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Culture
South Korea’s legend BTS to perform in Saudi Arabia in “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” world tour
BTS, the first and only South Korean band to top the U.S. Billboard 200, has added Saudi Arabia to their world tour “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself”. The group has posted on its website that it would be performing in the Saudi capital Riyadh at King Fahad International Stadium on October…
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East Asia
Home, Sweet Home: Bahraini collector turns house into museum
At first blush, when people think of museums, images of illustrious storehouses of art and artifacts rush to their minds. However, the case is different when Hafedh Abdul Ghaffar, a Bahraini, is mentioned. He used his home in Saar in the outskirts of the capital Manama to judiciously preserve the…
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Culture
Mongolian children adopted by US families visit native home
Five children who had been adopted through a US-based organization are now back in Mongolia with their two adoptive families to learn about the culture, heritage and traditional way of life of their country of origin. The visit is part of regular tours launched in 2017 for adopted children and co-organized…
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South Asia
Pakistani TV anchorman gunned down in Karachi
Pakistanis have been paying rich tribute to a television journalist who was gunned down in in the port city of Karachi on Tuesday night. Mureed Abbas was an anchorman working for Bol News, a private television channel, was reportedly shot by his business partner Atif Zaman who later tried, according…
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East Asia
Gwangju and the exhilarating dive into peace
By Habib Toumi In two days, the eyes of the world will be riveted on Gwangju, the “City of Peace” in South Korea that will be the gracious and graceful host of the Fédération Internationale de natation FINA World Championships. The championship will include six highly competitive aquatic sports –…
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Central Asia
Uzbekistan to boost car production, export
Uzbekistan is to increase the production of cars from the current 250,000 to 350,000 units by 2023 and to boost export to at least 100,000 cars. Joint Stock Company “Uzavtosanoat” was given the task during a meeting chaired by Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to discuss the development of the automobile…
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Entertainment
In a first, Saudi princess leads Italian football club
Italian football has a princess. A Saudi princess who is now leading a football club. Princess Noora bin Saad Al Saud is now the president of Spoleto Calcio, a club located in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy’s Green Heart. The club plays in Serie D, he top level of the Italian non-professional…
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Column
Celebrating an extraordinary dedication to high journalism standards
There are events in the professional life of a journalist when there is no room for neutrality and no place for silence because it will then be the choice of those who have absolutely no choice. Only those who are physically, mentally or emotionally dead have no opinion, no voice,…
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West Asia
Two Azeri soldiers killed in accidental explosion
Baku: Two soldiers were killed and one was injured after a tank shell exploded at a military base in Azerbaijan on Saturday, the Azeri ministry of defense said in a statement. “On July 6 in the morning, an emergency happened in one of the military units. A serviceman accidentally dropped a…
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West Asia
Iran’s Hyrcanian Forests added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Tehran: The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has voted to add Iran’s Hyrcanian forests to its list of World Heritage Sites. The announcement was made by UNESCO in the Azeri capital Baku where the World Heritage Committee has been holding its meeting. “The floristic biodiversity of the broad-leaved…
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