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Dubai security chief calls for bombing of Al Jazeera NEWS / UAE Media UAE Qatar Middle East SIGN UP Khalfan has made several controversial comments in the past [File: Ahmed Jadallah/ Reuters] A senior security official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sparked outrage after calling for the bombing of Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media network. In a series of posts on Twitter on Friday, Dubai Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan launched a scathing attack against Al Jazeera, accusing it of provoking a bomb and gun assault on a mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula earlier in the day. ﻋﻠﻰ ﺍﻟﺘﺤﺎﻟﻒ ﺃﻥ ﻳﻘﺼﻒ ﺍﻵﻟﺔ ﺍﻟﺪﺍﻋﻴﺔ ﻟﻼﺭﻫﺎﺏ ..ﻗﻨﺎﺓ ﺩﺍﻋﺶ ﻭﺍﻟﻘﺎﻋﺪﺓ ﻭﺍﻟﻨﺼﺮﺓ ﺟﺰﻳﺮﺓ ﺍﻻﺭﻫﺎﺏ 3:41 PM - Nov 24, 2017 674 488 914 ﺿﺎﺣﻲ ﺧﻠﻔﺎﻥ ﺗﻤﻴﻢ @Dhahi_Khalfan "The alliance must bomb the machine of terrorism ... the channel of ISIL, al- Qaeda and the al-Nusra front, Al Jazeera the terrorists," the former police chief and now head of security in the Emirate told his 2.42 million followers on the social media s...

Pakistan calls in army to end anti-blasphemy protests NEWS / ASIA Pakistan Asia SIGN UP More than half of those injured in the clashes were members of the security forces, according to a hospital official [Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera] Islamabad, Pakistan- The Pakistani army has been called in to restore order to the capital after clashes between anti- blasphemy protesters and police left at least 174 people injured. Thousands of riot police and paramilitary personnel on Saturday fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon at the protesters in an attempt to dislodge them from a major highway into Islamabad. The protesters, numbering as many as 2,000, stood their ground, fighting back by throwing stones and beating police with sticks and metal rods in running battles that continued throughout the day. The protesters have been blocking the Islamabad expressway, the main road into the capital, since November 8, demanding the resignation of Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid over a perceived s...

10 dark pieces to listen to on darker evenings What's the perfect musical accompaniment for a gloomy winter's night? New teaching resources for Ten Pieces are available for use across the 2017/18 academic year and are packed with ways to get young people inspired by classical music. The pieces themselves provide a great musical introduction to the classical world for all ages. We've dipped into this year's list of pieces plus the Ten Pieces back catalogue to find some mysterious, atmospheric and suitably sinister music to soundtrack your winter season. Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain is the piece for you. A Night On The Bare Mountain is based on a short story set near Kiev in the old Russian Empire. A wild and terrifying witches' party is taking place on a mountainside, but when the church bell chimes at 6am and the sun comes up... the witches vanish. The unsettled strings with trombones, tuba and bassoons thundering out the theme make it a perfect acc...

Oxford Circus: Platform 'altercation' caused tube panic Police have released images of two men they want to speak to, after an altercation at a central London Tube station created mass panic on Friday. Officers want to speak to anyone who was at Oxford Circus underground station at the time of the evacuation. Sixteen people were treated after they were injured fleeing the station, following reports of gunshots being fired on a Central Line platform. There was no evidence any weapons had been fired, police said. Shoppers were barricaded inside stores on Oxford Street and armed police were deployed after the alarm was raised during the evening rush hour on Black Friday. Police initially treated the incident as potentially terrorism-related, before standing down. The British Transport Police said it believed there had been an altercation between two men on the platform before the scare. Oxford Circus scare: As it happened The Metropolitan Police said it began receiving "numer...

Emmanuel Macron: Domestic violence is 'France's shame' French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken out against domestic violence, saying it shames France that a woman is killed every three days. In a speech marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, he said the silence around the issue must be broken. He has made gender equality one of the main themes of his five-year term in office. A number of demonstrations are being held across France to mark the day. During his election campaign last year, Mr Macron said that the issue of violence against women would be a priority for his presidency. Polls conducted by his then movement, En Marche, suggested that it was the French public's top concern. During his speech, Mr Macron observed a minute's silence for the 123 women killed by their partner or ex-partner in 2016. Nearly 225,000 women were physically or sexually abused by their spouses, but fewer than one in five filed a complaint about it....

Egyptian air raid kills 'terrorist' mosque attackers NEWS / SINAI PENINSULA WATCH 10:14 The silence in Sinai: Covering Egypt's 'war on terror' ISIS Sinai Peninsula Egypt Middle East War & Conflict SIGN UP Wounded people are evacuated from the scene of the mosque attack on Friday [The Associated Press] The Egyptian army says an air raid killed some of the attackers involved in Friday's massacre when at least 305 people died in a bomb-and-gun attack on a mosque. In a statement late on Friday, army spokesman Tamer Rifai said the Egyptian air force chased down the assailants who, according to officials, arrived in four 4WD vehicles and carried out the attack during noon prayers. "The air forces chased the terrorists and discovered and destroyed a number of vehicles that were involved in carrying out the brutal terrorist attack ... Those on board were also killed," Rifai said. The massacre occurred in Bir al-Abed, a town in North Sinai province. Adverti...