Jeddah Pottery
Artistic Touch cafe offers artists and pottery lovers a space to share their passion or practice it with others. Open 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday to Wednesday; 5:30 p.m. to midnight on Thursday and Friday; and 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday. Cafe is located on the first floor at Ice Land Center, Al-Salamah district.
Saudi Arabia’s gaming market is currently worth SR2.6 billion (around $693 million) and is expected to grow to around $2.5 billion by 2030. Its annual growth rate is 22 percent, which is among the highest in the world.
The number of white terror suspects arrested in Britain has outstripped that of any other race for the third year in a row.
Official reports show that 89 white people were arrested on terror offenses last year, compared with 63 Asian suspects, 15 black suspects and 18 of other ethnicities.
“The proportion of white people arrested exceeded the proportion of Asian people arrested for the third consecutive year,” a Home Office document said.
“Arrests of persons of white ethnic appearance accounted for 48 per cent of arrests, up seven percentage points on the previous year. Those of Asian ethnic appearance accounted for 34 percent of terrorist-related arrests, down five percentage points.”
The total number of terror arrests in 2020 fell to 185 people, the lowest figure in nine years, though the Home Office said this could be related to the coronavirus pandemic’s restrictions on public life.
The head of UK counterterror policing has described the far right as the fastest-growing terror threat in the country, although the majority of attacks and thwarted plots are still by Islamist terrorists.
India’s ruling party on Thursday called a report which downgraded its status as a free country “biased.”
The 2021 Freedom House report, which human rights activists say reflects reality in modern India, saw the country known as the world’s largest democracy downgraded from “free” to “partly free.”
In its report, published on Wednesday, the Washington-based institute funded by the US government justified the change of India’s status by saying that civil rights in the country “have been eroding since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014.”
It cited increasing attacks against Muslims and misuse of sedition laws to curb dissent, with Modi and his party “tragically driving India itself toward authoritarianism.” India’s overall rank fell from 83 to 88 out of 211 countries listed in the report.
“The report is biased and (politically) motivated,” the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s spokesperson Sudesh Verma told Arab News. “The adverse comments come in the wake of this government asking NGOs like Amnesty to be more accountable and follow the norms of the country.”