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Men ejected from Saudi festival, deported for ‘being too handsome’

Finally, a news story we can relate to. An annual culture festival in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh was interrupted when three men from the United Arab Emirates stand were ejected for being too handsome. “A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds [that] they are too handsome and [...]

Written by: newsacross on April 17, 2013.

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Gunmen attack church in Libya’s Benghazi: state media

March 3, 2013 No Comment

(Reuters) – Gunmen attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the official LANA news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying on Sunday. The foreign ministry said it “strongly condemned Thursday’s attack on the Egyptian church … and the aggression towards Father Paul Isaac and his assistant [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 3, 2013.

Egypt’s top judges slam President Mursi for ‘unprecedented assault’

November 24, 2012 No Comment

Egypt’s highest body of judges on Saturday accused President Mohammed Mursi of “unprecedented assault” on the judiciary by assuming sweeping powers putting him beyond judicial oversight, with some going on protest strike. The Supreme Judicial Council said after an emergency meeting that Mursi’s constitutional declaration was “an unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary [...]

Written by: newsacross on November 24, 2012.

Wave of violence in Iraq claims more than 80 lives

August 17, 2012 No Comment

Baghdad (CNN) — A wave of shootings and bombings that Iraqi officials said bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda killed more than 80 people and wounded more than 270 across the country Thursday. Insurgents carried out attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk, Salaheddin, Anbar, Wasit and Diyala provinces, according to police and Interior Ministry offiicals. The [...]

Written by: CNN on August 17, 2012.

South Africa marks 50 years since Mandela’s arrest

August 4, 2012 No Comment

South Africa unveiled its latest monument to Nelson Mandela on Saturday, a new statue along a rural highway marking the spot where he was arrested 50 years ago for his struggle against apartheid. Mandela, now 94, was arrested as a young liberation fighter on August 5, 1962, near the eastern town of Howick, just months [...]

Written by: newsacross on August 4, 2012.

Woman charged with putting menstrual blood in boss’s coffee

May 24, 2012 No Comment

This is not the best part of waking up. The Straits Times, an English-language newspaper in Singapore, is reporting that a 24-year-old maid there has been charged with putting her menstrual blood in her boss’s coffee. The crime reportedly took place last August at his apartment in Choa Chu Kang, a town in west Singapore, [...]

Written by: newsacross on May 24, 2012.

Militants behead two soldiers

May 7, 2012 No Comment

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Written by: newsacross on May 7, 2012.

Somber World Press Day in Somalia after 5th death

May 3, 2012 No Comment

Dozens of Somali journalists met Thursday in somber silence to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, a meeting that came only hours after the killing of the fifth Somali journalist this year. Two armed men shadowed Somali radio journalist Farhan Abdulle after he left his station late Wednesday, then shot him dead. His death is the [...]

Written by: newsacross on May 3, 2012.