As reported by Ctvnews.com, Men wielding batons and wearing yellow arm bands evoking Lebanon’s Hezbollah attacked protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Sunday during a rally against the militant group’s participation in the Syrian civil war. One protester was killed, a senior Lebanese military official and witnesses said. Read Article
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Yahoo News reports that a suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus carrying Iranian Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims in Iraq on Friday, killing at least nine people in an attack likely carried out by Sunni Muslim insurgents trying to ignite sectarian conflict. Police said that in Friday’s attack in Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of Baghdad, […]
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Trust.org reported that the Gulf Arab countries have issued a travel warning for Lebanon, telling their citizens to avoid what is a popular tourist destination for the region after a spillover of violence from neighbouring Syria. Sectarian violence fuelled by Syria’s civil war has broken out in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli and, last […]
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Arabnews.com reported that passengers arriving at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) are being monitored through a scanning machine to ensure that they are free from coronavirus, according to a Filipino passenger from Saudi Arabia. “It was after I heard the news on the radio that coronavirus has spread to other countries that I realized why […]
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According to a khaleejtimes.com report, a series of fires across the country killed five people, including three children, in the capital and Fujairah on Monday. Two fires raged in tower blocks on Abu Dhabi’s Electra Street and the Tourist Club area claiming three lives, while 20 others suffered serious or minor injuries, police said. The […]
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According to Skift.com, UK’s Foreign Office has warned Britons to avoid areas where violent protests are ongoing across Turkey, including the centre of Istanbul, where thousands of people thronged Taksim Square. Read Article
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Nbcnews.com reports that a 33-year-old Michigan woman who converted to Islam was among Westerners killed in Syria while fighting alongside rebels, according to reports on Friday. The family of Nicole Mansfield of Flint were informed of her death by the FBI on Thursday afternoon, her aunt told Reuters. She was killed alongside a British man, […]
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Three people died swimming off the UAE coastline in Dubai and Ajman on Friday prompting warnings for beachgoers to pay heed to sea condition advisories that could be fatal, as reported by gulfnews.com. In an incident off Jumeirah Beach in Dubai, two Indian men drowned on Friday night, police said. Police confirmed that one of […]
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Gulfnews.com reports that gunmen abducted two South African citizens on Monday in Yemen’s second largest city, Taiz, and police said a lawmaker was behind the kidnapping to pressure the government to hand over a disputed piece of land. It was the latest twist in Yemen’s bumpy road to democracy after more than three decades of […]
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