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BARISHA: Syrian bikers ride past a damaged car at the site of a suspected US-led operation against Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi on the edge of the small Syrian village of Barisha in the country’s opposition-held northwestern Idlib province. —AFP
SE Asia expects long fight against IS
Concerns about lone wolf attacks, online radicalizationMANILA: Southeast Asian countries fighting Islamic State's influence in the region lauded the killing of its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi but said security forces were preparing for a long battle to thwart the jihadist group's ideology. The Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, home to some of Asia's most organized Islamist militants, said yesterday they were braced for retaliation by Islamic...
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Lebanon protesters block roads to keep revolt alive
Angry protesters defy pleas from Lebanon's top leadersBEIRUT: Lebanese demonstrators set up barricades and parked cars across key roads yesterday to protest corruption and press their demands for a radical overhaul of their country's sectarian political system. Defying pleas from Lebanon's top leaders, protesters sought to keep the country on lockdown for a 12th consecutive day by cutting off some of the main thoroughfares, including the main...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he delivers his state of the nation address at Congress in Manila. — AFP
Angry at criticism, Philippines' president dares vice to take over law enforcement
Philippine mayor on Duterte 'narco' list shot deadMANILA: Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte yesterday lashed out at Vice President Leni Robredo for criticizing his war on drugs, and offered to put her in charge of law enforcement. The president has a frosty relationship with opposition leader Robredo, who was elected separately from Duterte, whose drugs crackdown has killed thousands, stirring global alarm, although polls show strong domestic...
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India allows EU MPs into Kashmir in first foreign visit since clampdown
NEW DELHI: A group of European Union lawmakers will visit Indian Kashmir today, the first foreign delegation since the special status of the Muslim-majority territory was revoked, Indian officials said. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government withdrew Kashmir's autonomy in August, a move accompanied by a crackdown on dissent by security forces there, to head off protests. It has since said the situation is returning to normality....
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Warba Bank acts as join lead manager in arranging $600m sukuk for Dar Al-Arkan
Saudi real estate developer Dar Al-Arkan raises $600m under its sukuk Program Thuwaini Al-Thuwaini KUWAIT: Warba Bank acted as Joint Lead Arranger and Book-runner on the successfully placed Sukuk issuance for Saudi Arabia's leading listed real estate developer Dar Al-Arkan, rated Baa2 by Moody's with a stable outlook. The five-year $600 million Sukuk was issued at a discount at $98.841, with a coupon rate of 6.75 percent to produce a 7.00...
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VIVA reports KD 31.6m net profit during nine-month period ended 30 Sept 2019
Revenues reach KD 215.6 million Eng Maziad Nasser Al-Harbi KUWAIT: VIVA, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers and enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, and a subsidiary of STC Group, announced the financial results for the nine-month period ended 30 September 2019; whereby VIVA's Revenues reached KD 215.6 million, and the net profit reached KD 31.6 million for the nine-month period ended...
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Final competition in Asian bowling championship for both gender
KUWAIT: The gold medals of the total points for men and women of the 25th Asian Tenpin Bowling Championship will be distributed today at the Kuwait Bowling Center in Salmiya. The previous gold medal of the same event was won by Hong Kong's Michael Mak in 2016 during the Hong Kong championship while South Korean Jung Dawun won the women's gold at the same championship. There will also be the first round of the final competition which is the...
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Movie fans flock to 'Joker' steps in New York
Tourists are flocking to a flight of stairs in the Bronx area of New York that Joaquin Phoenix dances down in an iconic but controversial scene from hit movie "Joker." Film buffs have even had to queue before being able to snap photos of themselves recreating the character's pose that appears on the poster of the Todd Phillips-directed blockbuster. "It looks even better than in the movie," Tasula Ceballos, a young Russian living in Miami, told...
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New TB treatment for developing countries to cost $1,040: WHO
LONDON: A newly-approved three-drug treatment for tuberculosis will be available in 150 countries including India and South Africa, priced at $1,040 for a complete regimen, more than twice the cost proposed in the past by advocacy groups for other treatments. The World Health Organization-backed Stop TB Partnership said yesterday that BPaL would be obtainable in eligible countries through the Global Drug Facility (GDF), a global provider of TB...
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Ghanem: Bedoon bill ready; Adasani files to grill interior minister
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said yesterday he has prepared a draft law proposing a lasting solution to the decades-old problem of stateless people or bedoons, insisting that the legislation if approved will resolve the problem in one year. Ghanem provided no details about the draft law, saying that a number of lawmakers asked to give them a week to read the bill before officially submitting it. Some 120,000 bedoons live in...
KUWAIT: A truck loaded with books stolen during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait is seen yesterday. - KUNA
Kuwait receives 200,000 stolen books from Iraq
KUWAIT: A truck loaded with books stolen during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait is seen yesterday. - KUNA KUWAIT: The Iraqi foreign ministry handed its Kuwaiti counterpart yesterday around 200,000 books belonging to the National Library and Kuwait University which were looted during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The move resulted from cooperation between the foreign ministries of the two brotherly countries, said Deputy Assistant Foreign...
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Govt meeting next week sets plan for Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh 'clean up'
Closing violating stores and deporting their workers; evicting 'all bachelors' KUWAIT: Debris and vehicles parked randomly at an open square in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh in this file photo KUWAIT: Government officials plan to meet next week to set a plan for procedures to be followed on closing violating stores in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, fining homeowners who lease houses to bachelors in private residential areas as well as those owning buildings that lack...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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KUWAIT: Interior ministry officials have monitored and conducted several inspection campaigns across the country.
MoI continues crackdown on traffic, residency law violators
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HATHRAS, India: Mourners gather as the deceased who died in a stampede during a sermon are kept at a mortuary at Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024. -- AFP
‘Miracles’ and hope: Fatal stampede spotlights India’s craze for godmen
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Scholarship acceptance rates: By the numbers