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Art exhibitions, book fairs on the Tigris and Godot in Baghdad – after decades of conflict and strife, the Iraqi capital is experiencing an artistic renaissance. “People need art, they want to develop their artistic taste – it’s an escape route,” said Noor Alaa al-Din, director of art space The Gallery. “We are like any country, we have the right to art to entertain us.”

With Cambodia set to take over the ASEAN chair and host the ASEAN Summit in 2022, there are a number of prominent issues the Kingdom will need to take the lead on, including the crisis in Myanmar, tensions over the South China Sea and the growing geopolitical superpower rivalry between China and the US.

Jordi Fauli is the seventh chief architect of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia since Antoni Gaudi began work on the basilica in 1883, and he had been expected to oversee its long-awaited completion.

The Ministry of Health called on the public to be vigilant and prepared for the arrival of the Omicron variant in Cambodia so that they will not have any regrets when it gets here. To prepare for this eventuality, the Kingdom may begin offering a second booster shot – meaning a fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine – at some point in 2022.

A Russian rocket will on Wednesday send a Japanese billionaire to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the nation’s return to space tourism after a decade-long pause that saw the rise of competition from privately held US companies.

Less than four years after lifting a ban on cinemas, Saudi Arabia rolled out the red carpet on December 6 in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for celebrities descending on the kingdom’s first major film festival.

From Taliban-controlled Kabul, Radio Begum is broadcasting the voices of women that have been muted across Afghanistan. Station staff fill the airwaves with programming for women, by women – educational shows, book readings and call-in counselling.

With Cambodia set to take over the ASEAN chair and host the ASEAN Summit in 2022, there are a number of prominent issues the Kingdom will need to take the lead on, including the crisis in Myanmar, tensions over the South China Sea and the growing geopolitical superpower rivalry between China and the US.

Malik Mutaliyev walks by an abandoned amusement park in wintry Baikonur, a secretive town in Kazakhstan’s inhospitable steppe that appeared alongside the eponymous Baikonur Cosmodrome where the Soviet Union’s space programme rose to glory.

Cambodia is doing all it can to save the economy but risks taking on a debt burden that could weigh it down in the process The pandemic has cost Cambodia $2.3 billion in expenses since it began, Prime Minister Hun Sen was quoted as saying last month.