KUWAIT CITY:
A Gulf national beat up an expatriate man ruthlessly over an alleged driving mistake.
A video recording of the Gulf national slapping and kicking the expatriate man brutally went viral online.
The recording showed the enraged driver as he overtook the expatriate’s car and blocking his way to force him to stop, reported local Arabic daily Alanba. He then stepped down from his car and aggressed the man until passersby intervened to stop him from thrashing the expatriate.
WASHINGTON:
Turkey
has submitted four extradition requests for the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen but offered no evidence tying him to last month’s failed coup, a senior US official said Wednesday.
“They have not provided extradition requests on anything related to Gulen’s involvement in the coup attempt,” he told reporters of the Turkish authorities, adding that the four requests are “all related to allegations of criminal behavior that predated the coup.”
Ankara accuses Gulen, an erstwhile ally turned bitter foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of masterminding the bloody putsch attempt from rural Pennsylvania, where he has lived in self-imposed exile since 1999. (AFP)
ADEN:
A drone strike killed two al-Qaeda suspects travelling in a car in southern Yemen on Wednesday, a security official said.
The attack in Shabwa province struck their vehicle as the pair were headed from provincial capital Ataq to the nearby town of Nisab, the official said.
The United States has carried out numerous drone strikes against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives in Yemen. American officials said early this month that the US military had killed three AQAP fighters in a strike, also in Shabwa. (AFP)
RIYADH:
Shelling from Yemen killed a resident of southern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the latest casualty of intensified fighting on the border.
The victim, a Yemeni resident of the kingdom, died in the attack on Najran at about 6:00 pm (1500 GMT), Civil Defence Colonel Ali al-Shahrani said. Another person was wounded. The victim was the ninth to die from shelling in Najran since Aug 16, when seven lost their lives in a single strike.
Cross-border barrages into Saudi Arabia have increased since a Saudi-led Arab coalition this month stepped up air strikes on insurgent targets inside Yemen, after the collapse of peace talks. (AFP)
NEW YORK:
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, her strongest showing this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday. The Aug 18-22 poll showed that 45 percent of voters supported Clinton, while 33 percent backed Trump ahead of the Nov 8 election.
Clinton, the former US secretary of state, has led Trump, a New York businessman, throughout most of the 2016 campaign. But her latest lead represents a stronger level of support than polls indicated over the past few weeks. Earlier in August, Clinton’s lead over Trump ranged from 3 to 9 percentage points in the poll. (RTRS)