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This Beirut Family Has Sold Falafel for 100 Years, Through War and Crisis. It Has No Plan to Stop

Varieties  Ziad Tabarra, right, holds falafel sandwiches made with finely ground fava beans at his family's shop in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP)

This Beirut Family Has Sold Falafel for 100 Years, Through War and Crisis. It Has No Plan to Stop

For more than a century, the Tabbara family has been serving up falafel to Beirut’s residents. Their business, which predates Lebanon’s founding, has…

Varieties In this image made from video and provided by the Victoria State Police 17-year-old William, center right, is embraced by his mother Elizabeth, only first names were provided by police, while in a helicopter in Cowwarr, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, after William spent six days lost in eastern Australian woodlands. (Victoria Police via AP)

Missing Teen Found Alive After 6 Days in Australian Woodlands

A 17-year-old boy with autism was found alive Thursday after six days lost in eastern Australian woodlands. The boy, whom police identified only as William…

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Varieties This undated image provided by the European Space Agency on Nov. 5, 2026 and taken by the Hera spacecraft, shows asteroid Didymos. (European Space Agency via AP)

Europe’s Hera Spacecraft Begins Close Inspections of an Asteroid Rammed by NASA in a 2022 Test

A European spacecraft has begun close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA four years ago in a planetary defense test. The European Space Agency…

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Varieties Looking across vast distances means peering into the past because of the time needed for light from distant objects to reach us (Reuters)

Euclid Mission Data Release Spans More than 900 Million Galaxies

The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting Euclid telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale…

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Varieties The program also provides specialized training in organic farming, pest control, modern irrigation, and coffee cultivation - SPA

Saudi Reef: Coffee Production Reaches 7,400 Tons in 2026

The Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Program (Saudi Reef) reported that Saudi coffee production rose from 800 tons annually in 2020 to approximately…

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Varieties Celebrity Cat Runs to Be New Zealander of the Year

Celebrity Cat Runs to Be New Zealander of the Year

New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern is facing a serious competition from a celebrity cat known as Mittens for this year's New Zealander of the year award. Some…

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Varieties Cougar Captured after Wandering in Streets of Santiago

Cougar Captured after Wandering in Streets of Santiago

Local authorities announced they captured a cougar on Thursday after it was spotted wandering in the streets of Santiago. It is the sixth accident of this kind…

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Varieties French Painting Looted during WW2 Looks for Owner

French Painting Looted during WW2 Looks for Owner

A drawing by French painter Nicolas Rousseau is back in France in a bid to trace its rightful owners after it was looted during WW2. The work is currently…

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Varieties Rome Beach Awaits Baby Turtle Hatching

Rome Beach Awaits Baby Turtle Hatching

A loggerhead sea turtle has buried its eggs in the sands of a popular beach near Rome, the first time one has travelled this far north up the Italian peninsula…

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Varieties Rania Nashar Wins the Distinguished Arab Woman Award in Economics, Banking for Year 2020

Rania Nashar Wins the Distinguished Arab Woman Award in Economics, Banking for Year 2020

The Arab Women Authority announced its choice of Ms. Rania Nashar for the Distinguished Arab Woman Award in the field of economics and banking for the year…

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Varieties Chouf Cedar Reserve Immortalizes Victims of Beirut Blast

Chouf Cedar Reserve Immortalizes Victims of Beirut Blast

The Chouf Cedar Reserve allocated in 2007 around 175 cedar trees to the victims of the Lebanese army killed in the battle of Nahr al-Bared camp in the North…

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Varieties Kenyan All-Female Conservation Ranger Unit Patrols Amid COVID-19

Kenyan All-Female Conservation Ranger Unit Patrols Amid COVID-19

Purity Amleset Lakara has spent the year capturing armed poachers, running from an aggressive buffalo, and relaxing around a campfire reading "A Day Before my…

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Varieties Turkey Converts Another Former Church into Mosque

Turkey Converts Another Former Church into Mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned…

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Varieties Scientists Peer Inside Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies

Scientists Peer Inside Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies

Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a…

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Varieties Astronomers Detect Asteroid Passing at Close Distance above Earth

Astronomers Detect Asteroid Passing at Close Distance above Earth

A three to six meter-long asteroid passed 2,950 kilometers above Earth on Sunday, the closest asteroid ever observed passing by our planet, NASA said. If it…

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Varieties Space Rock Near Jupiter Might Transform Into a Comet by 2063

Space Rock Near Jupiter Might Transform Into a Comet by 2063

Like the mythical half-human, half-horse creatures, centaurs in the solar system are hybrids between asteroids and comets. Now, astronomers have caught one…

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Varieties China Floods Displace 100,000 People, Threaten World Heritage Site

China Floods Displace 100,000 People, Threaten World Heritage Site

Floods on the upper reaches of China's Yangtze River forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage…

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Varieties Orangutan Found on Palm Oil Plantation Returned to the Wild

Orangutan Found on Palm Oil Plantation Returned to the Wild

A Bornean orangutan found on an Indonesian palm plantation has been rescued and returned to the forest, a conservation group said on Wednesday, the latest…

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Varieties Khan Academy Founder's Tips for Educating Kids in Pandemic

Khan Academy Founder's Tips for Educating Kids in Pandemic

Sal Khan's first inkling that COVID-19 was going to disrupt education around the world came in February, when the popular online learning platform he created…

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Varieties Pharaohs' Mummies in Museums: Forever in the Spotlight

Pharaohs' Mummies in Museums: Forever in the Spotlight

It is not easy to ignore the mystery and magic that is induced by the pharaonic mummies and the magnificent fictional worlds that they have inspired filmmakers…

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Varieties Wuhan Pool Parties Bring Post-Coronavirus Relief in China

Wuhan Pool Parties Bring Post-Coronavirus Relief in China

For more than two months, the 11 million residents of Wuhan endured a strict lockdown as coronavirus raced around the city in central China. Now, some are…

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Varieties Small Asteroid Becomes Closest Ever Seen Passing Earth

Small Asteroid Becomes Closest Ever Seen Passing Earth

An asteroid the size of an SUV passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above Earth, the closest asteroid ever observed passing by our planet, NASA said Tuesday. …

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Varieties Dubai Seeks to Break World Record of Largest Canvas

Dubai Seeks to Break World Record of Largest Canvas

Dubai Cares, part of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, in partnership with world-renowned artist Sacha Jafri, has launched the "Humanity…

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Varieties Jellyfish-Like Sprite Makes Surprising Appearance in Sky

Jellyfish-Like Sprite Makes Surprising Appearance in Sky

If you've ever looked up during a thunderstorm and glimpsed a red jellyfish sitting high in the sky, you weren't hallucinating. These tentacle-like spurts of…

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Varieties Intense Heatwave Hits Japan

Intense Heatwave Hits Japan

The mercury hit 41.1 degrees Celsius in the Japanese central city of Hamamatsu on Monday, tying with the highest temperature recorded in 2018, as a heatwave…

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Varieties South African Smokers Empty Shops of Cigarettes after Ban Lifted

South African Smokers Empty Shops of Cigarettes after Ban Lifted

In the latest wave of panic-buying triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, South African smokers on Tuesday snapped up all the cigarettes they could lay their…

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Varieties Peking Duck Chain Urges Diners to Eat Less as China Fights Food Waste

Peking Duck Chain Urges Diners to Eat Less as China Fights Food Waste

At popular Peking roast duck restaurant chain Quanjude in Beijing, staff have been passing on a new message to diners: do not order more than you can eat. …

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Varieties National Zoo Awaits Birth of Pandemic Panda Cub

National Zoo Awaits Birth of Pandemic Panda Cub

Zookeepers at Washington’s National Zoo are on furry black-and-white baby watch after concluding that venerable giant panda matriarch Mei Xiang is pregnant and…

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Varieties Snowing Cocoa? Chocolate Factory Glitch Dusts Swiss Town

Snowing Cocoa? Chocolate Factory Glitch Dusts Swiss Town

Residents of a Swiss town got a bit of a shock when it started snowing particles of a fine cocoa powder after the ventilation system at a chocolate factory…

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