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23 Feb 2023; MEMO: The 16th edition of Art Dubai, Middle East's leading international art fair, will take place between 1-5 March in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The fair will donate 50 per cent of all online ticket sales to earthquake relief efforts in Syria and Turkiye.

The organisation had also donated 25 per cent of ticket sales from its 2022 event to Ukrainian refugees.

Washington, Oct 5 (PTI) President Joe Biden has nominated US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy to serve as the country's representative on the executive board of the World Health Organisation.

Dr Murthy, 45, will serve in the new position alongside his continued duties as the US Surgeon General, the White House said in a statement.

22 June 2022; MEMO: Tanzania's Maasai people have faced a violent crackdown from police over the past two weeks, amid plans to evict them from their ancestral homeland in parts of the Serengeti National Park to make way for trophy hunting and conservation zones.

Human rights organisations and the Maasai people have accused Tanzanian police of using teargas, live bullets and beating protestors who oppose the planned development in the Ngorongoro district near the village of Ololosokwani.

245 March 2022; MEMO: On the sidelines of Mosul's Traditional Music Festival, an Arabic calligraphy exhibition draws visitors to Mosul's museum, a cultural institution that had been looted and damaged by Daesh, Reuters reports.

Visitors gathered in Mosul's museum on Thursday (24 March) for the opening of a calligraphy exhibition entitled 'The Rhythm of Letters' by Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, an Iraqi calligrapher.

16 Feb 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's International Antalya Sand Sculpture Festival will take place for the 17th time in 2022, with the theme of outer space, Anadolu News Agency reports.

As preparations are in full swing for the festival in the resort city of Antalya which attracts many local and foreign visitors, festival Director, Cem Karaca, told Anadolu Agency that this year it will focus on space-human interaction and sand sculptures will reflect humanity's effort to reach space.

30 Oct 2021; MEMO: A rare painting of Hurrem Sultan, known in the Wests as Roxelana, was sold at a London auction on Wednesday for $173,000, Anadolu Agency reported.

The sale came as part of an auction called 'Arts of the Islamic World & India' by Sotheby's, one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles.

Kanpur: Amid an outbreak of dengue cases in various districts, Dr MK Saraogi said that Single Donor Platelet (SDP) machines can help dengue patients get early access to platelets.

Every hospital has single donor platelet (SDP) machine nowadays. This machine makes easier to donate platelet for the donor at the fastest time.

Lauding the efforts of the UP government Dr Sarogi said: "A donor can donate the platelets at a faster pace with the help of this advanced machine."

Guwahati, Jul 19 (PTI) The Assam government on Monday announced that no public congregation will be allowed in the state on Eid in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

State Health Minister Keshab Mahanta urged the people to celebrate the festival at their homes.

Prayers at mosques will be allowed with a maximum of five persons, he said.

Eid ul-Adha will be celebrated in the state on Wednesday.

LONDON (AP) — After Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and his wife received two doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in Nigeria, they assumed they would be free to travel this summer to a European destination of their choice. They were wrong.

The couple — and millions of other people who have been vaccinated through a U.N.-backed effort — could find themselves barred from entering many European and other countries because those nations don’t recognize the Indian-made version of the vaccine for travel.

Udhagamandalam (TN), Jun 8 (PTI) Swabs of 28 captive elephants at a camp in the district on Tuesday have been taken for testing, days after a lioness succumbed to COVID-19 and nine others in the pride tested positive for the infection at a Zoo in Chennai.

Forest minister K Ramachandran ordered samples to be collected from all the elephants and send them to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute at Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh for testing, forest department sources said.