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    'Resurrection: Ertugrul' star dies from lung cancer

    A prominent Turkish actor Ayberk Pekcan, also known as aka Artuk Bey in the popular Turkish series 'Resurrection: Ertugrul', has passed away due to lung cancer. 

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    Lebanon returns smuggled artifacts to Syria

    The Lebanese Ministry of Culture announced that it had returned 5 antiquities smuggled from the Nabu Museum to Syria, during an event held at the Beirut Museum to deliver the artifacts.

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    How Syrian architects can start to rebuild – even in the devastation of war

    The war in Syria has turned many of its cities into battlegrounds. Places like Aleppo, Homs and Raqqa have been reshaped beyond recognition by the destruction of architecture and the mass displacement of citizens.

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    How an Arabic cosmographical text ‘went viral’ in 16th-century India

    The Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence (‘Ajā’ib al-Makhlūqāt wa Gharā’ib al-Mawjūdāt) of Zakariyyā’ ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī (1203-1283) had many lives after it was first.

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    Chinese vase found in attic sells for €16.2 million

    Experts at the auction house said the exquisite porcelain vessel was made for the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong and had set a guide price of a much more modest €500,000.

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    How Pakistan is using language to deny the horrors of Partition

    The word taqseem is commonly used by Partition survivors to refer to the events of 1947. A division, a split, a rupture that gave birth to Pakistan. In English, the word Partition is part of the.

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    Director Oliver Stone rips US as ‘outlaws’ while visiting Iran

    Stone, director of politically charged factual movies such as Nixon, Looking for Fidel and Snowden, as well as classics such as Midnight Express and Platoon, went on to blame the US for much of the violence and trauma

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    Indian officials push ban on Pakistani artists

    Every day, the animosity between Indians against Pakistani artists and the Pakistani artists seems to increase. In a new wave of controversy, the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association.

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    42 Indian languages, dialects facing extinction in India

    More than 40 languages or dialects in India are considered to be endangered and is believed to be heading towards extinction as only a few thousand people speak them, officials said.

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    Rouhani gifts Modi Persian copies of Panchatantra, Mahabharata

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented an animated version of the Persian translation of the Panchatantra and a Persian copy of Mahabharata to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, 17 February.

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    Lebanon bans Spielberg's 'The Post'

    The pan-Arab body maintains a regional boycott of Israel, and blacklisted Spielberg after he donated $1m to Israel during its destructive 2006 war with Lebanon.

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    Iran's grand master wins Mumbai Chess Tournament

    Junior Iranian chess grandmaster Parham Maghsoodloo has put a brilliant end to his campaign at the third edition of IIFL Wealth 3rd Mumbai International Chess Tournament in India, and finished first.

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    Iraqi artist recreates ancient works destroyed by Islamic State

    As Iraqi forces fight to retake the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State, an artist in nearby Erbil is chiseling at clay in a tiny, unheated studio to recreate historic Assyrian monuments destroyed by the group.

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