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- Top US diplomat’s travel delayed over “uncertainty” amid growing regional tensions
- Secretary of State also approved possible sale to Israel of fighter jets
- Clean-up begins after 4.8 magnitude quake, tremors felt across Jordan and Lebanon
- Ante upped a day before planned new Gaza peace talks seen as vital to preventing a regional war
- Palestinian Authority reiterates settlement construction and demolition of Palestinian homes constituted ethnic cleansing
- Legislation passed soon after Russia’s February 2022 offensive punishes public acts or statements seen as critical of the Russian armed forces
- The 10,000th case was submitted to court in the first week of August
- Committee to Protect Journalists said Israel made ‘unsubstantiated’ claims against 3 slain media workers
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Stargazing at Hisma desert
Located 90 km west of Tabuk city in northwest Saudi Arabia, the desert of Hikma is fast becoming a center of “astro-tourism.” Hisma’s distance from high artificial light pollution makes it an ideal spot for observing stars, galaxies, passing meteors, and falling comets at night time, says Majed Abu Zahra, president of the Jeddah Astronomical Society.
Standing stone circles of AlUla
A study that examined 431 standing stone circles at various sites in Harrat Uwayrid in AlUla concludes that people living in that part of Saudi Arabia’s northwest during the Neolithic era, or the later part of the Stone Age, were not merely simple pastoralists but had distinctive architecture, domesticated animals, jewelry, and diverse tools.
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- Egypt’s most successful Olympics was in 2020, at the Tokyo Games
- “There is excessive pressure on the athletes,” sports journalist Mohamed Sultan told Arab News
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