A British tourist is facing jail in Dubai for up to a year – for swearing and blasphemy.
Andrew Graham, 40, reportedly called the Islamic prophet Muhammad a ‘terrorist’ in a heated row with salesman in a Dubai shopping mall, a court heard yesterday. He faces spending a year in a Dubai jail if he is convicted of insulting Islam. The holidaymaker was browsing in Mall of the Emirates (pictured) when he got into an argument with Hassan Habeeb, a 21-year-old salesman from Pakistan. Read Article
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Elizabeth Doulet Violaine (40) and Joseline Christine Marie Nicolas (40), French tourists are conviertieron yesterday in the nth victims of thieves who roam the area. Tourists visiting the area were suddenly approached by a gang of thieves being harassed and threatened with knives having been taken away their backpacks with all his belongings and identity […]
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Nearly two weeks after gunfights left six dead in the popular Sonora beach resort of Puerto Peñasco, the U.S. consulate in Nogales sent a message late Tuesday to local Americans informing them about the shootings and a recent increase in assaults against American citizens. The assaults include two home invasions. “We’re not telling people not […]
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Tips for how to avoid pickpockets in Barcelona. The areas where you need to be careful are the areas with many tourists, like the La Rambla, Sagrada Familia and generally anywhere near the top tourist attractions in Barcelona. If you use your common sense and take some simple precautions, you will be not be robbed. […]
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The FBI and national cybercrime agencies are warning people traveling abroad to be wary of shady scammers planting malware via insecure hotel Internet connections. In an advisory issued yesterday (May 8), the Internet Crime Complaint Center(IC3) notes that malware perpetrators are masking their cybercrime weapons as popup software updates travelers see when setting up their […]
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Despite the arrests of 11 members of a kidnap gang over the past fortnight, another Mozambican businessman has been abducted, bringing the number of known kidnap victims up to 23. The latest kidnap occurred on Thursday night in central Maputo. The victim was 26 year old Wassem Ahmed, one of the owners of the shop […]
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Hepatitis B currently affects one-fifth of the population of Muritania, disease that causes about 3,500 deaths annually, official sources said Sunday. A senior Health Ministry said Sunday newspaper Horizons that soon the infection rate has doubled from 10 to 20% of the population and half a million are currently infected. Viral hepatitis has become “a […]
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Reform reports that sea water on the beaches of Veracruz, Acapulco, Zihuatanejo, Puerto Vallarta, Bahia de Banderas and Compostela records this holiday season elevated levels of contamination. The contamination exceeded that threshold in the 10 beaches monitored in Veracruz, in 5 of Acapulco, in the 2 de Compostela, in 1 of 2 in Zihuatanejo, on […]
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Istanbul is one of those cities are accustomed to receiving visitors for centuries, and as such, it has developed the rogue, sometimes in surprisingly ingenious. Besides the typical scams minors in any resort (predatory prices, taxi drivers are detours to stretch the race, etc..), in Istanbul have spread some scams to keep in mind if […]
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COMMENT: As a follow-up to my posting yesterday (June 24), on the large number of tourists who have drowned off Phuket beaches since the onset of the monsoon season (May through October), please see the link below to THE PHUKET GAZETTE’s piece in today’s issue (July 25). THE PHUKET GAZETTE article also identifies a British […]
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