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Crown Prince shooting tourney on target
Eng. Duaij Khalaf Al-OtaibiKUWAIT: HH The Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah shooting championship will be launched today, with the participation of shooters from all six GCC member countries at Sabah Al- Ahmad Olympic Shooting Complex. HH The Crown Prince will be represented by Hawally Governor Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.President of the Higher Organizing Committee, President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations...
KUALA LUMPUR: In this Jan 28, 2015 file photo, a Muslim tourist couple walks under an arch of traditional Chinese lanterns at a shopping mall. - AP
'Halal tourism' emerges to serve Muslim travelers
KUALA LUMPUR: In this Jan 28, 2015 file photo, a Muslim tourist couple walks under an arch of traditional Chinese lanterns at a shopping mall. - APABU DHABI: A rental company in Orlando, Florida, is offering "halal vacation homes" with curtained pool decks and rooms with prayer mats and copies of the Holy Quran. A British company's app lists gourmet restaurants serving halal meat in London and Dubai, while a Boston-based developer's app offers...
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh, on the northern outskirts of Ramallah, yesterday. UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned of a “dangerous escalation” and urged Israelis and Palestinians to move quickly to calm nearly three weeks of unrest during a visit to Jerusalem. — AFP
Palestinian shot dead after stabbing military officer - UN chief urges calm amid Palestinian-Israeli violence
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh, on the northern outskirts of Ramallah, yesterday. UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned of a “dangerous escalation” and urged Israelis and Palestinians to move quickly to calm nearly three weeks of unrest during a visit to Jerusalem. — AFPJERUSALEM: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for calm during a surprise visit to Jerusalem yesterday ahead of...
Yem Chhrin, 55, is escorted by Cambodian police officials at a court in Battambang province yesterday. An unlicensed Cambodian doctor who allegedly infected more than 200 people with HIV, including some who later died, went on trial for murder yesterday. — AFP
Cambodian on trial for infecting 200 with HIV
Yem Chhrin, 55, is escorted by Cambodian police officials at a court in Battambang province yesterday. An unlicensed Cambodian doctor who allegedly infected more than 200 people with HIV, including some who later died, went on trial for murder yesterday. — AFPPHNOM PENH: An unlicensed medical practitioner who infected more than 200 villagers in northwestern Cambodia with HIV by reusing unclean needles went on trial yesterday, facing three...
Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie wave on stage in Montreal yesterday after winning the general elections. — AFP
Canada’s Liberals storm to landslide win
Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie wave on stage in Montreal yesterday after winning the general elections. — AFPOTTAWA: Canada's Liberals won a landslide general election victory Monday, with young leader Justin Trudeau ending a decade of Conservative rule with pledges to raise taxes on the rich in a struggling economy.For many Canadians the vote was a referendum on outgoing premier Stephen Harper's management...
Triceten D. Bickford
US student arrested in attack on Muslim woman
Triceten D. BickfordBLOOMINGTON: A 19-year-old Indiana University student accused in a racially motivated attack on a Muslim woman says he had been drinking alcohol and had not taken his anti-anxiety medication prior to the incident.Court records show Triceten D. Bickford faces multiple felony charges including intimidation, strangulation and battery in the Saturday evening attack in a cafe in Bloomington, Indiana. He was released on $500 bond...
Supporters of the PEGIDA movement, “Patriotische Europaeer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes,” which translates to “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident” gather at a protest rally yesterday in Dresden, eastern Germany. — AFP
3 journalists attacked at German anti-Islam rally
Supporters of the PEGIDA movement, “Patriotische Europaeer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes,” which translates to “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident” gather at a protest rally yesterday in Dresden, eastern Germany. — AFPBERLIN: The German Federation of Journalists union called on authorities yesterday to prosecute those responsible for attacks on reporters at an anti-Islam rally in the eastern city of...
People sit on the ground as they wait with other migrants and refugees to enter a registration camp after crossing the Greece-Macedonia border near Gevgelija yesterday. A surge of 10,000 migrants crossed from Macedonia into Serbia overnight on October 18 to 19 and headed for the Croatian border, where 3,000 had gathered by October 19 morning, said Mirjana Ivanovic Milenkovski with the UN refugee agency in Serbia. — AFP
Erdogan accuses EU of being 'not sincere' - EU, Turkey remain divided, despite migrant challenge
People sit on the ground as they wait with other migrants and refugees to enter a registration camp after crossing the Greece-Macedonia border near Gevgelija yesterday. A surge of 10,000 migrants crossed from Macedonia into Serbia overnight on October 18 to 19 and headed for the Croatian border, where 3,000 had gathered by October 19 morning, said Mirjana Ivanovic Milenkovski with the UN refugee agency in Serbia. — AFPBRUSSELS: Never waste a...
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Sri Lankan judge says war crimes claims ‘credible’
COLOMBO: Allegations that Sri Lankan troops committed war crimes are "credible", a judge appointed by the island's former president has concluded in a report presented to parliament yesterday. The findings mark the first time a domestic inquiry has said there is evidence the army committed war crimes, and are all the more remarkable given that the report was commissioned by Mahinda Rajapakse. Sri Lanka's former strongman leader oversaw the final...
In this photograph taken on December 8, 2014, Indian police escort Uber taxi driver and accused rapist Shiv Kumar Yadav (C) following his court appearance in New Delhi. An Indian court yesterday, has convicted an Uber driver of raping a young female passenger in the capital last year, his lawyer and the public prosecutor said, in a high profile case that sparked fresh safety fears in a city plagued by sexual violence. — AFP
Delhi court finds Uber driver guilty of rape
In this photograph taken on December 8, 2014, Indian police escort Uber taxi driver and accused rapist Shiv Kumar Yadav (C) following his court appearance in New Delhi. An Indian court yesterday, has convicted an Uber driver of raping a young female passenger in the capital last year, his lawyer and the public prosecutor said, in a high profile case that sparked fresh safety fears in a city plagued by sexual violence. — AFPNEW DELHI: An Indian...
Residents ride on a farm tractor with their belongings including motorcycles as they cross floodwaters over a national highway due to heavy rains brought about by typhoon Koppu in La Paz town, Tarlac province north of Manila yesterday. Heavy rain deepened flood misery in farming and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines yesterday, after the latest typhoon to hit the storm-ravaged nation killed at least 22 people. — AFP
Flood misery in Philippines after Koppu typhoon kills 22 - Second strongest storm to hit Philippines this year
Residents ride on a farm tractor with their belongings including motorcycles as they cross floodwaters over a national highway due to heavy rains brought about by typhoon Koppu in La Paz town, Tarlac province north of Manila yesterday. Heavy rain deepened flood misery in farming and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines yesterday, after the latest typhoon to hit the storm-ravaged nation killed at least 22 people. — AFPLA PAZ:...
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DAMASCUS: Syria's interim prime minister Mohammad Al-Bashir addresses worshippers during Friday prayers at Umayyad Mosque on Dec 13, 2024. - AFP (See Page 5)
Syria too exhausted for Zionist conflict amid Hezb warning
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LYON: A photo shows containers being loading and unloading onto barges on the Rhone at the Edouard Herriot Port in Lyon, eastern France. A new French cargo fret shipowner CMA-CGM is established in the port of Lyon. - AFP
Credit ratings agency hands France surprise downgrade
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Kuwait, US reaffirm strong ties
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Jockeys take part in the first horse race of the season at the Biligoni racecourse in Chad.—AFP photos
‘Last of Mohicans’: Chadians saddle up for bush horse racing
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KUWAIT: Exam proctors search students before they enter the exam hall to take their final exams in this file photo. — KUNA
MoE forms new exam printing press committee after violations found