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West Asia
Flooding brings Qatar to a near standstill
A year’s worth of rain deluged parts of Qatar on Wednesday 25 November as seasonal storms moving through Saudi Arabia flooded streets in a city northwest of the capital, Riyadh. The storm clouded over parts of the Arabian Peninsula, but struck Doha, the capital of Qatar, particularly hard. At Hamad International Airport…
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Society
Turkish Airlines celebrate at the Seoul Plaza
On the 18th floor of the Seoul Plaza, Turkish Airlines were celebrating their achievements in a glamorous night. Turkish Airlines had been chosen for the 5th time in a row as the best airline in Europe. Along with Albania Experience, a destination management company, they put together a night promoting…
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West Asia
Biggest legal TV drama in the UAE chooses its cast
Image Nation, one of the region’s leading media and entertainment companies, has announced the cast for its upcoming legal drama Justice (Qalb Al Adalah). Emirati actors Fatima Al Taei, a star of Iftah Yah SimSim, and Mansoor Al Feeli (Zinzana) have been cast in the leading roles. They are joined…
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West Asia
Turkey shoots down a Russian jet near its borders
A Russian Su-24, an all-weather attack aircraft, was shot down by two Turkish F-16 in the Turkey-Syria border, as governmental resources say that the aircraft breached the Turkish airspace while Russia denies. The plane crashed in the mountainous Jabal Turkmen area of the coastal Syrian province of Latakia, which is…
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West Asia
Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre announces 10 innovative space technologies
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) announced 10 new innovative space technologies and satellite applications, distributed among KhalifaSat, Nayif-1, SAFIY and “Semi-Supervised classification tool for DubaiSat-2 multispectral images”. Most of the innovative technologies were designed to meet the needs and requirements of their users, inside and outside the UAE.…
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West Asia
Egypt border guards shoot Sudanese migrants
Egyptian border forces have shot dead five Sudanese migrants trying to cross from Egypt’s North Sinai region into Israel on 24th November, the Egyptian military said in a statement. “Law enforcement tasked with protecting the border spotted at dawn today a group of Africans trying to sneak though the international…
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Politics
Former President Kim Young-sam dies at age 88
On Sunday 22 November, Former South Korean president Kim Young Sam, died at the age of 88. Kim, who had been hospitalized with a fever and breathing problems since Thursday, died at 12:21 a.m., according to Seoul National University Hospital. He had ended decades of military rule in South Korea and accepted…
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Politics
UK PM to outline Syria plan
David Cameron is to set out his plan for tackling the crisis in Syria within days, in a bid to win support for air strikes against Islamic State fighters. It comes after a Foreign Affairs Committee report said the UK should not join allied bombing in Syria without a coherent…
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IT-Science
Samsung releases low-budget smartphone
The Korean giant, Samsung, is planning to release a new low-budget smartphone in South Korea during this month, meeting the demands of cheap smartphones. According to company sources, KT, which is the second smartphones operator in South Korea is going to be the exclusive distribute of this new phone “Galaxy J7” which…
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West Asia
Australians among other nationals arrested in Kuwait for supplying ISIS
Two Australians are part of a group arrested in Kuwait, accused of being members of an extremist network that supplied funds and weapons, including rockets, to Islamic State militants, the state news agency Kuna quoted the interior ministry as saying on Thursday 19th November. The group also included a Lebanese,…
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