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From the cherished Boxing Day traditions to colossal rivalry matches and significant clashes concluding 2023 and ushering in 2024 in grand style, the festive period offers a plethora of exciting encounters. With so much anticipation surrounding these fixtures, football enthusiasts can eagerly anticipate a thrilling and action-packed holiday season in the Premier League.

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Manchester City is beginning Club World Cup 2023 campaign against Urawa Reds in semi-final. Making their inaugural appearance at FIFA's global club tournament after securing their first UEFA Champions League title in June, Manchester City has been granted a bye to the semi-finals. On the other hand, Urawa Reds, the reigning AFC Champions League holders, are participating in their third Club World Cup, having previously claimed the third spot in 2007 and finishing fifth in 2017.

IndiGo on Thursday said its flight from Jeddah to Hyderabad was diverted to Karachi on Wednesday due to medical emergency for a passenger who was declared dead on arrival. After completing the formalities, the flight landed in Hyderabad on Thursday morning.

Malta on Saturday, with the participation of more than 65 countries — but not Russia, Maltese and Ukrainian officials said. The two-day meeting of national security delegates is the third round of such talks in recent months.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM : Within hours after a blast was said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, protesters hurled stones at Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank and at riot police in neighbouring Jordan, venting fury at their leaders for failing to stop the carnage. A significant tragedy unfolded on Tuesday after a devastating strike on a Gaza hospital. Initial death toll estimates exceeded 500.

Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was investigating reports of grim conditions for migrant workers at Amazon warehouses in the kingdom, denouncing all labour abuse and exploitation as «unacceptable». The human resources and social development ministry said in a statement to AFP that the investigation began before Amnesty International this week reported that Nepalese Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia had suffered «appalling» living conditions, on-the-job safety risks and wage theft. «Any form of labour abuse or exploitation is unacceptable and is comprehensively investigated by the relevant Saudi authorities,» the statement said. «The distressing reports outlined in this case are already the subject of an ongoing investigation.» The Amnesty report published on Tuesday drew from the accounts of 22 men who had worked in warehouses in Riyadh or the Red Sea city of Jeddah going back to 2021. The London-based human rights group accused recruitment agents and two Saudi labour supply companies of deceiving migrant workers who thought they would be employed directly by Amazon and took out steep loans to pay recruitment fees. Upon arrival in Saudi Arabia they encountered «dirty and overcrowded accommodation, sometimes infested with bed bugs» as well as «gruelling» working conditions marked by constant monitoring and inadequate rest, sometimes resulting in injury, Amnesty said. The abuses were so severe they likely amounted to "human trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation", Amnesty said. The kingdom's «kafala» sponsorship system for foreign workers meant the labourers struggled to leave the warehouse jobs and risked possible arrest for «absconding», Amnesty said, adding that «a few contemplated suicide». Saudi

Pieter Elbers, CEO, IndiGo, tells ET Now about the airline's plans going forward. Edited excerpts:ET Now: Give us an idea of the airline's expansion strategy...Pieter Elbers: Over the past five-six weeks we have added new flights from Mumbai, we have started operations from Mumbai to Nairobi. We have started Mumbai to Jakarta and as recently as this weekend we have launched flights from Delhi to Tashkent and Almaty. So we have expanded from a little over 20 destinations to 32 now.

A week ago, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sat with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Jeddah for a meeting — or more importantly photo opportunity — he intended the world to see.

A plane carrying Israelis home from the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles has made an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia before flying back to Tel Aviv

A plane carrying Israelis home from the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles has made an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia before flying back to Tel Aviv

Seychelles made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia before flying back to Tel Aviv on Tuesday, in what Israel praised as a sign of goodwill as Washington works to establish formal relations between the two countries. The Air Seychelles flight carrying 128 passengers was forced to land Monday because of an electrical malfunction. Israel's Foreign Ministry said the passengers spent the night at an airport hotel in Jeddah and were flown back by the airline on an alternate plane. Passengers described a frightening stretch of time as an acrid burnt smell filled the cabin and the pilot came over the intercom to say the plane would be forced to make an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia, a kingdom with which Israel has no air links or diplomatic ties. With dozens trapped on board and the plane idling on the tarmac, tension grew, passengers said, while Israeli officials scrambled to figure out what to do.

Mint in an exclusive interview. “Earlier, the Indian airports were merely destination airports, but today we find a rising trend of people flying from one part of the world and come to Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, and take another onward flight without really exiting into any Indian city. That trend is increasing," Vinay Malhotra, head of global sales at IndiGo, said.

Ukraine crisis has begun in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. A source from the Ukrainian delegation told Al Arabiya News that during the meeting on Saturday, the 10-point peace plan proposed by Ukraine was backed by several countries, Xinhua news agency reported.

New Delhi will participate in a peace conference aimed at the war in Ukraine hosted by Saudi Arabia this month, confirmed MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. “India will participate in this event. Our participation is in consonance with our long-standing position that dialogue and diplomacy is the way forward," he said at a press briefing.

Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit in early August seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia's war on the country, an official said. The kingdom and Kyiv did not immediately acknowledge the planned talks. The summit will be held in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as no authorization had been given to publicly discuss the summit.

Prophet Muhammad was a trader who was forced to become a raider. It happened fourteen hundred years ago, in Arabia. He was so good a trader that the richest woman in Mecca, a widow, decided to marry him.

By Kanishka Singh

Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque, calling it an "Islamophobic" act, after an international Islamic body called for measures to avoid future burnings. «The Swedish Government fully understands that the Islamophobic acts committed by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden can be offensive to Muslims,» the foreign ministry said in a statement.

A crucial meeting to repair one of the world's most important diplomatic relationships began with a fist bump Friday as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden at a royal palace.

President Joe Biden will discuss energy supply, human rights, and security cooperation in Saudi Arabia on Friday on a trip designed to restart the US relationship with a country he once pledged to make a "pariah" on the world stage.