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Qatar, UAE restore diplomatic ties, reopen embassies

Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have announced that they are restoring diplomatic ties and reopening their embassies immediately, more than two years after Arab states ended a boycott of Doha that had shattered the Western-allied Gulf Arab blo…

Somali government sacks head of army

The Somali government has sacked the head of the country’s army.Brig Gen Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has been replaced by Ibrahim Sheikh Muhyadin Addow.It comes as the government prepares a new offensive against Islamist militant group al-Shabab.Earlier this mo…

Tuwaiq Academy Launches Metaverse Camps

Tuwaiq Academy has opened registration for the Metaverse Academy camps, held in partnership with META, the first of their kind in the Middle East and North Africa. The camps will last for nine months and will be held at the academy’s head office in Ri…

Romeo Beckham joins Brentford B on permanent deal

Brentford B have signed Romeo Beckham on a permanent transfer after the forward spent the second half of the 2022-23 season in England on loan, the Premier League club said on Saturday.Beckham, who began training with the team in October last year and …

More than 718,000 Pilgrims Arrive in Madinah

718,030 pilgrims arrived to Madinah today, who came through the air and sea ports, to perform this year’s Hajj season 2023.The statistics of Hajj and Visit Committee, which monitors the arrival and departure of pilgrims in Madinah, indicated that the t…

Microsoft says early June service outages were cyberattacks

Microsoft said on Friday that the outages that affected certain services of the company through some of the earlier days of this month were the result of cyberattacks, but said it saw no evidence of any customer data being accessed or compromised.”Begi…