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                                                                           Source  arabnews.com   Metal music is crucial to Saudi Arabia's cultural rebirth. JEDDAH: A sizable audience cheered and sang along with Saudi metal band Immortal Pain during their loud and energetic performance at Comic Con Arabia in Jeddah. The band performed for the second time at the event on Friday night. Since late 2005, they have been a part of the rock and metal scene, initially consisting of two members and then expanding to two. Lead guitarist Rasheed Attar and rhythm guitarist Emad Ashoor formed the band together, according to a prior interview with Arab News. Later, bassist Anan Al-Sabban and drummer Moayad Al-Shammari joined the group, and they just inked a deal with Sa...

Source reuters.com  More than 2% decline in oil prices is caused by investors' skepticism about OPEC+ measures. December 1, New York (Reuters) - Due to market doubts regarding the extent of OPEC+ production cutbacks and worries about the slowdown in global manufacturing, oil prices fell by more than 2% on Friday. At $78.88 a barrel, Brent crude futures for February ended the day down $1.98, or 2.45%. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures for the United States fell $1.89, or 2.49%, to $74.07 per barrel. Brent saw a weekly loss of roughly 2.1%, while WTI saw a loss of more than 1.9%. On Thursday, members of OPEC+ reached a decision to withdraw almost 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil from the world market in the first quarter of 2019. This amount includes the rollover of Saudi Arabia's and Russia's present voluntary cuts of 1.3 million bpd. The announcement was met with some suspicion by traders, according to Craig Erlam, analyst at OANDA. "(It) seems traders ...

                                                            Source Theathletic.com Milan is being criticized by Paolo Maldini for having "no real respect for club's identity and history.  In his first interview since being ousted as technical director in the summer, Milan icon Paolo Maldini charged that the team had "no real respect for Milan’s identity and history." The five-time Champions League champion, whose father, Cesare, and son, Daniel, were players for the team, claimed in an interview with La Repubblica that owner Gerry Cardinale's explanations for sacking him were "a little weak." "Cardinale informed me and (former sporting director of Milan, Ricky Massara) that we were let go," Maldini remarked. When I questioned him about it, he said that I didn't get along well with (CEO Giorgio) Furlani. "...

                                                                                       Source Reuters Cold War-era leading US diplomat Henry Kissinger passes away at the age of 100. Nov. 29 (Reuters) - Henry Kissinger, the leading American diplomat of the Cold War era, passed away at the age of 100. Kissinger was despised by opponents of human rights but helped Washington open up to China, negotiate arms control agreements with the Soviet Union, and end the Vietnam War. Kissinger, a Jewish refugee from Germany whose career took him from academia to diplomacy and who continued to be an influential figure in foreign affairs into his later years, passed away at home on Wednesday, according to his geopolitical consulting firm, Kissinge...

 Negotiations for a Gaza truce are overshadowed by news of the death of an Israeli hostage family. Written by Mohammed Salem, Maayan Lubell, and Nidal Al-Mughrabi GMT+7 November 29, 20239:46 PM23 minutes ago November 29, 2014 (Reuters) - An unfounded claim by Hamas that a 10-month-old Israeli captive and his family had died cast a shadow over last-minute talks between Israel and Hamas to prolong the Gaza truce on Wednesday. The armed branch of Hamas announced just before the truce's last release of women and children that the youngest hostage, infant Kfir Bibas, together with his mother and four-year-old brother Ariel, had perished in an earlier Israeli bombardment. Their father has been detained as well. The family was among the most well-known civilian hostages to be released, so Israel said it was investigating the potentially explosive accusation. The Hamas statement could not be independently verified by Reuters. After the parents and kids were left out of the penultimate grou...

 Elon Musk visits Israel and meets with Netanyahu Despite being accused of anti-Semitism, the software billionaire has expressed support for Israel's war against Hamas.                                                                       Source ALJAZEERA | November 28, 2023 Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing support for Israel's battle against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and touring a kibbutz that was attacked on October 7 by Palestinian terrorists. The visit takes place in the midst of controversy for Musk, who recently provoked outrage by labeling as "the actual truth" an anti-Semitic social media post that promoted the conspiracy theory that progressive Jews are helping to "replace" white people in the West with immigrants fr...

                                                                                  Source AL JAZEERA  Diplomatic race as the Israel-Gaza truce's expiration approaches As Israel and Hamas state their demands for an extension, the US president says his intention is to keep the truce in place longer. November 27, 2023  Negotiations were intense as the Israel-Gaza war truce approached its last day. The need of extending the four-day ceasefire in the war, which is scheduled to expire on Monday, was emphasised in statements from Israel, Hamas, the United States, and other parties that were released overnight and into the morning. The two sides are getting ready for the fourth captive-prison swap while they continue their diplomatic campaign. I...