Trend.az reported that, some 64 people were infected with cholera in Iran, corresponding measures have been taken, the condition of the infected is satisfactory, the head of the Center for Disease Management of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education Mohammad Mehdi Gouya said, Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. He noted that, the infected persons are illegal migrants from bordering countries to the east. Yesterday the condition of one of them worsened and he died. Read article
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Presstv.ir reported that, at least four people have been killed and six others injured after a car bomb attack rocked the western area of the Syrian capital, Damascus, local media report. The blast took place on Thursday near a research and testing center affiliated with the Syrian Ministry of Industry in Damascus’s Sumaria neighborhood, the […]
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As reported by State.gov, On Friday, September 6, 2013, opposition groups have called for a demonstration in the center of Manama near the Souq. The demonstration will likely take place in the afternoon. We highly recommend that you avoid travel in the Manama City area due to the possibility of traffic congestion and clashes between […]
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A 24-year-old man from Haifa, suspected of raping a tourist three weeks ago in a Tel Aviv hotel, turned himself in Tuesday night and will be brought for a remand hearing. The suspect stayed in a Eilat hotel for the last few days, and when he realized police were after him, he turned himself in. […]
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Al Jazeera reports that several people were killed in a mortar attack at an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq early Sunday morning, according to security and Iraqi government sources. Accounts differ about how many people died, and it was not immediately clear who fired the mortars. The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran said […]
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Thousands of Israelis continued to queue up for gas masks or ordered them by phone, spurred on by fears that any Western military response to last week’s alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria could ensnare their own country in war. A shortage of gas masks caused a mini-melee among panicky moms pushing strollers here Wednesday, […]
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The Yemen Observer reports that a security source said that three unidentified gunmen abducted a Saudi national in the central city of Taiz, Yemen, late on Friday evening. The source, who declined to be named, said the gunmen abducted Yahya bin Mohammed Shahri, 36 years, a Saudi national, who entered Yemen on Aug. 17. The […]
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According to dailystar.com.lb, a Syrian national was kidnapped early Thursday in the Bekaa Valley, a security source told The Daily Star. The source said Mounir Khfeili was kidnapped by four men in a dark gray Mitsubishi when he arrived at his home in the Western Bekaa village of Hawsh al-Harimeh at 12:30 a.m. The police […]
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jpost.com reported that IDF releases statement that the Air Force struck an exact target near Beirut; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claim they were the target; Israel holds Lebanese government responsible for Thursday’s rocket attacks. The Israeli Air Force struck a “terrorist” target near Beirut in South Lebanon early on Friday morning, the […]
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As reported by Dailymail.co.uk, genocide in Syria as 1,300 people including hundreds of women and children are wiped out in nerve gas attack say Syrian rebels as Hague warns use of chemical weapons would mark ‘shocking escalation. Read Article
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