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Kuwaiti Nights
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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ICC withdraws Pakistani umpire from India games
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced yesterday that it has withdrawn Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar from the one-day games in India following activists’ attacks to disrupt talks between officials of the two countries. Officials from Pakistan and India were due to talk on a proposed series between the arch-rivals in December-January in the United Arab Emirates, when activists stormed into Indian Cricket’s Mumbai office.They...
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Platini hits back over FIFA payment row
Michel PlatiniPARIS: UEFA chief Michel Platini yesterday admitted he had no written contract for a $2.0 million payment from FIFA president Sepp Blatter as his chances of replacing the Swiss veteran as head of the world body nosedived ahead of a key FIFA council meeting in Zurich today. In his first interview since being handed a 90-day suspension from all football-related activities by FIFA, the former star player for France and Juventus told...
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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)
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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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French fashion designer Matthieu Blazy arrives to attend The BoF 500 Gala at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, on the sidelines of the Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2025, on September 28, 2024.—AFP
Chanel looks to the future with new artistic director Blazy