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Sheikh Youssef Al Shelash: Spreading Saudi Arabian Brands Overseas
Yousef Al Shelash’s name has become synonymous with haute design and the ultimate in luxury living. As the chairman and founder of Dar Al Arkan, he has partnered with some of the most sought-after brands in the fashion industry, including Missoni and Versace Under...
The Ukrainian Family That Has Become An International Symbol Of Civilian Death.
The Perebyinis family The photograph has become a worldwide symbol of Russia’s brutality toward Ukrainian civilians. Four people lay near an intersection in Irpin, a Kyiv suburb, on Sunday. All were dead or soon would be, from the force of Russian mortars. There had...
A Warming World
In the past 60 years, every decade has been hotter than the last, and 2020 is on track to be among the hottest years yet. But the burden of extreme heat is not shared equally — it’s significantly worse for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Extreme heat...
Common Problems Faced by PMAY Applicants in India
Initially launched in 2015 to address the problem of homelessness in our country, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or PMAY list of benefits is pretty extensive. It includes affordable housing for all urban classes at subsidised home loan interest rates, eco-friendly...
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What does silencing of supporters of Palestine mean for freedom of speech?
The stifling of voices around the globe supporting Palestinians is putting the principles of free speech to the test.The war on Gaza is being waged on the ground and in the realm of public opinion, putting the principles of freedom of speech to the test. Since Hamas’s...
Shane MacGowan, poetic, hard-charging frontman of The Pogues, dies at 65
MacGowan won fame for incorporating traditional Irish ballads into Britain’s punk scene in the 1980s and 90s.Shane MacGowan, who galvanised Britain’s punk scene with his incorporation of Irish traditional ballads into that genre in the late 1980s, has died at 65....
Russian court bans ‘LGBTQ movement’ as ‘extremist’
Russia’s Supreme Court has issued a ban on the activities of the ‘international LGBTQ movement’ in the latest crackdown on gay, lesbian and transgender rights in the country.Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that LGBTQ activists should be designated as “extremists”, in...
High-profile murders inspire calls for justice at Mexico’s ‘muxe’ festival
Juchitán, Mexico – Felina Santiago was cutting hair in her salon when she heard that one of her oldest friends, Oscar Cazorla, had been stabbed to death at the age of 62.“I was paralysed with pain,” she recalled. “I knew we had lost a pillar of our community that...
Pakistani girl killed after photos with boy’s arm around her go viral
The murder is the latest in a spate of more than 5,000 incidents since 2012 in which women have been killed.Islamabad, Pakistan – Police in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have arrested a man who allegedly shot his teenage daughter dead last...
Climate disaster fund approved at UN’s COP28 climate summit
The United Nation’s annual climate summit is under way in Dubai, with world leaders approving a climate disaster fund that will help vulnerable nations cope with the impact of drought, floods and rising seawater.The agreement marked a “positive signal of momentum” at...
Henry Kissinger: 10 conflicts, countries that define a blood-stained legacy
To some, he was a titan of foreign policy, the Holocaust survivor who built a glittering career as the top diplomat of the United States and national security adviser during Presidents Richard Nixon’s and Gerald Ford’s administrations, leaving an enduring mark on...
Israel-Palestine war: ‘Ceasefire’ or ‘pause’, what have world leaders said?
"We are at war. Not an operation, not a round [of fighting], at war," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared to his fellow Israelis on October 7, following a surprise attack by the Palestinian armed group Hamas that killed an estimated 1,200 people in...
COP28 Dubai: What were the gains of past five UN climate summits?
World leaders and experts are meeting to discuss rising greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on climate, as the annual United Nations climate change conference kicks off on Thursday in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Ways to reduce reliance on fossil fuels...
The UN must not abandon Sudan amid war and atrocities
As devastating videos and bone-chilling accounts of massacres continue to come out of Sudan, the United Nations has appeared to jettison what little remained of its civilian protection role in the country. The apparent decision to shut down the UN’s political mission...
A hard, bloody winter awaits Ukrainian and Russian soldiers, say experts
This winter is likely to see a long and bloody stalemate in Ukraine, with neither side backing down from offensives and counteroffensives, but may sow the seed of negotiations next year, experts tell Al Jazeera.“The winter is just going to reinforce the misery …...
‘We’re not here to beg’: Gaza residents’ anger over steep rise in prices
Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip – As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first truce between Israel and Hamas since October 7, the markets in the Gaza Strip have been flooded with shoppers, desperate to buy food supplies and winter clothes.But the...