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KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah and Sheikha Sarah Al- Sabah, the Arabian Horse Center’s President, are pictured with one of the winners. — KUNA
Kuwait's Arabian Horse Festival true start of sport: Minister
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah and Sheikha Sarah Al- Sabah, the Arabian Horse Center’s President, are pictured with one of the winners. — KUNAKUWAIT: Minister of Information Sheikh Salam Al-Sabah said Kuwait's National Arabian Horse Festival was a genuine start for the beauty of the Arabian horse, one of the historic Arab heritage. Sheikh Salman, also Minister of State for Youth Affairs,...
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Hawally's murder: court denies main suspect's release appeal
KUWAIT: A court yesterday refused releasing a citizen accused of murdering an Egyptian man by deliberately running him over several times in Hawally, and ordered the continuation of his detention. Notably, the citizen kept denying that he ran the victim over on purpose, saying he killed him by accident.Former MP's caseThe criminal court yesterday deferred its ruling in a state security case filed against former MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei accusing him...
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Sharq man arrested with sorcery tools
KUWAIT: A man was taken to Sharq police station for questioning after he was caught with sorcery material. The tools were found after the Asian man was stopped at a checkpoint in Sharq. Police found a picture of a citizen with him too.Drug smuggling foiledA man was arrested on arrival from Egypt for attempting to smuggle hashish. He was sent to the Drug Control General Directorate (DCGD) for further action.Policemen's rewardsA security source...
KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama holds a press conference yesterday, following his participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. - AFP
Obama: World must not succumb to terror fears
KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama holds a press conference yesterday, following his participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. - AFPKUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama called yesterday for resolve in the face of heightened jihadist threats, insisting panicked citizens must not succumb to fear and urging world leaders not to abandon a climate summit in Paris. With Brussels in lockdown, cities from Beirut...
HPAKHANT, Myanmar: The bodies of miners killed in a landslide are placed on the ground in a jade mining area in Kachin state yesterday. - AFP n
Scores dead in Myanmar jade landslide
HPAKHANT, Myanmar: The bodies of miners killed in a landslide are placed on the ground in a jade mining area in Kachin state yesterday. - AFPYANGON: Around 100 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials said yesterday, as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country's shadowy jade industry. Those killed were thought to have been mainly...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi activists shout slogans celebrating the execution of two war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid of Jamaat-e-Islami and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party at the Central Jail in Dhaka yesterday. — AP
Bangladesh executes two oppn leaders for war crimes
DHAKA: Bangladeshi activists shout slogans celebrating the execution of two war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid of Jamaat-e-Islami and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party at the Central Jail in Dhaka yesterday. — APNEW DELHI: Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders yesterday for war crimes during the country's 1971 independence war, despite concerns that the legal proceedings against them were flawed and...
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Air pollution linked to asthma in children and teens
NEW YORK: Exposure to air pollution early in life may contribute to the development of asthma in childhood and adolescence, a European study suggests. Researchers followed more than 14,000 children from birth through ages 14 to 16 and found those born in communities with more polluted air were more likely to develop asthma than other kids, particularly after age 4.While previous research has linked asthma to air pollution exposure in early...
BRUSSELS: Belgian army soldiers and policemen patrol near Christmas stalls in the center of the capital yesterday. —AP
Belgium hunts 'several' suspects - Tense Brussels reviews security alert
BRUSSELS: Belgian army soldiers and policemen patrol near Christmas stalls in the center of the capital yesterday. —APBRUSSELS: A tense Belgian capital was locked down for a second day yesterday with police and troops patrolling deserted streets as authorities reviewed whether to extend a security alert meant to prevent a repeat of the bloody Paris attacks. With the world on edge over the jihadist threat, US President Barack Obama said the...
ants queue during a snow shower to board a bus after crossing the border between Austria and Germany in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, yesterday. — AP
Berlin sets up refugee shelter at former Stasi HQ
ants queue during a snow shower to board a bus after crossing the border between Austria and Germany in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, yesterday. — APBERLIN: Berlin has opened a shelter at the former headquarters of communist East Germany's feared Stasi secret police to help house a record influx of asylum seekers, weekend media reports said. Nearly 500 people, most of them from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have been staying in the foreign...
BAMAKO: Hospital workers walk outside the morgue of the Gabriel Toure hospital in the Malian capital yesterday. — AP
Mali attack probe deepens as siege hotel yields clues
BAMAKO: Hospital workers walk outside the morgue of the Gabriel Toure hospital in the Malian capital yesterday. — APBAMAKO: Malian investigators were yesterday intensifying the hunt for suspects wanted over the jihadist siege at a luxury hotel that left 19 people dead in the capital Bamako, where residents were seeking to return to normal life. Two days after the attack on the Radisson Blu hotel, claimed by the Al-Murabitoun group, an Al-Qaeda...
SADAD, Syria: Syrian children play with a tyre near old ammunition on Nov 14, 2015 in this Christian town near Mahin, where Syrian pro-government forces are fighting the Islamic State group in Homs province. — AFP
Syrian Christian town becomes frontline with IS
SADAD, Syria: Syrian children play with a tyre near old ammunition on Nov 14, 2015 in this Christian town near Mahin, where Syrian pro-government forces are fighting the Islamic State group in Homs province. — AFPSADAD, Syria: On the outskirts of the Syrian Christian town of Sadad, children play in front of a cannon fired just hours ago in an ongoing battle against the Islamic State group. Soldiers and pro-regime militiamen nearby look on with...
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi casts his ballot at a polling station in the Heliopolis neighborhood yesterday. — AFP
Egyptians vote again to elect new parliament - Elections dogged by apathy
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi casts his ballot at a polling station in the Heliopolis neighborhood yesterday. — AFPCAIRO: Egyptians voted yesterday in the second phase of elections that are meant to restore parliament after a more than three-year gap but which critics say have been undermined by widespread repression. The elections have been hailed by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi as a milestone on the army's roadmap to...