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Fire kills 5 migrants in Mecca

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2018

A fire Wednesday erupted in a house inhabited by migrant workers in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Mecca, killing five people, a civil defence official said. Five others were injured in the house in Mecca’s district of Shara al-Mujahdeen, a spokesman for Mecca’s Civil Defence, Nayef al-Sherif,

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Pregnant woman bites rapist’s genitals, police say

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2018

South African Police said they are on the lookout for a man with severely injured genitalia who allegedly raped a pregnant woman, who bit him in self-defence. Local police spokesman Leonard Hlathi told newsmen on Wednesday that the woman, who was in the third month of her pregnancy, was raped at knifepoint. “She was raped […]

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100 migrants missing in shipwreck off Libya

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2018

The Libyan Navy on Wednesday said as many as 100 migrants have gone missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya. The Libyan coastguard rescued 17 people from the boat that sank off the town of al-Khoms east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the navy said on its Facebook page. The survivors clung […]

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Fresh move to find missing MH370 gulps $50-million

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2018

Malaysia signed a deal on Wednesday to pay a U.S. seabed exploration firm up to 50 million dollars if it finds the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft MH370 in a new search area in the Southern Indian ocean. The disappearance of the aircraft en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people […]

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Groom dies in tragic fire hours after wedding

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

Hours after he got married, an Afghani groom in his 20s died in a fire that gutted the flat where he and his bride spent the night. The couple were married in Medina in western Saudi Arabia and were then driven to their new home in Makkah, 420 kilometres away. However, 10 hours after the wedding […]

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Indian doctors remove 97 pellets lodged in man’s chest for 4 years

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

Indian doctors have removed as many as 97 pellets from a 27-year-old man’s chest in a rare surgery, nearly four years after he was shot from point-blank range. The surgery on Aarif Hussain of Moradabad town in India’s largest state of Uttar Pradesh, took place at the country’s premier All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences […]