Man held for having affair with two sisters

Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police arrested a young man for having an affair with two sisters who study in the same university.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested the man and a girl at a park in the southern town of Baha.

“When they searched his mobile phone, they found indecent photographs of him and other girls studying in Baha university…one of them is the sister of the girl caught with him in the park,” Kabar daily said.

Sacked employee gets Dh123,000 damages

The UAE’s top court supported an employee abruptly sacked by a company and ordered his former employers to pay him Dh124,000 damages.

The unnamed man had sought Dh276,000 in compensation and end of service benefits while the company demanded him to pay Dh36,000 on the grounds it had offered him accommodation allowance of Dh10,000 a year.

The Federal Supreme Court decided to support the ex-employee’s case and ordered the company to pay him a total of Dh124,000 damages, the Arabic language daily Alkhaleej reported.

Child drowns in Qatar’s Aqua Park

Doha’s two-year-old Aqua Park in Qatar has claimed its first victim when a child drowned in one of its pools while swimming alone.

The child was with other boys before moving to another pool in the sprawling complex, thinking it is shallow, the Qatari Sharq daily said.

“Rescuers plucked the boy and tried to resuscitate him but he died…police are investigating the incident to determine who is responsible for this tragedy,” the paper said without identifying the boy or specifying his age.

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