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  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Indian mission in Jeddah working to fix passport problem

    The Indian consulate in Jeddah is using diplomatic channels to make passport authorities in Saudi Arabia accept newly-designed Indian passports, which they are refusing saying they were not officially informed about the change. According to Consul General Pranav Ganesh, the consulate is aware of the "unexpected problem", the Arab News reported Tuesday. "The matter has been taken up with the ...

  • Three Syrian refugees die in Jordan

    Three Syrian refugees, including a 10-year-old boy, have died in Jordan, the country's official Petra news agency said Monday. Two Syrians died from injuries they sustained while fleeing the civil war in their country, while the young boy died of an illness at the Al-Zaatari refugee camp. Three other refugees who were shot while crossing over to Jordan last week have been admitted to Al-Mafraq ...

  • Khurshid to undertake two-day visit of Saudi Arabia from May 25

    External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will undertake a two-day visit of Saudi Arabia on May 25 and 26, at the invitation of Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal. A government release said on Monday that this would be Khurshid 's first bilateral visit to Saudi Arabia and to the region as India's External Affairs Minister, and added that he will hold discussions with his ...

  • Saudi Arabia beheads Syrian drug trafficker

    A convicted Syrian drug trafficker has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi interior ministry said in a statement Monday. Mohammed Yousuf Ezzeddine was executed in Qurayat city in the north of the country, the state-run SPA news agency reported. Another convicted Syrian, Mohammed Khalaf, was executed in the kingdom May 6. Saudi Arabia has executed around 40 people since the beginning of ...

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  • Oman proposes ban on niqab veils for women drivers

    Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council police traffic department heads. It singled out the niqab, a mask that covers a woman's face, leaving only a slit for her ...

  • More troops arrive in Egypts Sinai over hostages

    An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last ...

  • UN Drop in Syrians reaching Jordan unclear why

    GENEVA -- U.N. officials say there has been a sudden fall in the number of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan, but it's unclear why.Panos Moumtzis , the top U.N. refugee official for Syria, says the usual exodus of up to about 3,000 refugees daily has "dropped to almost zero" over the past four days.Moumtzis told reporters Tuesday in Geneva that his agency is asking if ...

  • At least 4 killed in Israel bank robbery

    Israeli security officers cordon off the scene of a bank robbery in Beersheva, southern Israel, on May 20, 2013. At least four people were killed in an armed bank robbery that took place on Monday in south Israeli city of Beersheva, Israel channel 2 citing the Magen David Adom emergency services as reporting. During the standoff with police, one of the robbers committed suicide. (Xinhua/Yin ...

  • Irans Guardian Council rejects Mashaei Rafsanjani

    In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei during a press conference after registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim ...

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