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Kuwaiti man arrested for robbing 11 cars
KUWAIT: Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives arrested a citizen in his twenties, who broke into cars and stole their contents. He was found involved in 11 theft cases and is being questioned. Investigations led detectives to suspect the citizen, so they obtained a warrant and arrested him in front of his house in Qusour. He was taken to Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives' office.KD 6,000 debtA citizen wanted for a KD 6,000 debt was arrested in Sharq and sent...
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The social consequences of inequality
Badar Al-Dehani There is a slowly growing social resistance to neoliberalism across the world. I could sense it as I have seen - and read about - it. Not only have we all read about the social demonstrations that took place in London a few months and years back, but I have recently witnessed an incidence worth writing about - and analyzing. I was with a number of friends at an outdoor café in one of London's most luxurious hotels when we, all...
MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump references fellow candidate Jeb Bush at a Pearl Harbor Day Rally at the USS Yorktown on Monday. - AFP
Trump name restored at Dubai golf complex
DUBAI: A Dubai real estate firm has restored Donald Trump’s name on a $6 billion golf complex it is building with the US businessman and presidential hopeful, days after taking it down following his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.Trump prompted an uproar when he made his comments in response to deadly shootings in California by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalized.Gold letters spelling out “Trump...
RIYADH: Saudi electoral workers prepare to count ballots after the country’s municipal elections in the capital late Saturday. (Inset) Lama Al- Sulaiman won from Jeddah. — AP/AFP
19 Women win in historic Saudi vote
RIYADH: Saudi electoral workers prepare to count ballots after the country’s municipal elections in the capital late Saturday. (Inset) Lama Al- Sulaiman won from Jeddah. — AP/AFPRIYADH: At least 19 women won municipal council seats in Saudi Arabia's first ever election open to female voters and candidates, officials said yesterday, in a milestone for the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom. "Even if it was only one woman, we're really proud of...
ROME: (From left) US Secretary of State John Kerry, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Martin Kobler wait for the start of a conference on Libya at the Italian Foreign Ministry headquarters. — AP
Italy hosts Libya unity talks - World, Arab powers press divided factions
ROME: (From left) US Secretary of State John Kerry, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Martin Kobler wait for the start of a conference on Libya at the Italian Foreign Ministry headquarters. — APROME: Major powers and regional players yesterday pressed Libya's divided political factions to back a UN peace plan based on the formation of a national unity government. US...
BANGUI: A Senegalese soldier from the MINUSCA, the United Nations mission in Central African Republic, takes position to respond to heavy gunfire directed towards the Baya Dombia school where voters gathered for the Constitutional Referendum.— AFP
Heavy weapons fire erupts in 'make-or-break' C Africa vote
BANGUI: A Senegalese soldier from the MINUSCA, the United Nations mission in Central African Republic, takes position to respond to heavy gunfire directed towards the Baya Dombia school where voters gathered for the Constitutional Referendum.— AFPBANGUI: Heavy weapons fire broke out yesterday in the Muslim district of Bangui, the Central African Republic capital, during a referendum aimed at ending years of bloody sectarian strife, an AFP...
AL-QAHTANIYAH: Syriac Christian Ormia, member of the battalion called the “Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers” fighting the Islamic State group, poses during a training on December 1, 2015 at their camp near the Syrian-Turkish border. —AFP photos
Christian female militia take fight to IS in Syria - 'I would love to be on the front line'
AL-QAHTANIYAH: Syriac Christian Ormia, member of the battalion called the “Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers” fighting the Islamic State group, poses during a training on December 1, 2015 at their camp near the Syrian-Turkish border. —AFP photosHASAKEH: Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State...
PESHAWAR: In this photograph taken on December 8, 2015, Pakistani family members and parents of the victims of the deadliest Taleban assault on an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on December 16, 2014, weep as they attend a ceremony at Peshawar University to pay tributes to the victims. — AFP
Zero answers for revenge-seeking Pakistan school massacre parents - Deafening silence from authorities
PESHAWAR: In this photograph taken on December 8, 2015, Pakistani family members and parents of the victims of the deadliest Taleban assault on an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on December 16, 2014, weep as they attend a ceremony at Peshawar University to pay tributes to the victims. — AFPPESHAWAR: Peshawar's parents are seeking retribution: not only from the Taleban gunmen who slaughtered their children one year ago,...
KURRAM: Pakistani men gather beside the bodies of victims of a bomb explosion at a market in Parachinar, the capital of Kurram tribal district. — AFP
16 killed, more wounded in Pakistan market bombing
KURRAM: Pakistani men gather beside the bodies of victims of a bomb explosion at a market in Parachinar, the capital of Kurram tribal district. — AFPPESHAWAR: A bomb hidden in a bag ripped through a crowded bazaar in a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan's northwestern tribal region yesterday, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 30, officials said. The death toll was expected to rise after the explosion at the Eidgah used-clothes...
BIRMINGHAM: Arsenal’s Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech (2L) watches as Arsenal’s German defender Per Mertesacker jumps to clear the ball during the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Arsenal at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England yesterday. Arsenal won the match 2-1. — AFP
Arsenal on top as Villa capitulate again
BIRMINGHAM: Arsenal’s Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech (2L) watches as Arsenal’s German defender Per Mertesacker jumps to clear the ball during the English Premier League football match between Aston Villa and Arsenal at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England yesterday. Arsenal won the match 2-1. — AFPLONDON: Arsenal eased to a comfortable 2-0 victory at Aston Villa yesterday to soar to the summit of the Premier League and leave their hapless...
UDINE: Inter’s Ivan Perisic, right, and Udinese’s Silvan Widmer, challenge for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Inter Milan at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Saturday. — AP
Inter moves 4 points clear with 4-0 win at Udinese
UDINE: Inter’s Ivan Perisic, right, and Udinese’s Silvan Widmer, challenge for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Inter Milan at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Saturday. — APMILAN: Mauro Icardi hit back at his critics with two goals as Inter Milan moved provisionally four points clear in the Serie A by comfortably beating Udinese 4-0 on Saturday. The Inter captain and Stevan Jovetic both took advantage of...
Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdallah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah
Jaber Stadium ready for all major sporting events
Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdallah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and Sheikh Salman Al-SabahKUWAIT: Information Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs said Jaber Stadium will witness a major celebration that will contribute to restoring the "smile" to the sports community, following the suffering of Kuwaiti sports lately and suspension from sports by the IOC.Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah asked the sports fans and the Kuwaitis to attend the...
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KUWAIT: People wander around Souq Al-Mubarakiya during Kuwait's national celebrations in this 2023 file photo. — KUNA
New Mubarakiya markets coming to Ahmadi and Jahra
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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
What Kuwait’s vision for expanding healthy cities means for people
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BELGRADE: This photograph shows a sign for Naftna Industrija Srbije AD (NIS), and the company's owner OAO Gazprom Neft outside the headquarters in Belgrade, on January 8, 2025. -- AFP
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