- Ukraine has said its athletes won’t be allowed to compete in qualifying events for the 2024 Olympic Games if they have to compete against Russians
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- Biden said that despite the contribution made to the nation, many Arabs continue to face racism and discrimination
- For many years, Arabs in only a few states celebrated Arab American Heritage Month individually and during different months of the year
- Families from all over Kingdom will have opportunity to get clothes to wear during Eid, Ramadan
- Dozens of Revolutionary Guards members killed in Syria during the war
- The pope, 86, was taken to Rome’s Gemelli hospital after complaining of breathing difficulties
- COP28 will help shine the spotlight on the region’s ambitious decarbonization goals
- The trademark beep as a product is scanned is heard about six billion times per day across the world as around 70,000 items are sold each second.
- Today, it faces it faces competition from the younger QR code, the information-filled squares used in smartphones
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Heat Island Effect
Heat islands form in urban settings where vegetation is replaced by concrete structures such as roads and buildings, making surfaces absorb — instead of reflect — the sun's heat. With roads reaching high temperatures of 70 degrees Celsius, the heat absorbed is released at night, keeping people from taking a walk during summer nights. To address this, Saudi Arabia's Roads General Authority is testing a newly technology that uses cold pavements, which are meant to reduce road surface temperatures.
Pogrom
It is a word that describes an organized act of mass violence targeting a particular ethnic or religious group. The term had been used to refer to ethnic mob attacks against Jews in eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. On March 1, 2023, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, head of the Israeli army’s Central Command, described the Feb. 28, 2023, rampage by Jewish settlers in the Palestinian town of Hawara as a "pogrom carried out by outlaws."
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- Families from all over Kingdom will have opportunity to get clothes to wear during Eid, Ramadan
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