DHAKA: The bodies of five extremists behind a deadly attack on a Bangladesh cafe have still not been claimed a month later, police said Monday, as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest against extremism. Relatives of the men have spoken of their shock and horror at learning of their involvement in the siege in Dhaka’s Gulshan neighborhood, ... Read More »
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: Pope Francis on Sunday said he won’t label Islam as “terrorist” because that would be unfair and not true. Reporters aboard the papal plane flying him home after a visit to Poland that began the day after extremists slit the throat of an elderly priest celebrating Mass in a French church, asked him why he never ... Read More »
ADEN, YEMEN: Sunni radicals in Yemen have blown up a 16th century mosque in the city of Taiz, a local official said Sunday. Gunmen led by a Salafist local chief known as Abu Al-Abbas blew up the mosque of Sheikh Abdulhadi Al-Sudi on Friday night, the official told AFP, confirming media reports of the attack. Yemen’s commission for antiquities and ... Read More »
MOSCOW: A Russian transport helicopter was shot down in opposition rebel territory in northern Syria on Monday and all five crew and officers onboard were killed, the Kremlin said, in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since its entrance into Syria’s civil war. The Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Idlib province while returning to the Russian air ... Read More »
BEIRUT: The sitcom is a little like “I Love Lucy,” starring a comic housewife who gets into shenanigans and bickers with her husband. Except children play all the roles. And it all takes place in one of the historic stone houses in the old city of Aleppo, besieged by government forces in one of the worst battlegrounds of Syria’s civil ... Read More »
RIYADH: A Saudi Oger source has said 31,000 Saudi and foreign employees have lodged complaints with the Labor Office about delayed wages. The company stopped receiving projects after the government received complaints of nonpayment of wages. Saudi Oger workers cannot leave the country as the Labor Ministry has stopped the employer’s services such as social security insurance and access to ... Read More »
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