10m people attend Riyadh Season 2023 events in first 50 days, says report
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - According to the Riyadh Season, 10 million people took part in the activities organized in the...
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Strengthening cultural diversity key focus of Sharjah
“Our annual event agenda is packed with international activities that attract content creators and writers from around the world. This...
Boeing 707 takes off as a restaurant in West Bank
Palestinian workers in the Israel-occupied West Bank are putting the final touches on a decommissioned Boeing 707 aircraft to ready...
- Its enterprising owners, 60-year-old twin brothers Ata and Khamis al-Sairafi, expect to welcome their first customers within weeksÂ
- The brothers bought it from its Israeli owner for $100,000, the engines removed
Austria to welcome more GCC travelers from July 1
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‘Internet Monsters’ to raise awareness on child safety online
The online campaign is based on classic fairytales to which modern cyber twists have been added to portray what occurs...
Israel’s Bedouin sceptical of new govt promises
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Mother of invention: Study highlights gender gap in health innovations
Study finds patents filed from all-female inventor teams 35 percent more likely to focus on women's health Fewer women inventors...
Two Saudi entrepreneurs have a diet plan to fight off obesity in the kingdom
The rate of obesity in the kingdom totals 35.6 percent in 2020 The duo offer customized diet plan to...
Saudi allows 60,000 vaccinated residents on hajj, bars foreigners
Only up to 10,000 Muslims took part in last year's hajj, 70% of them foreigners  2.5 million participated in the...
Saudi Arabia’s first dedicated style event Fashion Futures to go digital
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RTA eyes futuristic suspended transport network in Dubai
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Smart robot enters service to sterilize Grand Holy Mosque in Mecca
They have a capacity of 23.8 liters of sterilizers with a consumption rate of 2 liters per hour to eliminate...
10m people attend Riyadh Season 2023 events in first 50 days, says report
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - According to the Riyadh Season, 10 million people took part in the activities organized in the...
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DIFC, PwC launch program to boost tax settlement knowledge
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Ex- Indian Navy officer, sailing on UAE-registered boat, is second at Golden Globe Race 2022
LES SABLES-D'OLONNE PORT, FRANCE - UAE-registered boat Bayanat has taken second place at the Golden Globe Race 2022 (GGR) after...
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India to become world’s most populous nation this week, says UN
India will overtake China as the world's most populous country in the coming week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the...
- India is topping China due to both rapid growth in its own population and a decline in China's after hitting 1.426 billion last year.
- China is expected to decline steadily to around one billion people by the end of this century, according to UN projections.
Nile-side Egypt town heralds spring with millennia-old pungent delicacy
The delicacy of saltwater fish, buried in salt for weeks at a time, remains a staple as Egyptians celebrate on...
- The traditional dish feseekh dates back more than 4,000 years and has been found in archaeological sites in Egypt, said former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass
- Even a sharp economic crisis impacting every facet of Egyptian life over the past year, has not stopped locals from getting feseekh at a price of about $7-8 per kilo
Thousands throng Jerusalem for Orthodox Easter ‘Holy Fire’ rite
In the past about 10,000 worshippers would fill the church, with many more crowding outside, before the flame was flown...
- The church is in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, and for the second consecutive year Israeli police had told church leaders access would be considerably restricted
- Christians made up more than 18 per cent of the population of the Holy Land when Israel was created in 1948, but now they are fewer than two percent, mostly Orthodox