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Kuwait cricket team to play UAE Masters Premier League
KUWAIT: For the very first time a Hard Tennis Cricket Team from Kuwait is participating in a GCC Cricket Tournament, Vanoo Masters Premiere League to be held in Dubai in Oct 15-16, 2015. VMPL Dubai 2015 is going to be a grand event as this tournament will be graced by many celebrities and personalities from India. Teams from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar & Kuwait will be participating in this 2-day tournament which promises to be an action-packed...
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Iraq claims IS chief Baghdadi hit in raid
Abu Bakr Al-BaghdadiBAGHDAD: Iraq claimed yesterday to have struck a convoy carrying Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in an air raid near the Syrian border but said his fate was unknown. In Syria, meanwhile, regime troops backed by Russian air strikes made progress on two fronts but were battling other rebel groups. And Syria's opposition National Coalition said it will boycott UN-proposed peace talks, citing the Russian air...
GAZA: Palestinian father Yehya Hasan mourns while holding the body of his daughter, Rahaf, during a funeral for the toddler and her pregnant mother yesterday at the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. - AFP
Israeli strike kills mother and child
GAZA: Palestinian father Yehya Hasan mourns while holding the body of his daughter, Rahaf, during a funeral for the toddler and her pregnant mother yesterday at the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. - AFPGAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her toddler, drawing a warning yesterday from Islamist movement Hamas, as unrest spun further towards a full-scale uprising. After days of unrest in the...
Relatives mourn near the coffin of a victim of the twin bombings in Ankara, during the funeral. — AFP
Turkey mourns deadliest terror attack - Thousands rally against government, Erdogan
Relatives mourn near the coffin of a victim of the twin bombings in Ankara, during the funeral. — AFPANKARA: Thousands of people took to the streets of Ankara yesterday to denounce the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after 95 people were killed in twin suspected suicide bombings on a peace rally, Turkey's worst ever terror attack. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared three days of national mourning, with flags flying at half...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts to his introduction during a campaign rally held at the North Atlanta Trade Center. — AP
Condo owners in Panama tells Trump: You're fired! - Allegations of mismanagement and overspending
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts to his introduction during a campaign rally held at the North Atlanta Trade Center. — APPANAMA CITY: The directors of a massive Trump-branded luxury condominium development in Panama fired Donald Trump's company in the summer over allegations of mismanagement, overspending and undisclosed bonuses executives paid themselves.The coup at Central America's largest building, Panama City Trump...
Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani, (center) speaks with lawmakers in an open session of parliament while discussing a bill on Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers. —AP
Fiery scenes as Iran MPs give partial nod to nuclear deal - Death threats, accusations highlight intense debate
Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani, (center) speaks with lawmakers in an open session of parliament while discussing a bill on Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers. —APTEHRAN: Iran's parliament gave a partial nod to a nuclear deal with world powers yesterday but only after fiery clashes and allegations from a top negotiator that a lawmaker had threatened to kill him. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, went on the...
Masked Palestinian protestors help an injured comrade during clashes with Israeli security forces at the Hawara checkpoint. —AFP
Palestinian leaders seek to keep lid on Israel clashes
Masked Palestinian protestors help an injured comrade during clashes with Israeli security forces at the Hawara checkpoint. —AFPRAMALLAH: Stones or bullets? For now, the Palestinian leadership hopes protesters have learned lessons from the second intifada and stick to the former in clashes with Israeli security forces, officials say.During that uprising, from 2000 to 2005, armed Palestinian security forces confronted the Israelis. But now, as...
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Fifty dead as Boko Haram bombard Lake Chad area
YAOUNDÉ: Twin suicide blasts yesterday killed at least nine people in far northern Cameroon, a day after 41 died in triple explosions in Chad that were blamed on Boko Haram. Both nations are part of the coalition that has been fighting the jihadists, which in recent months have been launching bloody assaults well beyond their traditional fiefdom in northern Nigeria.Two female suicide bombers carried out the attacks in Kangaleri village, around...
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Taleban suicide bomb targets NATO convoy
KABUL: A Taleban suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in central Kabul yesterday, triggering a powerful explosion in an attack that comes two weeks after the resurgent militant group overran a key northern city. The rush-hour bombing, which sent a plume of smoke into the sky, wounded at least three civilians including a child, as the Taleban ramp up attacks on government and foreign targets.The intensity of the blast sent an armored vehicle...
Hindu temple priest Ram Mangal Das caresses a cow at his ‘Gaushala’ or shelter for cattle. “We should drink cow’s milk, not its blood,” Das said.
As Hindu party leads India, beef grows more political - 'We should decide if Hindus want to fight Muslims or poverty'
Hindu temple priest Ram Mangal Das caresses a cow at his ‘Gaushala’ or shelter for cattle. “We should drink cow’s milk, not its blood,” Das said.NEW DELHI: The legislator was full of outrage when he arrived in the north Indian village days after the killing of a Muslim farmer who was rumored to have slaughtered cows. A Hindu mob had smashed through the heavy wooden door to the man's home, then beat him to death with his wife's sewing...
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Philippine firms on billion dollar shopping spree - 'Filipino companies are moving into global space'
MANILA: Philippine firms are on an unprecedented global shopping spree, spending billions on everything from vineyards to food manufacturers and casinos, reflecting the nation's recent economic rise. A combination of strong domestic growth, bargain prices in retreating economies abroad and rock-bottom borrowing rates have fuelled the acquisitions, analysts said.The Southeast Asian nation has for years exported shopping malls and junk food to the...
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DHAKA: An unidentified man bleeds after being shot during a clash between police and anti-quota protesters on July 19, 2024. - AFP
Bangladesh court winds back job quotas that sparked unrest
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KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Sheikh Salem Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah chairs a meeting of the Supreme Traffic Council on July 21, 2024. - KUNA
Smooth flow traffic eyed
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US President Joe Biden
BIDEN DROPS OUT OF RACE
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HODEIDA: This handout satellite image shows a view of burning oil tanks in the port of Yemen’s Houthi-held city of Hodeida on July 21, 2024, a day after Zionist airstrikes. - AFP
Kuwait expresses concern as Zionists attack Yemen