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DUBAI: A US citizen has been detained in Saudi Arabia after getting into a dispute with security officials while performing the umrah pilgrimage, a lawyer for his family told AFP Sunday. Mohamad Salemwas taken into custody on November 1…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The sound of apparent gunshots and explosions echoed early Monday through the streets of a western Iranian city, one of the hot spots of protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman. At least one man…

COX'S BAZAR: Bangladesh authorities have bulldozed more than 3,000 Rohingya-run shops since last month, a government official confirmed Tuesday, as struggling refugee families voiced their dismay at the demolitions. About 850,000 members…

LESBOS (Greece): Pope Francis returns Sunday to Lesbos, the Greek island at the heart of a massive wave of migration into Europe six years ago, after pointedly criticizing European governments on their current handling of migrants and…

Israel seems to be widening the ambit of its audit of surveillance software exports beyond NSO Group, days after defence authorities raided some offices of the Herzliyaheadquartered company whose Pegasus spyware was allegedly used by…

NEW DELHI: Israeli government agencies have raided some offices of surveillance software vendor NSO Group “to begin assessing” security breach allegations against the company’s Pegasus spyware in the wake of an international media…

HERZLIYA: An official at Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group said Wednesday that the firm's controversial Pegasus spyware tool was not used to target French President Emmanuel Macron. The comments came as Reporters Without Borders…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's national security law has decimated freedoms and created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International said on Wednesday, a year after Beijing imposed the legislation on the city. The sweeping national security…

LONDON: The repression of hundreds of thousands of China's Uyghur Muslim minority amounts to "crimes against humanity", a report published Thursday by human rights group Amnesty International said. In a 160-page document that includes…

About 300 student activists rallied in Bangladesh's capital on Monday to denounce the death in prison of a writer and commentator who was arrested last year on charges of violating a sweeping digital security law that critics say chokes…