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By Fouzia Al-Kharafi Did you know that more than half of the products found in an average person’s restroom are from brands that test on animals? You could be guilty of animal abuse without even knowing it! My name is Fouzia Al-Kharafi, and I’m a sophomore at Al Bayan Billingual School who is passionate about the ongoing issue of animal testing. We should all give an ear to animal testing and try to put an end to it since it is inhumane and...

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European Super League

By Faisal Al-Nafisi What goes through your mind when you hear the word football? I think about unity, hard work and most importantly, that football is for the fans. Football clubs were started by poor working-class people and made for the community around them. Over the past years, billionaire owners decided to get ahold of the big teams in the beautiful game.They slowly started to move them away from the communities and foundations these teams...

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Palestine rises like a phoenix from ashes, blood and fire

By Sahar Moussa A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: In exile and in prison, and in a homeland transformed by occupation and oppression into a nightmare. —Mahmoud Darwish Gaza. No more words to write or describe the situation in the presence of the powerful images of shattered bodies of children, women and men under the debris. Let’s go back in time and ask ourselves what led to the...

This file photo taken on Aug 17, 2019 shows bergy bits and growlers floating in front of the Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk, a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. - AFP n

Arctic nations pledge to fight global warming despite rising tensions

This file photo taken on Aug 17, 2019 shows bergy bits and growlers floating in front of the Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk, a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. - AFPREYKJAVIK: Arctic countries yesterday pledged to fight global warming, which is happening three times faster in the Far North, and to preserve peace in the region as its geopolitical importance...

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World's largest iceberg breaks off Antarctica

A huge iceberg, the world's largest, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica and is floating through the Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency said. Called A-76 and roughly the shape of Manhattan but more than 70 times bigger, it was picked up on satellite images and is "currently the largest berg in the world", the ESA said Wednesday. The iceberg is around 170 km long and 25 km wide, with an area of 4,320 sq km, slightly larger than the...

GAZA CITY: Palestinians pray over the body of 23-year-old Palestinian Muntaser Jawabreh, who succumbed to his injuries after being wounded two days ago in clashes with Zionist troops during protests against the ongoing airstrikes on Gaza, at his funeral in the village of Oum Dar east of Jenin in the occupied West Bank yesterday.—AFPn

Divided powers fail to rein in Zionists

GAZA CITY: Palestinians pray over the body of 23-year-old Palestinian Muntaser Jawabreh, who succumbed to his injuries after being wounded two days ago in clashes with Zionist troops during protests against the ongoing airstrikes on Gaza, at his funeral in the village of Oum Dar east of Jenin in the occupied West Bank yesterday. — AFPPARIS/GAZA CITY: With Europe divided and the United States wary of antagonizing Zionist forces, world powers...

This picture shows rockets being fired from Rafah in southern Gaza Strip toward Zionist state yesterday. - AFP photos

All eyes on Hezbollah as tensions rise on border

This picture shows rockets being fired from Rafah in southern Gaza Strip toward Zionist state yesterday. - AFP photosBEIRUT: Zionist forces' deadly Gaza offensive has many eyes trained on the Lebanese border for a Hezbollah reaction, but observers argue the Iran-backed movement is unlikely to risk an all-out conflict. Incidents at the border in recent days have raised the temperature but, with Lebanon already on its knees amid a deep political...

BAABDA, Lebanon: Lebanese security forces stand guard as Syrian voters residing in Lebanon carry portraits of President Bashar Al-Assad, one of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election in Syria, while they line up the road from the eastern outskirts of Beirut to Baabda to vote at the Syrian embassy yesterday.-AFP n

Syrians abroad kick off vote on new term for Assad

BAABDA, Lebanon: Lebanese security forces stand guard as Syrian voters residing in Lebanon carry portraits of President Bashar Al-Assad, one of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election in Syria, while they line up the road from the eastern outskirts of Beirut to Baabda to vote at the Syrian embassy yesterday. - AFPBAABDA, Lebanon: Thousands of Syrians flocked to their embassy in Lebanon yesterday as expatriates and refugees kicked...

ALEPOCHORI, Greece: Firemen intervene in a forest near the village of Mazi, after an overnight fire on a mountain range overlooking the Gulf of Corinth, yesterday.-AFP n

Greek villages evacuated as forest fire rages

ALEPOCHORI, Greece: Firemen intervene in a forest near the village of Mazi, after an overnight fire on a mountain range overlooking the Gulf of Corinth, yesterday.-AFPALEPOCHORI, Greece: Several Greek villages were evacuated yesterday with no injuries reported as firefighters battled the country's first major blaze of the year on a mountain range overlooking the Gulf of Corinth. Six villages and two monasteries were evacuated after the fire...

Photo shows Abubakar Shekau, the leader of one of two Boko Haram factions, from a video published on November 9, 2018.n

Nigeria's Boko Haram leader 'badly wounded' in suicide bid

Photo shows Abubakar Shekau, the leader of one of two Boko Haram factions, from a video published on November 9, 2018.KANO, Nigeria: Nigerian Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country, two intelligence sources said yesterday. Shekau's Boko Haram faction and fighters from the Islamic State West...

Migrants climb a sea wall in the northern town of Fnideq after attempting to cross the border from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta Wednesday. - AFPn

Clashes erupt on Morocco border as Madrid accuses Rabat of blackmail

Migrants climb a sea wall in the northern town of Fnideq after attempting to cross the border from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta Wednesday. - AFPFNIDEQ, Morocco: Spain accused Morocco of "blackmail" yesterday for allowing a record 8,000 migrants to reach the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, sparking a crisis that saw clashes on the Moroccan side of the border overnight. Spanish authorities were caught by surprise on...

REYKJAVIK: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a meeting at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, early yesterday on the sidelines of the Arctic Council Ministerial summit. -- AFPn

US, Russia seek to ease tensions in first meeting under Biden

REYKJAVIK: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a meeting at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, early yesterday on the sidelines of the Arctic Council Ministerial summit. - AFPREYKJAVIK, Iceland: The US and Russian foreign ministers have sought to ease tensions in their first meeting since President Joe Biden took office, saying they were ready to cooperate but acknowledging the wide...

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