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How a new generation of Arab musicians is blending heritage and innovation
DUBAI: On a small street in Beirut, the sound of an oud drifts through the open doors of a small cafe called Orenda. Inside, all eyes turn to Joe Kamel as his melody takes over, replacing the cafe’s buzz with a slower, softer mood. A pharmacist by day, Kamel has built a second life through
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Israel denounces Turkiye’s genocide arrest warrant for Netanyahu as ‘PR stunt’
JERUSALEM: Israel on Friday denounced as a “PR stunt” arrest warrants for genocide issued by Turkiye against its leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office – which, as recalled, recently orchestrated the arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul merely for daring to run against Erdoğan – has now issued “arrest warrants” for
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Tunisian opponents go on collective hunger strike to support jailed figure
TUNIS: Prominent Tunisian opposition figures including Rached Ghannouchi said Friday they would go on hunger strike in solidarity with a jailed politician whose health they say has severely deteriorated after nine days without food. Jawhar Ben Mbarek, co-founder of the National Salvation Front, Tunisia’s main opposition alliance, launched a hunger strike last week to protest
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NATO's Rutte says nuclear drills showed alliance has strong deterrent
BERLIN: NATO chief Mark Rutte said the success earlier this month of the military alliance’s annual nuclear exercise gave him “absolute confidence in the credibility of NATO’s nuclear deterrence” in the face of Russian threats. “When Russia is using dangerous and reckless nuclear rhetoric, our populations must know that there is no need to panic,
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Belgium opens first trial linked to Yazidi genocide
BRUSSELS: A Belgian jihadist accused of acts of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria — and presumed killed in conflict — went on trial in absentia Thursday in Brussels. Sammy Djedou, a former fighter with the Daesh group, or Islamic State, was reported by the Pentagon to have been killed in
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What We Are Reading Today: 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” takes readers inside the chaos of the financial crash of 1929, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivete in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world
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UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record
GENEVA: An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that the trend could still be reversed. While this year will not surpass 2024 as the hottest recorded, it will rank second or third, capping more than a
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Small-town India to cricket World champions: The women who made history
Many women in India’s cricket World Cup winning team come from small towns and humble beginnings.
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Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade – The Washington Post
Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade The Washington Post Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package CNN Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package The New York Times The pope hates it. Norway hates it. Elon Musk calls critics of the plan ‘corporate terrorists.’ Welcome to Tesla’s
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Tuesday’s races were a quiet rebuke of Trump for many voters, AP Voter Poll finds
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot in Tuesday’s elections, but many voters in key races made their choice in opposition to him or considered him to be irrelevant, according to the AP Voter Poll. It was hardly an endorsement of his nearly 10 months back in the White House. That theme played out
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