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Pope urges conservatives to be open to changes in the Church

Conservatives see heresy in synod's working documentVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis appealed to conservatives yesterday not to be bound by the status quo as he opened an assembly of bishops to discuss the future of the Roman Catholic Church in the Amazon, including the possibility of introducing married priests. At a Mass in St Peter's Basilica opening the synod, Francis also denounced past and present forms of colonialism and said some of the fires...

Rohingya refugees look on during a protest march to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp. (AFP)

Bangladesh troops accused of raping a Rohingya girl

DHAKA: The Bangladesh military said it has ordered an investigation after a Rohingya family in a refugee camp accused army troops of raping a 12-year-old girl. The inquiry comes as around a million Rohingya in vast camps in Bangladesh face increasing hostility two years after fleeing a military offensive in Myanmar. Mohammad Osman, an elder brother of the alleged victim, said three soldiers entered their shanty at the Nayapara Rohingya camp on...

KFH team at Sibos conference in London

KFH Group participates in Sibos 2019 conference in London

Bank holds bilateral talks with 83 entities from 32 countriesKUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House Group (KFH Group) participated in Sibos 2019 conference, an annual conference for global banks to meet and discuss current business opportunities and the future of banking and FinTech. At the 4-day conference held in London, KFH Group demonstrated its innovative Islamic financial products and services to the correspondent banks and international financial...

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Painting by prostitute killer stirs outrage in South Africa

A South African university has come under fire for displaying a painting by a man jailed for kicking a prostitute to death, with outrage brimming in one of the world's most dangerous countries for women. Zwelethu Mthethwa's work has been on display at the University of Pretoria's Javett Art Centre since September. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2017 for savagely killing 23-year-old Nokuphila Kumalo four years earlier. His 1996 oeuvre,...

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FILM REVIEW : Joker

For better or for worse, Joker is a film beset with expectations. Whether those expectations are good or bad, positive or negative -they will nonetheless sway your mind one way or the other by the time the credits roll. Joker stands on the shoulders of Scorsese's masterpiece 'Taxi Driver' and borrows a slew of its themes from 'The King of Comedy' and Nolan's 'The Dark Knight'. It walks a tightrope between outright ripping of those previous films...

DOHA: Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan wins the Women’s 1500m final at the 2019 IAAF Athletics World Championships at the Khalifa International stadium in Doha. —AFP

‘I am clean’ Hassan leads round of golden doubles at worlds

Gatlin joy as US lift 4 x 100 metres relay goldDOHA: Sifan Hassan made light of the doping ban handed to her coach Alberto Salazar to complete an historic 1,500/10,000 metres double at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday as a host of stars celebrated golden repeat performances. Hassan destroyed the 1,500 metres championship record -- which had stood for 16 years -- in what she admitted had been a "tough week" due to Salazar's four-year...

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HH the Crown Prince shooting tournament begins on Thursday

Obaid Al-Osaimi KUWAIT: Arab and Kuwait Shooting Federations Secretary General Obaid Al-Osaimi lauded the continued support by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to the sport of shooting, adding that Kuwait Shooting Sport Club begins its season with a tournament of HH the Crown Prince. The tournament will start on October 10 in the Olympic skeet and trap, as well as 10m air pistol and rifle and 50m pistol and rifle in...

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Shami, Jadeja help India go 1-0 up in SA Test series

VISAKHAPATNAM: Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja took nine wickets between them as India outplayed South Africa, winning by 203 runs on the final day of the first Test yesterday. Set a daunting target of 395, the tourists were bundled out for 191 in the second session in Visakhapatnam, giving India a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Shami returned figures of 5-35 while Jadeja took four wickets to help current leaders India grab 40 points in...

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Health insurance online only

KUWAIT: The interior ministry's PR and security media department said as part of the ministry's efforts to automate services provided to expats, it decided to automate health insurance services and make them available only online. Accordingly, effective today, Oct 6, 2019, all health insurance paperwork will be halted in favor of online payment at all residency affairs departments, it said, noting that paper slips will be accepted at various...

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Power to be connected to West Abdullah Al-Mubarak homes

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) is scheduled to start the first phase of connecting power to plots in West Abdullah Al-Mubarak by the end of this month, with the second phase in Feb 2020 and the third in June 2020. In this regard, informed sources said Minister of State for Housing Affairs Jenan Bushehri is considering issuing a decision to put on hold the deduction of Kuwait Credit Bank installments from citizens residing in...

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Migrant smuggling undermines peace, security in Libya: Kuwait

Kuwait concerned at issues in African Great Lakes regionNEW YORK: The continued smuggling of irregular migrants into, through and from Libyan territory contributes to undermining peace and stability in Libya, Kuwait's mission at the United Nations said on Friday. This came during a speech delivered by the First Secretary Abdulaziz Al-Ajmi at a Security Council session after the adoption of resolution 2491 on the inspection of ships off Libya's...

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Kuwait aspires to more flights with India: ambassador

NEW DELHI: Kuwait is looking forward to enhance cooperation with India by increasing number of flights between the two friendly countries, Kuwaiti Ambassador to India Jassim Al-Najem said on Friday. Najem made this statement after meeting with Indian Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Minister of State for Civil Aviation Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and delivering an official letter requesting to increase the number of seats between...

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KUWAIT: Interior ministry officials have monitored and conducted several inspection campaigns across the country.

MoI continues crackdown on traffic, residency law violators

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LONDON: Britain's incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria wave as they pose on the steps of 10 Downing Street on July 5, 2024. - AFP

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HATHRAS, India: Mourners gather as the deceased who died in a stampede during a sermon are kept at a mortuary at Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state on July 3, 2024. -- AFP

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