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Europe news
fromwww.dw.com
6 days ago

Israeli police block Catholic leaders from Palm Sunday Mass

Israeli police blocked Catholic leaders from marking Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre due to security concerns amid the Iran war.
Travel
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Siwa, Egypt's unknown oasis of salt lakes and wild desert

Siwa Oasis, located 450 miles from Cairo in Egypt's Western Desert, remains an isolated paradise with unique Berber culture, turquoise lakes, and vast sand dunes that have preserved its untouched character for centuries.
Washington DC
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Middle East Geography

The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait sit 2.4 miles apart, with Little Diomede belonging to the U.S. and Big Diomede to Russia, separated by the international date line creating a 21-hour time difference.
London food
fromCN Traveller
1 month ago

I visited my homeland to see if I could fall back in love with this fierce Mediterranean isle - this is what I discovered

Cyprus attracts visitors through its mythological heritage and Mediterranean beauty, while representing a complex homeland shaped by migration, occupation, and personal identity struggles.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Greetings from Jordan's Wadi Rum desert, where patches of green emerge after winter rains

A Bedouin desert region transforms seasonally from barren sand to vibrant green vegetation after winter rains, supporting unique flora and wildlife including camels and desert truffles.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Al-Aqsa is a detonator': six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses

A six-decade status quo at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount collapsed amid arrests, bans, and far-right-backed Jewish extremist incursions, raising risk of regional unrest.
Mindfulness
fromIndependent
2 months ago

'I might not have found Jesus in Jordan, but for a moment I felt my grandparents'

Grandparents brought River Jordan water from a pilgrimage and used it for the narrator's baptism, linked to family faith and an 'angelic baby' claim.
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Long-lost rivers of the Bible point to the Garden of Eden

The Book of Genesis describes Eden as a paradise watered by a single river that split into four: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. While the Tigris and Euphrates are well-known rivers in modern-day Iraq, the Pishon and Gihon have long been lost to history, until now. The dry riverbed, called Wadi al-Batin, stretches from the western highlands of Hejaz near Medina northeast to the northern Persian Gulf near Kuwait.
Miscellaneous
fromSnowBrains
2 months ago

President Trump's Vision: Is a New Luxury Ski Resort on the Israel/Syria Border a Path to Peace in the Middle East? - SnowBrains

President Trump has proposed building a luxury ski resort on Mount Hermon that straddles the Israel-Syria border. It fits Trump's style of trying to ease conflicts and battles with incentives like bold real estate visions that would bring economic opportunities to the region instead. However, the idea faces huge practical, political, and security hurdles. For now, the luxury ski resort on Mount Hermon remains only a proposal, and has no confirmed site, no announced funding, and no construction timeline.
Snowboarding
Travel
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Greetings from Acre, Israel, where an old fortress recalls the time of the Crusades

Acre (Akko) is an ancient, multicultural coastal city with layered history and tourism curtailed by nearby conflict, hoping for visitors to return.
Travel
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The place that stayed with me: after a treacherous route through open desert, at Mina Mina I saw holiness

A hazardous 2018 expedition to Mina Mina united Warlpiri custodians, non-Indigenous companions, and a dingo amid extreme desert dangers to fulfill a long-held promise.
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