Saudi swimmer Ali Al-Issa has claimed a gold medal in the 100 meter backstroke competition on the third day of the GCC Games in Kuwait. Al-Issa’s win was achieved with a time of 59.79 seconds. There was more gold medal success for the Saudi contingent as Ahmed Al-Yassin won the decathlon competition with 7,270 points, while his Saudi colleague Saeed Mabrouk took silver with
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 12: The Criminal Court presided over by Judge Ahmed Al-Yassin acquitted a Kuwaiti citizen who was accused of using force and assaulting his pregnant wife with the intention of terminating the pregnancy.
According to the case files, the victim testified that she, four days before the date of the incident, had told her husband that she had conducted a home pregnancy test which affirmed that she was pregnant.
This made him angry and he insisted on taking her to a hospital. After the pregnancy was confirmed, he took her to her family’s home where she stayed for a few days. During that period, he called her and asked her to abort her unborn child. On the day of the incident, she went to the marital home, She was surprised when her husband attempted to be violently intimate with her, forcing her to jump from the bed to the floor.