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...Lebanon, already in profound crisis, relies on tourism for about 40 per cent of GDP and now faces a further economic deterioration, Walid Nassar, its tourism minister, told CNN Business Arabic....
...The London-based designer Walid al Damirji was one of the first of his profession to champion upcycling fabrics when he launched his brand By Walid in 2011....
...After a Palestinian citizen of Israel was shot dead by a Jewish Israeli following a road-side scuffle last week, Walid al-Huashla, an MP from the United Arab List, warned Ben-Gvir’s plans would lead to “...
...“Smuggling and trafficking human beings is an appalling crime and we have now shut down one of the most important trafficking routes into Europe,” said Brigadier Saeed al-Suwaidi of the federal anti-narcotics...
...There is a strong need to boost military capabilities and self-sufficiency and strengthen defence ecosystems in our region, including Saudi Arabia’s, so I see big defence budgets being ramped up,” said Walid...
...French forces have killed Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the leader of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, the jihadi group responsible for some of the worst violence in west Africa’s Sahel region....
...Walid al-Muallem, Syria’s longstanding foreign minister, became the irascible face of the defensive, authoritarian regime of President Bashar al-Assad during the country’s near decade of gruelling civil...
...This month, a court sentenced Walid Fitaihi, a Saudi-US doctor, to six years in jail on what Human Rights Watch described as “vague charges mostly tied to his peaceful political views and expression”....
...Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, leader of the terrorist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, had been killed “by French forces”. The coincidence was an awkward one for Macron....
...One of the first politicians who would speak to me was Walid Jumblatt, head of the Druze sect....
...“A lot of the people consuming our products are millennial parents,” says founder Walid Abdul-Wahab....
...This week, in his final meeting with the outgoing UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, Syria’s foreign minister Walid al-Moualem said that the constitution should be a “purely sovereign affair decided by the...
...In Moscow this week, Walid al-Moualem, the Syrian foreign minister, pledged to go “all the way” to Idlib and liberate the last piece of Syrian territory from what he called terrorists, as Russia announced...
...Walid Jumblatt, the Lebanese Druze leader and staunch Palestinian advocate, remarked of his friend Avnery’s dying on the eve of the Eid al-Adha — the Muslim feast celebrating Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice...
...The most prominent target is Abd al-Rahman al-Milad, head of a regional coastguard unit that a UN panel of experts says has been “directly involved in the sinking of migrant boats using firearms”....
...Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jassim Bin-Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar and one of the world’s wealthiest men was more successful....
...In his studio on the outskirts of Beirut, Al Kadiri says he chanced upon a rare edition of Al-Wasiti’s illustrations for the 12th-century Iraqi stories Maqamat al-Hariri, and was dazzled....
...24-hour news channel Al Arabiya....
...“Lebanon is too small and weak to bear the economic and political burden of the resignation,” said Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Druze community....
...Saudi Arabia’s charge d’affaires in Beirut, Walid Bukhari, denied Mr Hariri was under house arrest....
...Lebanon’s independence from France in 1943, Samir was a nephew of Suleiman Franjieh, president when Lebanon sank into its 1975-1990 civil war, and cousin to his son Suleiman, a pro-Syrian ally of Bashar al-Assad...
...“Families courted them [smugglers] so they could send their children abroad,” says Walid Abdel Khaliq, deputy director of the village’s government youth centre. “Now they hate them.”...
...Walid al-Muallem, Syrian foreign minister, asked journalists, including from the Financial Times, who had been given hard-to-obtain visas to visit Damascus for a conference intended to reflect the government...
...In the SocGen case, the LIA is suing the bank, Libyan businessman Walid Al-Giahmi and Leinada, a Panamanian company that he controlled, over payments relating to five controversial trades worth $2.1bn....
...al-Moualem, the foreign minister, told the UN General Assembly on Saturday....
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