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Iraq’s Mosul revives shattered cultural scene with traditional music festival
MOSUL, Iraq: Five years since the battle to dislodge Daesh from Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, a four-day festival of traditional music has taken place with the aim of salvaging the region’s shattered arts
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For Indonesia’s tech star GoTo, success a long time in the making
Medan, Indonesia – When Indonesian e-commerce startup GoTo debuted on the stock market this week, Christopher Panal Lumban Gaol, a lecturer in business law at Santo Thomas Catholic University in Medan, felt a swell
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Ramadan for Palestinians living in Israel: 85-year-old refugee serves as unique model
DUBAI: Across Iraq, water sources that have been taken for granted and relied upon throughout centuries of hardship, chaos and drought are under threat. So too, as a result, are the livelihoods of many
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In Thai villages, Chinese gangs recruit desperate for phone scams
Bangkok, Thailand – The brokers arrived with promises of high-paying online sales jobs in Poipet, a Cambodian border town just an hour’s drive from Teerapat and Dao’s home in eastern Thailand. After more than
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Saudi ambassador hits ground running on return to Beirut
DUBAI: As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its second month, having triggered the biggest surge in food prices since the recession of 2008, the World Food Program warned that the world’s hungry simply “cannot
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Russia-Ukraine live news: War to slash Ukraine’s GDP 45 percent
blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Russia’s invasion has shuttered businesses, slashed exports and destroyed productive capacity, the World Bank says.Ukraine’s GDP output will contract by more than 45 percent this year as a result of the
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Dozens hospitalized as Iraq gripped by dust storm
BEIRUT: Lebanese hospitals and cancer patients are running out of morphine and its derivatives. An appeal made by Elsy Aoun through the Al-Nahar newspaper went viral on Friday. The young woman said that her
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Russia-Ukraine live news: Zelenskyy braces for ‘hard battle’
blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Ukraine leader says while the Russian threat to the capital Kyiv has receded, it is rising in the east.Death toll from train station bombing in Kramatorsk rises to 52. Russia denies
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