A young Syrian artist made it to the Guinness World Records after creating the largest display of mandala in the world. Lama Zakaria said she planned her piece of art for about two years. It took her around five months of work with six hours per day. ا…
5 drown in northwestern Syria, including 3 children
Five people including three children drowned on Friday in separate incidents in northwestern Syria, bringing the number of drownings in the same region to 25 since the beginning of this year. These took place near the city of Afrin in the Aleppo govern…
Russia accused of shelling from Ukraine nuclear plant
Russia is using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as a base to store weapons including “missile systems” and shell the surrounding areas in Ukraine, an official with Kyiv’s nuclear agency said on Friday, while nearly the entire country was placed on…
Israel shoots machine guns at Palestinian fishermen off Gaza
Israel’s navy shot machine guns at Palestinian fishermen off Gaza on Saturday, causing them to abandon their work and head back to land, local sources said. Nobody was injured in the shooting, but the vessels turned back out of concern for safety or be…
US struggles to meet monkeypox vaccine demand
The United States, which is forecasting an increase inmonkeypox cases in the coming weeks, does not currently have enough vaccines to meet demand, a top health official said Friday. Concern has grown, especially in New York, the epicenter of the US out…
Salah, Henderson net goals as Liverpool beat Crystal Palace
Jordan Henderson and Mohamed Salah netted goals either side of half-time as Liverpool Football Club rounded off their pre-season tour of Southeast Asia with a 2-0 win over Premier League rivals Crystal Palace in Singapore on Friday. Reds captain Hender…
Iraq: Sadr’s supporters attend mass prayer in Baghdad
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr’s followers thronged the streets of Baghdad on Friday, answering the populist leader’s call to a mass prayer in a show of strength to his political rivals. Sadr, whose party came first in a gen…
Barriers and challenges facing Iraq’s sexual health sector
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the youth’s sexual and reproductive behaviour is influenced by the economic, social, and cultural environments in which they are brought up in, including the dominant forces of religion and tradition, …
Iran envoy protests Sweden war crime sentence for Iranian
The Iranian ambassador to Sweden went to the Swedish Foreign Ministry on Friday to protest the sentencing of an Iranian citizen to life by a Swedish court for committing grave war crimes and murder during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The Stockholm D…
Biden says Palestinians need to see ‘political horizon’
US President Joe Biden said during a trip to the occupied West Bank on Friday that Palestinians need to see a path towards statehood, even if hopes for a peace process with Israel remain bleak. Biden’s visit to Bethlehem came ahead of a flight to Saudi…