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The man said that he was surprised to learn about the accumulation of traffic violations. A young GCC national had to pay Dh343,000 for traffic violations committed with his car, which is valued at Dh400,000. The man already paid up Dh98,000 in his home country and paid the rest of the amount to the Dubai Traffic Department in order to retrieve...

As details on the ongoing investigations into extremist sleeper sells in Saudi Arabia begin to emerge, more information on the background of the both killed and captured extremists are being released to the public. Last week, two ISIS extremists were cornered in Jeddah who decided to detonate their own explosive belts after refusing to surrender to security forces. It has been...

A man from Jordan has been sentenced to 3 years in prison by a Doha Criminal Court for forging of documents. The honourable court also ordered that the man be deported from the country after serving his sentence. The man had reportedly forged two educational documents for posing that he had a PhD degree from Jordan University. According to the local...

KARACHI: The cyber crime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly blackmailing a woman on the messaging service Whatsapp. The suspect named Saleem allegedly used to blackmail the woman and her family on Whatsapp to extort money from them, and regularly call her from different mobile phone numbers. The FIA arrested him after a...

n expat from Bangladesh has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and subsequent deportation from the country by a Doha Criminal Court for indulging in the trade of illicit drugs. According to the local Arabic daily Arrayah, the honourable court also sent another Bangladeshi expat to prison for a period of 5 years and subsequent deportation in the same...

A woman waits for the start of the #IWillGoOut rally, organized to show solidarity with the Women's March in Washington, along a street in New Delhi, India January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY New Delhi/Chennai:Hundreds of women gathered in over 30 towns and cities across India late on Saturday, saying they were "occupying the night streets"...

A passenger failed in his attempt to smuggle 943gm of heroin into Saudi Arabia via . Customs officers at the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh discovered 120 yellow capsules in the man's abdomen during scanning. Airport Customs director-general Sultan Al-Fuhaid said that the trafficker had been transferred to authorities to face charges. "The Saudi customs have acquired cutting edge technologies to thwart such...

Divorce rates have increased by 71 per cent among Qatari men over 15 years, an expert has said. According to Mohammad Ali Akbeed, a population expert at the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, 471 Qataris applied for divorce in 2000, but the number grew to 807 in 2015. The expert was addressing a panel of representatives from seven government agencies...

Updated at 9pm with statement from contractor A British man has fallen to his death while working on one of Qatar’s first World Cup stadiums, tournament organizers have confirmed. He is the second confirmed person to have died on one of the country’s under-construction World Cup stadiums. In a brief statement posted online, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SCDL) said the 40-year-old...

More Qatari couples are splitting up than ever before due to incompatibility issues and family involvement, a population expert has said. Some 807 Qataris filed for divorce in 2015, down 24 percent from 2009, according to the Peninsula. But this was still up 71 percent from 2000, according to Mohammad Ali Akbeed from the Ministry of Development, Planning and Statistics (MDPS). He shared...

JEDDAH: Two dangerous terrorists were killed and another two arrested in dramatic security operations in Jeddah on Saturday. After a pre-emptive operation by security forces two terrorists in Al-Harazat District, in south east Jeddah, were killed after they blew themselves up after refusing to surrender to police calls, the Interior Minisry’s spokesperson said. He added that the authorities arrested another two,...

Muscat – Royal Oman Police (ROP) has arrested two people on charges of kidnapping two Asian expatriates and demanding a ransom for their release. They claimed to be the police officers during execution of the crime. The Nizwa police station received a communication from the son of one of the victim that his father and his colleague have been kidnapped...

The new visa policies will take effect on Monday. Indians will no longer have the visa-on-arrival facility while travelling to Hong Kong and will have to complete a pre-arrival registration. The move, announced by the Hong Kong government in November last year, comes into effect from Monday. "The Pre-arrival Registration for Indian Nationals will be implemented on January 23, 2017. The online...

In a bizarre incident, a 16-year-old Indian boy killed a nine-year-old boy after chopping his body into six pieces, then ate his flesh and drank his blood. Deepu Kumar from Punjab had gone missing last week, according to The Times of India, and his beheaded body was found a day after the missing report was filed. The heart was recovered by...