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Scores arrested in thieves' market raid

KUWAIT: Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh detectives stormed what they described as a 'thieves' market' in the area, where a number of Asian street vendors had returned to sell their merchandise after security forces had been stopping them for months, said security sources, noting that scores of Asian peddlers fled on seeing the police, leaving their goods behind. The sources added that detectives confiscated all the foodstuff and vegetables and gave them to...

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The UN recently approved a resolution on an international roadmap for a political transition in Syria to end the conflict and call for launching Syrian peace talks by the beginning of January, which reflects international powers' conflict of power as well as protecting their followers and 'arms' on the ground in a way that would spare some parties, here and there, some embarrassment. Activating a ceasefire in Syria and having representatives...

RAMADI: Members of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service place the national flag yesterday on the roof of a building of the government complex after they recaptured this city. -AFP

Iraqi flag raised above Ramadi govt complex

RAMADI: Members of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service place the national flag yesterday on the roof of a building of the government complex after they recaptured this city. -AFPRAMADI: Iraq declared the city of Ramadi liberated from the Islamic State group yesterday and raised the national flag over its government complex after clinching a landmark victory against the jihadists. Fighters brandishing rifles danced in the Anbar provincial...

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz heads the Council of Ministers meeting in the capital Riyadh. – AFPn

Saudis raise fuel, utility prices amid $98bn deficit - Kingdom vows reforms after record budget shortfall

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz heads the Council of Ministers meeting in the capital Riyadh. – AFPRIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced a record budget deficit and cuts to fuel and utility subsidies yesterday as the oil powerhouse suffers from the drastic fall in crude prices. Petrol prices in the kingdom were to rise by more than 50 percent on some products from today, authorities said, after the world's largest crude exporter said it had posted a...

A Saudi man walks past a pump at a petrol station yesterday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

UAE cuts fuel prices - Bahrain cabinet OKs new diesel, kerosene prices

A Saudi man walks past a pump at a petrol station yesterday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.DUBAI: Bahrain’s cabinet has approved a new pricing system for diesel and kerosene that is set to begin in January, state news agency BNA reported yesterday. The new pricing system is expected to result in a “gradual increase” in the cost of both fuels to domestic customers in the coming years, as Bahrain adjusts its prices to reflect expected rises...

nnKAMPALA: Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni gestures to delegates attending the Burundi peace talks at Entebbe State House. - AP n

Burundi rivals resume peace talks in Uganda

KAMPALA: Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni gestures to delegates attending the Burundi peace talks at Entebbe State House. - APKAMPALA: Rival Burundi factions held talks in Uganda yesterday, resuming long-stalled negotiations aimed at ending months of violence that raised fears of a return to civil war. Burundi's unrest began in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his intention to run for a controversial third term, which he went...

SEOUL: South Korean bereaved family members of victims of World War II stage a rally demanding full compensation and apology from Japanese government in front of Foreign Ministry. — AP

Korea, Japan reach deal on 'comfort women' - Represents shift for conservative government

SEOUL: South Korean bereaved family members of victims of World War II stage a rally demanding full compensation and apology from Japanese government in front of Foreign Ministry. — APSEOUL: An apology from Japan's prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal yesterday on a decades-long impasse with South Korea over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II.The accord, which...

YORK: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron greets soldiers working on flood relief in York city centre after the river Ouse burst its banks. — AP

PM Cameron visits flood hit historic city of York - England battles to get back on their feet

YORK: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron greets soldiers working on flood relief in York city centre after the river Ouse burst its banks. — APYORK: British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the flood-hit historic city of York yesterday as cities, towns and villages across northern England battled to get back on their feet following devastating storms. Cameron met soldiers and volunteers helping with the aftermath of the flooding as...

KABUL: Afghan firefighters wash a road at the site of a suicide car bomb near the international airport. — AFP

Taleban bomber targets NATO convoy near to Kabul airport - Security situation worsens in Afghanistan

KABUL: Afghan firefighters wash a road at the site of a suicide car bomb near the international airport. — AFPKABUL: A Taleban bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle near Kabul airport yesterday, killing one civilian in an attack targeting a NATO convoy the day after Pakistan's army chief visited the city to try to revive peace talks. At least 33 others, many of them children, were wounded in the assault, which occurred as the security...

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Two dead in Bangladesh militant hideout blast

DHAKA: Two suspected followers of a banned Bangladeshi Islamist outfit were killed yesterday in an explosion outside the capital Dhaka as security forces raided a third extremist hideout in four days. The Rapid Action Battalion launched the raid on an abandoned house at Gazipur, 40 kilometers north of Dhaka, just after midnight, said a spokesman for the elite police unit.Suspected members of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) hurled bombs...

MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney (right) takes on Chelsea’s John Terry during an English Premier League match at Old Trafford Stadium yesterday. – AP

Chelsea draw gives Van Gaal respite

MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney (right) takes on Chelsea’s John Terry during an English Premier League match at Old Trafford Stadium yesterday. – APMANCHESTER: Manchester United bought beleaguered manager Louis van Gaal some much-needed respite with an improved display in yesterday's 0-0 draw at home to under-performing Premier League champions Chelsea. Van Gaal has admitted that he is contemplating leaving Old Trafford after...

TOKYO: In this photo taken Dec 3, 2015, Syrians living in Japan, Mohammed, right, and Jamal speak during an interview. — AP

Wary of outsiders: Japan closes door to refugees - Hands-off response to global refugee crisis

TOKYO: In this photo taken Dec 3, 2015, Syrians living in Japan, Mohammed, right, and Jamal speak during an interview. — APTOKYO: For Mohammed, the perils of staying in Damascus crystallized when a sniper's bullet whizzed past his head while he and his cousins were on his rooftop, watching the Syrian air force bomb rebel forces.The same roof where Mohammed and his lifelong friend Jamal used to sit in a tent and play video games. Now, instead...

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KUWAIT: People wander around Souq Al-Mubarakiya during Kuwait's national celebrations in this 2023 file photo. — KUNA

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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti officials meet with a delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss turning Shaab into a United Nations healthy city. — KUNA

Shaab on path to becoming Kuwait’s next healthy city

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KUWAIT: Hawalli Governor Ali Al-Asfar and a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation meet to discuss the requirements for turning Shaab and other Hawalli governorate areas into a healthy city. — KUNA

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