DUBAI: Dalya Moumina is an emerging New York-based artist whose imaginative landscape paintings partially pay tribute to her Arab and Asian heritage. She was born in Washington DC in 1996 to a Saudi-Palestinian father and a Filipina mother. Both were travel lovers, who luckily happened to have met each other on a flight. When Moumina […]
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LONDON: Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.Humanitarian workers have sounded the alarm this week over the closure of the Rafah and
DHAHRAN: Saudi filmmakers of the future were given a masterclass in the latest animation techniques as part of the Saudi Film Festival this week. The animation workshops were led by experts from the US as part of a collaboration between the festival and the American Chamber of Commerce and US Consulate in Dhahran. The animation
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DHAHRAN: Saudi filmmakers of the future were given a masterclass in the latest animation techniques as part of the Saudi Film Festival this week. The animation workshops were led by experts from the US as part of a collaboration between the festival and the American Chamber of Commerce and US Consulate in Dhahran. The animation
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NEW YORK CITY: The United Nations General Assembly on Friday backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council “reconsider the matter favorably.”The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a
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BAGHDAD: Iraq has requested that a United Nations assistance mission set up after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country end its work by the end of 2025, saying it was no longer needed because Iraq had made significant progress toward stability. The mission, headquartered in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, was set up with
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LONDON: Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.Humanitarian workers have sounded the alarm this week over the closure of the Rafah and
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LONDON: Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned on Friday.Humanitarian workers have sounded the alarm this week over the closure of the Rafah and
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BEIRUT: An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon on Friday killed a first responder from a rescue team affiliated with a Hezbollah-allied group and a telecoms technician carrying out maintenance work. Two Israeli military drones launched the attack on a maintenance team working in the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Harfa. The victims were identified
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DUBAI: The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organization said on Friday it had received a report of a failed hijacking attempt of a vessel 195 nautical miles east of Yemen’s Aden. The vessel’s master reported being approached by a small craft carrying five or six armed people with ladders. Houthi militants in Yemen have
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