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The 12th Istanbul Tango Festival will start on July 1, with an opening concert at the Sheraton-Steigenberger Hotel in Maslak. 

By Nikos Konstandaras

NASA astronaut Terry Virts had a wonderful trip over the eastern Med.  Cairo, Beirut, Cyprus and Turkey were seen by the astronaut, who didn’t forget to tweet it.

A Turkish cargo ship, which was attacked by the Libyan military off the Libya coast on May 10, was en route to the port in Tobruk with proven documents and carrying declared cargo, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç has said, dismissing allegations that the vessel had been carrying weapons and approaching the city of Derna in Libya. 

Hollywood star Salma Hayek, in her ancestral homeland Lebanon for the first time, launched the global premiere of her animated adaptation of Kahlil Gibran's celebrated novel "The Prophet" on April 27.

I happened to be in Beirut last week. It was a good chance to catch up with Lebanese and regional politics and see friends. Besides, I could follow the Armenian Genocide commemoration. It was a sad week for Lebanon to mark two tragic events, since it also marked the 40th anniversary of the Lebanese civil war. 

New rules in Lebanon, which has the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world, have left many thousands of them at risk of abuse from landlords and detention at any time, aid workers and a rights group has said. 

Move over, Cairo, Beirut and Casablanca. Dubai is on a mission to become one of the Arab world's top centers for art, design, film and fashion - areas traditionally dominated by older Arab cities outside the Gulf.

With a few days to go before the deadline of the nuclear talks with Iran, a Saudi Arabia-led coalition of forces started to hit rebel positions in Yemen in the early hours of March 26. The move came after a call by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who was forced to flee the capital Sanaa last month, losing control of large chunks of the country to the Iran-backed, mainly Shiite Houthi forces.

Former wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Saja al-Dulaimi is to be set free from the maximum security prison she is being held in just outside Beirut.