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Yemen: Historic buildings collapse in Sanaa after heavy rains

Houthi official says 10 buildings have been destroyed in the Yemeni capital’s Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Al Jazeera

Heavy rains collapse 10 historic buildings in Yemeni capital

Heavy rains lashing Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, which dates back to ancient times, have collapsed 10 buildings in the Old City

The Independent UK

Crushed by war, Syrian tourism eyes expat uptick

Somar Hazim had high hopes when he opened a hotel in Damascus in 2009, adding to a growing number of boutique guest houses in the Old City that were proving to be a hit with tourists, before war broke out and forced him to close down.

Reuters

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Realtor shot dead by his associate group in Madhapur

Two of the three accused persons nabbed; firearm recovered

The Hindu

Four arrested for minor’s gangrape in Hyderabad’s Old City

The 14-year-old was returning home alone at night after visiting her grandmother

The Hindu

HMR takes up re-survey of Old City stretch

Mapping of the area from from MGBS to Falaknuma to be done for underground utilities

The Hindu

Far-right Israeli attacks highlight ‘Jerusalem Day’ reality

Ultra-nationalist Israelis violently confronted Palestinians both during and after the ‘flag march’ on Sunday.

Al Jazeera

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Israel-Palestine news: Chaos as Israelis rally in East Jerusalem

Tensions high in East Jerusalem where thousands of ultra-nationalist Jewish groups march chanting ‘Death to Arabs’.

Al Jazeera

Tension in Jerusalem as thousands participate in Israeli ‘flag march’

Thousands of flag-waving Israelis on Sunday marched through Jerusalem's Old City during a nationalist procession that regularly stokes Palestinian anger, a year after Jerusalem tensions exploded into war.

France 24

Israeli court upholds non-Muslim prayer ban at Al-Aqsa

An Israeli appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling questioning the site’s status quo.

Al Jazeera

Shireen Abu Akleh: Palestinians united in memory of journalist

Outrage at the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has united Palestinians from across religions and sects.

Al Jazeera

Opponents of Jerusalem Cable Car Plan Lose Supreme Court Case

Israeli and Palestinian opponents of an Israeli plan to run a cable car over Jerusalem to the walls of the Old City lost on Sunday their Supreme Court case against a project they argued would alter its ancient landscape. A unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel disseminated by the Justice…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Opponents of Jerusalem cable car plan lose Supreme Court case

Reuters

Palestinians clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem holy site, 31 injured

At least 31 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police at Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday, Palestinian medics said, the latest outbreak in a recent upsurge of violence at a site revered by Muslims and Jews alike.

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The Hindu

Ramzan food walk in Old City

Food walks during Ramzan are not to be missed. This year we chose to walk towards Chowk ki Masjid from Hussani Alam

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Ultra-Nationalists to March in Jerusalem Despite Ban

A group of Israeli ultra-nationalists said it is determined to go ahead with a flag-waving march around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old City later Wednesday, brushing aside a police ban of an event that served as one of the triggers of last year's Israel-Gaza war. Israeli police said a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Damascus Art Installation Turns Ceramic Doves Into War Symbol

Hundreds of ceramic doves are suspended over the streets of the Old City of Damascus, part of an art installation that had been set to debut before the start of Syria's war. The lifelike figurines crafted by Buthaina al-Ali, a professor at Damascus University's faculty of arts, had been gathering…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mosul's Old City Rises from Rubble in War-scarred Iraq

Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul's Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq's battle to retake the city from jihadists. Mosques, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the ISIS group seized…

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Reports of strange canine disease spread panic

WhatsApp forwards claim 1,000 dogs have died in past 10 days in Old City

The Hindu

Imran, who made threat calls to MP, refuses to take court notice

Self-proclaimed social activist Mohammed Imran alias Caller Imran from Kalapathar in Old City refused to accept notice by Madhya Pradesh police in connection with alleged threatening calls to Bhopal MP and BJP leader Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Authority Backs Down from Mount of Olives Park Plan

Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority on Monday said it was backing down from a contentious plan to encompass Christian holy sites on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives in a national park following vociferous outcry from major churches. The Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem rises above Jerusalem’s Old City and its…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Power Cuts Help Revive Syrian Tradition of Public Bathhouses

At Hammam Bakri in Damascus' Old City, Syrian men wrapped in towels from the waist down lie down on a scalding marble floor. Masseurs vigorously scrub their skin with a soap-soaked loofah and wash them down with hot water. Around a hexagonal fountain outside — traditionally found in old Damascene…

The Independent UK

Israel demolishes east Jerusalem home of Palestinian gunman

Israeli police have demolished the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian militant who killed an Israeli man and wounded four people in a November shooting in Jerusalem’s Old City

Reuters

Jerusalem's holy sites and West Bank carpeted in rare snow

A rare heavy snowfall covered Jerusalem, some of northern Israel and hilly areas in the occupied West Bank overnight into Thursday, shutting down roads and schools.

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