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Reporter Kidnapped, Beaten in Northeast Syria

WASHINGTON — Tuesday started like any other day for Jindar Barakat. The reporter, who works part time at a currency exchange, was opening up the store in the northeastern Syrian city of Al-Hasakah.But instead of customers, masked men in military unifor…

UN confirms 2021 among seven hottest years on record

GENEVA, The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weatherphenomenon. “The warmest seven years have all been since 2015,” th…

Industry Minister receives Iraqi Chargé d’Affairs

Manama, Industry, Commerce and Tourism Minister Zayed bin Rashid Al Zayani received Iraqi Chargé d’Affairs Muayyad Omar Abdulrahman. The meeting discussed topics of common interest. The minister praised the progress witnessed in Bahraini-Iraqi relation…

UNHCR Ethiopia Fact Sheet, December 2021

Ethiopia is the third-largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, sheltering 823,959 registered refugees and asylum-seekers as of 31 December 2021. The overwhelming majority originate from South Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea.To date, 10,892 refugees have r…

Morocco voices solidarity with UAE

Rabat, The Kingdom of Morocco, king, government and people, strongly condemned, on Monday, the heinous attack perpetrated by the Houthi militia which targeted civil facilities in UAE.The Kingdom expressed its full solidarity with the UAE in defending i…

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