Dubai police said Friday they arrested and planned to extradite a British man wanted in Denmark over a $1.7 billion tax scheme, one of the country’s largest-ever fraud cases. The arrest of hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah came after Danish officials signe…
Outcry in Egypt as poet ‘defames’ Umm Kulthum
Egyptian cultural organisations have said they will be taking legal action against a poet who reportedly insulted late musical icon Umm Kulthum at a public event, according to local news reports Thursday. At a seminar organised by the Egyptian Writer’s…
19 killed in Yemen during truce, mainly due to landmines: UN
Nineteen civilians have been killed in Yemen during a recently renewed two-month truce, mostly by landmines or improvised explosive devices or unexploded ordnance, the UN said on Friday. The toll recorded between April 2 and June 1 “underscores the thr…
Kuwait summons US official over ‘pro-homosexuality’ tweets
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned the United States embassy’s acting chargé d’affaires over tweets the embassy published that “support homosexuality”, the ministry said in a statement. The US Embassy in Kuwait tweeted earlier on Thursday: …
Football: Tunisia run riot against 10-man Equatorial Guinea
Naim Sliti scored and created two other goals as Qatar World Cup qualifiers Tunisia began a four-match build-up this month by hammering 10-man Equatorial Guinea 4-0 in a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Thursday. Sliti broke the stubborn resista…
Outrage as North Korea takes helm of world disarmament body
North Korea on Thursday skipped the diplomatic niceties for a combative tone when it took the helm of the Conference on Disarmament (CD). “My country is still at war with the United States,” declared Pyongyang’s ambassador Han Tae-Song. Around 50 count…
Pakistan: TTP declares indefinite truce as talks ‘progress’
The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday declared an indefinite ceasefire with Islamabad, saying “substantial progress” had been made in peace talks in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Since the Afghan Taliban seized power last year, Islamabad has increasingly co…
Mali: Red Cross says two employees killed in armed attack
Two Red Cross employees have been killed when their vehicle was attacked in the Kayes region of western Mali, the Malian Red Cross said. A driver and a worker from the Netherlands Red Cross died on Wednesday after armed men on motorcycles opened fire o…
Iraq activists targeted by ‘environment of fear’, UN says
Assassinations, bomb attacks and threats: in Iraq an “environment of fear and intimidation” targeting activists and protesters has put a stranglehold on freedom of expression, the UN warned on Thursday. In a report documenting 26 incidents since May 20…
Iran: Exiled MEK claims hacked 5,000 Tehran security cameras
An exiled Iranian opposition group Thursday claimed a hacking attack which it said temporarily took control of dozens of websites run by Tehran’s municipality and thousands of the capital’s surveillance cameras. Iranian state media said earlier that th…