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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
- Various initiatives have been launched under the Quality of Life Program, including projects to develop public spaces and places
- Green cover in cities has increased considerably, with 8,328 gardens and parks totaling 161.5 million sq. meters
- Footage of a distraught Abu Al-Qumsan, weeping and falling as he still holds the birth certificates, has been widely circulated on social media
- “I was in the hospital at the time when the house was targeted,” he says, tears streaming down his face
- The 31-year-old woman’s brutalized body was found last week in a state-run hospital in West Bengal’s Kolkata, where she was a resident doctor
- A subsequent autopsy confirmed sexual assault and homicide
- 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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