DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Syrian officials told Al-Jazeera that one of the network’s journalists, a woman with extensive connections in the U.S. and Canada, was sent to Iran following her detention last month in Damascus, the pan-Arab broadcaster said Wednesday. Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based network, urged Iranian authorities to provide details on Dorothy Parvaz, who went missing after leaving the Qatari capital of Doha on April 29 for Syria to report on the political turmoil there. Last week, Al-Jazeera said Syrian authorities confirmed the detention of Parvaz, who holds U.S., Iranian and Canadian citizenship. She works for the news network’s English-language channel. Read full article > >

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In an unwelcome milestone for the tallest skyscraper on earth, a man jumped to his death Tuesday in Dubai, falling 39 floors. The man, a foreign national who apparently worked in a company with offices in the Burj Khalifa, jumped from the 147th floor…

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Dubai-based airline Emirates reports a 52% rise in annual profits, boosted by a big increase in passenger numbers over the year.

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President Obama faced sharply divided counsel and, to his mind, barely better-than-even odds of success when he ordered the May 1 commando raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden , the president said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Obama acknowledged having only circumstantial evidence placing bin Laden at the Abbottabad compound . There was not a single photograph or confirmed sighting of the man , he said, and he worried that the Navy SEALs would find only a “prince from Dubai” instead of the terrorist mastermind responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Read full article > >

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A doctor from London is being held by authorities in Dubai after allegedly making a rude gesture at a motorist.

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A UK tourist who died in Dubai police custody hit his head on a wall while resisting officers but this did not cause his death, local officials say.

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British tourist Lee Brown died in police custody following his arrest at a luxury hotel in Dubai after choking on his own vomit, officials have said.

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Indonesian police arrest arrested two men suspected of trying to smuggle 40 sedated snakes on to a flight to Dubai.

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A British sailor from the Royal Navy is killed in a road accident in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

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Tiger Woods is to be fined for spitting during his final round at the Dubai Desert Classic.

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Rory McIlroy leads the Dubai Desert Classic by one shot at the halfway stage, with Tiger Woods in a share of fifth after a 66.

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Anti-slavery campaigners criticise the conditions some of Dubai’s immigrants work in.

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The Middle East could be a center of global innovation.

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Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn will receive a lifetime achievement prize at this year’s Dubai Film Festival, organisers announce.

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Mail bombs sent from Yemen and addressed to a Chicago synagogue were intercepted by law enforcement officials in Britain and Dubai acting on a last minute tip, by way of Saudi intelligence, from Jaber al-Faifi, a “repentant” Al Qaeda operative and former Guantanamo Bay detainee. The bombs, which appear to have been intended to explode mid-air in transatlantic cargo flights, had already been on four planes, two of them carrying passengers, before they were discovered. New York Times Yemeni officials detained engineering student Hanan al-Samawi, whose name and cell phone number were found on one of the packages, but released her when a shipping agent confirmed that a different woman had used al-Samawi’s name when signing the shipping manifesto. Christian Science Monitor American officials believed that the bombs were made by top Al Qaeda in Yemen bombmaker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, the likely maker of last year’s underwear bomb, and said they did not know how many more explosives were in transit. “We’re trying to get a better handle on what else may be out there,” said deputy national security adviser John Brennan. “We’re trying to understand better what we may be facing.” Washington Post As Iraqi forces stormed a church in Baghdad, gunmen holding hostages there set off two suicide vests filled with ball bearings, killing 58 and wounding 75 more. “It’s a horrible scene,“ said Iraqi police officer Hussain Nahidh. ”Many people went to the hospitals without legs and hands.“ Iraqi defense minister Abdul-Kader Jassem al-Obeidi called it ”a successful operation with a minimum of casualties.“ The militant group Islamic State of Iraq called the church “the dirty den of idolatry” and promised further attacks against Iraqi Christians. New York Times A Nebraska man was arrested for waterboarding his girlfriend. The Smoking Gun . . .

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