AL-MUKALLA: Heavy flooding in southeast Yemen has left five people dead and hundreds homeless as the war-torn country battles a new wave of coronavirus.
Most of the deaths occurred on Sunday in the southeastern province of Hadramout, where heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed five people, injured two and destroyed at least 10 houses in Tarim’s Aideed district.
Residents told Arab News that floodwaters swept through parts of the city, washing away houses, cars and livestock.
A family of three were killed by falling debris after a house collapsed in the torrent.
“People have never seen such heavy flooding for the last three decades,” Hadad Mousaid, a resident, told Arab News.
RIYADH: Saudi authorities foiled a plot to smuggle almost 1,000 kilograms of hashish into the Kingdom through its southern borders.
Col. Misfer Al-Quraini, a spokesman for the Border Guards, said the plans were uncovered by officers during their continual investigations of criminal drug activities.
Authorities seized 961kg of the drug in Jazan region, including 515kg in a joint operation with the General Directorate for Narcotics Control. A total of 24 were arrested in connection with the seizures, including 18 Ethiopian nationals, four Yemenis and two Saudi citizens.
Al-Quraini said that in other security operations in the region border guards seized 44.7 tons of khat, and 23 people were arrested, including 16 Saudi citizens, and seven Yemenis.
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DUBAI: Middle Eastern investors are making a return to the British property market, as the UK begins to emerge from the lockdown restrictions as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
According to the latest data compiled by global property consultancy Knight Frank, investors from the Middle East made up 16 percent of all sales to overseas buyers in the first three months of this year, compared to less than 10 percent during the second and third quarters of 2020.
While this is the highest level of Middle Eastern interest since the pandemic began last summer, the report said the total numbers were still lower than pre-pandemic levels.
Iraqis with perceived links to Daesh face barriers to obtaining documentation or returning to their homes
Aid agencies fear children and women left stranded in camps may become a permanent underclass
Updated 03 May 2021
May 03, 2021 23:43
NINEVEH/IRBIL/BOGOTA: Since the collapse of Daesh’s so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, many Western nations have been reluctant to allow the families of fighters to return for legal, political and security reasons. But the issue is equally complicated in the two war-weary Arab countries that the “caliphate” straddled while it lasted.
More than three years after the territorial defeat of Daesh in Iraq, more than a million Iraqis remain trapped in a precarious state of displacement. Those with perceived association with the terrorist group face added barriers to obtaining documentation or returning to their homes.