- Another royal decree was announced to give a one-month salary bonus to soldiers serving on the front lines along Saudi Arabia's southern borders
- King Salman will head the Saudi delegation at the EU-Arab states summit
- Ways to strengthen Saudi-Egyptian ties will be discussed during the king’s visit
- Benefits of three-country tour include billions in economic deals as well as security initiatives
- Heads of state, officials from EU and Arab League member countries to attend summit today
- Some 19.5 million people globally have been forced to flee their countries
- Polls opened early on Sunday morning, with about 1.15 million Okinawans eligible to vote
- Japan’s military alliance with the United States is seen as a key partnership
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What is a Rabab?
Rabab is an essential musical instrument in Pashtun music on both sides of Durand Line. Several families’ livelihood is dependent on rabab manufacturing in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Iran's mullah regime
• Iran has had two supreme leaders in its history: Ruhollah Khomeini, who served until his death in 1989, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose life tenure started then. • A supreme leader is considered a head of state, the highest-ranking political and religious authority of Iran. • The supreme leader controls many government bodies, including the armed forces, judicial system, and state television and radio, while acting as a final decision-maker on the amount of transparency in elections, and on matters of the economy, environment, foreign policy, education and national planning. He is considered more powerful than the president. • Supreme leaders are chosen by the clerics who make up the Assembly of Experts. Khomeini was the second-longest serving head of state in the Middle East at the time after Oman’s Sultan Qaboos.
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Crown Prince Asia tour
- Benefits of three-country tour include billions in economic deals as well as security initiatives
- A video from a popular YouTuber and a report from Wired showed that pedophiles have made unseemly comments on innocuous videos of kids
- YouTube has faced advertiser boycotts in the past, including a widespread boycott in early 2017
