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Beautiful handcrafted pottery made by Mama Aicha rarely sells in Morocco anymore, but thanks to social media, her ancient techniques are drawing students from around the world to the foothills of the Rif mountains.
“When I heard about the workshop on Instagram, I signed up immediately because the practice is disappearing,” said Mirna Banieh, a young artist who travelled to...
A passenger train crashed into a stationary freight train in Pakistan yesterday, killing 16 people and injuring more than 80 under overturned carriages, police said, with the prime minister blaming ageing, poorly maintained rail infrastructure.
The Akbar Bugti Express travelling from Lahore to Quetta collided with a stationary freight train at the Walhar Railway Station in Sadiqabad tehsil of Punjab,...
The Philippine government has rejected a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate thousands of killings under the government’s crackdown against illegal drugs over the past three years.
Philippines ambassador Evan Garcia, speaking after the vote, read a statement by his foreign ministry rejecting the resolution as “politically-partisan and one-sided”.
In the statement, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr...
Africa must change its relationship with Europe if it wants to become self-reliant and exploit rich resources that could transform the continent, Ghana’s president said yesterday.
“Africa and Europe are natural partners...but (it’s) a relationship that has to be different from what we’ve had up to now,” Nana Akufo-Addo said following talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
His remarks were...
Seven people died and at least 23 were injured as a fierce storm ripped through beachfronts in one of Greece’s top tourist areas, terrifying thousands of holidaymakers caught in the open, authorities said yesterday.
Six tourists including two children were killed – two each from the Czech Republic, Russia, and Romania – in the northern peninsula of Halkidiki, near Greece’s...
In view of the recent developments in Karnataka and Goa where its legislators have rebelled or switched to the BJP, the Congress has rushed general secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia to Madhya Pradesh to stem any such crisis in the state.
According to senior party leaders, Scindia arrived in Bhopal yesterday afternoon and held discussions with Chief Minister Kamal Nath at his...
HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani has sent a written message to Mali’s Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Boubou Cisse pertaining to bilateral relations and means of boosting them. The ambassador of the State of Qatar to Mali, Ahmed bin Abdulrahman al-Sunaidi, handed the message during a...
The Doha Islamic Youth Forum concluded yesterday. Youth delegations from 56 countries from Muslim nations participated, including 20 delegates from the State of Qatar.
The closing ceremony was attended by HE Minister of Culture and Sports, Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali, and Islamic Conference Youth Forum’s new president Taha Ayhan, as well as a number of officials from the...
The Doha Islamic Youth Forum turned out to be a venue for youth to contemplate, chalk out action plans to tackle challenges, become cognizant of the current Islamic world and share their experiences.
“The forum brings youth from different countries together and offers them the opportunity to chalk out plans to beat the challenges,” Mohamed Saleha, who represents Lebanon in...
'Thousands' of children missed out on education during ISIL's occupation of Iraq's second largest city, says UNICEF.
Mosul, Iraq - It was the end of the school year and the students at Al Huda primary school in Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul were as spirited as ever, running around and playing with their friends. Many said they were sad to see school...
US Treasury placed Hezbollah parliamentarians on its sanctions blacklist .
Lebanon regrets the US imposition of sanctions on two Hezbollah members in the Lebanese parliament and will pursue the matter with American authorities, President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday.
The United States announced new sanctions against the two lawmakers from the Hezbollah movement on Tuesday, as well as on one of the group's...
Reporters Without Borders says it met Saudi officials in April to press for the release of 30 jailed reporters.
Reporters Without Borders visited Saudi Arabia to seek freedom for at least 30 jailed journalists amid sustained criticism of Riyadh following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Paris-based rights group, known by its French acronym RSF, said its secretary-general led a four-member delegation to...
The Kremlin sees its relations with the GNA and Khalifa Haftar as purely transactional.
The escalation of conflict in Libya has exposed a great deal of foreign meddling that outside powers, both regional and global, would have preferred to keep under the radar. Russia, which would normally end up in Libya-related headlines for all the wrong reasons, has tried to take...
Observers say violations by Syrian government started immediately after Deraa reconciliation deal was agreed last year.
A year after the Syrian government and opposition groups in the country's southern province of Deraa reached a ceasefire agreement, observers and rights groups say President Bashar al-Assad's government has done little to fulfil its reconciliation promises with arbitrary arrests and detentions on the rise.
The ceasefire deal - brokered...
