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Workers clean an area at Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 3, 2021. The legions of workers who built Dubai's extravagant Expo 2020 site and keep it running face exploitation, grim conditions and a wide range of labor abuses, according to a new report by London-based rights consultancy Equidem released on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022
New report details labor rights abuses at Dubai’s Expo 2020

Originally posted to AP News website, 2 February 2022 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — [...]

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In this screenshot from video, a purported dissident message is seen from an online account calling itself "The Justice of Ali" that reportedly played overtop of an Iranian state television streaming feed on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. A streaming website that features Iranian state television programming has acknowledged suffering technical issues amid reports that dissident hackers played an anti-government message on the platform. The caption at the bottom of the image in Farsi reads: "The regime has tasted our blows and it will taste it again."
Iran state TV streaming site targeted with dissident message

Originally posted to AP News website, 2 February 2022 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — [...]

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US President Joe Biden and Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, emir of the State of Qatar, meet in the Oval Office of the White House on January 31, 2022 in Washington, DC
US to make Qatar major non-NATO ally

Originally posted to The Middle East Monitor website, 3 December 2021  US to upgrade Qatar [...]

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A man prays at an open air makeshift mosque in front of a giant Saudi Flag in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, June 21, 2017. Saudi Arabia is inching towards changes that govern its national anthem and green flag, which is emblazoned with a sword and inscribed with Islam’s creed. State-owned media reported the kingdom’s un-elected consultative Shura Council voted in favor of changes late Monday, Jan. 31, 2022
Saudi Arabia moves to redefine Islam-bearing green flag

A man prays at an open air makeshift mosque in front of a giant Saudi [...]

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National flags of Iran line a section of the Hashemi Rafsanjani highway
Rights group: Iran executes 2 gay men over sodomy charges

National flags of Iran line a section of the Hashemi Rafsanjani highway as a construction [...]

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Vice Media secretly organised $20m Saudi government festival

Youth media company organised March 2020 event despite pledge to stop all work in Saudi [...]

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