Globe Trotting

Three Saudis held over Kuwait mosque bombing

Riyadh: Three Saudi brothers have been arrested in connection with the bombing of a Kuwaiti mosque that killed 26 people, Riyadh said on Tuesday after a shootout with one of the suspects. The Islamic State jihadi group claimed the June 26 suicide bombing of the Shia mosque in Kuwait City, which it said was carried out by a Saudi. 

Three Indians held for cheating quake-survivors in Nepal

Kathmandu: Three Indians were arrested on Tuesday in Nepal for allegedly collecting money from people with fake promises of providing up to Rs 200,000 to the earthquake survivors in the country. Sujit Kumar, Sudip Kumar Kusuhawa and Ranjit Kumar Kusuhawa from Bihar’s Champaran region, who posed themselves as representative of Indian government, have been booked in fraud charges by the police. 

Bomb attacks on Shia districts kill 15 people in Iraq

Baghdad: Authorities in Iraq say bombings targeting Shia districts have killed 15 people in and around Baghdad. Police officials say a bomb exploded Sunday night near a cafe in the Shiite district of al-Obeidi on the eastern edge of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 14 others. Another evening bomb blast near a small restaurant killed four people and wounded 11 others in the southeastern suburb of Jisr Diyala. Earlier, a bomb went off at a bus stop in the northeastern suburbs of the capital, killing four people and wounding nine.

HSBC UK employees sacked over mock ISIS video

london: HSBC bank has sacked some of its employees over an “abhorrent” video in which they pretended to be Islamic State (ISIS) militants carrying out a beheading. The video was posted online and shows a man dressed in an orange jumpsuit, while five other men in black stand around him — one holding a fake knife, The Sun reported. The employees are reportedly from the UK-headquartered bank’s legal 

division and the incident took place on a team-building exercise in Birmingham.

Karting in Birmingham.

10,000 people evacuated as two typhoons approach China

Beijing: At least 10,000 people were evacuated and ferry services linking China's eastern Fujian province to Taiwan suspended on Tuesday in view of two typhoons which could hit the coasts in a couple of days. The province has recalled 1,859 fishing boats to port, relocated 7,400 people onboard the vessels and 1,600 aquaculture farmers as of 6 PM (local time), according to the local flood control and drought relief headquarters.