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Police free three Filipina hostages in Farwaniya
KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives managed to free three Filipinas held by an Asian woman in a Farwaniya apartment for four days, said security sources. Case papers indicate that one of the abducted women called the police reporting that a woman they had known online through Facebook was detaining them somewhere they did not know. Calling her back, the woman did not answer the detective, but sent a message noting that she was in danger along with her...
Dr Abdulaziz Abal is pictured with a child.
REACH Education helps parents, teachers improve kids' social, academic skills
Dr Abdulaziz Abal is pictured with a child.KUWAIT: REACH Education is an educational and achievement center catering to children with learning, behavioral and academic difficulties, along with providing advice on parenting and teaching skills. "When I decided to open a center for learning difficulties, parenting and teaching, and started working on it, I came up with everything, the name, colors, etc. I can close my eyes and be in my office...
SILVER SPRING, Maryland: People participate in a candlelight vigil held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for the victims of recent mass shootings at the Muslim Community Center on Friday. (Inset) This undated combination of photos provided by the FBI (left) and the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook. - AFP/AP
IS hails California attackers as followers - Obama insists America 'will not be terrorized'
SILVER SPRING, Maryland: People participate in a candlelight vigil held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for the victims of recent mass shootings at the Muslim Community Center on Friday. (Inset) This undated combination of photos provided by the FBI (left) and the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook. - AFP/APSAN BERNARDINO, California: US President Barack Obama insisted yesterday that America...
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California shooters' home thrown open to media - Experts concerned reporters allowed to disturb site
The California State University Fullerton student identification of Farook sits on a desk inside the home.REDLANDS, United States: Baby toys, shredded files, a Holy Quran, computer paraphernalia: The home of the California shooters was bizarrely - and controversially - thrown open to the media on Friday, offering a glimpse of the life of the couple behind the carnage. Two days after US citizen Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik...
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Three killed in Lebanon as militant blows himself up
BEIRUT: A suspected Islamist militant killed himself and two members of his family in northern Lebanon yesterday when he blew himself up during an army raid on his home, security and medical sources said. The army has carried out a series of raids since two suicide bomb blasts claimed by Islamic State killed 44 people in a crowded commercial and residential area of Beirut last month.Yesterday's operation took place in the town of Deir Ammar,...
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu waves while holding carnations during a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) yesterday. — AFP
Iraq calls on Turkey to withdraw troops - Baghdad summons Turkish ambassador
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu waves while holding carnations during a meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) yesterday. — AFPBAGHDAD: Baghdad demanded yesterday the immediate withdrawal of forces it said Turkey illegally sent into Iraq, which is struggling to assert its sovereignty while receiving foreign assistance against the Islamic State group. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu played down the...
CHENNAI: A residential area is seen surrounded by floodwaters yesterday. — AP
18 die after power cut in flooded Chennai hospital - India bolsters relief, residents slam slow response
CHENNAI: A residential area is seen surrounded by floodwaters yesterday. — APNEW DELHI: Severe floods that have hit the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu killed 18 hospital patients this week after rainwaters knocked out generators and switched off ventilators, officials said yesterday. State authorities were investigating complaints of negligence by officials at MIOT International hospital in the state capital of Chennai, which is reeling...
This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Tashfeen Malik. Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, died in a fierce gunbattle with authorities several hours after their commando-style assault on a gathering of Farook’s colleagues from San Bernardino, California, County’s health department Wednesday, December 2, 2015. — AP
Killing spurs concerns about fiance visa program
WASHINGTON: The woman who carried out the San Bernardino massacre with her husband came to the US last year on a special visa for fiances of US citizens, raising questions about whether the process can adequately vet people who may sympathize with terrorist groups. Authorities said Friday that Pakistani citizen Tashfeen Malik, 27, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader under an alias account on Facebook just moments before...
This handout image obtained from Belgian Police yesterday and composed of stills taken from CCTV footage shows two men who used fake identity documents bearing the names Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid, suspected of involvement in the Nov 13, 2015 Paris attacks. — AFP
Belgium seeks two new Paris attack suspects - Men said to be 'armed and dangerous'
This handout image obtained from Belgian Police yesterday and composed of stills taken from CCTV footage shows two men who used fake identity documents bearing the names Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid, suspected of involvement in the Nov 13, 2015 Paris attacks. — AFPBRUSSELS: Belgium on Friday said it was searching for two new "armed and dangerous" men who used false ID papers to help wanted Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam travel to...
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Britain's first airstrikes against Daesh
This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Tashfeen Malik. Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, died in a fierce gunbattle with authorities several hours after their commando-style assault on a gathering of Farook’s colleagues from San Bernardino, California, County’s health department Wednesday, December 2, 2015. — AP
Social media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators
This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Tashfeen Malik. Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, died in a fierce gunbattle with authorities several hours after their commando-style assault on a gathering of Farook’s colleagues from San Bernardino, California, County’s health department Wednesday, December 2, 2015. — APPALO ALTO: Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in this week's Southern California mass shooting, has another claim to...
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Adele's '25' breaks new record
Adele's "25" has sold more than one million copies in its second week of release, making it the first album of the SoundScan era to sell one million copies in two separate weeks. Adele's '25' Tops US Album Chart, '21' Jumps Back Into Top 10. "25" shattered the record for fastest-selling album in a single week when it bowed in November, moving 3.48 million units in the week ending Nov. 26. It's the 20th album to top one million copies since...
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LOS ANGELES: Smoke and flames from the Palisades Fire burn behind Mulholland drive towards the Encino neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, January 10, 2025. -- AFP
Big Los Angeles wildfire switches direction; toll 13
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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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People hold signs as they stand outside Syria's National Museum as it reopens to visitors.
Safe from looting, Damascus Museum reopens a month after Assad's fall
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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
US and Britain announce sweeping sanctions against Russia’s oil sector
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ADDIS ABABA: People look at a stock chart during the launch of Ethiopian Securities Exchange in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 10, 2025. -- AFP
Ethiopia opens stock exchange in attempt to liberalize economy