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Defendant stabbed victim for speaking to former’s wife despite having warned him not to Image Credit: Istockphoto  Dubai: A chef has been jailed for life for premeditatedly killing his co-worker for speaking to the former’s wife over the phone although he had warned the victim not to do so. The 27-year-old Pakistani chef repeatedly stabbed […]

Bomb targeting the Waberi police station in Mogadishu kills at least four and wounds several others, says police.At least four people have been killed in a car bomb attack outside a police station in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said. The bomb targeted the Waberi district police station on busy Maka Almukarramah road, Major Mohamed Hussein […]

  A ship carrying 4,000 tons of food for beleaguered Qatar left Turkey early on Thursday, marking a change in how essential supplies are being sent to the tiny Gulf state. The ship left the Aegean port of Aliağa in Izmir province with around 4,000 tons of fruit, vegetables and other foodstuffs on board, the […]

“We can’t afford new arrivals,” she argued in a letter sent to Italy’s Ministry of Interior on June 15th. “Rome’s reception capacity is on its knees,” she continued, adding that new arrivals would have “devastating social costs”. According to the Italian interior minister, Marco Minniti, new arrivals in Rome are in line with agreed quotas. […]

Shutting down Islamic kindergartens where children have little or no command of German would be an efficient way to ensure the integration of migrants, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said. The comment was made at a public event set up by Kurier newspaper. “Of course, we don’t need them. There should be no Islamic kindergartens,” […]

A car bomb exploded outside a bank in Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern Afghan province of Helmand, killing at least 29 people and wounding dozens, provincial governor said. At least 60 people were wounded in the attack outside a bank and most of the casualties were civilians, Hayaullah Hayat said. The blast took place […]

– The world population is now at least 7.6 billion, up from 7.4 billion in 2015, spurred by the relatively high levels of fertility in developing countries – despite an overall drop in the number of children people have around the globe – the United Nations today reported. The concentration of global population growth is […]

US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said in a statement on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia and its allies have prepared a list of demands for Qatar to resolve the ongoing spat between them. “In regards to the continuing dispute within the GCC, we understand a list of demands has been prepared and coordinated by […]

Belgian authorities found signs Wednesday that the Brussels train station attacker supported the Daesh terrorist group, and discovered explosives at his home, prosecutors said. The 36-year-old Moroccan national identified only by the initials O.Z. was shot dead by a soldier at Brussels Central station on Tuesday after trying to detonate a nail bomb.   A […]

Mosul/Erbil (IraqiNews.com/Reuters) Islamic State militants and the United States exchanged accusations for the destruction of the minaret of Mosul’s oldest mosque on Wednesday. A senior U.S. general in Iraq called Islamic State militants’ destruction of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret “a crime against the people of Mosul and all […]