Internet and phone networks were down across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian telecommunications agency said, in the second such blackout in the besieged territory in less than a week.

Australian authorities searched Wednesday for the remains of a 55-year-old surfer after a witness reportedly saw an attack by a large shark that “had his body in his mouth”.

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Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $200M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to over $950M; CEO Hosam Arab says Tabby is profitable  —  The past year and a half have witnessed…

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 that upended Iran’s political and societal structure, the country has made a conscious effort to fan its influence across the Middle East with proxy groups.

India-born author Nandini Das won 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, a leading international non-fiction prize worth GBP 25,000, for her book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire’.