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The owner of a building that collapsed in Jeddah at the end of May, killing seven people and injuring another eight, has been detained, the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority announced on Thursday. The authority found that the…
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Kuwait’s fire service said on Thursday that an electrical short circuit caused the blaze that killed 50 people in a building housing foreign workers on Wednesday. The fire broke out around dawn on Wednesday at the base of the block…
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Britain’s national broadcaster the BBC is drawing up plans to build and train its own artificial intelligence model using its text archives, the corporation said on Thursday. A BBC executive told a parliamentary committee earlier this…
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Egypt has spent millions of dollars on new urban communities over the past nine years, its housing minister said on Sunday. Speaking at the “Story of a Homeland” conference in the New Administrative Capital, Housing and Urban Communities…
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Billionaire Asif Aziz is building a three-storey mosque in one of central London’s most famous entertainment complexes, the Mail on Sunday reported. The mosque will be located inside the Trocadero, between Piccadilly Circus and Soho. It…
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North Korea held a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the completion of 10,000 new modern homes in the newly built Hwasong District in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported. Leader Kim Jong Un took part in the ceremony, the report said, as…
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A fire broke out Friday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, leading to the evacuation of workers as firefighters responded to the call, according to the US Secret Service. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical…
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At least 17 people were killed and more than 100 injured after an explosion struck an office building in the Bangladeshi capital’s commercial district on Tuesday, police and medics said. The cause of the blast remained unclear but fatal…
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Demonstrators broke into the building that houses the eastern Libya-based parliament in Tobruk on Friday, setting fire to parts of it amid protests over months of failed efforts to set the divided country on a path toward elections. One…
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A wildfire that erupted in Northern California forced evacuations as it threatened about 500 homes and other buildings Tuesday, authorities said. The Rices Fire erupted at around 2 p.m. near the Yuba River in Nevada County and had spread…
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