Indian restaurant in Dubai turns 50
Dubai: Joshi Restaurant and Café, an Indian eatery in Meena Bazaar, has just completed 50 years. Established in 1968, the vegetarian restaurant is renowned for…
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Saudi cabinet approves nuclear power program national policy
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet approved on Tuesday the national policy of the atomic energy program, state news agency SPA reported. The national policy includes limiting all…
Turkey urges solution to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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Iraq reopens Kurdish airports to international flights
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Foreign ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran to talk ‘Silk Road’
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How Syria’s war changed the world
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Plot twist for students at Saudi Arabia’s first cinema school
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Iran sentences Tehran professor to jail for ‘anti-state propaganda’
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Gaza villagers brace for new Israeli offensive
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Al-Qaida in Syria losing ground in battles with insurgents
For the first time since its meteoric rise in 2012 amid the chaos of war, al-Qaida’s branch in Syria is in retreat, battling rival militant groups in…