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Reckless driver arrest attempt fails
KUWAIT: Police in Suliabiya responded to a call about a reckless driver, endangering the lives of others, before parking in front of his house. When police attempted to arrest the man, he resisted and physically attacked the police along with his brother. Policemen then were surprised when the mother of the unemployed man came out and attacked them verbally in front of pedestrians, and allowed her sons to escape. The suspects' father was summoned...
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Mahdali’s Year
A funny yet terrifying incident took place back in 1937 when an armed gang, or at least that was the people thought at the time, kept robbing houses. People used to hear gunshots at night and immediately lock their doors and windows and stay up all night to resist the robbers in case they were attacked by the gang that used to rob a different neighborhood every night. People were terrified for a whole week, and news about the gang of robbers...
GAZA: A knife and the Palestinian national flag are placed on a mannequin outside a store in Gaza City. There has been a wave of mainly stabbingnattacks by Palestinians against Israelis that have raised concerns of a full-blown uprising akin to the first and second intifadas. — AFP
Egyptian flooding drowns Gaza's tunnel business - Egypt campaign more damaging than Israeli bombing
GAZA: A knife and the Palestinian national flag are placed on a mannequin outside a store in Gaza City. There has been a wave of mainly stabbingattacks by Palestinians against Israelis that have raised concerns of a full-blown uprising akin to the first and second intifadas. — AFPGAZA: Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with...
HASSANA: Egyptian Military experts examine a piece of an engine at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt on Sunday, Nov 1, 2015. —AP
Islamic State affiliate insists it brought down Russian plane
HASSANA: Egyptian Military experts examine a piece of an engine at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt on Sunday, Nov 1, 2015. —APCAIRO: Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate dismissed in an audio message yesterday doubts that it had downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all aboard, and said it would tell the world how did so in its own time. The...
MADAROUNFA: Women with their children wait for a consultation in a health centre in Madarounfa. Armed only with a medical bag and her determination, nurse Salamatou Zahadi battles heat and fatigue to look after pregnant and nursing women in Maradi, one of Niger’s poorest areas. —AFP
Forced marriages, too many babies quash hope for Niger's girls
MADAROUNFA: Women with their children wait for a consultation in a health centre in Madarounfa. Armed only with a medical bag and her determination, nurse Salamatou Zahadi battles heat and fatigue to look after pregnant and nursing women in Maradi, one of Niger’s poorest areas. —AFPMARADI: Fifteen-year-old Ousseina's dream of becoming a nurse is already over. "For me, school's finished," said the frail teenager who sells eggs by a roadstop...
BUCHAREST: In this June 9, 2015 file photo, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta adjusts his collar during a meeting with foreign media at the government headquarters. — AP
Romanian PM quits amid sleaze scandal, nightclub blaze fallout - 20,000 people protest in Bucharest
BUCHAREST: In this June 9, 2015 file photo, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta adjusts his collar during a meeting with foreign media at the government headquarters. — APBUCHAREST; Romania's embattled Prime Minister Victor Ponta, mired in a corruption scandal, resigned yesterday following a deadly nightclub blaze, a day after more than 20,000 people rallied in Bucharest to demand he step down.The 43-year-old announced his resignation on...
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Secular Bangladesh publisher defiant after machete attack
DHAKA: The secular Bangladeshi publisher who survived a horrific weekend attack at the hands of suspected Islamist extremists has vowed to continue his work, and says the country needs to do more to promote free speech. Ahmedur Rashid Tutul was chatting with two writers in the office of his publishing firm in Dhaka on Saturday, when a group of young men wielding machetes and meat cleavers stormed the building."Before we could realize what was...
A Kashmiri Muslim woman shouts slogans after Indian police detained separatist People’s Political Party (PPP) leader Hilal Ahmad War. —AP
Police detain hundreds before PM’s Kashmir visit
A Kashmiri Muslim woman shouts slogans after Indian police detained separatist People’s Political Party (PPP) leader Hilal Ahmad War. —APSRINAGAR: Indian authorities detained key separatist leaders and hundreds of their supporters to prevent them from holding a protest rally during a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kashmir this weekend, police said yesterday.Separatists have called for a march by a million people near the site of...
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Pakistan increases child sex abuse punishments
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has taken a step towards punishing the sexual abuse of girls with life imprisonment or even death after an influential parliamentary committee voted to amend current laws.The National Assembly’s standing committee approved the proposal by lawmaker Shaista Perveiz Malik on Tuesday, according to a statement on parliament’s website. “After detailed discussions, the committee unanimously passed the bill,” it said.The...
LESBOS: Afghan refugees gather around a fire to warm themselves from the early morning cold, after spending the night at a resting point, after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast. —AP
Afghans swell migrant tide as they flee war, unemployment - 'Every day there is another suicide attack'
LESBOS: Afghan refugees gather around a fire to warm themselves from the early morning cold, after spending the night at a resting point, after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast. —APKABUL: As a recent high school graduate from a middle-class Kabul family, Mohammed Fahim Aazar has the means to go to college and pursue a profession in Afghanistan, but instead he's acquired a $5,600 visa and a plane ticket to Turkey, where he will...
MALE: Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) personnel patrol the streets after a state of emergency was declared yesterday. — AP
Maldives turmoil deepens - Authorities declare state of emergency
MALE: Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) personnel patrol the streets after a state of emergency was declared yesterday. — APMALE: The Maldives declared a state of emergency yesterday, as President Abdulla Yameen sought to shore up his power over the Indian Ocean island nation following a suspected assassination attempt. Citing a threat to national security, the foreign ministry announced on its official Twitter feed that emergency rule...
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Jazeera Airways Group announces 11.7% rise in year-to-date net profit
KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways today announced its third quarter financial results. The company recorded a 2.4% rise in net profit for the quarter, bringing its nine-month net profit to KD14.5 million, reflecting an 11.7% increase over the same period last year.Q3 Financial Highlights:*Operating revenue: KD21.0 million, less 0.9% from Q3 2014*Operating profit: KD8.5 million, up 14.9% from Q3 2014*Net profit: KD8.3 million, up 2.4% from Q3 2014Nine-month...
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani poses with ministers and delegates from the region, including Kuwaiti Deputy PM and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah, attending an anti-drug trafficking conference on July 22, 2024. - AFP
Iraq becoming major drug conduit
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The Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) CEO Nadia Al-Hajji. KUNA
Petrochemical Industries Co.: KD 39 mln net profit 2023-24 fiscal year
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Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Higher Education, Lamia Al-Melhem holds talks with the Omani Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation, Dr Rahma Al-Mahruqiya. - KUNA
Kuwait, Oman discuss education, research
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KOLKATA: Students take part in a demonstration in Kolkata on July 22, 2024, demanding an end to government crackdowns against protesters in Bangladesh. — AFP
Bangladesh students suspend protests
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Councilmembers approve projects and specifications