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GEA Organizes Entertainment, Comedy Shows at Jeddah Season

One of the events at the Jeddah Season festival. (SPA)
One of the events at the Jeddah Season festival. (SPA)
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GEA Organizes Entertainment, Comedy Shows at Jeddah Season

One of the events at the Jeddah Season festival. (SPA)
One of the events at the Jeddah Season festival. (SPA)

The General Entertainment Authority (GEA) is organizing several theatrical performances and comedy shows as part of its participation in the Jeddah Season, reported the Saudi Press Agency Monday.

The comedy events will kick off in Obhur with the "Three Days on the Coast" play, starring Egyptian comedian Mohammed Henedi, from June 26 to 29, while "It's All Wrong", a play starring Egyptian comedian Ashraf Abdel Baqi, will be held from July 10 to 13.

The comedy activities will continue from June 10 to July 18 at Al-Shallal Theme Park with the Saudi Comedy Club touring through an Artology exhibition featuring a group of local, Arab and international comedians. They will present a range of performances, including a stand-up challenge, the "Saudi Cinderella" show, international stand-up comedy shows and comedy musicals.

Comedians Talal Al Sheiki, Mohammed Sultan, Abdulrahman Al Somali and Abdulkhaleq bin Rafea are set to feature at the events.

Comedy lovers will also be delighted by the show organized by XJed at the Jeddah Waterfront and presented by the Laugh Factory, the number 1 comedy club in the United States, from June 23 to July 18.

Through these events, GEA underlines its constant efforts to provide an exceptional experience for visitors of the Jeddah Season and to bolster Saudi Arabia’s standing in the entertainment sector.

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Air Pollution from Fires Linked to 1.5 Million Deaths a Year

The study was released a week after Ecuador declared a national emergency due to forest fires. Galo Paguay / AFP/File
The study was released a week after Ecuador declared a national emergency due to forest fires. Galo Paguay / AFP/File
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Air Pollution from Fires Linked to 1.5 Million Deaths a Year

The study was released a week after Ecuador declared a national emergency due to forest fires. Galo Paguay / AFP/File
The study was released a week after Ecuador declared a national emergency due to forest fires. Galo Paguay / AFP/File

Air pollution caused by fires is linked to more than 1.5 million deaths a year worldwide, the vast majority occurring in developing countries, a major new study said on Thursday.
This death toll is expected to rise in the coming years as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense, according to the study in The Lancet journal.
The international team of researchers looked at existing data on "landscape fires", which include both wildfires that rage through nature and planned fires such as controlled burns on farming land.
Around 450,000 deaths a year from heart disease were linked to fire-related air pollution between 2000 and 2019, the researchers said.
A further 220,000 deaths from respiratory disease were attributed to the smoke and particulates spewed into the air by fire, AFP said.
From all causes around the world, a total of 1.53 million annual deaths were associated with air pollution from landscape fires, according to the study.
More than 90 percent of these deaths were in low and middle-income countries, it added, with nearly 40 percent in sub-Saharan Africa alone.
The countries with the highest death tolls were China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria.
A record amount of illegal burning of farm fields in northern India has been partly blamed for noxious smog that has recently been choking the capital New Delhi.
The authors of the Lancet study called for "urgent action" to address the huge death toll from landscape fires.
The disparity between rich and poor nations further highlights "climate injustice", in which those who have contributed the least to global warming suffer from it the most, they added.
Some of the ways people can avoid smoke from fires -- such as moving away from the area, using air purifiers and masks, or staying indoors -- are not available to people in poorer countries, the researchers pointed out.
So they called for more financial and technological support for people in the hardest-hit countries.
The study was released a week after UN climate talks where delegates agreed to a boost in climate funding that developing countries slammed as insufficient.
It also came after Ecuador declared a national emergency over forest fires that have razed more than 10,000 hectares in the country's south.
The world has also been battered by hurricanes, droughts, floods and other extreme weather events during what is expected to be the hottest year in recorded history.