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Blogger arrested for insulting Prophet

Blogger Sara Al-DuraisKUWAIT: A security source said authorities sent blogger Sarah Al-Durais to concerned authorities following her arrest on arrival at Kuwait International Airport. She was later released by the public prosecution on a KD 1,000 bail. The source said that Durais was arrested at dawn yesterday based on a warrant from the prosecution following a complaint by a lawyer who claimed she insulted the Prophet (PBUH) on her personal...

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Duo arrested for attacking police

KUWAIT: Two policemen were beaten by two brothers who were in an abnormal condition in Saad Al-Abdullah. Both were arrested and charged with drunkenness and attacking policemen on duty.Syrian man swindledA Egyptian man promised a Syrian national that he can get a visa for his wife and children for KD 3,500. The man took the money and disappeared, however, leading the Syrian national to file a complaint at Jahra police station.Apartment...

An image grab made from a video shows a burning Russian fighter jet coming down after being shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay yesterday. - AFP

Putin rages as Turkey downs Russian plane - Rebels 'kill' pilots, blow up rescue chopper

An image grab made from a video shows a burning Russian fighter jet coming down after being shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay yesterday. - AFPANKARA: NATO member Turkey shot down a Russian war plane on the Syrian border yesterday, an act President Vladimir Putin denounced as a "stab in the back" by "accomplices of terrorists" as tensions spiraled between two rival players in the Syria war. Turkey called an extraordinary meeting...

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Israel is not our enemy

I am trying to be realistic, objective and reasonable in what I am writing because I know that it will be shocking as well as contradicting with age-old non-negotiable beliefs and taboos. Is Israel an enemy? Is animosity stable or changeable? Is it controlled by and subject to certain situations, circumstances, attitudes and interests? Arab hostility to Israel started even before establishing Israel, when powerful resourceful Arab countries at...

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Bahrain jails reporter on terrorism charges - HRW report 'misleading'

RIYADH: Bahrain this week jailed a freelance photographer for 10 years and stripped him of his nationality after convicting him of terrorism, the media rights group Reporters sans Frontiers said yesterday. Sayed Ahmed Al-Mousawi was accused of giving mobile phone SIM cards to demonstrators and taking photographs of anti-government protests, RSF reported. A report on Bahrain News Agency late on Monday quoted Prosecution Advocate General Ahmed...

AL-ARISH, Egypt: A man stands next to an ambulance outside the Swiss Inn hotel in this Egyptian town in the Sinai peninsula, following an attack on the hotel yesterday. — AFP

Hotel attack on judges kills 7 in Egypt's Sinai - IS claims responsibility for bombing

AL-ARISH, Egypt: A man stands next to an ambulance outside the Swiss Inn hotel in this Egyptian town in the Sinai peninsula, following an attack on the hotel yesterday. — AFPCAIRO: Islamic State's Egyptian branch claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed at least seven people in a hotel in North Sinai yesterday where judges overseeing a parliamentary election were staying. A militant tried to drive a car bomb into the hotel in the...

ATHENS: A police forensic officer takes notes outside Greece’s industry association offices after a bomb exploded early yesterday, causing damage as well to the Cypriot embassy (right). — AFP

Central Athens bomb blast damages Cypriot Embassy

ATHENS: A police forensic officer takes notes outside Greece’s industry association offices after a bomb exploded early yesterday, causing damage as well to the Cypriot embassy (right). — AFPATHENS: A bomb exploded outside the offices of a Greek business federation in central Athens yesterday, badly damaging the nearby Cypriot Embassy but causing no injuries, police officials said. The blast, which police believe was carried out by domestic...

LESBOS: Migrants and refugees arrive after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey yesterday on the Greek island of Lesbos. More than 800,000 migrants, mostly fleeing war and persecution in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have crossed the Mediterranean this year to reach Europe. — AFP

Jihadists using migrant crisis as cover: Czech president - Slovakia to file lawsuit over EU migrant quotas

LESBOS: Migrants and refugees arrive after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey yesterday on the Greek island of Lesbos. More than 800,000 migrants, mostly fleeing war and persecution in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have crossed the Mediterranean this year to reach Europe. — AFPPRAGUE: jihadists are using the migrant crisis as cover to slip into the European Union, Czech President Milos Zeman said yesterday, urging his country's military to...

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Disabled man set for scaffold as Pakistan nears 300th execution

ISLAMABAD:- Pakistan was set to execute a disabled man today as activists said it was nearing its 300th hanging in under a year, and Amnesty International slammed Islamabad for "shamefully sealing its place among the world's worst executioners".The execution of Abdul Basit, a paraplegic who was convicted of murder in 2009, has already been postponed several times after rights groups raised concerns about how a wheelchair-bound man would mount the...

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Nuclear Club eyes Indian inclusion, risks Pakistan ire

NEW DELHI: Diplomats have quietly launched a new push to induct India into a club of nuclear trading nations, but rather than increasing stability in South Asia, the move could escalate strains with rival Pakistan. The chairman of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) visited New Delhi recently to meet Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj as part of a diplomatic "outreach" that seeks to build a consensus to admit India at its annual meeting next...

DHAKA: Bangladesh police officials escort some of the accused in the murder of Japanese woman Hiroe Miyata in Dhaka yesterday. Bangladesh police have arrested five men over the suspected murder of a Japanese businesswoman who is believed to have been buried in a graveyard under a false name, an officer said. — AFP

Japanese woman feared murdered, buried in Bangladesh

DHAKA: Bangladesh police officials escort some of the accused in the murder of Japanese woman Hiroe Miyata in Dhaka yesterday. Bangladesh police have arrested five men over the suspected murder of a Japanese businesswoman who is believed to have been buried in a graveyard under a false name, an officer said. — AFPDHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested five men over the suspected murder of a Japanese businesswoman who is believed to have been...

MANILA: US President Barack Obama (R) listening as Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L) speaks following a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Manila. — AFP

No global support for troops on ground in Syria: Turnbill - 'More Twitter accounts than fighters': Australian PM

MANILA: US President Barack Obama (R) listening as Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L) speaks following a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Manila. — AFPSYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday there was no global support for a US-led ground force to destroy the Islamic State group, which he called fundamentally weak with "more Twitter accounts...

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Defense praises Arifjan, Beuhring military chief

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(Left) Mahmoud Al-Aloul, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Fatah, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Musa Abu Marzouk, senior member of Hamas, attend an event at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 23, 2024. - AFP photos

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BAGHDAD: First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah met with former Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki, and leader of the Iraqi National Wisdom Movement Ammar Al-Hakim on Monday. Following his participation in the International Drug Control Conference, Sheikh Fahad Al-Yusuf had friendly discussions with Al-Maliki and Al-Hakim which reflected the deep-rooted brotherly relations between the two nations. – KUNA photos

Kuwait affirms coordination to combat drug trafficking