
A young Tunisian who tried to commit suicide is carried by a member of the Tunisian army after witnesses said they saved his life in the central Tunisian city of Kasserine on January 22, 2016. Demonstrators are once again taking to the streets of impoverished central Tunisia, the birthplace of the "Arab Spring", triggering clashes with security forces in which hundreds have been injured./ AFP / MOHAMED KHALILTUNIS: Tunisia yesterday declared a...
People shout slogans as they hold up images of the head of the Chechen republic Ramzan Kadyrov, during a rally in central Grozny, on January 22, 2016. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the streets of Grozny, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, for a mass state-sponsored demonstration in support of strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov. / AFP / ILIA VARLAMOV
Chechens rally in support of pro-Kremlin leader - Crowds denounce opponents as enemies
People shout slogans as they hold up images of the head of the Chechen republic Ramzan Kadyrov, during a rally in central Grozny, on January 22, 2016. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the streets of Grozny, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, for a mass state-sponsored demonstration in support of strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov. / AFP / ILIA VARLAMOVGROZNY, Russia: Tens of thousands of people yesterday staged a...
People check bodies of migrants that were drowned as they were trying to reach Greece, at a port near Izmir, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Turkey's coast guard says 12 migrants have drowned after a boat taking them to the Greek islands capsized in rough weather. About 40 migrants have died so far this year off Turkey's coast while trying to cross into Greece, the coast guard says. (IHA via AP) TURKEY OUT
44 drown as migrant boat sinks - Victims not wearing lifejackets * Many children among dead
People check bodies of migrants that were drowned as they were trying to reach Greece, at a port near Izmir, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Turkey's coast guard says 12 migrants have drowned after a boat taking them to the Greek islands capsized in rough weather. About 40 migrants have died so far this year off Turkey's coast while trying to cross into Greece, the coast guard says. (IHA via AP) TURKEY OUTATHENS: Forty-four people drowned after...
Marzuki Darusman, the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, speaks before press in Tokyo on January 22, 2016. Darusman is here on a five-day visit to Japan to exchange views with Japanese officials and family members of Japanese abductees by North Korea. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO
DPRK arrests US student for 'hostile activities' - Park wants N Korea talks - without N Korea
Marzuki Darusman, the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, speaks before press in Tokyo on January 22, 2016. Darusman is here on a five-day visit to Japan to exchange views with Japanese officials and family members of Japanese abductees by North Korea. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNOSEOUL: North Korea said yesterday it had arrested a US student who, under orders from Washington, had engaged in...
FILE - In this May 8, 2015 file photo, Frank Fiorina, husband of Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, listens as she speaks with a guest in Manchester, N.H. While former President Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife wife, Frank Fiorina is pitching voters on the candidacy of his wife on the Republican side. Carly Fiorina has a husband who quit his career to further hers. In the 2016 presidential campaign, a modern take on gender roles is increasingly on display in both parties. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
US race shows evolving gender roles in politics - Different kind of presidential election
FILE - In this May 8, 2015 file photo, Frank Fiorina, husband of Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, listens as she speaks with a guest in Manchester, N.H. While former President Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife wife, Frank Fiorina is pitching voters on the candidacy of his wife on the Republican side. Carly Fiorina has a husband who quit his career to further hers. In the 2016 presidential campaign, a modern take on gender roles...
TOPSHOT - A Somali man cries next to dead bodies on the Lido beach on January 22, 2016 following an overnight attack on a beachfront restaurant in Mogadishu. Somalia's Islamist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, police said. / AFP / MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
Shabab kill 'nearly 20' in Somalia restaurant - Kenya mourns war dead
TOPSHOT - A Somali man cries next to dead bodies on the Lido beach on January 22, 2016 following an overnight attack on a beachfront restaurant in Mogadishu. Somalia's Islamist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, police said. / AFP / MOHAMED ABDIWAHABMOGADISHU: Islamist Shabab gunmen killed around 20 people in a popular beachside...
Security guards stand alert around schools and colleges following an attack on Bacha Khan University, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Pakistanis buried their dead and observed a day of nationwide mourning Thursday following the brazen attack by Islamic militants who stormed a northwestern university the previous day, gunning down students and teachers and spreading terror before the four gunmen were slain by the military. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
Pak university attackers vow to target schools - Two policemen shot dead
Security guards stand alert around schools and colleges following an attack on Bacha Khan University, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Pakistanis buried their dead and observed a day of nationwide mourning Thursday following the brazen attack by Islamic militants who stormed a northwestern university the previous day, gunning down students and teachers and spreading terror before the four gunmen were slain by the military. (AP...
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Kuwait oil lost $90 since June 2014 - Fuel, electricity subsidies to be slashed
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti oil analyst said that Kuwaiti oil barrel has lost more than $90 of its price, dropping below USD 20 for the first time since January 2002. Analyst Mohammad Al-Shatti said that the pumping of Iranian oil into the market, expected in February 2016, will have a negative effect on the price of oil this year.He stated that the main reason for the weakness in oil prices was due to the increase in oil supplies which were from outside...
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Kuwait says sticks to F-18 jets despite approval delays
MANAMA: Kuwait's air force is sticking to plans to purchase Boeing's F-18 Super Hornet to replace ageing fighter jets, despite a lengthy congressional approval process in Washington that has frustrated industry players. "The Super Hornet is one of the best solutions for us," Abdullah Al-Foudary, commander of the Kuwait Air Force, said on the sidelines of an industry event in Bahrain. "We have the legacy F-18s that we have to find a solution for...
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HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrives in Scotland on the personal invitation of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland on Jan 14, 2025. - Amiri Diwn photos
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Britain's King Charles III (L) welcomes Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, during an audience at Buckingham Palace, in London, on October 25, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt / POOL / AFP)
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Amir departs to the UK at personal invitation of King Charles III