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  Terror plot aimed at Makkah’s Grand Mosque foiled MAKKAH: Security forces on Friday succeeded in thwarting an imminent terrorist act targeting the security of the Grand Mosque and worshippers by a group stationed in three locations, said the Interior Ministry. The security spokesman explained that one of the sites was in the province of […]

Up to 46 homes destroyed by boulders after collapse of mountain side due to heavy rains in Xinmo in Maoxin county. More than 140 people are feared buried alive after torrential rain touched off a landslide in southwestern China, according to news agency reports. The landslide hit the village of Xinmo, in Maoxin county of […]

Attack on sovereignty & independent foreign policy’: Qatar slams Gulf ultimatum as ‘unrealistic’ — RT News Qatar says the list of 13 demands put forward by the Gulf nations and Egypt as a precondition for the resumption of diplomatic ties and much needed economic relief is neither “reasonable” nor “realistic”, and infringes on the country’s […]

  Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba as pray inside and outside the Grand mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. (File photo: AP) The Saudi Interior Ministry said on Friday that it has arrested five members of a cell that was planning an attack on the Grand Mosque area in Mecca. Security forces […]

Iran is shipping more than 1,000 tons of fruits and vegetables to Qatar every day. The Gulf Times reported that Iran has taken the move after some Persian Gulf Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia cut relations with Doha. On June 5, Saudi Arabia along with the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt cut ties with Qatar […]

Turkey has no intention of shutting down its brand new military base in Qatar, it said in a rejection of a demand about the small Gulf kingdom voiced by other Arab nations. Ankara says the base benefits the entire Gulf region. Closing the Turkish base is reportedly one of 13 moves expected from Doha by […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) At least 50 civilians were killed and wounded when a missile fell on a marketplace in western Mosul, news reports said Friday. Alnoor News website, quoting a medical source at Mosul’s public hospital, said the missile hit a market in Mosul al-Jadida, leaving 10 dead and 40 wounded. Iraqi firefighters look for bodies […]

Sweden’s national police chief has presented a new report about the country’s problem areas, increasing the number of districts classified as vulnerable or especially vulnerable. READ ALSO: What you need to know about Sweden’s vulnerable areas     Police after a shooting in Malmö’s Rosengård district in May last year. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT The report, […]

A US district court judge in Michigan has temporarily blocked the deportations of more than 100 Iraqi nationals until a decision is reached over who has jurisdiction over the matter, according to court documents filed on Thursday. Protesters rally outside the federal court just before a hearing to consider a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf […]

Australian senator Larissa Waters won’t let anything get between her and her baby. On Thursday she moved a motion within the Federal Parliament while breastfeeding. Waters rose to put forward a motion on Black Lung disease, all the while holding and feeding her 14-week old baby Alia Joy, local media reported. The Greens senator made […]