A British tourist is facing jail in Dubai for up to a year – for swearing and blasphemy. Andrew Graham, 40, reportedly called the Islamic prophet Muhammad a ‘terrorist’ in a heated row with salesman in a Dubai shopping mall, a court heard yesterday. Read article
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Laboratory results have confirmed that a two-year-old boy from Guangzhou does have H5N1 Influenza A, the Centre for Health Protection said today, adding his condition has changed from stable to serious. He is in intensive care at Princess Margaret Hospital and has developed obstructive hydrocephalus. Read article
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While health authorities have yet to identify the cause of the mysterious skin disease in central Quang Ngai Province, two more people died in Ba To District in the past 3 days, taking the death toll to 23 so far. 34-year-old woman, Pham Thi Trieu, in Reu Hamlet, Ba Dien Commune, died at 10 am […]
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Commander of Turkish gendarmes and two junior lieutenants were killed as a result of mine blast in South-Eastern part of Turkey, Diarbekir region, Lije community. The region is populated with Kurds and the mine was settled by the Kurdish Workers’ Party’s (PKK) soldiers. As Turkish “Milliet” newspaper writes the gendarmes were engaged in seeking for […]
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Four Gulf States have told their citizens they should not go to Lebanon under any circumstances, and warned those already there to get out as a tense political situation spills over into violence. Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain have all issued Do Not Travel warnings, and Syria has also warned its citizens about the situation […]
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament has passed legislation that would ban strikes and lockouts in the country’s aviation sector after a protest by workers at Turkish Airlines this week forced the national carrier to cancel many flights. If Turkey’s president approves the legislation, it will become law. Read article
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As a follow-up on my recent postings concerning the tragic death of Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong, 21, Japanese police now believe that Ms. Furlong was sexually assaulted after she was strangled. Understandably, Tokyo police are also pursuing leads that suggest that the young woman’s drink may have been spiked, which led to the terrible […]
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Turkey’s national air carrier Turkish Airlines cancelled 68 flights due to the strike at the airport on Wednesday. The company said in a statement that at least 68 domestic and international flights have been cancelled due to operational reasons at the Istanbul Ataturk Airport, and asked passengers to check their flight online before coming to […]
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A French tourist has been killed in an overnight fire that engulfed an illegally operated budget hotel in one of the Thai capital’s main tourist districts. Police say the fire started at a bar on the ground floor of a three-story building in the city’s Khao San Road neighborhood, an area popular with backpackers and […]
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Twenty tourists were hospitalized for food poisoning after eating breakfast at a resort in the central province of Nghe An on Saturday. The tourists were rushed to the hospital after they developed stomachaches, diarrhea and vomiting on the way to a tourist site in Nam Dan District on Saturday morning. Read Article
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