As reported by Gov.uk. “The FCO now advise against all travel to the southern suburbs of Beirut.” Read article
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As reported by Foxnews.com, a cameraman for British broadcaster Sky News and a Dubai-based newspaper reporter were killed during violence in Egypt Wednesday, their employers said. Sky said Mick Deane, 61, was shot and wounded while covering the violent breakup of protest camps in the capital, Cairo. It said he was treated for his injuries […]
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According to khaleejtimes.com, a British father and son were killed instantly on Friday after being hit by a car on a Sharjah road. Four other members of their family were injured, police said. The latest tragedy puts the Eid weekend road death toll at eight, the biggest ever to be reported during the holidays in […]
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As reported by Eturbonews.com, a Sicilian tourist beach was the scene of more than 100 people thought to be Syrians whose boat ran aground, a port official said. Six migrants to Italy whose dead bodies were found on Saturday on the beach. “The bodies were reported by employees of a beach resort” near the island’s […]
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As reported by Prokerala.com, Turkish government has warned its citizens against non-essential travel to Lebanon and called those already in the country to return home after two Turkish pilot were kidnapped in Beirut Friday. Earlier in the day, a Turkish Airlines pilot and his assistant were kidnapped in an ambush on a bus in Lebanon’s […]
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As reported by Usatoday.com, eighteen of 19 of U.S. embassies and consulates across the Middle East, Asia and Africa closed recently will reopen on Sunday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced in a statement released Friday evening. The U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, will remain closed, Psaki added added, because of continuing concerns about a […]
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As reported by Tribune.com, the wake of terror threats, aviation authorities have called in the army for maintaining round-the-clock security at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA). Meanwhile, a hoax bomb threat for a Quetta-bound flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) PK-323 caused emergency at the capital’s airport. “It was a hoax call, but security […]
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As reported by Naharnet.com, a Turkish pilot and copilot were kidnapped in Beirut early Friday by gunmen who intercepted their bus as they were heading to a hotel in the Lebanese capital. The Turkish Ambassador, Inan Ozyildiz, told LBCI TV that he is following up the case, hoping that Lebanese authorities would work for their […]
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Yahoo News UK reports that an Italian Jesuit priest who hoped to negotiate with jihadists in Syria has “apparently been kidnapped by an Islamist group” which is “a local version of Al-Qaeda”, the foreign ministry in Rome said Tuesday. “You will all understand the difficulties. We have not given up, we are still hopeful” of […]
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Arabtimesonline.com reported that, Sri Lankan woman tried to commit suicide by consuming a number of pills inside her sponsor’s house in Jabriya area. According to security sources, when the Operations Room of Ministry of Interior received information from a Kuwaiti woman that her housemaid was lying unconscious inside the kitchen, securitymen and paramedics rushed to […]
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