Trump defends war with Iran despite election defeat
US President Donald Trump conceded on Wednesday that rising fuel prices caused by the Iran war were one reason for the defeat of Republicans in the midterm elections, but defended his decision to attack Iran. Trump told journalists in Washington that he agreed with the assessment of his Vice President JD Vance, who had described the war as the reason for the election defeat. At the same time, he defended his decision to go to war with Iran, saying if he were faced with the same choice again,...
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A week of Muscatian encounters with people, in real life and on screen, as shared by the writer whose name many Omanis often pronounce as 'Bridge'. Wednesday, November 4 – “I am an oncologist,” she explained, sitting cross-legged on the living-room floor in her black abaya. The Omani woman and her friend, also a doctor, had come to pay their respects after their colleague’s mother had just passed away. Except for the lady doctor, most of us were sitting on chairs arranged in...
There are moments in a researcher’s life that quietly reshape the way history is understood. They arrive without ceremony, revealing themselves only through experience. One such moment came when I entered the Bristol Archives expecting to consult only a handful of documents relating to the history of the Sultanate of Oman. Several minutes later,...
An elegant woman gazes out from her portrait with expressive eyes, a gilded wreath worn in her hair and a gentle, questioning look on her face. She is one of the 2,000-year-old “Faces of Fayum”, startlingly realistic funerary — or mummy — portraits painted after Egypt became part of the Roman Empire. The fragile portraits, dating from the...
