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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller
Charles Elachi's stellar career from Bekaa to the great beyondA remarkable journey has taken him from a village in Lebanon to the launch of 24 missions at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the golden age of space exploration
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller |Sarwat Nasir
UAE plays an uplifting role in 'big league' of space race, says ex-Nasa directorAs the US phases down its space stations role, the opportunity for Gulf-backed commercial outposts is emergingYour round-up of the stories shaping tomorrow’s world By signing up, I agree to The National's privacy policy
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller
Lebanese-American doctor says he has found his 'why' delivering healing to those who need it most as the international chief medical officer for Mercy Ships
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller
On a mission: How former ICRC chief Robert Mardini found hope even in the darkest of timesThe Lebanese-Swiss humanitarian ended a long career at the International Committee of the Red Cross with the same pride and passion he felt on joining as a young engineer three decades ago. Now, he is preparing for the next challenge
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jacqueline Fuller
The range of children's toys on offer come Christmas can be overwhelming, but, luckily, we're here to help. From Nintendo games to personalised dolls, we've put our mini-testers to work to find 13 gifts sure to prove a hit. One fearsome creature with fiery breath (batteries included). Warn away super-villains with your bell. Easy to fold and lock, and with flashing lights on the footplates. Complete with paired animals, loading ramp – and even trees. It walks, it meows, it curls its tail.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller
Soon after the bell sounded to end Ramla Ali’s second professional fight, the Somali-born boxer was in a room behind the ring at the SSE Arena in Wembley crying dejectedly. The tears were not because she lost. She didn’t. Nor were they because a doctor was stitching a nasty cut – her first ever – that opened up in the fifth round above her left eye. “I was crying because I thought my face was not going to look the same ever again,” Ali tells The National. "Nothing to do with the pain.
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May 3, 2023 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller
The Chelsea Flower Show was just some annual event that happened in London as far as Khaled Azzam was concerned, until the day he answered a call from the heir to the throne. Prince Charles, inspired by two antique Turkish rugs at his residence in Gloucestershire, was on the phone with an unusual brief: “I want you to work with me to design a garden.”“I thought it was fabulous,” Azzam tells The National. “I’d never designed a garden before in my life so I went to see him at Highgrove House.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
thenationalnews.com | Jacqueline Fuller
Hafida Latta had completely forgotten about an invitation impulsively extended to some Dutch ladies on a train until they turned up at her front door in the Tunisian city of Kairouan months later carrying the address in her handwriting. The women, intrigued by the young girl’s description, couldn’t resist coming to see for themselves the network of rooftops that women used to visit each other, rather than the city streets below.
