Hundreds of Jordanians have gathered in the streets of Amman on Friday to protest Trump's peace plan and called on the Jordan government not to participate in the upcoming summit in Bahrain. Some demonstrators carried signs reading “Down with Bahrain workshop” while others shouted “No to normalization with Israel… down, down with the Bahrain conference.” The Bahrain summit is planned to take place in Manama on June 25-26, as the US unveiled the economic portion of its Middle East peace plan, calling for $50 billion dollars in investments for Palestine ...
Originating in the Nuba mountains, the sport has become wildly popular country-wide in recent years. The Sudanese Nuba Wrestling Federation organizes matches every Friday that attract hundreds of people. Wrestling is the medium that coherently ties together the various aspects of Nuba life. The sport is important to the Nuba for both social and religious reasons. Wrestling is the Nuba way to prepare a boy for manhood while providing an opportunity for all young men to achieve. Concrete connections can be made between the ancient Nubians and modern Nuba. A ...
Actress Yasmin Sabri likes to share images while practicing sports with her followers. {"preview_thumbnail":"https://cdn.flowplayer.com/6684a05f-6468-4ecd-87d5-a748773282a3/i/v-i-8…","video_id":"85404726-3937-477c-9fc6-987f31410d3f","player_id":"8ca46225-42a2-4245-9c20-7850ae937431","provider":"flowplayer","video":"Top 5 Times Arab Divas Sang in English, French, and Spanish!"} Sabri shows her fitness during exercise, by posting pictures while she is standing on her head or stretching her legs. In this slideshow, we showcase Yasmin Sabri's best pictures at the gym.
Tourists snap selfies by a bronze statue of the diver who died trying to save the 'Wild Boars' football team from a flooded cave, while momentos from their rescue fly off the shelves -- scooped up by the 1.3 million people who have descended on a once serene mountainside in northern Thailand. "It's amazing what happened here. I followed everything from Australia," tourist John McGowan told AFP after taking photos at the visitor centre around 100 metres from the Tham Luang cave entrance. "I wanted to see it with my ...
World Refugee Day, is a global event observed on June 20 every year. This day is marked in order to raise awareness of the situation of refugees around the world. On the other hand, the UN Refugee Agency has recently published a new report showing that over 70 million people were forced to leave their homes in 2018, because of wars, conflicts and persecutions. The number of refugees topped 25.9 million around the world last year, showing that this result is the highest level recorded in the past 70 years.
Buddhist monks attend the annual meeting of the ultra-nationalist group Buddha Dhamma Parahita Foundation in Yangon. Hundreds of monks swathed in saffron and maroon robes filed early morning into a Yangon monastery for the annual meeting of the Foundation. The group was known as Ma Ba Tha until a ban by the government and religious authorities in 2017 aimed at curbing its influence. Despite the ban, offline and on Facebook the group has continued to operate under its new name. Increasingly taking a radical stance against civilian leader Suu Kyi's ...
'The Mud Day' race is an obstacle course of 13 kilometers race that consists of 22 obstacles created in 2013. The race usually takes place in several European cities and is organized by Amaury Sport Organization. On the other hand, this year, 'The Mud Day' was marked by over 15000 participants in Beynes city, France, which is located near Paris on June 16, 2019.
Some Arab Female celebrities have the courage to post their images on social media wearing bold clothes. {"preview_thumbnail":"https://cdn.flowplayer.com/6684a05f-6468-4ecd-87d5-a748773282a3/i/v-i-e…","video_id":"efdc70f8-5e0f-4328-846c-d28d3de1bc17","player_id":"8ca46225-42a2-4245-9c20-7850ae937431","provider":"flowplayer","video":"Top 5 Arab Female Singers who Reached 100 Million Views on YouTube"} The ones that post 'controversial' images face many comments and criticism, some react by facing these comments and replying to them that it is their private life, while others ignore or even prevent commenting feature. Check the list of the most daring Arab female celebrities on Instagram.
Tens of thousands of people again rallied in central Hong Kong as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city's embattled leader. Hong Kong protesters have piled the pressure on pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam with a series of huge demonstrations against a divisive bill to allow extraditions to mainland China. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed the extradition bill that could send people to mainland China to face trial. The central government in Beijing has ...
On April 15, the world watched in horror the fire that broke through Notre Dame Cathedral, in France. As it is considered priceless for containing a 600-year-old architecture. Notre Dame Cathedral has held its first mass on Saturday, June 15th, as it had got billions of donations for renovation ahead of the fire. Moreover, around 30 congregants, including priests, canons and a number of workers taking part in the church's reconstruction, were admitted.
The Aziziye Mosque in Stoke Newington is thought of as one of Britain's most stunning mosques. Muslim Londoners know it well too, for its popular restaurant, one that gets pretty active around the fasting month of Ramadan for iftar. There's also a halal butchers at the north of the building but it is its unique facade that makes it standout and is a mark of the area's vibrant migrant community, a stone's throw from trendy Dalston. Fortuitously, the exterior remained as it was and the building was reinvented as the ...