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RIYADH: A picture made available by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) yesterday shows Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) performing a traditional dance with swords best known as ‘Arda’ as part of a welcoming ceremony at the Murabba Palace in Riyadh. — AFP

Saudi-Iran dispute scuttles Yemen peace talks

RIYADH: A picture made available by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) yesterday shows Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) performing a traditional dance with swords best known as ‘Arda’ as part of a welcoming ceremony at the Murabba Palace in Riyadh. — AFPDUBAI/CAIRO: Worsening enmity between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran is jeopardizing peace prospects in Yemen where a nine-month-old war has given Islamist...

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Moqdad

Syria picks UN envoy as chief negotiator for peace talks - Talks scheduled for Jan 25 in Geneva

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-MoqdadDAMASCUS: Syria's UN envoy will be the regime's chief negotiator in upcoming peace talks, a government source said yesterday as a dispute over the opposition's representatives threatened to delay the negotiations. The latest bid to end the Syrian war through indirect talks between the government and opposition was scheduled to begin on January 25 in Geneva.But a disagreement over which parts of the...

DETROIT: President Obama gets out of 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, an all-electric vehicle with an estimated range of 200 miles on a single charge, while touring the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. — AP photos

Obama tours auto show, pledges help for Flint's water crisis - 'I want people to remember how far we've come'

DETROIT: President Obama gets out of 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, an all-electric vehicle with an estimated range of 200 miles on a single charge, while touring the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. — AP photosDETROIT: President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed the revival of the nation's auto industry while acknowledging the water crisis in nearby Flint, Michigan, saying the detection of high levels of lead serve as a reminder...

NEW DELHI: In this 2007 photo provided by biologist SD Biju, a Frankixalus jerdonii, belonging to a newly found genus of frogs, sits on the branch of a tree. — AP photos

Scientists ID new genus of tree frogs long thought extinct - 'Frogs have been around for 350 million years'

NEW DELHI: In this 2007 photo provided by biologist SD Biju, a Frankixalus jerdonii, belonging to a newly found genus of frogs, sits on the branch of a tree. — AP photosNEW DELHI: For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a vanished species, never again found in the wild. Until now. A group of scientists,...

CHARSADDA, Pakistan : A relative of a 2014 Peshawar school attack victim shows her son’s pictures to a student victim (left) of the Bacha Khan University attack at a hospital in Charsadda yesterday. —AFP

Taleban send message of impunity with school massacre - ‘Staff and students were martyred again’

CHARSADDA, Pakistan : A relative of a 2014 Peshawar school attack victim shows her son’s pictures to a student victim (left) of the Bacha Khan University attack at a hospital in Charsadda yesterday. —AFPISLAMABAD: As grieving Pakistani parents lament the government’s failure to keep their children safe, analysts say the Taleban have sent a message with their latest campus massacre-a national crackdown on extremism has failed and they can...

BEIJING: Children pass by the Forbidden City during a blue sky day in Beijing. — AP

China busts child trafficking ring, recovers 15 infants

SHANGHAI: Police in China have broken a child trafficking ring that they say had been selling childrenfrom the remote southwest to buyers near the coast 2,000 km (1,245 miles) away for as little as about $3,000, the state news agency Xinhua has reported. Police caught 78 suspects and rescued 15 infants, the report late on Wednesday said. Xinhua said police spotted a suspicious couple in September that traveled frequently between the mountainous...

An Indian Khasi tribal villager dries clothes outside her home in the village of Mawlynnong.

'India's cleanest village' clings on to its serenity

An Indian Khasi tribal villager dries clothes outside her home in the village of Mawlynnong.In the tiny hamlet of Mawlynnong in India's far north east, plastic is banned and spotless paths are lined with flowers-but its reputation as Asia's cleanest village has proved a mixed blessing. Until 2003 no tourists visited the remote community of 500 inhabitants high in the mountains of Meghalaya state, which had no roads and was accessible only by...

Nasser Musaed Al-Sayer and Isam Al-Sager

NBK reports net profits of KD 282.2m for FY 2015 - Profits grew 7.8% Y-o-Y - Total assets grew 8.3% Y-o-Y

Nasser Musaed Al-Sayer and Isam Al-SagerKUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) reported net profits of KD 282.2 million ( $ 929.7 million) for the year 2015 compared with KD 261.8 million ( $ 862.6 million) in 2014, growing 7.8 percent year-on-year.Total assets as of year-end 2015 reached KD 23.6 billion ( $ 77.8 billion) up 8.3 percent compared to year-end 2014, while total shareholders' equity increased by 3.8 percent to KD 2.6 billion ( $ 8.6...

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Saudi’s STC would be happy with 50% of Kuwait’s VIVA

DUBAI: The chief executive of Saudi Telecom (STC) believes that owning 50 percent of Kuwaiti affiliate Viva would be reasonable, he told Saudi-owned television channel Al-Arabiya yesterday. The kingdom’s leading telecommunications operator holds 26 percent of Viva but announced in November it would launch a voluntary tender offer to acquire up to 100 percent of the Kuwaiti firm. However, its offer price of 1 dinar ($3.29) per share was...

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool’s Sheyi Ojo (right) fights for the ball against Exeter’s Will Hoskins during the English FA Cup third-round replay soccer match between Liverpool and Exeter at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool on Wednesday Jan 20, 2016. — AP

Liverpool beat lowly Exeter in FA Cup - Spurs oust Leicester

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool’s Sheyi Ojo (right) fights for the ball against Exeter’s Will Hoskins during the English FA Cup third-round replay soccer match between Liverpool and Exeter at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool on Wednesday Jan 20, 2016. — APLONDON: Son Heung-min's thunderous finish helped Tottenham Hotspur secure a 2-0 victory at Leicester City and Liverpool eased past fourth-tier Exeter City 3-0 in FA Cup third-round replays on Wednesday....

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Emotional farewell as Hewitt bows out - Murray disarms Groth with masterly display

MELBOURNE: Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt (center) gestures as he walks off court with family members after his defeat in the men’s singles match against Spain’s David Ferrer on day four of the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne yesterday. —AFPMELBOURNE: Lleyton Hewitt bade an emotional farewell under the Australian Open floodlights yesterday as David Ferrer snuffed out any chance of fairytale final flourish from the local...

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets editors-in-chief of local dailies at Bayan Palace yesterday. — KUNA

Amir meets media chiefs, calls for unity, security - Doctors to Kuwait rather than overseas treatment - State to rationalize spending

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets editors-in-chief of local dailies at Bayan Palace yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday reminded about the important role of the media in maintaining unity and called for managing the decline in financial revenues, respecting the judiciary and enhancing GCC integration. The Amir was speaking during a meeting at Bayan Palace...

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