Morocco law reform offers hope for women’s rights
Rabat, Morocco - Two decades after a landmark but limited revision of Morocco's family law marked a breakthrough for women, activists...
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Tree-hugging AI to the rescue of Brazilian Amazon
The Manaus project has just completed its pilot phase with ten prototype boxes fixed to trees in a densely forested...
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UAE, Uzbekistan sign agreement to implement humanitarian projects
Completion of work on a women and children's hospital in the Uzbek city Nukus part of the...
Abu Dhabi Book Fair to digitize Arabic prose in audiobooks
One of the notable works covered by the series includes the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun
A Saudi mom can now vouch for her child to open a bank account
Before this decision, a married mother had to bring her husband or obtain court's consent to open an account for...
Iraqi oil city of Basra facing a surge in cancer cases
2000 cases of cancer registered annually in recent years, according to the country's Southern Environment Department Director general of the...
WISEUp: Taking a literary route, to counter extremism
In late 2016, Daisy Khan, a New York-based global-peace activist, grew increasingly alarmed by the surge in violent extremism worldwide...
Morocco law reform offers hope for women’s rights
Rabat, Morocco - Two decades after a landmark but limited revision of Morocco's family law marked a breakthrough for women, activists...
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Death toll mounts in Iran protests as online services cut
Amini, 22, died last week after her arrest by the Islamic republic's feared morality police for allegedly wearing a hijab...
The ‘majestic’ Singapore orchid named in honor of Queen Elizabeth
After Queen Elizabeth II's death last week, the city-state's Botanic Gardens loaned a towering sprig of Dendrobium Elizabeth to the...
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Saudi economy pins hope on female entrepreneurs
Saudi women, who had begun with small projects, are now creating startups and setting up factories, highlighting drastic change in...
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Netflix in the soup for Mexican drug ‘queen’ show
Sandra Avila Beltran has filed a claim with Mexico's intellectual property agency alleging that the character Teresa Mendoza in "La...
- Avila Beltran wants 40 percent of the royalties from Netflix and Spanish-language television network Telemundo, for hurting her reputation
- The second season of the "La Reina del Sur" won an International Emmy Award for Best Non-English Language US Primetime Program in 2020
Women of Gaza struggle to break free
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said 38 percent of women in Gaza faced physical or psychological violence from their...
- Palestinian civil society group registered six killings and suspicious deaths related to domestic violence in 2019, a figure which rose to 19 the following year
- Fifteen years since the Israeli-led blockade of Gaza began, it is almost impossible for women fleeing violence to leave the Palestinian enclave
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Iraq ‘green belt’ neglected in faltering climate fight
Envisioned as a lush fortress against worsening desertification and sand storms, the "green belt" of Iraq's Karbala stands as a...
- Sixteen years after its inception, only a fraction of the 76-kilometre (47-mile) crescent-shaped strip of greenery has materialized.
- Eucalyptus, olive groves and date palms first took root in 2006 as part of a plan for tens of thousands of trees to form a green protective shield around Karbala.