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Amir's offender remanded in custody
KUWAIT: The criminal court rejected a request to release an Egyptian engineer accused of insulting His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and assaulting policemen. His detention period was renewed.ForgeryMeanwhile, the judge decided to release 11 employees accused of forging fingerprints at the Ministry of Electricity and Water (ME)W. The suspects denied the charges of forgery and taking unearned money. The defense asked for their...
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Wives fight ; Air hostess assaulted
KUWAIT: A Syrian woman married to a Kuwaiti reported that her husband's first wife, a citizen, who shared the same house with her in Rihab, assaulted her and poured boiling water on her. A case was filed and further investigations are in progress.Fatal crashA Pakistani man was killed when he lost control over his vehicle and it flipped over along Reqqa road, said security sources. An investigation was filed to determine the circumstances behind...
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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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Peace in Syria
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...
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KATHMANDU: Relatives of the passengers who died in the Saurya Airlines' plane crash, mourn at a hospital in Kathmandu on July 24, 2024. -- AFP
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Riding smart: Motorcycle expert shares safety tips for riders in Kuwait
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MILWAUKEE: US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at West Allis Central High School during her first presidential campaign rally on July 23, 2024. - AFP
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