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2020 Saudi Arabia: A Year of Swinging Fortunes

DP2020 December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

TARIQ A. AL MAEENA — 2020 is a few days away from going into history and will globally be remembered as the year of the Coronavirus for generations to come.

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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson: What Will the World Look Like in 30 Years?

DP2020 December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

Planes spray sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere in The Ministry for the Future, as an international taskforce tackles global heating in this chilling yet hopeful vision of how the next

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Trump Can Go to Jail For His Pardons: Expert

DP2020 December 26, 2020December 26, 2020

One of the nation’s premier constitutional law experts explained why Donald Trump could be criminally prosecuted for his pardons — and how it could compound his legal liabilities. In his

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Lead Poisoning Could Lurk in Indian Spices

DP2020 December 26, 2020December 26, 2020

Indian researcher tested 52 samples of chili, cumin, curry powder, turmeric, garam masala and chat masala. She found lead in all of them. Exposure to the heavy metal from spice

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How Mohammad Shah ‘Sada Rangeela’ Lost Kohinoor to Nadir Shah

DP2020 December 25, 2020December 25, 2020

It is said that under the guise of a turban-changing brother, Nadir Shah obtained the Kohinoor diamond from Muhammad Shah Rangeela. This happened on the evening of May 12, 1739

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Few Striking Findings, Some Did You Know

DP2020 December 25, 2020December 25, 2020

Most Americans don’t answer cellphone calls from unknown numbersAmericans just aren’t picking up the phone much anymore. Eight-in-ten Americans say they don’t generally answer their cellphone when an unknown number

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One of the Best Narratives 1857

DP2020 December 25, 2020December 25, 2020

I always wondered what happened immediately after the capture of Delhi. Seems our politicians and those newborn Indophiles have either not read history or just conveniently forgotten it. This is

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Biblical Star of Bethlehem Appears in Sky Ahead of Christmas, First Time in 800 Years

DP2020 December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

In a rare celestial ‘Great Conjunction’, ttwo largest planets in our solar system are coming closer together than they have been since the Middle Ages. This close approach is called

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ANALYSIS: Pakistani Home Minister’s Outcry Of ‘Final Battle If Attacked By India’

DP2020 December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

Pakistan on Monday cautioned rival India against any military aggression, saying it could spiral into a mutually destructive “final battle” between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors, VOA News reported. “The

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Camel ‘Roshan’ Brings Environment Friendly Library to Balochistan Children

DP2020 December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

A Camel Named ‘Roshan’ is “Running an Environment Friendly Mobile Library” in Villages –Children and Teens in Turbat District of Balochistan, Pakistan’s Resource-Rich Western Province Are Benefiting Out of This

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Saudi-Pakistani Relations in a Cul-De-Sac?

DP2020 December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

Huge consequences could follow from the demise of a seventy-year-old strategic alliance, according to an opinion piece “The Saudi-Pakistani Divorce” by Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, an

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Khan Govt’s Dollar Saved Dollar Earned Mantra Behind Debt Management

DP2020 December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

Over 28 months period (Aug 2018 thru Nov 2020), the Khan-led government received external inflows of US$26.6 billion –this amount equates to US$0.95 billion on an average per month. Compared

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