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President Barack Obama, right, meets with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015, in Washington. The meeting comes as Saudi Arabia seeks assurances from the U.S. that the Iran nuclear deal comes with the necessary resources to help check Iranís regional ambitions. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama meets King Salman

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama welcomed Saudi Arabia's King Salman for a first and long-delayed White House summit yesterday, marked by warm public words amid clashing views on Middle Eastern crises. Obama made the rare move of greeting the monarch at the doors of the White House, as he hailed the "longstanding friendship" between the two countries. Salman's inaugural visit as king - originally scheduled for May and cancelled by Riyadh -...

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15-goal Qatar lead routs in Asia - Kuwait ease to 9-0 win over Myanmar

SINGAPORE: Qatar smashed 15 unanswered goals past Bhutan and the United Arab Emirates knocked in 10 against Malaysia in a lopsided round of World Cup qualifiers across Asia on Thursday.Kuwait eased to a 9-0 win over Myanmar, South Korea netted eight against lowly Laos and Asian champions Australia battered Bangladesh 5-0 as the continent's elite made light work of the region's plucky outsiders. Japan again looked disjointed in attack but still...

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Policemen hurt in car-chase accident

KUWAIT: A police patrol vehicle was heavily damaged in an accident at the Sheikh Zayed reserve in Doha. The incident took place when the patrol car was following a sports-utility-vehicle (SUV) in the area, but the driver refused to stop and headed to a sandy area near a popular cafÈ in Sulaibkhat. The patrol car's driver was surprised by a large water-filled ditch and the car fell in it, but the SUV driver avoided it and escaped. Two policemen...

RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTIONnIndian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture depicting drowned Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi at Puri beach, some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar, on September 4, 2015. Charities helping refugees saw a surge in donations on September 4 across Europe as people shocked by the heart-rending images of a drowned Syrian boy on a Turkish beach dug deep to help out. The photos of the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, lying on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, have triggered a wave of emotion across the continent, despite deep divisions among European governments on how to deal with the crisis. AFP PHOTO/ASIT KUMAR

Drowned migrant boys buried - Hungary warns of 'mass inflow' of refugees

KOBANI: A Syrian father yesterday buried his wife and his two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to Europe, while Hungary's leader told Europeans they risk becoming a minority on their own continent. With desperation and anger deepening among people escaping conflict and poverty, around 300 migrants broke out of a Hungarian reception camp while about 200 others scuffled with police on a Greek island.Austrian police also said the driver of...

British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, meets with his Portuguese counterpart Pedro Passos Coelho at the Sao Bento palace in Lisbon, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Cameron bows to pressure to take in more refugees - Move to improve lives of 4,000 Syrians

LISBON: Prime Minister David Cameron agreed yesterday that Britain would take in "thousands more" Syrian refugees, after an outpouring of emotion over the image of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach put him under pressure to act. Cameron gave no precise figures, but a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency told reporters in Geneva that the British move would improve the lives of 4,000 Syrians.As Europe seems at a loss to cope with...

This undated image released by UNESCO shows the site of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria. A satellite image on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 shows that the main building of the ancient Temple of Bel in the Syrian city of Palmyra has been destroyed, a United Nations agency said. The image was taken a day after a massive explosion was set off near the 2,000-year-old temple in the city occupied by Islamic State militants. (Ron Van Oers, UNESCO via AP)

IS blows up famed tower tombs at Syria's Palmyra - Tower tombs were symbols of economic boom

DAMASCUS: Islamic State group jihadists have blown up several of ancient Palmyra's famed tower tombs as they press their demolition of the UNESCO-listed world heritage site, Syria's antiquities chief said yesterday. IS has carried out a sustained campaign of destruction against heritage sites in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq, and in mid-August beheaded the 82-year-old former antiquities chief in Palmyra.News of the demolition of the...

In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 photo, Jai Ram Saber tends to plants at the house of politician Raghuraj Pratap Singh, who paid Saber's surety for release from a jail, in Lucknow, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Singh, who was locked up in 2010 on weapons charges that were later dismissed, said Saber was in jail for almost 20 years, 17 years more only because he was poor and did not have money to pay surety. There are tens of thousands of prisoners in Uttar Pradesh, where at least 70 percent of the state's 84,228 inmates have languished in jail because they cannot afford to pay bail while their cases take years or even decades to wend through India's notoriously slow and backlogged judicial system, according to the state’s Jail Ministry. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

In India, bail demands keep the poor imprisoned for years

LUCKNOW: Sixteen-year-old Suraj Chaudhry has been waiting for most of his life: For lawyers, for justice, for his father's eventual release from the prison after 14 years. His father should have been let out in 2003, but the impoverished family could not pay the 24,000 rupee bail (then worth $522, now worth $360) set by the court in the north Indian city of Lucknow. Suraj says his father was framed for murder because he was from the outcast...

CORRECTION-NAME SPELLINGnA foreign suspect in the August 17 Erawan shrine bombing, identified by the ruling junta as Adem Karadag (C), is escorted by soldiers as he arrives to be questioned by police officers at Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Station on September 4, 2015. Thai police on September 4 said the two men detained over the deadly Bangkok attack last month were unlikely to be the main bombing suspect as they hunt for a further seven people in connection with the crime. The two foreign suspects, identified by the ruling junta as Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili while their nationalities remain unconfirmed, are believed to be part of a group behind the August 17 blast at a religious shrine that killed 20 people. AFP PHOTO / Christophe ARCHAMBAULT

Two arrested over Bangkok attack unlikely the bomber - Authorities refuse to confirm men's nationalities

BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday said neither of the two men detained over the deadly Bangkok attack last month were believed to be the main bombing suspect-seen on CCTV wearing a yellow t-shirt and placing a rucksack under a bench at Erawan shrine moments before the blast. The two foreign suspects-identified as Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili but whose nationalities remain unconfirmed-are thought to be part of a group behind the August 17 blast...

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 29, 2015 file photo, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. French investigators have formally identified a washed-up piece of airplane debris found in July on a remote island in the Indian Ocean as part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 that disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard. (AP Photo/Lucas Marie, File)

Confirmed MH370 wing part won't change search: Australia - Flaperon has not yielded any clues

SYDNEY: Confirmation that a plane part that washed up on a remote island was from missing jet MH370 was useful but would not alter the search for the plane, Australian investigators said yesterday. Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, welcomed this week's news from France that the flaperon found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion was part of the missing Boeing 777. "We have been working on the assumption...

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Clerk jailed, gay Kentucky couple gets marriage license - 'I'm hoping that cooler heads will prevail'

MOREHEAD: A gay couple emerged from a Kentucky county clerk's office with a marriage license in hand yesterday morning, embracing and crying as the defiant clerk who runs the office remained jailed for her refusal to issue the licenses because she opposed same-sex marriage.William Smith Jr. and James Yates, a couple for nearly a decade, were the first to receive a marriage license yesterday morning in Rowan County. Deputy clerk Brian Mason issued...

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MasterCard unveils contactless payment platform in Kuwait - Payments made easier, safer and smarter

KUWAIT: MasterCard, a leader in global payments, has introduced the contactless payment solution in Kuwait in collaboration with Boubyan Bank, making payments easier, safer and smarter for consumers.Speaking to Kuwait Times in an interview, Raghav Prasad, General Manager - Gulf Countries at MasterCard, said the contactless solution has benefits for all parties involved in the payment process-from consumers to merchants to financial institutions....

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Minister orders investigation in patient's death

KUWAIT: Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi yesterday gave orders to form a committee to investigate the circumstances behind the death of a Kuwaiti patient who died at a public hospital recently. The decision came in response to public demands to investigate the case in which medical error is suspected to have caused the death of Saud Al-Juwaied Al-Azmi at Jahra Hospital.The investigation will cover all the patient's treatment stages, and...

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