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Algeria’s Rai music makes UN cultural charts
Dec 01, 2022
ALGIERS — Raucous, expressive and revolutionary: Algeria’s Rai music took its place on the United Nations’ list of intangible cultural heritage on Thursday.“New inscription on the #IntangibleHeritage List: Rai, popular folk song of #Algeria,” UN cultural agency UNESCO announced in a tweet.Rai, whose biggest stars include Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami, ...
Arabs field satire as World Cup brings joy and pain
Dec 01, 2022
TUNIS — Arab football fans have flooded social media with satire, celebrating unexpec ...
Tunisia’s spicy Harissa gets UNESCO heritage status
Dec 01, 2022
TUNIS — UNESCO on Thursday added Tunisia’s spicy national condiment Harissa to its li ...
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in army raid
Nov 30, 2022
YABAD, Palestinian Territories — Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank during a raid to arrest a sus ...
Israeli forces kill five Palestinians in West Bank
Nov 29, 2022
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories —  Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, Palestinian official ...
At least 448 killed in Iran protest crackdown — rights group
Nov 29, 2022
PARIS, France — Iranian security forces have killed at least 448 people in a crackdown on protests that began in mid-September, over half in ...
Iran’s supreme leader takes Iraqi PM to task over security
Nov 29, 2022
TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cast doubt on Baghdad’s commitment to secure their common border during talks on Tuesd ...
Syrian Kurdish forces urge Russia to stop Turkish offensive
Nov 29, 2022
BEIRUT — Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria have called on Russia to dissuade Turkey from launching a threatened ground offensive against ...
Cocaine ‘super-cartel’ busted in Europe and Dubai
Nov 28, 2022
THE HAGUE — Police have smashed a huge drugs “super-cartel” that controlled a third of Europe’s cocaine trade, arresting 49 people in variou ...
In drought-hit Iraq, a dam threatens to swallow farmland
Nov 27, 2022
AL-MESSAHAG, Iraq — Jamil Al Juburi, 53, has never left his village in northern Iraq, where his family has worked the land for generations — ...
Thousands protest Turkish strikes on Kurdish groups in Syria
Nov 27, 2022
QAMISHLI,  Syria — Thousands of Kurds protested on Sunday in the Syrian city of Qamishli against days of deadly Turkish cross-border st ...
Rockets target US Syria base in latest strike — Centcom
Nov 26, 2022
BEIRUT — Two rockets targeted a US patrol base in northeastern Syria late Friday, the third such attack in nine days, US Central Command sai ...
UN, diplomats demand end to deadly Iran crackdown
Nov 25, 2022
GENEVA — The bloody repression of peaceful demonstrators in Iran must end, the UN rights chief insisted on Thursday, as countries discussed ...
US defence chief urges Turkey not to launch Syria operation
Dec 01, 2022
Iran probes killing of man celebrating World Cup loss
Dec 01, 2022
Daesh announces death of leader
Dec 01, 2022
Qatar announces first major gas deal for Germany
Nov 29, 2022
As Palestinian flags fly at World Cup, Israeli symbols hidden
Nov 28, 2022
Iran's Khamenei says negotiating with US won't end recent 'troubles'
Nov 26, 2022
The ‘total war’ against Al Shabaab in Somalia
Nov 26, 2022
Algeria sentences 49 to death over forest fire lynching
Nov 25, 2022
Lebanon MPs again fail to elect president despite economic crisis
Nov 25, 2022
One dead in twin Jerusalem bus stop attacks — medics
Nov 23, 2022
Amnesty urges AU action on South Sudan war crimes court
Nov 23, 2022
Iran says it starts enriching uranium to 60% at Fordo plant
Nov 22, 2022
Iran intensifies deadly crackdown in Kurdish regions — rights groups
Nov 21, 2022
Qatar signs world's 'longest' gas supply deal with China
Nov 21, 2022
Bahrain elects more women in parliament vote
Nov 21, 2022
Joy, relief at 'historic' climate damages deal
Nov 21, 2022
US building Mideast defence systems to deter 'threats' — official
Nov 21, 2022
Four Syrian soldiers killed by Israeli strikes — state media
Nov 19, 2022
Over 100 unmanned vessels to be deployed in Gulf waters — CENTCOM
Nov 19, 2022
Exiled activist sought by Algeria says has UN refugee status
Nov 19, 2022
Lebanon MPs fail to elect president
Nov 17, 2022
UN 'alarmed' over detainee hunger strike at Libya jail
Nov 17, 2022

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