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Iran police fire tear gas as protests erupt at funeral of woman arrested by morality police
AMMAN: Rescue teams in the Jordanian capital Amman recovered the body of a woman from under the rubble of a collapsed building, raising the death toll from the incident on Tuesday to 14, according to local authorities. The Public Security Department announced on Saturday the end of the search and rescue operation at the site, amid information that the woman whose body was recovered earlier this morning was the last on the list of missing people.
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UK lays Queen Elizabeth II to rest after state funeral
Queen Elizabeth II has laid to rest after a state funeral attended by world leaders and a final journey through the streets of London. Monday’s funeral comes 11 days after the longest-serving monarch in British history died aged 96 at Balmoral on September 8. Thousands of people lined the streets surrounding Westminister Abbey and Buckingham Palace to witness the passage of the queen’s casket from Westminister Hall to the church and eventually to Windsor Castle, where she was laid to rest alongs
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Fury grows in Iran over woman who died after hijab arrest
DJEBBA, Tunisia: High in the hills of northwestern Tunisia, farmers are tending thousands of fig trees with a unique system of terracing they hope will protect them from ever-harsher droughts. But the “hanging gardens” of Djebba El-Olia have been put to the test this year as the North African country sweltered through its hottest July since the 1950s. That has exacerbated a long drought that has left Tunisia’s reservoirs at just a third of their capacity.
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Saudi Arabia's Tabuk produces more than 150 tons of high-quality figs annually
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is using Blood Cancer Awareness Month in September to raise awareness about leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and Hodgkin’s disease, support patients affected by blood cancer and raise funds for research, a Saudi oncologist has said. According to a GLOBOCAN 2020 report issued by the World Health Organization, Saudi Arabia had 4,326 new cases of blood cancer, including 1,698 patients who were detected with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 1,676 with Leukaemia, 687 with Hodgkin’s lymphoma an
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Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva condemns Putin's war on Ukraine
Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, denounced President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine saying he is killing soldiers for “illusory” aims, burdening ordinary people, and turning Russia into a pariah state. Since the February 24 invasion, Russia has cracked down on dissent with fines for artists who make anti-war comments. State TV casts critics as “traitors to the motherland”.
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'America's Got Talent' winners Mayyas showered with love on return to Lebanon
DUBAI: In the history of Arab cinema, no star has shone brighter than Omar Sharif. The legendary Egyptian actor, who became Arab cinema’s first major crossover star after 1962’s “Lawrence of Arabia” catapulted him to international fame, had talent so copious and personality so large that his presence has only grown in the public consciousness since his death in 2015, as the film world continues to search for his true successor.
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Dubai ruler visits Buckingham Palace to offer condolences on death of Queen Elizabeth
DOHA: Ambassador Jassim bin Yousef Al-Jamal, Qatar’s first permanent representative to the UN, has given an overview of Qatar’s international role over the past five decades in an interview with Qatar News Agency. Al-Jamal was appointed soon after Qatar’s independence in 1971 and served for 12 years. In his interview, Al-Jamal emphasized that despite its recent independence, Qatar had played a strong and active role in the UN, and its permanent delegation was in harmony with the Arab group.
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