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A member of Viktor Orban’s inner circle has resigned after the Hungarian prime minister spoke out against becoming “peoples of mixed race”. Zsuzsa Hegedus, who has known the nationalist Mr Orban for 20 years, described the speech as a “pure Nazi text”, according to Hungarian media. The International Auschwitz Committee of Holocaust survivors called the speech “stupid and dangerous”. Mr Orban’s spokesman said the media had misrepresented the comments. The speech took place on Saturday in a region of Romania which has a large Hungarian community. In it, Mr Orban said European peoples should be free to mix with one…

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was detained by police on Tuesday while participating in protests with members of his party, the Congress. They were protesting in capital Delhi while party president Sonia Gandhi was being questioned by a government agency that investigates financial crimes. She and Rahul Gandhi have been accused of misusing party funds to acquire valuable real estate through a convoluted financial deal. The Gandhis deny the allegations. They have accused the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using federal law enforcement agencies for political vendetta. This was the second time Mrs Gandhi was questioned in connection with…

BDA Center for Medical Training organized its first annual Medical Dermatology Symposium, Bahrain Jeopardy meeting. The event hosted around 70 consultants and dermatologists from Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC), in addition to health workers, laboratories and technicians. BDA organized the meeting in cooperation with Global Dermatology and was sponsored by NOVARTIS. The symposium discussed the latest developments related to skin diseases, such as vitiligo, eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis and its sensitivity, bacteria and scalp fungi, in addition to the new treatments that have been proposed for complicated dermatology diseases. A competition was organized for scientific research with the participation of dermatologists residing…

The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and Axiom Space, a US company specializing in space flights and the development of space infrastructure signed an agreement to release the first long-term mission to the International Space Station (ISS), as part of a NASA, Space-X and Crew-6 mission that will launch in spring 2023. UAE President His Highness Shaikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said the UAE is strengthening its stature in the space sector, due to its people’s determination and ambition, noting that…

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued the implementation of the water supply and environmental sanitation project for the camps of the displaced people at Hodeida Governorate in Yemen. KSrelief pumped 367,500 liters of non-drinking water and 367,500 liters of drinking water and 28 shifts dedicated to removing waste from the camps, benefiting 9,800 individuals from July 6-12, 2022, Saudi press agency (spa) reported. In Hajjah Governorate, Al-Jada Health Center Clinics have provided treatment services to beneficiaries with the support of KSrelief. The clinics and departments of Al-Jada Health Center received 2,077 beneficiaries from July 6 –…

First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport (SCYS), General Sports Authority (GSA) Chairman and Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) President, His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, received at his palace today athletes who had attained outstanding achievements in the third GCC Games, held recently in Kuwait, in addition to other sports competitions. Labour Ministry’s Undersecretary, HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, GSA’s Deputy Chairman, HH Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Bahrain Football Association Vice-President, HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Khalifa, GSA’s CEO, Dr. Abdulrahmman Sadiq Askar, and BOC Secretary-General, Faris Mustafa Al-Kooheji,…

Alibaba plans to add a primary listing in Hong Kong to its New York presence, targeting investors in mainland China as it becomes the first big company to take advantage of a rule change in the financial hub to attract high-tech Chinese firms. The e-commerce giant’s move, announced on Tuesday, comes as both Washington and Beijing sharpen scrutiny over Chinese companies’ listings, and after a devastating regulatory crackdown in China left Alibaba with a $2.8 billion fine and scuppered an initial public offering (IPO) of its affiliate Ant Group. It also comes against the backdrop of an audit dispute between China…

The Federal Reserve does not have adequate systems to counter a “malign” effort by China to gather inside information on the U.S. economy and monetary policy, according to a report that was prepared by Republican staff of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and promptly rejected by the Fed as “unfair, unsubstantiated, and unverified.” The report, which was released on Tuesday, relies heavily on information provided by the U.S. central bank itself, dating back to a 2015 internal probe of what came to be known as the “P-Network,” a group of 13 people at eight regional Fed banks whose patterns of…

Unilever Plc raised its full-year sales guidance after beating first-half underlying sales forecasts as the maker of Dove soap and Knorr stock cubes hiked prices to counter soaring costs, sending its shares up 2.9% on Tuesday. One of the biggest consumer companies in the world, with more than 400 brands ranging from detergent to ice cream, Unilever’s costs have surged since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic created global supply chain logjams. War in Ukraine has since boosted energy costs and sent prices of raw materials such as wheat, sunflower oil and pulp used in packaging to record highs. Unilever said…

President Donald Trump crossed out sentences that distanced him from the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and refused to call for their prosecution in a draft of a speech he delivered the next day, congressional testimony showed on Monday. The former Republican president deleted lines that said, “I want to be very clear: You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement,” according to an image of the script posted on Twitter by a member of the Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack, U.S. Representative Elaine Luria. He also deleted a reference to…