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West Asia
Iran’s famous orchestra barred from performance over female musicians
A high-profile performance in Iran by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra was cancelled at the last minute because it was due to feature female musicians. The orchestra conductor Ali Rahbari said on Sunday he was told 15 minutes before the orchestra was scheduled to play at a major sporting event that…
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Saudi women begin first-ever election campaign
Hundreds of Saudi women began campaigning for public office on Sunday, in a first for women in the conservative kingdom’s slow reform process. More than 800 women are standing alongside thousands of men in the 12 December municipal ballot, which will also mark the first time that women in Saudi Arabia…
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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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Khamenei: Iran to defend Palestinians ‘in every possible way’
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Iran would support the Palestinian uprising against Israel “in any way we can”. He also rejected US accusations that a recent wave of Palestinian knife and car-ramming attacks amounted to “terrorism”. A day earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry,…
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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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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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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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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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The War against Expats in the Arab Gulf States
It needs you a few minutes to search the headlines to realize the active war of the Arab Gulf States authorities against expatriates who live and work there, as many procedures have been taken into effect regarding the current and future expats. Kuwait is considering to stop all access to…
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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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