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Amid rising costs, Saudi Arabia is scaling back Neom plans to focus on sports venues.Neom’s plans include a stadium for the 2034 World Cup and a winter sports resort.The new city faces financial challenges, leadership changes, and scrutiny over human rights issues. Saudi Arabia is changing plans for mega-city Neom…
Ukraine is offering comfortable beds and warm meals to North Korea troops who surrender to them.”You do not need to die senselessly in another country,” Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said.North Korea is believed to have sent thousands of troops to help Russia fight Ukraine. Ukraine is enticing Russia-bound North Korean…
By Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) – For ultra-wealthy entrepreneur Bassim Haidar, living in London has become an expensive indulgence he can no longer justify. While new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer settles into No. 10 Downing St, Haidar is searching for homes in Greece and Monaco, because a proposed inheritance…
Satellite images show what appear to be mock-ups of fifth-generation US aircraft, among other aircraft, out in a Chinese desert.The satellite image of the mock-ups, captured April 19, 2024 by Planet Labs PBC and then obtained by Business Insider, show both covered and uncovered aircraft by a runway at a…
The Islamic State terror group may have lost its territorial caliphate, once equal in size to the United Kingdom, years ago, but its militants are still killing soldiers and civilians in the Syrian desert.In two attacks on Wednesday, ISIS militants reportedly killed a total of 19 Syrian government troops in…
In the labyrinthine streets of Marrakech’s bustling medina, it is hard to imagine that you are standing in one of the world’s biggest car-producing countries.The sun-baked Kingdom of Morocco is renowned as a tourist destination, with its vibrant souks, iconic Moorish architecture, and surreal Saharan desert dunes.But the country is…
By Daniel Becerril CUATRO CIENEGAS, Mexico (Reuters) – Alfalfa plants sway under a thin veil of mist as towering irrigation equipment rolls above the crops, spraying the vast fields with water. It’s an important agriculture product in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, grown there for hundreds of years. Rich in…
