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Two seemingly unrelated media spectacles have caused substantial hubbub in Arab culture over the past month. The first was an enormous controversy ignited by the inclusion of American comedians in the Riyadh Season. On a more regionally relevant level, the second was the unanticipated return of Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef to Egyptian TV. Both events were framed by optimistic pundits as the dawn of a new era of loosening censorship in two of the most autocratic countries in the region. Seen within the larger economic context of both nations, however, the picture looks far more muddled. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch…
A new kind of pressure dawns for Man CityMan City vs Man Utd, Saturday, 1.30pm Something in the air changes when you’re top of the pile and after Chelsea’s draw at Arsenal last weekend, Man City have turned from the chaser to the chased.Now we find out how serious their title credentials are with the pressure already rising and as they take on the final of their realistic competitors for the league crown, as well as their cross-town rivals, and the side with the second-tightest defence in the division.But collectively, Man City’s forwards have found the net 15 times this…
Nov 14, 2025, 06:00 AM ETThe video assistant referee (VAR) causes controversy every week, but how are decisions made and are they correct?This season, we take a look at the major incidents to examine and explain the process both in terms of the VAR protocol and the laws of the game.All screenshots photo credit: TUDN Andy Davies (@andydaviesref) is a former Select Group referee, with over 12 seasons on the elite list, working across the Premier League and Championship. With extensive experience at the elite level, he has operated within the VAR space in the Premier League and offers a…
It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro Bay.The center’s experts were able to determine that the calls — which sounded almost like a human baby screeching — were coming from a roughly 2-week-old sea otter pup that had been separated from its mother. That could be deadly for young sea otters, according to Shayla Zink, who works at the center in Morro Bay. “That pup is really relying on everything it learns from…
Nov 14, 2025, 05:21 AM ETLONDON — Eberechi Eze likened Thomas Tuchel and Mikel Arteta’s intensity levels and has hailed the impact they have had on his game.The Arsenal forward came off the bench on Thursday to add gloss to England’s win over Serbia with a sumptuous finish from just inside the box. It was Eze’s third goal for his country, and the second game in succession that he has scored in.He has been a part of every England squad since Tuchel’s reign began in January and since his move to Arsenal in the summer, has become an influential member…
On April 14, Texas’ oldest operating rural hospital gave way to its newest.Olney Hamilton Hospital had been serving this small town, 100 miles west of Fort Worth, for more than a century, bearing witness to generations of births, deaths and everything in between, while struggling to survive amid the slow hollowing out of rural health care in Texas.But, thanks to a windfall from nearby wind farms, the hospital was getting a once-in-a-generation opportunity to replace the aging building and outdated technology with a modern, updated facility.Community leaders and hospital employees gathered on a stretch of grass across from the old…
DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president announced on Friday that her administration has formed an inquiry commission to probe killings that occurred during election protests last month, and said she had ordered the release of some of the arrested youths.During her first parliamentary address since the election, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Friday that the commission would look into issues that led to the unrest and help inform the reconciliation and peace efforts the government was planning to undertake. The U.N. human rights chief, Volker Türk, had called for a probe into the killings and the alleged concealing of evidence.Young…
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Andrea Gibson would be the first to tell you that they never expected a documentary about their life with a terminal cancer diagnosis to be funny. No one did. But Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who died in July at age 49, also didn’t expect to see the film at all. They weren’t alone in that either. Three years after the ovarian cancer diagnosis, life was day-by-day.Yet by some miracle Gibson was able to see “Come See Me in the Good Light,” to look at a living document of their life over the…
Iman Beney has come a long way since having to travel three hours to attend training sessions as a 12-year-old in native Switzerland. A standout performer at last summer’s Euros, the 19-year-old is now the Women’s Super League’s latest breakout star, helping to lift Manchester City to the top of the table, a point ahead of Chelsea. Andree Jeglertz’s side have won each of their last seven league matches, their longest winning streak since 2023. Swiss youngster Beney has become a key contributor, earlier than perhaps even she anticipated, following injuries to Kerolin and Lauren Hemp in the first part…
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The top court in the Central African Republic on Friday cleared President Faustin Archange Touadera to run in December’s election, a contest that will unfold amid a deepening security crisis and the leader’s growing reliance on Russia for protection.The Central African Republic’s constitutional court approved Touadera’s candidacy alongside prominent opposition leader Anicet Georges Dologuélé and five other candidates for the Dec. 28 vote.The court rejected a recent petition that sought to disqualify Touadera on the grounds of not meeting the criteria for running for the presidency.Touadera, who has led the country since 2016 and…