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Arab coalition carries out air strikes on military targets in Sanaa, Saada

NEW YORK: There is more at stake in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than peace and security in the Middle East, according to Abdulla Shahid, the president of the UN General Assembly. The reputation of the global community and its ability to work together to resolve international disputes, in keeping with the founding vision of the UN,…

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Unvaccinated expats in Jordan face strict measures, including deportation

DUBAI: Veteran photographer Ramesh Shukla has lived in the UAE for the best part of five decades. He arrived from his native India just as the former Trucial States were approaching independence from Britain and embarking on a remarkable journey of nation building.Now 84 years old, he witnessed firsthand the UAE’s evolution from a collection…

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UN warned its credibility is at stake over the Palestinian question

DUBAI: Veteran photographer Ramesh Shukla has lived in the UAE for the best part of five decades. He arrived from his native India just as the former Trucial States were approaching independence from Britain and embarking on a remarkable journey of nation building.Now 84 years old, he witnessed firsthand the UAE’s evolution from a collection…

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El-Sisi reiterates need for end to foreign interference in Libya

CHICAGO: The Iranian regime has sanctioned a “campaign of hate” to fuel public animosity against the country’s Baha’i religious community, Baha’i officials told Arab News. Anthony Vance, Baha’i public affairs director in the US, said Iran has adopted laws that target its 300,000 Baha’is, barring them from universities and public sector employment, as well as…

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220,000 visitors at Egypt’s pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai since its opening

DUBAI: The Muslim World League has launched an exhibition on the lives of the prophets at its Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion. “The Prophets As If You See Them” uses the latest technology to present the biographies of Islam’s prophets and messengers. It sheds light on the messages of peace, love, affection, tolerance, coexistence, and humanity…

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Egypt to host Food Africa starting Dec. 12

DUBAI: The Muslim World League has launched an exhibition on the lives of the prophets at its Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion. “The Prophets As If You See Them” uses the latest technology to present the biographies of Islam’s prophets and messengers. It sheds light on the messages of peace, love, affection, tolerance, coexistence, and humanity…

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Jordan dam reserves at all-time low as water crisis looms

AMMAN: Amid a delay in rainfall, Jordan’s major dams are either completely empty or facing critically low water levels, putting the country on the verge of an unprecedented drought crisis should dry weather conditions persist. Of the kingdom’s 14 major dams, three are now empty, according to officials, who said that emergency plans are being…

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Lifeless Lebanon lurches into new turmoil amid worsening economic crises

BEIRUT: Lebanon continued its freefall into economic turmoil on Friday, with the medical, fuel, and food crises worsening and no political initiative being taken to overcome the deteriorating situation. The value of the Lebanese pound dropped to record lows, trading at 23,000 Lebanese pounds to the dollar on the black market. This crash was at least…

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Lack of contact from Iran govt ‘astonishing’: UN nuclear watchdog

Turkey stops flying migrants to Belarus amid Polish border crisis, Iraq offers ‘voluntary’ repatriation ANKARA: Turkey banned Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from flights to Minsk on Friday, potentially closing off one of the routes used by migrants that the EU says have been flown in by Belarus to create a deliberate humanitarian crisis on…

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West says new Sudan army-led council breaches democracy transition

ANKARA: Poland, Belarus and Turkey are at the center of a refugee crisis after thousands of migrants from Syria, Iraq and Yemen have become trapped at the Polish border, having been denied entry into Poland and prevented from re-entering Belarus. The crisis has now acquired an international dimension with NATO and Brussels on alert. Since…

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Sudan general names council for post-coup transition

Iran will ratify the terms of the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change only if economic sanctions aimed against it come to an end, the country’s environment chief has told the BBC. Ali Salajegheh, head of the Islamic Republic’s Department of Environment, alleged that sanctions were impeding Iran’s growth in areas such as renewable energy.…

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Incoming CEO of Israeli spyware firm NSO steps down

BEIRUT: The Iranian national football team has visited Lebanon on several occasions to compete in the Asian qualifiers. But this week, the Iranian team arrived in a very different set of circumstances, playing Lebanon on Thursday amid a wave of political quarreling and accusations that Tehran is taking over the country and isolating it from…

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Russian charter flights to Egypt resort areas resume after 6-year hiatus

CAIRO: The US reaffirmed its support for Egypt’s water security, in the final statement of the strategic dialogue between the two countries. Washington and Cairo called for the resumption of negotiations on an agreement on the filling and operation of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam under the auspices of the African Union president, in line with the presidential…

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US, Egypt conclude strategic dialogue

CAIRO: The US reaffirmed its support for Egypt’s water security, in the final statement of the strategic dialogue between the two countries. Washington and Cairo called for the resumption of negotiations on an agreement on the filling and operation of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam under the auspices of the African Union president, in line with the presidential…

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Libyan elections must be held on time, says Egyptian president

MOSUL / BOGOTA: Caked in the fine yellow dust kicked up by his tractor-drawn planter, Farman Noori Latif jumps down to survey his work. He has spent the morning sowing wheat seed on his farm near the banks of the Tigris River, just south of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is late in the season to…

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Egypt reiterates call for all foreign forces to leave Libya

Philippine COVID-19 authorities ‘not in touch with realities in Gulf countries’ – migrant labor expert DUBAI: Philippine authorities dealing with the coronavirus pandemic are not attuned to the COVID-19 situation in Gulf countries, further exasperating overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the region who want to have a hassle-free return home, a migrant expert said.“They do…

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US gives Egypt 3.6m Pfizer vaccine doses

Philippine COVID-19 authorities ‘not in touch with realities in Gulf countries’ – migrant labor expert DUBAI: Philippine authorities dealing with the coronavirus pandemic are not attuned to the COVID-19 situation in Gulf countries, further exasperating overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the region who want to have a hassle-free return home, a migrant expert said.“They do…

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