A Saudi obese man has been sent to prison for failing to pay debts of SR 200,000 he accumulated in his attempts to reduce his weight. Nader Al Dheeba, 27, weighed more than 350 kilogrammes and has been borrowing money to help bring down his weight. However, his attempts to shed kilos have been...
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Two leading Kuwaiti activists were allowed to go home after an appeals court overturned a six-month jail term on one and ordered the release of the second. The court reversed an earlier decision by the lower court to sentence Khalid Al Fadhala, the secretary general of the liberal National Democratic Alliance, to three months...
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In a rare incident, a Qatar prosecutor is in police custody after he refused to comply with a policeman’s request to report to the traffic department to face disciplinary action. The prosecutor was over-speeding when a policeman stopped him and requested him to report to the traffic department. However, the prosecutor ignored the request...
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Qatar’s tally of traffic accidents deaths in the first six months of the year has slightly decreased compared with that of the same period in 2009, traffic authorities have said. According to the figure, 101 people died in road accidents in the Arabian Gulf country in 2010, down from 104 last year. A vast...
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