WASHINGTON POST – BEIRUT — Lebanese police have arrested a man suspected of killing a British woman who worked for her country’s embassy in Beirut.
Younis Awdi, an adviser for Lebanon’s defense minister, told The Washington Post on Monday that a man named Tarek Harb has been arrested in the death of Rebecca Dykes. Dykes’s body was found several hours after she left a bar Friday night in Gemmayzeh, a neighborhood in the Lebanese capital known for restaurants and cocktail bars.
Awdi said Dykes was out with friends and called an Uber before midnight. The state-run National News Agency reported that the driver drove to a nearby neighborhood where Dykes lived but did not drop her off there. Read Article
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gulfnews.com reported a tourist has been jailed for three months for using profane language and cursing Islam and Muslims when airport police woke him up after he dozed off in a drunken state near their office. The 28-year-old Jordanian tourist was in an inebriated state when he fell asleep beside the door of the police […]
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Tourist seeking sex ends up being robbed gulfnews.com – Nigerian trio lure man into hotel room by enticing him with pictures of a blonde European woman on dating app. A tourist, who thought he would be having paid sex with a European woman he chatted with on a dating app, ended up being hoodwinked by […]
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seattlepi.com/ap – Turkey’s official news agency says three German tourists have been killed and 10 injured in a bus accident at a popular tourist destination. The Anadolu news agency said a tourist bus tipped over Saturday after hitting a palm tree on a traffic island in the southern Antalya province, killing three Germans. Read Article
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wvva.com/ap reported the State Department is ordering family members of employees posted to the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul to leave because of security concerns. In a statement issued Saturday, the State Department says the decision is based on security information indicating extremist groups are continuing aggressive efforts to attack U.S. citizens in areas of […]
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Libyan authorities search for Canadian and two Italians abducted at border theguardian.com reported the three were abducted at gunpoint on the highway between Ghat and Ubari, while three North Koreans kidnapped by Isis have been freed by Libyan forces Libyan authorities are searching for two Italians and a Canadian abducted at gunpoint near the Algerian […]
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travelscams.org reported … Despite being known as a friendly bunch, there is still a very intense bunch of crooks out to fleece you of your money. Getting recourse is difficult as well, as the police does not have a good command of English and from most anecdotes, are not readily willing to help. So what […]
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dw.com reported Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in Ankara, reportedly because of fears of an attack. Turks are said to be outraged by a German magazine’s depiction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a dictator. Germany closed its embassy and all other consular offices in Turkey on Wednesday, with reports that officials feared the […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of the holy month of Ramadan. The explosions targeting US diplomats, Shi’ite worshippers and a security headquarters at a mosque in the holy city of […]
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bbc.com reported three foreign tourists have been stabbed by two suspected Islamic State militants who stormed into a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada. The attackers, armed with knives, were shot by police at the Bella Vista hotel after they attacked two Austrian guests and a Swede, officials say. One assailant was killed […]
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