Hints and tips:
...Some 1.8mn Gazans are now in the overcrowded south, having followed Israeli evacuation orders to navigate a gauntlet of checkpoints, scrambling over shattered roads with their children and few possessions...
...As Thailand’s self-proclaimed salesman, Srettha has swept through 10 countries, including neighbours in south-east Asia; China for the Belt and Road Forum; Saudi Arabia; and twice to the US for the UN General...
...While we were in Mobile, Alabama, for New Year’s Eve, there was a shooting in a crowd just a few streets from where we were having dinner....
...The vessel accommodates eight guests in four cabins and sets sail from Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina, heading north-west to the Ad Dimaniyat Islands....
...Abdel Wanis Ashour, a dam expert at Sebha university in south-western Libya, warned last year the two dams could collapse without extensive maintenance....
...Sistani is the “closest Shia Islam has to a Pope,” according to Hayder al-Khoei, director of foreign relations at the al-Khoei Institute....
...My second was the west coast of South Uist....
...“If your mobile phone is in your hands, write everywhere you can write,” says Maria “Masha” Alyokhina....
...South Korea — seen by the OECD as its strongest performing member economy next year — is enjoying a stock market boom thanks to the global demand for semiconductors and mobile devices during the pandemic...
...Road improvements helped farmers find new markets, including in neighbouring countries....
...By sunrise the next morning, I was barrelling north along a lonely road, up and over the Dhofar mountains, through the rocky desert to the shifting dunes of the Rub al-Khali, the Empty Quarter....
...We confirm our position and track other competitors on our mobiles; some even book hotels online as they ride. One rider has a WhatsApp group of supporters encouraging him....
...And it reaches far beyond real estate; Brookfield’s eclectic investment portfolio includes 14,500km of railways and toll roads, about one-seventh of France’s mobile phone masts, and Westinghouse, the formerly...
...Elsewhere, the Japan-South Korea row is driving memory chip prices higher. An Indian mobile payments group is making a splash in Japan. A US billionaire accuses Google of infiltration by Chinese spies....
...including helicopter and road transfers....
...Not a mobile phone in sight: everyone was playing cards and eating beautiful sandwiches. It probably helps that the people here aren’t simply Italian....
...In the far south, new hotels in Salalah make it easier to explore the history of the region’s frankincense trade, and to strike out into the Rub’al Khali, the Empty Quarter....
...Africa is also an important part of Mr Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative, a plan to bolster a network of infrastructure connecting China by land and sea to south-east Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe...
...I learnt to say al-jawaab doulateen — “the answer is two states”....
...A massive poster of Bashar al-Assad rises over the security checkpoint at the district entrance. Down the road, a stage once used by protesters is surrounded by brittle weeds....
...Improvised explosives are a constant worry: Isis mines houses and roads before it escapes....
...The internet has been cut for months and mobile phone services rarely work....
...Its Burj Khalifa tower is the world’s tallest skyscraper, while its 12-lane highway, Sheikh Zayed Road, tears its way unapologetically through the city....
...He is a prominent member of Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant Islamist group based in Southeast Asia with ties to al-Qaeda....
...I’m joining my best friend who’s travelling around South America for a year – we’re going to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands....
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