Edmontonjournal.com reported that, Iraqi officials say a bomb has exploded inside a crowded coffee shop in the ethnically disputed northern city of Kirkuk, killing 19 and wounding 26. A police official who provided the casualty toll says the blast happened around 10 p.m. Friday in the Classico Cafe in the south of the city as patrons were enjoying tea and water pipes hours after the sunset meal that breaks the daylong Ramadan fast. Read Article
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As reported by Foxnews.com, Saudi court has sentenced 11 people including foreigners to jail on charges including weapons training, bomb-making and ties to Al-Qaeda, the SPA state news agency reported Friday. The prison terms handed down by the special court ranged from 18 months to 15 years, it said, without specifying the number or nationalities […]
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Alarabiya.net reports that health authorities in the UAE have announced that an 82-year-old man has been diagnosed with the MERS coronavirus infection, the first case to be recorded in the Gulf state. The Emirati citizen who contracted the SARS-like virus suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health […]
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According to emirates247.com, an apparently stressed young Indian husband stabbed his newlywed wife to death and killed himself by slashing his own throat after stabbing another family member in the Salmania area of Manama, Bahrain. The violent crime followed by suicide, hardly two months after a pregnant Indian beautician hung herself in front of a […]
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our Turkish journalists who had earlier been taken into custody in Egypt, where days ago the military toppled the nation’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in a coup d’état, were released on Tuesday. Star TV News Coordinator Nazlı Öztarhan said on her Twitter feed earlier on Tuesday that Star TV reporter Murat Uslu and […]
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As reported by Khaleejtimes.com, one man was killed and 17 others injured after a 20-year-old Emirati man ran his four-wheel drive into a mini bus at around 7.45pm on Saturday on the Endurance Street towards Bab Al Shams Hotel and Resort, in Dubai. According to the Traffic Chief Prosecutor Salah Bu Farroucha Al Felasi, the […]
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Al Jazeera reports that the Philippine government has promised to investigate allegations that embassy officials have sexually abused Filipina workers in Saudi Arabia. More than two million Filipinos are working abroad. Each year they send home around $20bn boosting Philippine economy. Read article
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As reported by Now.mmedia.me, The United Nations Interim Forces In Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced on Tuesday that Israeli forces arrested two Lebanese shepherds in the outskirts of Shebaa, the National News Agency reported. UNIFIL informed the Lebanese army of the incident, and is cooperating with the concerned parties in order to release the shepherds, the report […]
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As reported by Business-standard.com, a Myanmar national was arrested today at the Lucknow Airport while trying to go to Sharjah allegedly on a fake passport. Sheikh Abdul Khalid was arrested at the airport with the fake passport, police said. Khalid had got made a fake passport by pasting his picture on a stolen passport, they […]
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Reuters.com reported that, one person was killed and more than two dozen injured in fighting on Sunday between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in the Nile city of Beni Suef, south of Cairo, security sources said. Read Article
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