Kuwaittimes.com reports that a domestic worker was kidnapped and raped in a camp in the desert according to a case filed in Naseem police station and remains under investigations with efforts to identify and arrest the suspects. According to the Asian maid’s testimonies, two men forced the woman while she was taking out the trash and then drove to a camp where they raped her before they dropped her off outside a supermarket near her employer’s house. The housemaid then told her employer who helped her to the police station to report the case. Investigations are ongoing. Read article
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A Woodbury family is fighting to get their son out of a prison in Abu Dhabi. He’s been living in Dubai for the last seven years working as a business consultant. But 29-year-old Shezanne Cassim was put in prison because the government didn’t like a parody video he posted on YouTube. His family says he […]
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Two Swedish journalists were abducted in Syria as they were trying to leave the country, Sweden’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. The men were “taken” on Saturday as they were on their way out of Syria, spokeswoman Catarina Axelsson said. She declined to give other details, and said Swedish diplomats in Beirut were trying to get […]
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Egypt on Sunday enacted tough new restrictions on public demonstrations that free-speech advocates said will suppress protests against the current military-imposed government. Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, imposed the 25-article law by decree, acting under legislative powers he was given when the military ousted President Mohammed Morsi in July after three days of protests in […]
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France24.com reported that Bahraini authorities have arrested two Gulf citizens who were former Guantanamo detainees on suspicion of preparing a “terrorist act”, state media reported on Sunday. A police chief, quoted by official news agency BNA, said the two suspects, whose names and nationalities were not disclosed, had entered Bahrain with fake passports from Saudi […]
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NBC News reports that an Iranian diplomat was among at least 23 people killed in a suspected twin suicide bomb attack at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Tuesday, officials said. An al Qaeda-linked terror group claimed responsibility – the latest sign that Syria’s civil war is spilling over the border into Lebanon. Burning cars, bodies […]
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As reported by Thepeninsulaqatar.com, a 61-year-old expatriate who came to Qatar looking for a job a few months ago has tested positive for the deadly corona virus-Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said yesterday. This is the third confirmed case of MERS in the country involving an expatriate. Six Qataris […]
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As reported by Uk.news.yahoo.com, renewed clashes on Wednesday between Saudis and illegal migrants, targeted in a nationwide campaign, killed one person and wounded 17, police said. A Sudanese died as Saudis clashed with illegal migrants in the southern Riyadh neighborhood of Manfuhah, scene of riots over recent days, police said in a statement carried by […]
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As reported by Dailystar.com.lb, a Syrian worker was killed and five others injured when the ceiling of a building under construction collapsed overnight in Beirut, security sources said Wednesday.The sources added that the Syrian worker was killed after the third floor roof of the building under construction in Roueisat Jdeideh collapsed late Tuesday. Read Article
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As reported by Shanghaidaily.com， The World Health Organization says 21 nations in the Middle East and nearby regions are jointly declaring the eradication of polio as an emergency priority, and are singling out Pakistan as a key part of the problem. The UN’s health agency’s statement said yesterday the joint resolution by nations in WHO’s […]
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