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Samsung biggest chip investor

The tech giant invested nearly $59.2bn in 2025.

flynas to set up new hub

Five destinations in first phase of operations.

AD Ports Group acquires CLI

CLI is Brazilian agri-bulk terminal operator.

$1.59bn Makkah project awarded

A consortium will develop two districts in the Holy City.

2PointZero posts profit surge

Growth driven by merger consolidation.

Saudi Arabia unveils ‘Colour Your Summer’ program, targeting 41 million visitors

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's tourism sector is poised for an unprecedented summer season, with the official launch of...

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Hollywood stars condemn Gaza ‘genocide’ on eve of Cannes Festival

Cannes, France - More than 350 figures from the cinema world including Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon condemned...

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Ukraine invasion shows democracy is shaking: Artist

What Ai Weiwei calls the current "crisis of human rights and freedom of speech" is portrayed in a life-size replica...
  • He was speaking at the Albertina Modern gallery where the show, "In Search of Humanity", opens Wednesday.
  • The new exhibition, which he described as "critical and radical", displays several works that are responses to the experiences of those fleeing war and persecution.
Business

Art sales hit all-time high in 2021, continue rapid growth in Asia

Art auctions saw a record year in 2021 with $17.1 billion (15.6 billion euros) in sales as the market continued...
  • There was also the landmark moment when digital artist Beeple sold a NFT for $69 million, the third-highest figure ever paid for a living artist.
  • Contemporary art -- counted as anything created after 1945 -- accounts for a growing share of sales, with 20 percent of the market, up from 3 percent in 2000.
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Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council focuses on palm fiber at Art Dubai

The 15th edition of Art Dubai which displayed findings of its advanced palm fiber research and palm textile prototype, paving...
  • Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council, an affiliate of the UAE-based NAMA Women Advancement, explored UAE’s relationship with date palm.
  • It discussed how such local, environment-friendly materials could pave the way for the creation of a circular economy centered on palm waste.
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Amid NFT boom, artists worry about climate costs

Most NFTs are currently traded on Ethereum, which reportedly uses as much electricity as all of the Netherlands, with a...
  • K-pop fans in South Korea last year staged a brutal campaign against plans for popular groups include BTS and A.C.E. to sell crypto-art.
  • Selling art as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, uses the same technology as crypto-currencies like Bitcoin. The buyer receives a verified digital token as a mark of genuineness.
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Dubai Fitness Challenge keeps residents hooked to daily workout

Dubai Fitness Challenge, a program launched in 2017 to improve the well-being of the residents, has seen 88 percent of...
  • The program has seen the number of participants more than double from 786,000 in its inaugural year to 1,650,000 people in 2021.
  • The participants’ overall satisfaction was extremely high for the 5th edition with 93 percent extremely happy with their experience.
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Druze pop star seeks to bridge Palestinian, Israeli divide

Nicknamed “the Druze prodigy” after winning a TV competition aged 12, Sharif — now in his 40s — rose to...
  • Nicknamed “the Druze prodigy” after winning a TV competition aged 12, Sharif — now in his 40s — rose to fame with his Mizrahi (Eastern) pop songs in the 1990s in Israel
  • The Druze, an Arabic-speaking minority offshoot of Shiite Islam, number around 140,000 in Israel and the occupied Golan Heights
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Struggling Libyan potters showcase wares online

The Libyan city of Gharyan sculpted a reputation for ceramics generations ago, but fragile demand is forcing potters to seek...
  • Potters in Gharyan looks to compete with products made in China, Turkey and Libya's neighbors
  • Gharyan's once-prosperous potteries struggles to keep pace with modernization
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World clamors will air hit TV series starring Zelensky

The famous TV series shows Zelensky as a high school teacher propelled to the presidency after a student's video of...
  • Broadcasters around the world have been seeking to show Zelensky's TV show 'Servant of the People' in act of solidarity with Ukrainians
  • The TV series was first aired in 2015, and its success propelled Volodymyr Zelensky to the presidency in real life
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Iraq’s National Museum reopens after three-year closure

Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday to visitors after a three-year closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic and political unrest.
  • Treasures dating back 2,500 years to the neo-Assyrian empire alongside 9th century Islamic antiquities went back on display, including two winged bulls from the Nimrud site
  • The Iraq Museum was closed three years ago "because of the demonstrations and for security reasons", said Laith Majid Hussein, the head of Iraq's antiquities authority
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Heritage of Iraq’s last few Jews at risk

In Ottoman-ruled Baghdad, Jews made up 40 percent of city inhabitants. By the time of Israel's creation in 1948 they...
  • Jewish roots in Iraq go back about 2,600 years, on the land where the patriarch Abraham was born and where they wrote the Babylonian Talmud.
  • A report published in 2020 listed Jewish heritage sites in Iraq and Syria, some dating back to the first millennium BC.

Saudi Arabia unveils ‘Colour Your Summer’ program, targeting 41 million visitors

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's tourism sector is poised for an unprecedented summer season, with the official launch of...
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Original Asterix cover for auction despite legal challenge

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -  An original cover painting from the 1963 comic book Asterix and Cleopatre was to go under the hammer...
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Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza strike

Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught Shakespeare among other subjects, was...

Saudi-backed Newcastle face Champions League reality check

Manchester, United Kingdom - Newcastle must overcome the might of Paris Saint-Germain and a mounting injury list if the Magpies' first...
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Irish author Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker Prize for fiction

London, United Kingdom - Irish author Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday for his novel "Prophet...
  • Lynch pipped five other shortlisted novelists to the prestigious award for his dystopian work about an Ireland that descends into tyranny
  • The prize is one of the world's top literary awards and has propelled to fame countless household names, including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel
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Head breaks India hearts as Australia win sixth World Cup title

Ahmedabad, India -- Opener Travis Head hit a sparkling 137 to power Australia to a record-extending sixth World Cup title with...
  • Chasing a tricky 241 for victory in the final, Australia slipped to 47-3 before the left-handed Head hit his second century of the tournament to steer the team home.
  • Head's knock and his marathon stand of 192 with Marnus Labuschagne, unbeaten on 58, ended India's dominant run of 10 unbeaten matches at the event.
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$120m Picasso: Auction houses eye monster sales

Sotheby's and Christie's will be moving a host of big-ticket lots, though they may still have a hard time topping...
  • Fifty years after his death, Pablo Picasso is expected to be one of the blockbusters this season with the sale of a major work: "Femme a la montre", or "Woman with a Watch"
  • At Sotheby's, Monet's "Peupliers au bord de l'Epte, temps couvert" (1891), a depiction of poplars along the river Epte, is expected to fetch $30-$40 million on Monday