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- Sharaa, who will hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, received an exemption from the United Nations to travel to Paris as he remains on a terrorism sanctions list
- The two leaders will discuss how to ensure Syria’s sovereignty and security, the handling of minorities after recent attacks against Alawites and Druze
- Most delicate case ever undertaken by his team, says surgeon Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah
- UN Ambassador Danny Danon was speaking at Israeli Independence Day celebrations
- Warning came as Israel ‘fully disabled’ Sanaa airport in retaliatory strikes on Tuesday
- The road leading to the airport was closed to traffic, and police blocked access to the airport
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said artificial intelligence will play a key role in unlocking new tools for health, education and agriculture at a meeting with Indonesia's president on Wednesday
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Located in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Najran, Al-Tharwa Mountain is considered an open-air museum containing a living archive of early Islamic art. The mountain’s rocky features abound with prominent archaeological evidence of Islamic calligraphy in its earliest stages.
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