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DUBAI: Arab films and filmmakers won a range of awards at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. Sudanese film “Goodbye Julia” by filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani won the Freedom Prize, while “Les Meutes” by Moroccan filmmaker Kamal Lazrek won the Jury’s Prize. Moroccan film director Asmae El-Moudir addresses the crowd after receiving the best director award for her film “The Mother

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) inaugurated two volunteer medical programs in Kenya and Cameroon. In Kenya, 13 volunteer doctors from the aid agency’s medical team performed cardiac catheterization surgeries for patients in Nairobi. The program, operational from May 22 to May 26, was rolled out in cooperation with the Al-Balsam

Saudi-based Ezdihar Real Estate Development has announced plans to

DUBAI: The Taliban and Iran reportedly exchanged gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan, an advocacy group said, as tensions rise over water rights between the two nations. Neither Iranian state media nor Taliban-controlled media in Afghanistan acknowledged the fighting on the border of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province and the Afghan province

AL-MUKALLA: A Yemenia Airways plane carrying 192 Yemeni evacuees landed at Sanaa airport on Saturday as the Yemeni government resumed emergency flights to evacuate more than 1,200 Yemenis stuck in war-torn Sudan. The Yemen embassy in Sudan said that the plane carrying 192 people, including 14 newborns, departed Port Sudan at 8:38 a.m., bound for Houthi-held Sanaa. Another

JAZAN: Saudi border guards in the Jazan region have foiled attempts to smuggle 140kg of the narcotic khat. The seized narcotics were handed over to the competent authority, and preliminary legal procedures were completed, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday. Khat is a flowering shrub native to the Arabian Peninsula. Individuals chew khat leaves because of the stimulant

RIYADH: Saudi astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni have started their research projects aboard the International Space Station (ISS), a few days after arriving via the privately-launched Axiom Space 2 mission During their eight-day stay at the space station, the Saudi astronauts would be undertaking 14 pioneering experiments in microgravity and with three of those to be

DHAKA: Bangladeshi pilgrims departing for Hajj are grateful for Makkah Route facilities, which they say streamline the immigration process and remove the burdens of traveling abroad. More than 125,000 Bangladeshis are traveling to Saudi Arabia this year for the pilgrimage that is one of the five pillars of Islam. Most are departing from the capital, Dhaka, and are assisted by

LONDON: London police said on Saturday that a man arrested after a car collision into the gates of Downing Street, the site of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office, had been separately charged with making indecent images of children. The 43-year-old appeared in court on Saturday in relation to the images and was remanded in custody to next appear at Southwark Crown

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