World News And Views: 14 Jumada II, 1444 A.H.

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WASHINGTON - The State Department said Thursday it has adopted Turkey’s preferred spelling for the name of the country, Turkiye, acceding to a request from the NATO ally after several months of hesitation.

The department has instructed that new official documents refer to Turkiye instead of Turkey, although the pronunciation will not change, officials said. But neither the State Department website nor the Foreign Affairs Manual, which guides US diplomatic practices, had been revised to reflect the change as of midday Thursday.

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CAIRO - An ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after US authorities determined it was looted years ago, Egyptian officials said Monday.

The repatriation is part of Egyptian government efforts to stop the trafficking of its stolen antiquities. In 2021, authorities in Cairo succeeded in getting 5,300 stolen artifacts returned to Egypt from across the world.

Mostafa Waziri, the top official at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the sarcophagus dates back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, an era that spanned the last of the Pharaonic rulers from 664 B.C. until Alexander the Great’s campaign in 332 B.C.

The sarcophagus, almost 3 meters (9.5 feet) tall with a brightly painted top surface, may have belonged to an ancient priest named Ankhenmaat, though some of the inscription on it has been erased, Waziri said.

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BEIRUT - A US-based member of Kuwait's stateless Bidoon minority, who is a poet, translator and activist, said she is "traumatised" after she was blocked from returning to see her family - a move a rights group decried as an "act of cruelty."

The case put the spotlight again on the situation of Kuwait’s so-called Bidoon community, which is largely made up of descendants of desert nomads considered stateless by the government.

The Bidoon community numbers around 120,000 of Kuwait’s population, according to unofficial estimates.

Mona Kareem, a 35-year-old Kuwaiti-born academic and activist with US citizenship, who has criticised the treatment of the Bidoon, was denied entry to Kuwait on the night of January 3-4.

The young woman was forced to leave on a flight to Beirut after an 11-hour interrogation at Kuwait International Airport during which authorities repeatedly refused to explain their decision.

Full Article:  Kuwait’s stateless back to spotlight after poet’s expulsion | MEO (...

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