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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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SELHURST PARK: Sunderland’s Dutch defender Patrick van Aanholt (L) vies with Crystal Palace’s French-born Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh (R) during the English Premier League football match between Crystal Palace and Sunderland at Selhurst Park in south London on Monday. — AFP

Sunderland get rare win as Defoe stun Palace

SELHURST PARK: Sunderland’s Dutch defender Patrick van Aanholt (L) vies with Crystal Palace’s French-born Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh (R) during the English Premier League football match between Crystal Palace and Sunderland at Selhurst Park in south London on Monday. — AFPLONDON: Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe cashed in on a horrendous defensive mix-up to give his struggling side a much-needed 1- 0 win at Crystal Palace in the...

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KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Dr Noura Al-Mashaan chairs a meeting on Thursday to review the latest developments in the implementation of the new airport project (T2). -- KUNA phots

Al-Mashaan: Stick to timeline for Kuwait’s airport terminal project

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KUWAIT: Vehicles move at snail pace on a rainy evening in downtown Kuwait. --KUNA

Kuwait received varying amounts of rainfall: Official

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AMMAN: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Jordan Hamad Al-Marri hands over Kuwait’s annual donation to the UNRWA worth $2 million.

Kuwait hands over $2m as donation to UNRWA