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- The move comes at a delicate time in relations between Washington and Ankara
- US had previously kicked Turkey out of its F-35 stealth fighter development and training program over the purchase
- Kinda Al-Khatib was arrested in June and charged with 'collaborating with the enemy'
- Prior to her arrest, Khatib on Twitter had criticized Hezbollah
- The program seeks to upgrade various aspects of the Saudi cities so that they rank among the world’s top cities to live in
- Washington banned all US export licenses and loan credits for Ankara’s military procurement agency
- Ambitious initiative known as COVAX has secured only a fraction of the 2 billion doses it hopes to buy over the next year
- Some poorer countries that signed up to the initiative are looking for alternatives because of fears it won’t deliver
- Dubai Tourism will maintain a database of all units in the emirate
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Saudi giga-projects
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Bortle Scale
The bortle scale is a numerical scale that measures the night sky’s brightness at a particular location. The scale ranges from 1, where sites can be pitch black, to 9, which is a city sky.
Sakani program
A program of Saudi Arabia's Housing Ministry, the Sakani offers Saudi nationals access to land and residential housing across eight regions of the Kingdom through various financing solutions to enable families to own their first home, whether through prefabricated units, under-construction builds, or self-construction.
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- Yuriko Koike acknowledges that a majority of the Japanese public now oppose hosting the rescheduled Games next year
- The worst offender was China for the second consecutive year, the survey found
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