GRAN CANARIA, Spain, Oct 20 (Reuters): Thousands of people protested in holiday resorts in Spain\’s Canary Islands on Sunday against over-tourism which they say prices local people out of the housing market. Under the slogan Canary Islands has a limit, residents demonstrated simultaneously in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro and […]
RIYADH: The government of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become fed up with the influx of beggars from Pakistan disguised as Hajj and Umrah pilgrims. According to media reports, the government of Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan to check the arrival of beggars on umrah and Hajj visas. The government sources said that beggars
LONDON/SEOUL, Aug 23 (Reuters): Singapore Airlines, British Airways and Lufthansa have increased their flights over Afghanistan after years of largely avoiding it now the Middle East conflict has made it seem a relatively safe option. The carriers mostly stopped transiting Afghanistan, which lies on major routes between Asia and Europe, three years ago when the
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LAHORE (Reuters): The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has charged a local man with cybercrime offences for spreading fake online information which fuelled riots in Britain, it said in a statement on Wednesday. The riots began after false information circulated online wrongly blaming an Islamist migrant for the killing of three young girls in a knife
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DHAKA, Aug 8 (Reuters): Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus made an emotional return home to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a new interim government after weeks of student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to neighbouring India. A harsh critic of Hasina, Yunus, 84, arrived in Dhaka following medical treatment in Paris
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