The cruises that have resumed this year bode well for a good start to this new tourist season. Cruise passengers take advantage of the brief stopover of their ship to go around the souks and the Medina. However, although the risk of getting lost in the maze of the souks is real for foreign visitors, no map or plan of the Medina has been provided for those who have chosen to discover the Old City. without using a tourist guide. Insofar as the souks and the Medina are among the main tourist circuits of the City of Tunis, the town hall should promote these places by providing flyers, guides, tourist maps and by installing maps of the city and geographical indications on the main arteries to allow tourists to find their way and stroll without running the risk of getting lost.
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June 9, 2022
In a stinging attack on the two countries, the deputy speaker of the Iraqi parliament, a leader in the Sadrist movement, Hakim al-Zamili, threatened to boycott Turkish and Iranian goods if water continued to be cut off from his country.
The Iraqi official explained that Turkey has started cutting water from Iraq by 80%, while Iran has cut it off completely, that is, by 100%.
In a conference held at the Ministry of Water Resources, Thursday, he threatened, in the event of continued cutting from neighbors, to work with the House of Representatives to boycott Turkish and Iranian goods.
He also saw that political differences, non-compliance with international agreements regarding water releases, as well as the absence of laws from the government that put pressure on the two countries had caused the water cuts.
Stopping $20 billion from trade exchange
He pointed out that Iraq’s two neighbors are self-sufficient in water levels, but they insist on cutting it off from Iraq, threatening to respond by stopping 20 billion dollars of money that Iraq pays to the two countries as a trade exchange.
He also added that Baghdad would stop these funds if the water cuts continued, and would also support local factories.
In a related context, he confirmed the existence of problems in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, starting from Baghdad to the southern provinces, explaining that the citizens’ transgressions floated on the course of the two rivers.
He called on the Ministry of Materials and government agencies to pressure Turkey and Iran to reach a solution formula that would get the country out of this crisis.
The crisis is getting worse
It is noteworthy that the salinity of the water has caused, in the past years, the transformation of thousands of hectares of land into wasteland, and the admission of 100,000 people to hospitals in the summer of 2018.
During the past months, Iraq experienced a severe water crisis in a number of its cities, following the quantities of water received from Turkey and Iran decreased by a large percentage as a result of the construction of many dams and projects at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
According to government statistics, Iraq’s population of 40 million now consumes 71 billion cubic meters of water.
While in 2035 the population will reach more than 50 million, and it is expected that the surface water will decrease to 51 billion cubic meters annually following the completion of all off-border projects.
The “cabbage scandal” occupies Australia.. How did the KFC decision turn into a “national crisis”?
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The Australian Prime Minister announced that he will meet with senior officials today, Thursday, to discuss the high cost of lettuce, following a series of decisions KFC Restaurants The local replaced it with cabbage in their burgers.
Center-left leader Anthony Albanese called the fast-food chain’s decision “crazy”, saying, jokingly, that the situation had become a national “crisis”.
Lettuce prices have surged as much as 300% in Australian cities, due to recent floods and rising global fuel prices.
The price of a head of iceberg lettuce has increased from $2 to regarding $8 in Sydney and Melbourne.
As a result, KFC restaurants have informed Australian customers that they will reduce their lettuce in their products in favor of a mix that mixes evenly with cabbage and lettuce.
“Cabbage is not the same as lettuce,” Albanese told Kiss FM radio in Sydney. “This is a wrong decision.”
He added, “I will raise the issue of the ‘cabbage scandal’ on the agenda of today’s cabinet meeting.”
Johnny Depp ‘escorted’ out of hotel with coffee cup in hand (photos)
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Photos of Johnny Depp being escorted out of The Grand hotel Hotel Birmingham in England holding a coffee cup went viral this week. Security has helped the actor walked out of the building on Monday to protect him from the hordes of fans who have been following him since his trial ended last week. “Everywhere he goes he’s mobbed by fans“, explains a source to Page Six.
In the photos, the 58-year-old ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star holds a coffee mug seems in distress as they walk her out of the luxury hotel with a man holding her right arm and another standing right behind them.
According to Daily Mail, Depp and his entourage posed for photos with fans before heading to a restaurant.
Among those who participated in banquet se found the friend and musical collaborator of the star of “Edward Scissorhands“, Jeff Beck, 77 ans. While in the UK, the actor joined the guitariston stage at several of his recent concerts.
Actor Johnny Depp won a resounding legal victory over Amber Heard before an American court, even if the jurors concluded that the ex-spouses had mutually defamed each other through the press, following a bitter trial which revealed the private lives of two Hollywood celebrities.
After some 13 hours of deliberation, the seven jurors of the court of Fairfaxclose of Washington, judged that the title and two passages from an op-ed, published in 2018 by Amber Heard in the Washington Post, contained defamatory comments regarding the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star and awarded him $15 million in damages.
Clearly, these five men and two women unanimously felt that Amber Heard had issued false statements by describing herself as a victim of domestic violence, and that she had acted “with malicious intent“, even if she did not name her ex-husband in this text.
The defamation lawsuit and its broadcast on television will have an impact “potentially catastrophic“for victims of domestic violence, say women’s advocacy organizations.