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Two Emirati brothers who work in the armed forces and an Egyptian man stood trial on Thursday in the Court of First Instance on Thursday on the charge of blackmailing an Emirati housewife.

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ABU DHABI - The Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution has referred a UAE national, identified as 24-year-old M.A, who allegedly chased his mother holding a knife in his hand forcing her to jump out of a window of their first-floor flat, to the Family Misdemeanour Court.

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An Iraqi man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday by the Court of First Instance for possession of 203kg of hashish for trafficking.

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The Dubai Police have referred two Emiratis, A.A and A.S., both aged 26, to the Dubai Public Prosecution for alleged kidnap and rape of a 19-year-old student.

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The Ajman Court of Appeal on Wednesday postponed pronouncement of its verdict in an appeal by a government hospital optometrist, who was convicted of molesting an 18-year-old woman patient, to April 24.

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The Khorfakkan Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the lower court’s verdict sentencing an Asian housemaid, B.R.M., and her boyfriend G.A.A., to death for murdering her employer. The 42-year-old hearing-impaired woman employer was found dead inside her bedroom in Al Luluiya district of Khorfakkan in February last year.

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The Dubai Customs succeeded to foil 174 attempts to smuggle 13.9kg of niswar and paan (types of chewing tobacco) worth over Dh26,000 into the country through the Dubai International Airport over the last two years.

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SHARJAH - A pedestrian was killed by a speeding vehicle while crossing a road in Sharjah two weeks after two girls were killed in a smilar accident in the emirate.

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DUBAI — A worker was sentenced to one year in prison on Sunday by the Court of First Instance as he was found guilty of molesting a 11-year-old schoolgirl.

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