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A pair of fulvous whistling ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor) at Wasit Wetland CentreWasit Wetland Centre is a conservation area in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.It preserves an area of a type of wetland (sabkha or salt plain) once common along the western coastal plains of the UAE and consists of a visitor centre with viewing points to both captive and wild birds, as well as extensive areas of ...
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Sharjah is home to numerous museums and cultural sites. The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization showcases thousands of Islamic artifacts from across the globe, while the Sharjah Art Museum is the largest art museum in the UAE, housing a vast collection of works from across the Arab region.
From Boeing's turbulence and a catastrophic hurricane, to Donald Trump's election victory, "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back at key events of a year that was monumental.
A man who raped a vulnerable woman after posing as a good samaritan and luring her to his Aberdeen flat has been jailed for five years. Diego Valdivieso, 30, offered the young woman a bed at his ...
Morgan Geyser, one of the two assailants in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing case, will be released from a mental health facility, a judge ruled Thursday. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren ...
Wasit: Founded during the late 7th century, Wasit was a regional administrative centre. [ 23 ] The Marshlands of Mesopotamia : Situated around the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates , the marshlands covered a vast area in southern Iraq and were home to hundreds of thousands, before they were gradually drained from the 1950s on and shrunk ...
Wasit Governorate (Arabic: واسط, romanized: Wāsit) is a governorate in eastern Iraq, south-east of Baghdad and bordering Iran. Prior to 1976 it was known as Kut Province. Major cities include the capital Al-Kut, Al-Hai and Al-Suwaira. The governorate contains the Mesopotamian Marshes of Shuwayja, Al-Attariyah, and Hor Aldelmj.