dailymail.co.uk reported that the search for 29 European tourists who disappeared in the Sahara Desert gained momentum as tiny – but insufficient – clues to their whereabouts surfaced and special teams from Europe arrived. Six separate groups of tourists – from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands – have disappeared over the past six weeks and neither search parties on camels nor helicopters with heat-seeking sensors have been able to locate them. Footpaths not known to have existed have been uncovered, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said Tuesday without elaborating. Read Article
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dailymail.co.uk reported that six Spanish tourists and one Yemeni were killed in an attack by a suspected al Qaeda suicide car bomber in the Yemeni province of Marib on Monday, security sources said. Security sources said the “terrorist attack” followed an al Qaeda statement demanding the release of some of its members jailed in Yemen […]
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theguardian.com reported that more than 400 Nepalese migrant workers have died on Qatar’s building sites as the Gulf state prepares to host the World Cup in 2022, a report will reveal this week. The grim statistic comes from the Pravasi Nepali Co-ordination Committee, a respected human rights organisation which compiles lists of the dead using […]
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NBC News reports that a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight suffered a technical malfunction and made an emergency landing in the second-holiest city in the Islamic world early Sunday, injuring 29 people — including three who were seriously hurt. A problem with the rear wheels on the right side of the Boeing 767-300ER forced the plane […]
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According to gulf-times.com, a young Arab expatriate woman was killed yesterday when her quad bike overturned at the Sealine resort area, according to local Arabic daily Arrayah. The deceased, reportedly around 19 years old, was driving her quad bike with another girl riding pillion, the daily explained. The other girl is undergoing treatment, Arrayah added. […]
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According to abc.net.au, five staff members from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been taken from a house in northern Syria by an unknown group, the medical humanitarian group said in a statement. MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has six hospitals and four health centres in northern Syria and cialis .. canadian pharmacy generic […]
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According to thenational.ae, the wife of an experienced Algerian diver who went missing 32km off Dubai says the coast guard is searching for him after he disappeared in the waters on Wednesday afternoon. Rana Ghaleb said her husband Adel Ait-Ghezala had gone free diving with two other friends, equipped with only a wetsuit, flippers, goggles […]
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According to canada.com, a Turkish newspaper says one of its photographers has been kidnapped in Syria by groups linked to al-Qaeda. Milliyet newspaper said Tuesday that 43-year-old photographer Bunyamin Aygun was abducted in Syria 21 days ago. It says Aygun crossed into Syria on Nov. 26 and that he called the paper sometime later to […]
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NBC News reports that a beloved American teacher was shot dead in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, just days before he was supposed to return to the U.S. for the holidays, the school’s principal said. Ronnie Smith, 33, had been teaching chemistry at the International School Benghazi for about 18 months and was […]
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Dailystar.com.lb reports that Syrian opposition fighters killed an Iraqi freelance journalist in the rebel-held north of the country, the latest of dozens of reporters who have died in the country over the past three years, an activist group and an international media watchdog said Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Yasser Faisal […]
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