gulfnews.com reported Dubai: A visitor has been jailed for four years after he admitted that he smuggled 0.52 grams of heroin from Oman — which he intended to consume during his stay in Dubai. The Dubai Court of First Instance found the 32-year-old Omani visitor, F.B., guilty of smuggling and possessing heroin although when he pleaded guilty, he claimed that he possessed morphine. The accused will be deported following the completion of his punishment. Read Article
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gulfnews.com reported – Riyadh: The Saudi government said on Monday that a camel has tested positive for Mers, in the first case of an animal infected with the coronavirus that has killed 64 people worldwide. A camel owned by a person diagnosed with the disease had “tested positive in preliminary laboratory checks,” the health ministry […]
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nst.com.my reported..RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Thousands of African migrants residing illegally in Saudi Arabia’s main city of Riyadh surrendered to police on Sunday, residents said, a day after two people were killed in violent clashes between Ethiopians and vigilante residents backed by police. The clashes, which also injured 68, were the clearest sign yet of how […]
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Al Jazeera reports that an Ethiopian migrant has been killed by Saudi police after he tried to flee arrest during a round-up of thousands of foreigners suspected of working illegally in the kingdom. A statement on Wednesday by Riyadh police chief Nasser el-Qahtani said security forces killed the African migrant worker in el-Manhoufa a day […]
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Usatoday.com reported that, tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the streets Monday outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran in the biggest anti-American rally in years, a show of support for hard-line opponents of President Hassan Rouhani’s historic outreach to Washington. Read Article
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New York Daily News reports that two German nationals briefly kidnapped in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley were released early Saturday, as a gunfight between their abductors and security forces killed a soldier and a gunman, officials said. It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the Germans being abducted in the Bekaa Valley, a popular tourist […]
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Dailystar.com.lb reports that a man was kidnapped Sunday in the outskirts of Baalbek, east Lebanon, while he was on a hunting trip with three others, a security source told The Daily Star. A vehicle approached the four men who were near the border with Syria and abducted Hussein Sarafeddine, 25. His friends were able to […]
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According to thehindu.com, two Nagapattinam fishermen are feared drowned off Qatar. Kaliaperumal (35) of Tsunami colony in Nagapattinam and Selvamani (25) of M.G.R.Nagar, Tharangambadi, were working as fishing labourers with a private firm in Qatar. According to information from the families, they were part of a 11-member crew of a boat which collided with another […]
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Redorbit.com reported that, as the annual hajj pilgrimage has come and gone in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health continues to monitor the situation for any signs of an increase in the number of cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). On October 29 and again on Oct. 31, 2013, the World […]
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According to Bahrain.usembassy.gov, on Friday, November 1, 2013 through Sunday, November 3, 2013, a violent opposition group has called for demonstrations along the Budaiya Highway corridor from Sanabis to Budaiya at major road junctions. No specific timings are known. Anticipate that the Budaiya Highway corridor will be affected at all times of the day. Expect […]
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