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Cod is stored for salt curing at Ribeiralves cod processing plant .

Cod is king in Portugal at Christmas

The most traditional way to prepare salt cod is to bake it in the oven and serve it with boiled potatoes. But it can also be grilled, turned into fritters or even used to replace meat in a lasagna. “When I’m asked to come up with a menu for Chri...

A professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) inspects plants at an experimental farm outside the campus in Thuwal in the Red Sea Jeddah governorate.--AFP photos

Saudi Arabia bets on tech to make deserts bloom

Saudi Arabia is investing in green innovation to transform its deserts, but accusations of greenwashing highlight the challenge of turning ambitious projects into climate solutions. This week, Riyadh is hosting the United Nations COP16 conference on...

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A taste of home

As one of the first families to move to Kuwait after 1948, Palestinian chef Sawsan Abueljubain holds only faint memories of her homeland, which she could only recall through keeping her country’s traditional dishes alive. “Since our homeland was...

Hideki Tokoro, president of Japan's whaling company Kyodo Senpaku, answers questions from the media at the exhibition and business meeting of domestically produced fin whales hosted by Kyodo Senpaku at Tokyo's Toyosu market.—AFP photos

Hearts, tails and blubber at Japan fin whale tasting

Bite-size portions of fin whale were available to sniff and taste Friday as Japan’s whaling industry seeks to rekindle appetite for a traditional protein source that has fallen out of favour. “Once young people eat it and they realize it’s goo...

An aerial view shows the Sarchinar tree nursery in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.--AFP photos

Saving the vanishing forests of Iraq’s Kurdistan

In a plant nursery in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, hundreds of pine, eucalyptus, olive and pomegranate saplings grow under awnings protecting them from the fierce summer sun. The nursery in Sarchinar in the Kurdish city of Sulaiman...

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SIBI, Pakistan: A paramilitary soldier stands guard at a railway station in this district of southwestern Balochistan province on March 12, 2025. - AFP

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GAZA: A Palestinian boy cries over the bodies of loved ones after they were killed in a Zionist strike south of Gaza City on March 11, 2025, at Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital. - AFP

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2025. - AFP

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