bbc.co.uk reported that a Polish photojournalist kidnapped in Syria three months ago is home after escaping from his captors, Poland’s foreign ministry has announced. Marcin Suder was abducted by masked gunmen in north-western Syria in July. Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, announced Mr Suder’s return on Twitter, saying the journalist was “already back home.” Read Article
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Hundreds of al-Qaeda recruits are being kept in safe houses in southern Turkey, before being smuggled over the border to wage “jihad” in Syria, The Daily Telegraph has learned. The network of hideouts is enabling a steady flow of foreign fighters – including Britons – to join the country’s civil war, according to some of […]
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A British teacher is believed to have been murdered in Qatar hours after flying back to the Middle East from her grandmother’s funeral. Friends of primary school teacher Lauren Patterson, 24, said she was last seen at a nightclub in the capital, Doha, with two Qatari men, one of whom was an ex-boyfriend. Read Article
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Reuters reports that polio has broken out among young children in northeast Syria after probably originating in Pakistan and poses a threat to millions of children across the Middle East, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The crippling disease, which is caused by a virus transmitted via contaminated food and water, could spread […]
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According to eturbonews.com reports that a Russian tourist traveling in Syria was apparently abducted by an Islamist rebel group, which is accusing him of spying for the Syrian government. Konstantin Zhuravlev, 32, is an experienced traveler and photographer. He was passing through Syria on his way from Turkey to Egypt, and went missing on Sept. […]
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According to ndtv.com, a 13-year-old Indian girl has succumbed to injuries she sustained in an October 7 road accident in Oman. Aysha Takreem Yahya, a student of Indian School Al Muladha who was critically injured on Monday in the accident in Barka, died Tuesday at the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Muscat, the Times of […]
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According to kuna.net.kw, the French Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that two more journalists from France had gone missing in northern Syria and must be presumed kidnapped. The latest abductions bring the number of French journalists missing in Syria to four. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Nicolas Henin, a reporter with “Le Point” […]
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As reported by khaleejtimes.com, the Sharjah Police on Tuesday arrested a gang of three Pakistanis, including a woman, who allegedly specialised in selling fake gold jewellery using forged receipts. The police received a complaint from a jewellery shop owner about a woman who came to exchange gold ornaments with genuine ones and produced receipts for […]
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Thepeninsulaqatar.com reports that gunmen shot dead the German ambassador’s bodyguard in Sana’a yesterday as others kidnapped a Sierra Leonean working for the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), sources said. Gunmen in a vehicle opened fire at the bodyguard as he was leaving a store in the southern Hada district, where foreign embassies are located, a […]
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A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to ‘detect’ homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country – or any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), according to a Kuwaiti government official. Read Article
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