- The governor of Saudi Arabia's Asir region formed a committee to probe the beatings captured in the online video
- The videos spread rapidly online, with #KhamisMushaytOrphans trending on Twitter in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday
- It’s the largest known smuggling attempt of its kind in the Kingdom
- The Kingdom’s navy was leading an international security task force that discovered 3,330 kg of hashish and heroin during a search of a boat
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- SOHR says four missiles hit a runway and warehouses surrounding the airport
- The warehouses likely contained a shipment of Iranian rocket, the war monitor said
- The purported justification for the initiation of this criminal probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of presidential records,” a court filing by Trump’s team said
- Caribbean island nation is expecting to receive at least 100,000 tourists from KSA within the next 3 years
- ABS-CBN has been broadcasting content mostly online since losing its rights to operate radio and television frequencies in 202
- Termination follows concern from some legislators at an inquiry last week that TV5 could be violating its franchise
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Casteism
It is a millennia-old hierarchy in India where social position has been based on family lineage, from the top Brahmin “priestly” class to the Dalits, shunned as “untouchables” and consigned to menial labor. While caste discrimination was outlawed in India over 70 years ago (though studies say bias persists), it has gotten exported abroad in some way by members of the Indian diaspora. In the US, the tech sector — which counts India as its top source of skilled foreign workers — received a wake-up call in June 2020 when California’s employment regulator sued Cisco Systems on behalf of a low-caste engineer who accused two higher-caste bosses of blocking his career.
What's a mustatil?
Mustatil is the Arabic word for rectangle, and these often huge, rectangular structures, built by an unknown people more than 8,000 years ago, may be unique to the Arabian peninsula. More than 1,600 are now known to exist across 300,000 square kilometers of northwestern Saudi Arabia, concentrated mainly in the vicinity of AlUla and Khaybar.
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- Russian and Ukrainian forces have accused each other of shelling the plant
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