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Dune: Part II is set to begin filming in locations across the Middle East this summer, following criticism of a lack of Arab representation in the first installment of the blockbuster series. Wadi Rum features heavily in the Dune follow-up as the recen…

Algerian middle-distance runner Djamel Sedjati waved the Palestinian flag as he took silver in the 800 metres race at the World Athletics Championships held in the US last week. Sedjati waved the flag as he celebrated his medal at the stadium in Eugene…

Tunisians vote on Monday in a referendum on a new constitution that critics of President Kais Saied fear will maul the democracy that emerged from a 2011 revolution by handing him nearly total power. The vote is being held on the anniversary of Saied’s…

Firefighters deployed air tankers, bulldozers and hand crews to battle a fast-moving wildfire just west of California’s Yosemite National Park on Sunday that suddenly grew into one of the largest fires of the year, forcing thousands of evacuations. Fue…

Pope Francis arrived on Sunday in Canada, where he is expected to personally apologise to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over a span of decades at residential schools run by the Catholic Church. The head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics la…

Seventeen suspected Haitian migrants died in a boat accident off the coast of the Bahamas early on Sunday, a government statement said. “Rescue teams recovered 17 bodies from the water” – 15 women, one man and one infant – the statement tweeted by Prim…

The House 6 January committee on Sunday said it will interview more former Cabinet secretaries and is prepared to subpoena conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who is married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as part of its investigat…

Mexican security officials detained more than 200 mostly Guatemalan migrants at a warehouse in central Mexico who were waiting to be smuggled northward, the government said on Sunday. Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said there were 225 migr…

A bus fell off a bridge on Sunday in Kenya and plunged into a river along the highway, killing at least 21 people, police said. The bus, traveling from the central town Meru along the highway to Nairobi, the capital, “must have developed brake failure,…

Kuwait named the emir’s son as prime minister on Sunday, replacing caretaker premier Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid who faced a combative parliament amid a feud between the government and elected assembly that has hindered fiscal reform. Crown Prince Sheikh Me…