1 week ago North Korea executes 'big shot' couple with 'successful' business as public forced to watch

The pair were deemed 'arrogant' by locals unhappy with their business and were accused of violating the Rejection of Reactionary Thought and Culture Act by authorities

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1 week ago Fox News host Jesse Watters rails against ABC reporter for asking Trump and Saudi crown prince about murdered journalist

Trump claimed the Saudi leader ‘knew nothing’ about the murder of Khashoggi and lauded a new defense deal with the Middle Eastern country

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1 week ago Wynne Evans issues announcement on future as he says 'I can’t hide away'

The Celebrity MasterChef winner and Strictly Come Dancing contestant stayed out of the public eye after a number of controversies

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1 week ago MIKEY SMITH: 13 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he braces for crucial Epstein files vote

Trump has spent the last few days barking insults at women, making weird noises and getting ready to host his favourite Middle Eastern dictator - but Epstein is still taking up everyone's attention

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2 w. ago How football’s biggest con duped England icon into dream of City

WHEN Notts County unveiled Sven-Goran Eriksson as their new Director of Football in July 2009, the jaws of fans dropped to the floor. After years spent languishing in administration, a mysterious consortium seemingly backed by Middle Eastern money had taken over, with promises to take the League Two side all the way to the Prem...

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2 w. ago Moment Brit punches Middle Eastern man who 'put his bare feet on his headrest during bus tour and lashed out when asked to take them down'

The Brit was said to have lashed out at the man after he propped up his feet near his head while driving around the tropical island Phuket on November 11.

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2 w. ago Moment Brit punches Middle Eastern man who 'put his bare feet on his headrest during tour and lashed out when asked to take them down'

The Brit was said to have lashed out at the man after he propped up his feet near his head while driving around the tropical island Phuket on November 11.

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2 w. ago One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suitsIn the framing device that opens the Middle Eastern folk tales collected in One Thousand and One Nights, King Shahryar avenges his wife’s infidelity by ordering her execution and marrying a new virgin every night, having each of them beheaded by sunrise so they won’t have time to cheat. When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another – and those become the stories we’re reading.As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book – a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights – Shahrazad’s feat of creativity “refuses the present emergency – the contrived drama of a powerful man”. The echo of life in the Trump era is deliberate...

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3 w. ago Foodie wars! MasterChef contestant accused of 'cultural appropriation' amid bitter copyright war over Middle Eastern cookbook

The furious row came about over the title of Ms Khan's fourth cookbook entitled Sabzi, which was released by Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury in July.

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3 w. ago Christie's London auction shines global light on Middle Eastern art

Christie's London auction shines global light on Middle Eastern art  AL-Monitor

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