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Located on the coast of the Persian Gulf in the east of the country, Doha, the capital city of Qatar attracts visitors from across the globe. Known for its spectacular modern buildings and cultural heritage, Doha has been recently named as one of the 7 New Wonder Cities in the World. Emerging as the most sought destinations in the world,...
A snowflake-inspired design for the third terminal of Harbin Taiping International Airport in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province has been unveiled by Ma Yansong’s MAD Architects.
MAD Architects’ design echoes the characteristics of Harbin’s geography and climate, such as the surrounding northern plains and the region’s snow and ice. The firm says the design “creates an architectural poetry that settles into...
Aecom and Hill International have won a $107.4m contract to act as programme manager for the construction of four new prisons in New York City (NYC) in preparation for the closure of the infamous Rikers Island complex.
In 2017 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a decision to close Rikers Island Correctional Facility, a complex of prisons accumulating since the...
Al Janoub Stadium has been opened in Qatar, the first of the FIFA World Cup 2022 venues to be unveiled.
Located in Al Wakrah, 23km south of Doha, the venue will host group and quarter final matches of the tournament.
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Muscat: In a move that has generated uproar on social media, photo and video sharing platform Instagram has announced that it is rolling out a test that hides the amount of ‘likes’ people see on profiles.
The company hopes that this move will help reduce stress, combat low-self esteem and improve anxiety levels in its users. Instagram said that they...
Lahore: British Airways has resumed flights to Pakistan over a decade after they were suspending in the wake of a truck bombing of a hotel in the capital, which killed dozens.
The first flight arrived at the Islamabad International Airport on Monday morning from Heathrow, London with 240 passengers on board, Radio Pakistan reported.
Flights three times a week between London and...
Muscat: The Royal Oman Police (ROP) has arrested two people for eating publicly during the holy month of Ramadan.
A source at the ROP said, " The Muscat police command arrested the accused after they published a video clip on social media showing them violating the sanctity of the holy month of Ramadan."
According to article 277 of the Omani Penal Code,...
Official's impassioned response to aid in Yemen 01:03
(CNN)The United Nations is threatening to suspend aid that helps thousands of destitute Yemenis following a CNN investigation that exposed the theft or "diversion" of food aid by Houthi rebels.
David Beasley, head of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), told CNN's Becky Anderson that up to $15 million worth of food a month was not...
(CNN)Alexanda Kotey, a former ISIS fighter accused of forming one of the group's most notorious terror cells, admitted he was responsible for overseeing the imprisonment of western hostages James Foley, Alan Henning and John Cantlie.
Foley, an American journalist, and Henning, a British aid worker, were beheaded on camera by the terror group in 2014. Cantlie's whereabouts are unknown. He was...
By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN
Updated 0515 GMT (1315 HKT) May 29, 2019
Idlib, Syria | May 20, 2019
MAY 26, 2019
(CNN)Airstrikes and fighting in Syria's last rebel-held province have left a trail of damage visible from space. In satellite images from May 20 and May 26, swathes of fields in northwestern Idlib appear blackened, the neat lines of city streets and blocks become...
White Helmets says some 300,000 people displaced near Turkey border during recent bombardments in northwest Syria.
Syrian NGOs decried on Friday the inaction of the international community amid mounting violence in the last rebel-held stronghold of Idlib, saying it had triggered the biggest wave of displaced people since the war began.
The recent bombardments by Syrian government and Russian forces in...
An 'Ugly American' is once again leading the resurgence of American imperialism.
The publication of The Ugly American in 1958 created a sensation in the United States. A scathing critique of arrogant and inept American diplomatic provincialism, the novel was written as a warning by two Americans - Eugene Burdick and William Lederer - to their fellow Americans. It is a...
Mustafa al-Kharouf, who has been living in occupied East Jerusalem, faces deportation to Jordan.
For the past five months, Mustafa al-Kharouf has been languishing inside Israel's Givon prison, away from his wife Tamam and their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Asia, but now he faces deportation to Jordan.
The 32-year-old photojournalist, son of an Algerian mother and a Palestinian father, has been living in Jerusalem...
Rights group and ship's captain say Tunisia's Zarzis port is not letting 75 migrants saved at sea from coming ashore.
Tunisian authorities have stopped 75 migrantssaved at sea from coming ashore, according to a rights group and the captain of the ship which rescued them.
The migrants were adrift in international waters in a boat with a broken engine when an Egyptian...
