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Terrorism dominates GCC states' concerns
RIYADH: The subject of the fight against terrorism has dominated on the concerns of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), making it at the forefront of the concerns of the GCC leaders and will be among the top priorities for their discussions at the 36th GCC summit due in Riyadh tomorrow.The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) considers that terrorism acts are contrary to the teachings of Islam, its values, morals and humanitarian principles and poses a...
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Authority to supervise GCC railway project
KUWAIT: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani said the council is preparing a study on establishing a specialized authority to supervise executing the GCC railway project. Zayani also stressed that the project, whose blueprint phase is about to be finished, was going according to plan and would be concluded in 2018.KPC meetingKuwait Petroleum Corporation's (KPC) Board of Directors is scheduled to meet today to...
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Uniformed Policeman robs expats
KUWAIT: Kheitan police station chief Lieutenant Colonel Majid Khalaf ordered the detention of a policeman from the Najda sector for committing robberies while in uniform. A security source said that several expatriates complained that a uniformed policeman and a man in plain clothes entered a building in Kheitan and took KD 250 from an Egyptian and four Asian expats then escaped. The identity of the policeman was determined following the...
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Kuwaiti sentenced for joining Nusra Front
KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday sentenced a citizen to 10 years in prison with labor for joining and fighting with the Nusra Front in Syria. The defendant faced charges of committing hostile activities against Syria by joining the group and pledging allegiance to the organization's leader Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani, and undergoing a two-month military training course after infiltrating into Syria through Turkey. Meanwhile, the court of...
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9 arrested for running fake maids' offices
KUWAIT: Residency Affairs Department detectives arrested nine Asian nationals who ran several fake domestic helpers' recruitment offices. They were charged with trading in domestic helpers as they were found to harbor a number of runaway maids. The arrest was made after concerned authorities received information about the gang's activities, and found out that all those arrested are wanted on absconding cases.Traffic violationsThe Traffic...
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IS 'on which sun never sets'
The British Empire was once known as the one 'on which the sun never sets', because it dominated so many lands from the far east to the far west. I fact, that old name can be used nowadays to describe IS, that mighty power, the 21st century miracle that is becoming active in the far east and west and the sun of its news never sets in various newspapers and satellite TV channels in addition to major leaders' speeches. In such a short time, IS...
India’s chief justice TS Thakur
India's top judge takes a bus to cut air pollution
India’s chief justice TS ThakurNEW DELHI: India's chief justice has backed a plan to restrict cars on Delhi's roads and said he would be prepared to take the bus to work, calling on other judges to join, as the world's most polluted capital tries to clean up its filthy air. The Delhi government announced last week it would allow cars on the roads only on alternate days from January 1, as it tries to reduce the choking smog, which worsens...
LONDON: Photo shows the the sketch of Muhaydin Mire appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, London yesterday . — AP
'You ain't no Muslim, bruv' - Britons defiant over 'terrorist' knife attack
LONDON: Photo shows the the sketch of Muhaydin Mire appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, London yesterday . — APLONDON: The stabbing of a man in the London metro in what police described as a terrorist attack provoked a defiant riposte from a bystander that has struck a chord in Britain: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv". The 29-year-old assailant shouted "This is for Syria" as he attacked a 56-year-old man and threatened others before...
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Lanka pleads for housemaid sentenced to death in Saudi
COLOMBO: Colombo has expressed concern to Saudi Arabia after a Sri Lankan housemaid working in the country was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, an official said yesterday. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met the Saudi envoy to Colombo last week and raised the case of the woman and a man convicted alongside her, and asked to speak to his Saudi counterpart Adel Al-Jubeir. “We are still awaiting a response to have that...
ANBAR: Security forces prepare to destroy collected bombs and explosives being planted by Islamic State militants outside Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq. —AP
Islamic State earns $80 million a month - Half of the revenues come from levies, confiscations
ANBAR: Security forces prepare to destroy collected bombs and explosives being planted by Islamic State militants outside Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq. —APBEIRUT: The Islamic State group is pulling in some $80 million a month, mainly from levies and confiscations, but is struggling financially as strikes hit its oil infrastructure, analysis firm IHS said yesterday. In a new report, IHS Conflict...
BERLIN: A supporter of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party displays a placard showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in a Burqa during a demonstration against the German government’s asylum policy organized by the AfD party in Berlin. — AFP
Germany refugee influx sparks surge in racist hate crimes
BERLIN: A supporter of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party displays a placard showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in a Burqa during a demonstration against the German government’s asylum policy organized by the AfD party in Berlin. — AFPBERLIN: Arson attacks on refugee shelters, assaults, swastikas sprayed on walls-as Germany has taken in record numbers of asylum seekers, it has been rocked by a xenophobic...
MUMBAI: Indian dwellers pick through the charred remains of their homes for belongings following a fire at a slum in the east of Kandivali, an area in the north of Mumbai yesterday. — AFP
Fire destroys 1,000 slum homes in India's Mumbai
MUMBAI: Indian dwellers pick through the charred remains of their homes for belongings following a fire at a slum in the east of Kandivali, an area in the north of Mumbai yesterday. — AFPMUMBAI: A massive fire sparked by a series of gas cylinder explosions swept through a packed slum in India's Mumbai yesterday, killing one person and destroying around 1,000 homes, officials said. Dramatic video footage and pictures posted on Twitter showed...
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