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KU’s College of Arts and Indian embassy plan Kuwait-India Day - India offering 5-year business visas to Kuwaitis

Ambassador Sunil JainKUWAIT: The College of Arts at the Kuwait University and the Embassy of India in Kuwait propose to jointly hold a ‘Kuwait-India Cultural Day’ sometime in November or December this year, bringing together the cultural legacies of the two friendly countries.The idea of holding a cultural day evolved during a function organized at the College of Arts of the Kuwait University yesterday when the Indian embassy handed over 64...

Ali Khalil Al-Zaydi, a Kuwaiti photographer, who won the palme d’or of the third GCC visual art forum 2015, displays his works. —KUNA

Kuwaiti photographer wins palme d’or of GCC art forum

Ali Khalil Al-Zaydi, a Kuwaiti photographer, who won the palme d’or of the third GCC visual art forum 2015, displays his works. —KUNADOHA: Ali Khalil Al-Zaydi, a Kuwaiti photographer, won on Sunday night the palme d’or of the third GCC visual art forum 2015. His five winning photographs depict various cultures and social traditions; they were taken from India, Nepal and Ethiopia. After the prize-giving ceremony, Al-Zaydi expressed joy for...

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Initially, it seems that some ministers know nothing about international agreements the state has signed. The statements they make have proved this because the anti-racial discrimination treaty completely contradicts the notion to allocate Jaber Hospital only for Kuwaiti patients, as recently stated by the health minister. The ‘Kuwaiti Nights’ program launched at the beginning of October is part of media awareness and development by KTV,...

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Egypt’s change reflects trust

Egypt’s winning a UN Security Council’s non-permanent seat for two years starting from January after it won 179 votes out of a total of 193 UN General Assembly members is absolutely a great achievement for a state that has always proved itself over its thousands of years long ancient history or its recent one. It reflects a real public reaction from a people that longed for change and liberty while protecting their national identity and...

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Colleague bashes up woman at work

KUWAIT: A woman reported to Fahd Al-Ahmad police that she was badly beaten by her colleague at work. The beaten woman is 8 months pregnant and most of the blows were to her abdomen, but she only complained of pain in her face because of a blow from her female colleague. Both work for a bank in the area.Break-inCriminal evidence men went to a sports equipment company in Ardiya which was the target of a break-in. The company manager called police...

A wounded Eritrean, is evacuated from the scene of an attack. Israeli security officials said a 21-year-old Arab citizen of Israel, opened fire in a southern Israeli bus station, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people. — A

Eritrean shot, lynched by Israeli mob - ‘It shows you what a terrible situation we are in’

A wounded Eritrean, is evacuated from the scene of an attack. Israeli security officials said a 21-year-old Arab citizen of Israel, opened fire in a southern Israeli bus station, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people. — AJERUSALEM: An Eritrean migrant shot by an Israeli security guard and then attacked by bystanders who mistook him for an assailant in a deadly bus station attack has died of his wounds, hospital officials said...

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Indian activists threaten to ‘skin’ tourist over tattoo

BANGALORE: Right-wing activists threatened to “skin” an Australian visitor who had a tattoo of a Hindu goddess on his leg, police said yesterday, adding they were looking for the culprits. Matthew Gordon was at a restaurant in the southern city of Bangalore with his girlfriend on Saturday when around a dozen activists from the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party began harassing the couple.They said a tattoo of the fertility...

Some migrants fight as others line up close to a border line between Serbia and Croatia. —AP

Migrants pour into Balkans, Germany braces for protest - PEGIDA movement spewing ‘hate and poison’

Some migrants fight as others line up close to a border line between Serbia and Croatia. —APLJUBLJANA: Thousands of migrants kept streaming yesterday into the Balkans, where tighter border controls caused bottlenecks, as the German government braced for an anniversary rally of the xenophobic PEGIDA movement, accusing it of spewing “hate and poison”. The unprecedented refugee wave into Europe has seen asylum seekers-mostly fleeing war in...

Jammu and Kashmir lawmaker Abdul Rashid Sheikh, (left) reacts after suspected activists of a right-wing organization threw ink on his face after he addressed a press conference yesterday. According to local reports Rashid had been protesting against the death of a Muslim teenager attacked by a Hindu mob over rumors of cows being slaughtered. — AFP

BJP officials rebuked for beef lynching reaction

Jammu and Kashmir lawmaker Abdul Rashid Sheikh, (left) reacts after suspected activists of a right-wing organization threw ink on his face after he addressed a press conference yesterday. According to local reports Rashid had been protesting against the death of a Muslim teenager attacked by a Hindu mob over rumors of cows being slaughtered. — AFPNEW DELHI: The head of India’s ruling Hindu nationalists has reprimanded some of the party’s...

A farmer rides his water buffalo to higher ground in Isabela province north of Manila yesterday, a day after typhoon Koppu hit Aurora province. —AFP

Typhoon Koppu kills at least 16, thousands still left stranded - ‘The worst flood I’ve seen in my entire life’

A farmer rides his water buffalo to higher ground in Isabela province north of Manila yesterday, a day after typhoon Koppu hit Aurora province. —AFPSANTA ROSA: Residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines were trapped on their rooftops yesterday and animals floated down fast-rising rivers, as the death toll from Typhoon Koppu climbed to 16. Koppu, the second strongest storm to hit the disaster-plagued Southeast Asian archipelago...

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KARACHI: Activists from Pakistan’s youth organization Shabab-e-Milli burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi protesting against Indian extremist group Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena extremists stormed the BCCI office in Indian city of Mumbai in an effort to prevent Pakistan Cricket Board chief to meet with India’s cricket officials. — AP

Indian activists storm BCCI over Pakistan talks

KARACHI: Activists from Pakistan’s youth organization Shabab-e-Milli burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi protesting against Indian extremist group Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena extremists stormed the BCCI office in Indian city of Mumbai in an effort to prevent Pakistan Cricket Board chief to meet with India’s cricket officials. — APMUMBAI: Dozens of activists stormed the Mumbai offices of India’s cricket board yesterday to...

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