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Ten men were cleared on Thursday of the charge of setting Al Qusais detention centre on fire after they were detained in connection with other cases.

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The Western Region Police arrested a man who allegedly burgled villas when the residents were away. The 22-year-old Asian suspect, identified as M.A.A., hid in a water tank on the roof of a villa when the police closed in on him.

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A 16-year-old Syrian girl died after she was run over by a speeding car in Al Taawun area of Sharjah on Wednesday.

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The body of a 49-year-old Indian man was found hanging from a ceiling fan in an apartment in Al Mussala area of Sharjah on Tuesday.

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The Dubai Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld the three-year imprisonment given to former CEO of Tamweel and his former deputy for collecting bribes worth millions of dirhams while purchasing plots in the Sama Al Jaddaf project at their cost price and then reselling them at higher prices.

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A 19-year-old Pakistani delivery boy died on Tuesday after the car he was travelling in crashed into an electric post.

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The Sharjah Police on Tuesday arrested five Indians for allegedly running a bogus investment company from a residential apartment and duping people.

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A 40-year-old Emirati man allegedly expropriated a car owned by his ex-wife by forging her signature on the application form for transferring the car ownership, a court heard on Tuesday. The defendant, a maritime officer, faced the charges of forgery, use of a forged document and fraud in the Court of First Instance.

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The Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday sentenced five police officers, including a lieutenant-colonel, to one month in jail each on the charge of unlawful detention of three Pakistanis in a kidnap-cum-murder case.

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