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The boy who never gets old returns to the screen for new adventures in an inclusive live-action movie about growing pains and facing one's fears. "Peter Pan & Wendy" is based on Scottish author J.M. Barrie's beloved characters and the 1953 Disney animation "Peter Pan". It opens with the young…

Twitter dropped the "Government-funded" and "China state-affiliated" labels, which implies government involvement in editorial content, from the accounts of various global media organizations, their profiles showed on Friday. Twitter dropped the "Government-funded Media" label from the accounts of US-based National Public Radio (NPR), British Broadcasting Corp and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation…

Experts in the manufacturing and import of the Saudi shemagh revealed that this traditional dress has reached the highest annual sales season, recording sales estimated at about 900 million riyals annually. They pointed to new consumer trends, especially among the younger generation, as a number of international brands have joined…

The Group of Seven (G7) countries are considering a near-total ban on exports to Russia, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday, citing Japanese government sources. Bloomberg news on Thursday also reported that the United States and Ukraine's allies were considering "an outright ban on most exports to Russia".

King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud performed the Eid Al-Fitr prayer at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on Friday. The prayer was also performed by Prince Khalid bin Fahd bin Khalid, Prince Mansour bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, Prince Khalid bin Saad bin Fahd, Prince Sattam bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, Prince Faisal…

Medical sources in Sanaa reported that more than 200 people were killed and wounded in what has come to be called the “massacre of the hungry”. The stampede tragedy occurred when hundreds of people in the poverty-hit country had gathered at a school in the capital Sanaa to receive cash…

Judicial rulings against people from the Arab tribes of Khaldeh, south of Beirut, renewed the debate about the military court in Lebanon, which some accused of bias as it did not convict any of the supporters of Hezbollah involved in a dispute in Aug. 2021. On Wednesday, the military court…

The US is preparing to send a large number of additional troops to its base in Djibouti in case of an eventual evacuation from Sudan, US officials said on Thursday. “The US Africa Command is monitoring the situation in Sudan and conducting prudent planning for various contingencies,” said Lt. Col.

US president Joe Biden and his team are preparing to announce his re-election campaign next week, US media reports said Thursday. Several reports, including those by The Washington Post and CNN, cited unnamed sources, as saying that Biden is set to launch his re-election campaign with a video release. The…