The UK Government has announced its post-Brexit “points-based immigration system”. The new system will keep the UK open to highly skilled workers…
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Syriais now nine years into a civil war that frequently promises, but never manages, to wind down. PresidentBashar al-Assadhas retaken much of…
It has been over a month since the Islamic Republic was dealt with the huge blow of losing its second most powerful figure. While Tehran has vowed to…
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Palestinian police cadets take part in a training session at a police academy in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Getty)
Thousands of couples attend a mass wedding held by the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, aka Unification Church despite the spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus also known as Wuhan Coronavirus on February 7, 2020 in Gapyeong-gun, South Korea. Some 4,000 'Moonies', believers of Unification Church, which was named after the founder Moon Sun Myung, attend the mass wedding which began in the early 1960s. (Getty)
Thousands of pilgrims crowd Piazza Duomo to witness the beginning of the third day of celebrations in honour of the patron saint of Catania as devotees with the traditional white "sack" pull the fercolo with the reliquary bust of the Saint martyr while the candelabras honor the passage of the procession on February 5, 2020 in Catania, Italy. (Getty)
Displaced Syrians in a truck transporting their belongings pass through the town of Hazano in the northern countryside of Idlib fleeing northwards amid an ongoing regime offensive. (Getty)
Worshippers take part in the traditional ceremony of Iemanja, the Goddess of the Sea of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda at the Rio Vermelho neighborhood, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. (Getty)
People in traditional Korean hanbok dresses wear face masks as they jump for a souvenir picture at Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul. (Getty)
Zhou Qunfeiwas born in 1970 in Xiangxiang a city situated in the largely rural province of Hunan. She was born to a poor working…
* The museum will display no less than 50 thousand antiquities by the time of its grand opening. * The museum will feature a seven-thousand-meter…
In the last two months, widespread protests over a controversial new citizenship law inIndiahave raised the prospect of a constitutional crisis…
I’ve always had a lot of time for sceptics. In some cases, you had to have a lot of time. There was the one who landed up in a ditch and refused to…
That Europe’s best days are over has become a common refrain. Journalists, analysts, and even world leaders observe that “the Continent’s grand unity…
In the last two months, widespread protests over a controversial new citizenship law inIndiahave raised the prospect of a constitutional…
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A too weak ceasefire?
