AFP, Dubai
Dubai plans to build a tower that will stand higher than its Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest skyscraper, property developer Emaar said Sunday.
The viewing tower will cost around $1 billion (880 million euros) and will be “a notch” taller than Burj Khalifa, Emaar chairman Mohamed Alabbar told reporters as he revealed details of the project.
Egypt to give Saudi Arabia two Red Sea islands
Agencies, Cairo
Moves by the Egyptian government to hand two strategic Red Sea islands over to Saudi Arabia have dran angry reaction from opposition figures.
An Egyptian cabinet announcement said that technical work on the two countries’ maritime boundary had shown that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir were within Saudi territorial waters.
The statement came while Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was in Cairo for a five-day visit.
Man executed for 5 journalists’ killings
AP, Mogadishu
A former journalist accused of belonging to al-Shabab was executed in the Somali capital for the killings of five Somali journalists.
Hassan Hanafi Haji, who was extradited from Kenya last year on the request of the Somali government, was executed by firing squad at a police academy in Mogadishu on Monday.
Firing squad remains the only execution method in Somalia.
