As reported by arabtimesonline.com, “Three expatriates died while eight individuals including a Kuwaiti citizen sustained injuries due to traffic accidents that occurred throughout the country on Thursday…A 25-year old Pakistani expatriate and a 52-year old Indian expatriate died while four other expatriates sustained injuries when a traffic accident occurred on Subbiya Road…Meanwhile, a GCC expatriate died while two others sustained injuries when a vehicle toppled on Salmi Road.” Read Article
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A floating restaurant crowded with dozens of patrons sank in the Tigris River in central Baghdad, leaving at least eight dead and several missing. “A boat belonging to the Lebanese Club in the Karrada area sank tonight while there were 80 people on board,” an interior ministry official said, reported Agence France-Presse. Read Article
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NZweek.com reported ahead of a possible escalation of violence in the West Bank, the Israeli military is training combat units on how to deal with planned protests by thousands of angry Palestinian demonstrators. During the workshop, the troops practiced using crowd-control measures largely considered non-lethal, like flash bangs, rubber- tipped bullets and stench bombs. Read […]
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wnd.com reported that a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander has warned America and Europe that al-Qaida operatives will soon attack them. And a source in the Islamic regime’s Intelligence Ministry told WND that another terror team is about to enter the United States. Should the West not accept Iran’s rights to its nuclear program within […]
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As reported by risingkashmir.in, “Hepatitis-B has broken out in Sumbal area of north Kashmir, doctors confirmed Wednesday. The medicos blamed chemists and diagnostics centers “operating in unhygienic conditions” for spread of infection. A local news gathering agency CNS reported that at least seven cases of Hepatitis-B had been detected so far in Sumbal tehsil and […]
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Foreignpolicy.com repoted that Yemen’s tribal practice of kidnapping to extort concessions by the government in Sanaa and ransom payments from abroad has two faces. At one extreme is the romanticized version of rural tribesmen taking hostages and, in accordance with Yemeni tribal custom, treating them as honored guests until an agreement is mediated with the […]
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According to israelnationalnews.com, “The U.S. State Department on Monday issued a travel warning to employees, and to all U.S. citizens, to stay out of Judea and Samaria, if it can at all be helped. Employees of the U.S. government in Israel are, at least for now, banned from traveling to Bethlehem, and official travel to […]
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NEAR LEXOR EYGPT At least 19 foreign tourists, including Britons, have been killed in Egypt after a hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, according to reports. .telegraph.co.uk reported that an official advised the Associated Press that after a fire and explosion on the baloon, it crashed into an agricultural field. Britons are reportedly among those […]
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As reported by globalpost.com, “Contagious diseases such as typhoid and hepatitis A are spreading across war-torn Syria due to people drinking contaminated water from rivers and wells, the World Health Organization has warned…The rising number of infections has coincided with the collapse of the country’s health system…” Read Article
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A patient admitted to hospital in Saudi Arabia with a new virus from the same family as SARS has died, taking the global death toll from the previously unknown disease to seven. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday the patient died on February 10, two weeks after entering hospital. The cause of death […]
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