Across New York’s sidewalks and tucked-away alleys, young Muslim women glide on skateboards, chat in leafy parks, and pose for rooftop selfies with the skyline behind them. Draped in patterned hijabs styled in creative twists and buns, they became the face of a growing subculture in the early 2010s, presenting a new kind of…
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Home » Latest Travel News of UK » UK Joins with Thailand, Maldives, Ireland, US, Australia, China, Hong Kong in Disrupting Summer Travel as New Covid-19 Variant NB.1.8.1 Sparks, Latest Update About This Alert Wednesday, June 4, 2025 The UK now joins Thailand, Maldives, Ireland, the US, Australia, China, and Hong Kong in facing a…
Home » Canada Travel News » Canada Unites with Australia, Turkey, France, UK, Germany, South Africa, Sweden as Israel Issues New Travel Warning Before Summer Trips Surge, What You Need To Know Monday, May 26, 2025 Canada has officially joined a growing list of countries—Australia, Turkey, France, UK, Germany, South Africa, and Sweden—as Israel issues…
One African country has an army six times the size of Britain’s, run on a military budget around eight times smaller. Not only does the North African country have the largest army population on the continent, it was also the tenth largest in the world with 450,000 active soldiers, according to the Global Firepower Index…
A wide range of economists are voicing alarm over President Donald Trump’s steep tariffs on imports into the United States, sparking a trade war that experts say could tip many countries into recession. Here are comments by some leading economists: For Thomas Piketty, French author of the bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, “Trumpism is…
Israel and Hamas both signaled over the weekend that efforts for a renewed cease-fire in Gaza were underway, less than two weeks after the breakdown of a temporary truce and the resumption of Israel’s air and ground campaign against the militant group in the enclave. Hamas said on Saturday that it had accepted a proposal…
Egyptian President “Abdel Fattah El-Sisi” and his Chinese counterpart “Xi Jinping” share many common themes and future visions regarding the modernization of the Global South through the BRICS economic cooperation mechanism, such as enhancing cooperation between China, Egypt, and developing countries of the Global South, enhancing exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and African academic…
A submarine carrying Russian tourists sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead, according to the Russian Embassy in Egypt and local news reports. The vessel was believed to be carrying about 45 people on a tour in the waters off the coast near Hurghada, a popular resort nearly…
Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an unknown pharaoh at an Egyptian necropolis, a team of researchers said on Thursday, in what they are calling the second discovery of a king’s tomb this year. The team of Egyptian and American archaeologists found the tomb, which the researchers estimate is 3,600 years old, nearly 23…