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China says 197 punished in crackdown on online rumors

People recently punished in China’s campaign against online rumors include those who circulated an inflated death toll in the Tianjin blasts and who alleged a man committed suicide because of the country’s stock market woes, state media reported Monday. The official Xinhua News Agency... read more »

Blast targets bus in Cairo, 5 injured.
In Yemen, 34 civilians killed in bombing...

In Yemen, 34 civilians killed in bombing of water bottling factory

A Saudi-led airstrike on a water bottling factory in Yemen left 34 dead and dozens injured, the Yemeni Defense Ministry said. Saudi Arabia authorities have not responded to CNN’s request for comment on the attack. According to Reuters, Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asseri, coalition spokesman, said the... read more »

Death toll rises to 11 in Saudi fire, 20...

Death toll rises to 11 in Saudi fire, 200 injured

Eleven people are dead and over 200 are injured after a fire swept through an oil workers residential compound in Saudi Arabia. Saudi national oil company Saudi Aramco said the cause of the fire which broke out in a basement of the Radium residential compound in Khobar was not known. Cars and... read more »

Saudi Arabia: Fire at oil workers’ resid...

Saudi Arabia: Fire at oil workers’ residential compound kills at least 11

A large fire broke out Sunday in the basement of a sprawling residential complex in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich east, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200, officials in the kingdom said. The blaze began early in the morning in a multistory residential compound known as Radium in the... read more »

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1,000 lash sentence for Saudi blogger postponed

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia postponed until next week Friday’s flogging of a blogger jailed for insulting Islam, citing medical reasons, a week after he received the first 50 of 1,000-lash... read more »

Boko Haram: ‘For five kilometres, I kept standing on dead bodies’

Washington: It’s a “brief” war, which is to say that media reports on the brutal, dehumanising violence as Boko Haram consolidates its hold on a nation-sized slice of... read more »

Saudi Arabia: Woman dragged through street, beheaded for ‘murdering’ stepdaugh...

In what could send chills down one’s spine, a Burmese woman, who resided in Saudi Arabia, was publicly beheaded in Islam’s holy city of Mecca on allegations that she had killed her... read more »

Pakistan Hangs Terrorist, 20th Execution Since Moratorium Lifted

LAHORE: Pakistan today hanged a terrorist of a banned anti-Shiite outfit in Lahore after a court upheld the death penalty awarded to him, taking the number of executions in the country... read more »

Malawi: 176 Killed and Thousands Displaced by Floods

Flooding in Malawi has killed more than 176 people, displaced at least 200,000, left homes and schools submerged in water and roads washed away, Vice President Saulos Chilima said Friday. Dozens of... read more »