According to themedialine.org, an American editor and photographer who has been living in Yemen since 2011 was snatched by armed tribesmen in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a and taken to an unknown location, a security official told The Media Line. Luke Somers, 31, who has been working as an English language website editor for the media center of the National Dialogue Conference, was nabbed on one of Sana’a’s busiest streets, the security official said on condition of anonymity. Somers had also been working as a stringer photographer for several international news agencies including the BBC, Al-Jazeera, and Foreign Policy. Read article
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Gulfnews.com reports that kidnappers of an Indian worker in Sohar, about 230km north of Muscat, have threatened to kill their hostage if their demand for a ransom is not met by midnight Sunday, according to the victim’s brother. “We were initially asked to deposit 50,000 Pakistani rupees (Dh1,719) in a bank account in Pakistan which […]
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Gulfnews.com reports that an elderly tourist visiting Al Khan beach drowned on Sunday morning. A Sharjah Police official said the police operations room received a notification about an Armenian woman who was in difficulty. The emergency services went to the scene but the 75-year-old woman was already dead. Her body was taken to Kuwaiti Hospital […]
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Three Armenians were kidnapped several days ago in Aleppo, a source told Armenian News-NEWS.am. According to the source, Hovsep Muradyan, Gevorg Hayrapetyan and Tigran Berberyan were kidnapped from Sheikh Nachar district in Aleppo. Other details are not available. Read article
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As reported by AlArabiya.net, Egypt has detained a Turkish citizen on suspicion of spying and collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday. The arrest could be a new source of tension between Ankara and Cairo whose relations have all but broken down since Mohammad Mursi, whose Muslim Brotherhood has […]
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Dailystar.com.lb reported that, a Syrian national was kidnapped in the Bekaa Valley overnight Thursday, the National News Agency reported. Syrian national Ahmad Hassoun filed a complaint at the Zahle police station alleging that his brother, Ibrahim, was kidnapped by five armed men driving a gray Range Rover in the city of Zahle. Read article
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According to arabtimesonline.com, an Indian man, with torn clothes entered a police station in the Mubarak Al-Kabir and filed a complaint against an unidentified person who assaulted him and robbed his wallet containing KD 50, an electric drill machine and a saw. Police are looking for the suspect based on information provided by the victim. […]
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As reported by Nytimes.com, an Italian journalist and a Belgian scholar, both kidnapped in Syria in early April, have been released and are on a plane flying to Italy, the Italian government said Sunday. Read Article
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NBC News reports that the United States has withdrawn all non-emergency embassy workers and their families from Beirut and warned Americans against travel to Lebanon amid looming military strikes on Syria, the State Department said Friday. It said the decision had been taken “due to potential threats to U.S. Mission facilities and personnel,” and comes […]
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As reported by Straitstimes.com, two women have died of the coronavirus MERS in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the total number of fatalities in the kingdom to 44. The victims were identified as a 41-year-old expat who was working in the health sector in Riyadh and a 79-year-old Saudi who suffered […]
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