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NEOM Scholarship Students Prepare for Academic Year in US Universities

NEOM Scholarship Students Prepare for Academic Year in US Universities
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NEOM Scholarship Students Prepare for Academic Year in US Universities

NEOM Scholarship Students Prepare for Academic Year in US Universities

Around 50 male and female students, recipients of the NEOM Scholarship Program, will begin their academic journey at American universities to obtain their bachelor degrees after completing their freshman year at Fahad Bin Sultan University in Tabuk Province.

Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Tabuk, praised the scholarship’s recipients in a meeting on Wednesday and told them that they made everyone in Saudi Arabia proud, especially Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who always dreamt of this moment and who has always strived to intertwine the projects that he launched to the benefit of the Saudi people.

Nadhmi Al-Nasr, CEO of NEOM, stressed that the students and recipients of the NEOM scholarship are responsible, persistent, in addition to having a sense of national belonging and a sense of responsibility to their fellow countrymen.

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Syria Seeks EU Help to Battle Massive Wildfires

FILE : A fire burns at a forest in Latakia province, Syria in this handout released by SANA on October 9, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS
FILE : A fire burns at a forest in Latakia province, Syria in this handout released by SANA on October 9, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS
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Syria Seeks EU Help to Battle Massive Wildfires

FILE : A fire burns at a forest in Latakia province, Syria in this handout released by SANA on October 9, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS
FILE : A fire burns at a forest in Latakia province, Syria in this handout released by SANA on October 9, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS

Syria’s minister of emergencies and disaster management on Tuesday requested support from the European Union to battle wildfires that have swept through a vast stretch of forested land.

The fires have been burning for six days, with Syrian emergency crews struggling to bring them under control amid strong winds and severe drought.

Neighboring countries Jordan, Lebanon and Türkiye have already dispatched firefighting teams to assist in the response.

“We asked the European Union for help in extinguishing the fires,” minister Raed al-Saleh said on X, adding Cyprus was expected to send aid on Tuesday, AFP reported.

“Fear of the fires spreading due to strong winds last night prompted us to evacuate 25 families to ensure their safety without any human casualties,” he added.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) office in Syria, the fires impacted “some 5,000 persons, including displacements, across 60 communities.”

An estimated 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) of forest and farmland -- more than three percent of Syria’s forest cover -- have burned, OCHA told AFP.

At least seven towns in Latakia province have been evacuated as a precaution.

Efforts to extinguish the fires have been hindered by “rugged terrain, the absence of firebreaks, strong winds, and the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance”, Saleh said.

With man-made climate change increasing the likelihood and intensity of droughts and wildfires worldwide, Syria has also been battered by heatwaves and low rainfall.

In June, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Syria had “not seen such bad climate conditions in 60 years.”