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Proud’ Son sparks Koreans to win over China, Philippines crashes out DUBAI: Iran claimed bragging rights over arch-rivals Iraq yesterday as they finished top of their Asian Cup group after an engrossing but goalless draw at a packed Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai. The latest instalment in one of football’s great rivalries failed to live […]

NAIROBI: Kenya said its forces yesterday ended a terror attack on a luxury hotel complex that claimed 14 lives, after a 20-hour operation that rescued hundreds of people and left all five assailants dead. The attack was claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Somali group Al-Shabaab, which has targeted Kenya since it sent its army into Somalia […]

KUWAIT: An informed security source said the residency affairs department will soon introduce residency renewals online, and the process will start with article 20 (domestic help) residencies. The source said citizens will be able to renew residency permits of their helpers online after the department implements procedures to speed up the process. Meanwhile, the Farwaniya […]

KUWAIT: After the Philippines said it will assist Filipino children born out of wedlock abroad, an official at the embassy in Kuwait said 484 such children were repatriated to Manila last year, adding that this was done in cooperation with Kuwaiti interior ministry. Seven hours The social affairs ministry said decision no. 2/2018 of the […]

Finance ministry denies limiting compensation to KD 1,000 for rain-hit car owners KUWAIT: Climate change has become a “serious” issue in Kuwait given the bursts of heavy rain that soaked the state recently, a Kuwaiti official said yesterday. The international community is working to meet the objectives of a landmark 2015 global deal to tackle […]

KUWAIT: The constitutional court set next Monday to review an objection filed by MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei regarding the implementation of a ruling by the court declaring a key article of the National Assembly’s internal charter as unconstitutional. The court last month ruled that article 16 of the Assembly charter was unconstitutional, which means that the […]

MINAHASA, Indonesia: An Indonesian woman has been mauled to death by a huge pet crocodile on the island of Sulawesi, officials said yesterday. Deasy Tuwo, the head of a laboratory at a pearl farm in Minahasa in North Sulawesi, was killed by the 4.4-m reptile last Thursday, authorities said. The 44-year old’s badly mauled body […]

QAMISHLI, Syria: A suicide attack killed US servicemen in northern Syria yesterday, causing the United States to suffer its worst combat losses in the war-torn country since 2014 as it prepares to withdraw. The bombing claimed by the Islamic State group comes after US President Donald Trump’s shock announcement last month that he was ordering […]

DOHA: Qatar’s beIN media group yesterday stepped up its campaign against alleged Saudi-backed piracy, launching a website exposing what it says is wide-scale theft of its programs. The “reveal all” beoutq.tv website went live with the aim of holding the pirate operation to account, a statement said. “What started out as a concerted and targeted […]