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Rich heritage buried under impoverished Gaza Strip
While workers laboured on a large construction site in the Gaza Strip, a security guard noticed a strange piece of stone sticking out of the earth. "In Gaza, a lot of sites have disappeared because of conflict and construction, but the territory is an immense archaeological site which needs many teams of experts," he added.
Summer means suffering: how workers survive intense Gulf heat
Like millions of other migrant labourers in the Gulf, one of the world's hottest and driest regions, construction worker B. Sajay does not welcome summer. The imported labourers typically work on construction sites or collect rubbish, sweep the roads or deliver food.
Despite strong summer start, Europe's aviation industry frets
Air traffic is booming this summer, but after European vacations are over will passenger demand hold up? Some airlines, such as Ryanair, and countries, in particular Greece, have already recovered or even exceeded their 2019 daily flight numbers, according to Eurocontrol, a pan-European air traffic agency.
Inflation a thorn in the side of Bulgaria rose oil makers
Business is not a bed of roses for Bulgaria's rose oil makers these days. This year's oil will be "considerably more expensive," Plamen Stankovski, a partner at rose oil producer and exporter Bulattars, told AFP in his distillery near Pavel Banya, in Bulgaria's famed Rose Valley.
Energy shock tests G7 leaders' climate resolve
Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations will be under pressure to stick to climate pledges in Bavaria from Sunday, as Russia's energy cuts trigger a dash back to planet-heating fossil fuels. Droege said Russia's aggression in Ukraine had exposed the risks of fossil fuel dependency.
Moscow tightens economic grip on southern Ukraine
Little appears to have changed for Alexei Andrusenko, the head of a foundry in Ukraine's southern city of Berdyansk, who is happy to have kept all his staff since Moscow took control of the city.
Do signs point to an Israel-Saudi normalisation deal?
The United States has hinted that more Arab nations could take steps to improve ties with Israel, ahead of President Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East. Biden, who will also visit Israel, is to travel directly from the Jewish state to Saudi Arabia, becoming the first US president to fly from there to an Arab nation that does not recognise Israel.
Russians 'fully occupy' Severodonetsk, shift focus to Lysychansk
Russia's army has "fully occupied" the key Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk after weeks of fighting, its mayor said, as Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to send nuclear-capable missiles to Belarus within months. "The city has been fully occupied by the Russians," Mayor Oleksandr Striuk said Saturday.
Ukraine war robs India's 'Diamond City' of its sparkle
Yogesh Zanzamera lays out his bed on the floor of the factory where he works and lives, one of around two million Indians polishing diamonds in an industry being hit hard by the Ukraine war. Now, some 90 percent of the world's diamonds are cut and polished in the bustling industrial city and elsewhere in the western state of Gujarat.
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