The 35-year-old has arguably cemented his status as the greatest player of all time after leading his nation to their first World Cup triumph since 1986 after beating France on penalties in the final on Sunday.
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The winners, drawn from Africa, Middle East, Israel and Turkey, were unveiled by Google in a statement on Thursday.
The GNI Innovation Challenge has been running in the region since 2019 and the first two rounds saw 43 projects selected from 18 countries. Recipients of the 2019 and 2021 Innovation Challenges answered a call for projects which would increase reader engagement and/or explore new business models. The ideas ranged from digital membership schemes to Arabic language search tools.
Blending hardware and advanced pedagogy technologies into school curriculums, the programme ensures an impactful, immersive teaching and learning experience for both students and faculty members, the need for which has been accelerated by the pandemic.
AJ’s promoter explained on Monday that contracts are signed for the undisputed heavyweight title fight, with just the date and venue left to be resolved.
The two heavyweight world champions will meet this summer – in June or July – to determine the division’s first undisputed ruler since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
Akande-Sadipe, who said this during plenary in Abuja, condemned the complacency of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Employment, which has subjected young Nigerian girls to modern-day slavery, sexual exploitation and organ harvesting among other ills.
Despite the potential meeting between the pair offering one of the biggest fights in British boxing history, the financial lure of the Middle East could mean that they don’t go head-to-head at home.
A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudi-controlled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticism as an attempt to promote Arab “normalisation” with Israel and praise for a rare exploration of the Gulf’s social history.
Four detained journalists were on Saturday sentenced to death on charges of spying by a Yemeni court controlled by the country’s Iran-linked Houthi rebels, according to a rights advocate.
The chief of Lebanon’s Iran-allied Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday that the US killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq was a “new phase” for the Middle East.
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said the that the US air strike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force and architect of its growing military influence in the Middle East aimed to disrupt an “imminent attack” that would have endangered Americans in the Middle East.
Pope Francis has said he wants to travel to Iraq in 2020, which would be the first ever papal trip there, local media reported on Monday.
Qatar on Monday said that the country had plans to produce first Qatari electric cars by 2023, local media reported.
Francis, speaking at the end of a summit of Christian religious leaders, also repeated his view that the “status quo” of the contested city of Jerusalem should be respected, and backed a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“I express my great pain for the dead and wounded and I am close in prayer and affection to all those who are suffering,” he told tens of thousands of people at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square.
For the three months ended March 31, 2018, Net Profit reached QAR3.4 billion (USD0.9 billion), up by 7 per cent compared to previous year.
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The amount of US oil rigs drilling for new production fell by seven to 736 in the week to October 20, the lowest level since June, General Electric Co’s Baker Hughes energy services firm said on Friday.
James Comey, the Director of the United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, said he had identified the masked Islamic State militant who was videotaped beheading Western hostages.