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WORLD

Israel PM in first official trip to
SHORTS Egypt in over a decade

Saudi Arabia camel carvings
dated to prehistoric era
A series of camel sculptures carved into
rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be
the oldest large-scale animal reliefs in the
world, a study says. When the carvings were
first discovered in 2018, researchers
estimated they were created about 2,000
years ago. This was based on their similarity
to reliefs at Jordan's famous ancient city of
Petra. But a fresh study puts the camels at
between 7,000-8,000 old. Precisely ageing
rock sculptures is a challenge for The leaders of Egypt and Israel met Monday as part of the first
researchers. Unlike cave paintings, say, official trip to Egypt by an Israeli prime minister in over a
there is often no organic matter to sample. decade, and rising tensions in the Gaza Strip were at the top of
Rock art of this size is also rare in the their agenda. Gaza is sandwiched between Israel and Egypt,
region.
and both countries have enforced a border blockade of the
territory to varying degrees since 2007, when the Islamic
Philippines ‘learning crisis’ as militant group Hamas took control there. The meeting
kids face second year of remote between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Israeli
schooling Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signaled a warming in a
Classrooms in the Philippines were silent Monday relationship that had been security-focused but somewhat cool
as millions of school children hunkered down at under Bennett’s predecessor, Israeli hard-liner Benjamin
home for a second year of remote lessons that Netanyahu. El-Sissi and Bennett met in the Red Sea resort
experts fear will worsen an educational “crisis”.
President Rodrigo Duterte has so far rejected town of Sharm el-Sheikh,according to an official statement
proposals for a pilot reopening of primary and from the Egyptian presidency.
secondary schools for fear children could catch
Covid-19 and infect elderly relatives. A “blended Moderate earthquake hits
learning” programme involving online classes,
printed materials and lessons broadcast on
television and social media was launched last northwest province of Iran
October. It has been plagued with problems: most
students in the Philippines don’t have a computer A moderate earthquake has rattled a remote northwestern province
or internet at home. More than 80% of parents are in Iran on Sunday, reported an Iranian radio station. The quake hit
worried their children “are learning less”, said Isy the district of Hasahtjin, some 600 kilometers (370 miles) northwest
Faingold, UNICEF’s education chief in the
Philippines, citing a recent survey. Around two- of the capital of Tehran, in the mid afternoon. The quake measured
thirds of them support the reopening of classrooms 5.0 on the Richter scale. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
in areas where virus transmission is low. Iran is located on several seismic fault lines and is prone to
earthquakes.