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An August 6, 2015 photo shows prime time Republican presidential primary debate moderator Megyn Kelly (C) flanked by fellow moderators Chris Wallace (L) and Bret Baier (R) moments before the candidates arrived on stage at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald Trump has been disinvited from a Republican party event on August 8, 2015 over a suggestion that a debate moderator was tough on him because she was menstruating. The off-handed comment unleashed a new storm of criticism of Trump and put him in spin control mode as he sought to nuance his remark. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN
Trump barred from conservative gathering after latest barb
An August 6, 2015 photo shows prime time Republican presidential primary debate moderator Megyn Kelly (C) flanked by fellow moderators Chris Wallace (L) and Bret Baier (R) moments before the candidates arrived on stage at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald Trump has been disinvited from a Republican party event on August 8, 2015 over a suggestion that a debate moderator was tough on him because she was menstruating. The...
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Twelve dead as Mali hotel siege ends - South African, Russian, Ukrainian hostages freed
(FILES) -- A file photo taken on June 2, 2015 shows soldiers of the Malian Army Forces securing the pist between Goundam and Timbuktu, northern Mali, during the joint operation "La Madine 3", part of the Operation Barkhane, an anti-terrorist operation in the Sahel. Twelve people including a South African and another foreigner were killed in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali that ended early August 7, 2015 when government troops stormed...
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Kuwaiti pavilion visitors may reach 1 million: General Consul
MILAN: Kuwait's General Consul in Milan Abdulnasser Boukhaddour has expressed satisfaction for the high turnout of visitors to the Kuwaiti pavilion at Expo Milan 2015 exhibition saying the figure may swell to one million in weeks.In a statement to KUNA, the General Consulate quoted him as expressing deep pleasure after number of people showing up at the corner reached 750,000 on Thursday. Such a high turn-up, three months after launch of the...
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Amir departs Egypt, heads to Mongolia
CAIRO: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah left Egypt Thursday afternoon after taking part in the new Suez Canal inauguration ceremony. His Highness the Amir headed to Mongolia in a private visit.His Highness the Amir sent a cable to Egyptian President Abdelfatah Al-Sisi to congratulate him on the inauguration of the new Suez Canal. This great project, notched in a record time thanks to the contributions of the Egyptian...
CLEVELAND, OH - AUGUST 06: Republican presidential candidates (L-R) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush participate in the first prime-time presidential debate hosted by FOX News and Facebook at the Quicken Loans Arena August 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio. The top-ten GOP candidates were selected to participate in the debate based on their rank in an average of the five most recent national political polls. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Trump hogs limelight at Republican debate - Mogul draws boos from crowd, rivals' rebukes
CLEVELAND, OH - AUGUST 06: Republican presidential candidates (L-R) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush participate in the first prime-time presidential debate hosted by FOX News and Facebook at the Quicken Loans Arena August 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio. The top-ten GOP candidates were selected to participate in the debate based on their rank in an average of the five most recent national political polls. Chip Somodevilla/Getty...
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Car thief arrested, search on for accomplice - Duo arrested in abortion case
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested a man responsible for multiple car break-in and theft cases reported across Kuwait. The suspect, an Ethiopian national, was ambushed in his residence after he was identified and monitored, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The man admitted responsibility for crimes in which he would follow bank clients who withdraw cash from ATM machines until they leave their vehicles. He would then break into the...
CORRECTS NAME OF BRONZE MEDALIST - Australia's Bronte Campbell, centre, holds her gold medal with her sister and bronze medalist Cate, left, and silver medalist Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom after winning the women's 100m freestyle final at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Campbell sisters keep it in the family
CORRECTS NAME OF BRONZE MEDALIST - Australia's Bronte Campbell, centre, holds her gold medal with her sister and bronze medalist Cate, left, and silver medalist Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom after winning the women's 100m freestyle final at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)KAZAN: The sisters of speed are keeping the 100-meter freestyle title all in the family. Bronte Campbell led all the...
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Refugees cheer, pray, embrace strangers as they reach Greece
Migrants clean their clothes in a park in central Athens on August 7, 2015, where they have found temporary shelter after arriving from Greek islands. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on August 7 said a huge influx of migrants and refugees "surpassed" his debt-hit country's abilities as he announced a raft of measures and asked for EU help to handle the crisis A new housing centre will soon be completed near the Athens centre to relocate...
The house of 31-year-old Tomislav Salopek is pictured in Vrpolje in eastern Croatia on August 6, 2015. Egypt's affiliate of the Islamic State group threatened August 5, 2015 to execute a Croatian kidnapped in Cairo last month within 48 hours if Muslim women jailed in Egypt are not freed. The man is the first foreigner to be abducted and threatened with death by militants in Egypt since an Islamist insurgency erupted two years ago. In a video posted online by the jihadists, the Croatian identifies himself as Tomislav Salopek working for French geoscience company CGG, and appears kneeling at the feet of a hooded man holding a knife. AFP PHOTO / STRINGER +++ CROATIA OUT
Fears mount for Croatian abducted by Islamic State
The house of 31-year-old Tomislav Salopek is pictured in Vrpolje in eastern Croatia on August 6, 2015. Egypt's affiliate of the Islamic State group threatened August 5, 2015 to execute a Croatian kidnapped in Cairo last month within 48 hours if Muslim women jailed in Egypt are not freed. The man is the first foreigner to be abducted and threatened with death by militants in Egypt since an Islamist insurgency erupted two years ago. In a video...
In this picture released on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 by the Rased News Network a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants, an Islamic State militant holds the group's flag as he stands on a tank they captured from Syrian government forces, in the town of Qaryatain southwest of Palmyra, central Syria. The Islamic State group on Thursday seized a key town in central Syria following heavy clashes with President Bashar Assad's forces, in the militants' biggest advance since capturing the historic town of Palmyra in May, Syrian activists said. (Rased News Network a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants via AP)
Islamic State abducts dozens of Christians Hundreds of people remain missing in Syria
In this picture released on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 by the Rased News Network a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants, an Islamic State militant holds the group's flag as he stands on a tank they captured from Syrian government forces, in the town of Qaryatain southwest of Palmyra, central Syria. The Islamic State group on Thursday seized a key town in central Syria following heavy clashes with President Bashar Assad's forces, in...
Blood is seen on the floor where Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, was murdered at his home in Dhaka on August 7, 2015. A gang armed with machetes hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka August 7, 2015, sparking protests in the capital over the fourth such murder in Bangladesh this year. AFP PHOTO
Secular blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh - Fourth such murder this year
Blood is seen on the floor where Bangladeshi blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, was murdered at his home in Dhaka on August 7, 2015. A gang armed with machetes hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka August 7, 2015, sparking protests in the capital over the fourth such murder in Bangladesh this year. AFP PHOTODHAKA: A gang armed with machetes hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka...
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'Africans slashed, Arabs thrashed' by traffickers - Italy arrests five men accused of multiple murders
This combination of pictures made on August 7, 2015 of handout pictures taken and released by Italian Police in Palermo on August 7, 2015 shows (L-R) Suud Mujassabi, Imad Busadia, Shauki Esshaush, Ali Rouibah and Abdullah Assnusi, arrested on suspicion of people trafficking and survivors of an August 5 shipwreck carrying over 600 migrants which left more than 200 people feared drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan coast. Three Libyans...
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