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LOS ANGELES: The dinosaurs of “Jurassic World” stayed atop the cinematic food chain this weekend, snapping up another $54.2 million to keep Pixar’s “Inside Out” in second place at the North American box office, estimates showed Sunday. “Jurassic World” completed its third weekend in US and Canadian cinemas with an overall haul of $500 million, shattering US and worldwide records, ... Read More »

CAIRO: Egypt’s top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of militant attacks on the judiciary. Judges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radicals opposed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and angered by hefty prison ... Read More »

RIYADH: Medical studies and research for new methods in the treatment of chronic diseases suggests that fasting could help combat cancer and boost effectiveness of treatment. Scientists doing research on the positive aspects of fasting discovered that it triggers stem cell regeneration and combats cancer. Dr. Mashhor Al-Hantoushi, who heads the health and therapeutic affairs department at the Ministry of ... Read More »

JEDDAH: Motorbikes are among the most important means of transportation in Makkah during Ramadan because they are easy to use and cope easily with congestion in the central area next to the Grand Mosque. Despite the presence of public transportation, many Umrah pilgrims prefer to use motorbikes because of the large number of visitors.  Motorbike owners exploit the needs of ... Read More »

JEDDAH: The Saudi man who carried out a suicide bombing at a mosque in Kuwait on Friday had no previous convictions for terrorism, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry, through its Twitter account, announced that Fahad Suleiman Al-Gabbaa was born in 1992. “The security agencies have never dealt with him in the past for terror-related activities.” Twenty-seven people were killed ... Read More »

BRUSSELS: The European Central Bank was set to hold emergency talks on whether to continue its financial lifeline to Athens, as France warned there was a “real risk” of a Greek exit from the euro. After talks in Brussels broke down in acrimony between Athens’ left-wing leaders and the rest of the eurozone, Greece hurtled toward default with its EU-IMF ... Read More »

KHARTOUM: Twelve students including British, Canadian, Sudanese and US citizens are feared to have left Khartoum for Turkey to try to join Daesh, their university said on Sunday. Another group of British students of Sudanese origin from the same private University of Medical Sciences and Technology traveled to Turkey in March and it is believed they crossed into Syria. “We ... Read More »

VIENNA: A senior US official acknowledged Sunday that Iran nuclear talks will go past their June 30 target date, as Iran’s foreign minister prepared to head home for consultations before returning to push for a breakthrough. Iranian media said Mohammed Javad Zarif’s trip was planned in advance. Still, the fact that he was leaving the talks so close to the ... Read More »

BEIRUT: Daesh has executed over 3,000 people in Syria, including hundreds of civilians, in the year since it declared its self-described “caliphate.”  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group monitoring Syria’s conflict, said it had documented 3,027 executions by Daesh since June 29, 2014. Among those executed are 1,787 civilians, including 74 children, said the Observatory. Members of ... Read More »

KUWAIT CITY: Authorities on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed 27 people and injured 227 as a Saudi citizen who flew into the Gulf nation just hours before blowing himself up. The Interior Ministry named the bomber as Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen Al-Gabbaa and said he was born in 1992, making him 22 ... Read More »

COLUMBIA, South Carolina: An activist climbed a flagpole outside the South Carolina state capitol early on Saturday and took down the Confederate flag, state officials said, a day after US President Barack Obama called the banner a symbol of racial oppression. The Civil War-era flag has been a focal point for soul-searching across the southern United States in the aftermath ... Read More »

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey will never allow the establishment of a Kurdish state in Syria after major gains by Kurdish fighters. In a strong-worded warning, Erdogan accused the Kurds of ethnically cleaning other communities from land they have taken after pushing back Islamic State forces from the Turkish border. “I say to the international ... Read More »

VIENNA: Senior US and Iranian officials said hard work was still needed as they met in Vienna on Saturday for what could be their final negotiations to bridge significant differences on an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program. With a self-imposed deadline approaching on Tuesday, both sides emphasized that major obstacles remained to finalizing a deal under which Iran would ... Read More »

JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed its “deep concern” over reports by the media and international organizations indicating human rights violations of the Muslim minority in Xinjiang region. “They are denied the right to practice the fourth pillar of Islam (fasting during the month of Ramadan) and the right to observe their religious rituals in this holy ... Read More »

KUWAIT CITY: Thousands of people took part in a mass funeral procession Saturday for 27 people killed in a suicide bombing that targeted a Shiite mosque a day earlier. Police said they are interrogating a number of suspects with possible links to the suicide bombing, which was claimed by an affiliate of Daesh. An Interior Ministry statement said police arrested ... Read More »