Saudi Arabia’s laws still prohibit unmarried men and women from being alone together privately, a practice known as khulwa. While public gender mixing is now more relaxed, private cohabitation remains illegal and can lead to investigation, detention, a…
Drug lord who faked his own death is captured in tourist hotspot
One of Ecuador’s most wanted drug lords, who faked his own death and moved to Spain, has been captured in Malaga, Ecuador’s president has said.
Japan’s Tourism Shares Drop After China Warning on Travel, Study – Bloomberg.com
Japan’s Tourism Shares Drop After China Warning on Travel, Study Bloomberg.comJapan seeks to calm escalating row with China over Taiwan ReutersJapan’s tourism-linked stocks plunge amid spat with China Al JazeeraJapan to…
Tanker loadings restart after Ukrainian attack on key Russian port
Novorossiysk and CPC crude terminals back in business
Léa Seydoux switches on Champs-Élysées Christmas lights as Paris launches festive season
Léa Seydoux launched the Christmas lights on the Champs Élysées, marking the start of Paris’s festive season with a lively set by Canadian singer Charlotte Cardin.
Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week
A Wes Anderson exhibition in London, a technological takeover at the MUNCH Triennale in Oslo, and the highly-anticipated release of ‘Wicked: For Good’. Here’s what to look out for this week.
Financial platform teams with new investors to buy Turkish fleet for new pool
Start-up MPP Shipping and Germany’s Grona Shipping build initial multipurpose operation to 14 ships, with more consolidation planned
Woman Conducts Tehran Symphony Orchestra for First Time in Its History
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Ecuadorian voters reject hosting foreign military bases and rewriting constitution in referendum
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, a conservative closely aligned with the Trump administration, had pushed Ecuador’s courts to include the question about launching a process that could lead to a new constitution.
Dozens of schools in Australia and New Zealand shut after play sand recalled over asbestos fear
Closures follow laboratory results confirming traces of tremolite and chrysotile asbestos in several sand products widely used in early-learning classrooms