Syrian refugees family name newborn baby daughter after Scottish volunteer
A family of Syrian refugees have named their newborn daughter after a volunteer who gave up her time to teach them English. Omar Al-Hamdan and…
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Moray woman who brought abandoned dog home from holiday in Turkey
When Tracey Hirst looked into the eyes of an abandoned golden retriever while on holiday last year she could not bear to leave him behind….
Gold shop thieves arrested in Dubai – Photo, Video
A Hong Kong gang of five who managed to steal $545,000 (AED2 million) worth of jewellery in just 31 seconds have been arrested by Dubai…
Poverty leads parents to kill their children in Egypt
An Egyptian father threw his two sons from a bridge over the River Nile last week because the economic crisis in the country meant he…
Europe: There is no future with Assad. Russia hits back
Western countries that met in Italy for a Group of Seven meeting said April 11 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had no place in the…
Millions of migrant forced to pay for right to work in Gulf states
South Asian migrants powering the construction boom in oil-rich Gulf countries are often illegally made to pay for their own recruitment, adding to hardships of…
Member of the European Parliament on Armenia: “That’s something I have seen in African slums”
The Slovak member of the European Parliament, Boris Zala, spoke about what he saw in Armenia as an observer at the parliamentary elections held on…
Iranian former President to run for President
Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “unexpectedly filed to run in the country’s May presidential election, contradicting a recommendation from the supreme leader to stay out…
USA: Russia wants to “save face” in Syria
Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the United Nations, is characterizing Russia as skittish and isolated in the wake of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s deadly…
Shelter seeker caught with cocaine claims ‘it’s not illegal in Iran’
A failed caught with cocaine claimed he didn’t think he’d committed a crime as ‘small amounts’ aren’t illegal in his home country of Iran – forcing…