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Suhail Akram

Suhail Akram

Multimedia Journalist
Suhail Akram joined The National as Multimedia Producer in 2018. Prior to this, he worked with AJ+, first as a South Asia Fellow and then as a Producer, based out of New Delhi and Doha. He has worked with BBC as a Monitoring Journalist, South Asia and with DD News as a correspondent and news presenter.

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Crowds of people waiting in the taxi line at Dubai International Airport in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Long queues at Dubai airport after people return from Eid holidays

Additional retractable barriers were set up inside the arrivals terminal as thousands of people waited to exit the airport

TransportMay 08, 2022
FILE PHOTO: Kami Rita Sherpa, a Nepali mountaineer, waves towards media in Kathmandu, Nepal May 25, 2019. Kami Rita summited Mount Everest on May 7, 2022, for a record 26th time, beating his own record set last year, REUTERS / Navesh Chitrakar / File Photo
Nepali Sherpa climbs Everest 26th time and breaks his own record again

Kami Rita Sherpa, 52, scaled the 8,848.86-meter mountain on Saturday along the traditional south-east ridge leading 10 other Sherpa climbers

AsiaMay 08, 2022
A bus carrying civilians evacuated from Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol arrives at a temporary accommodation centre in the village of Bezimenne, during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine May 6, 2022. REUTERS / Alexander Ermochenko
Civilians evacuated from Mariupol steel plant

Weeks of Russian bombardment have left Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Azov Sea, in ruins and the steel mill has been largely destroyed

EuropeMay 08, 2022
Cars drive along a street at the Al-Firdus square shrouded in heavy dust in central Baghdad, Iraq, 01 May 2022. The dust storm sent hundreds of people with respiratory problems to Baghdad's hospitals and reduced visibility in the city, making driving difficult on the roads. EPA / AHMED JALIL
Why does Iraq keep getting clouded under severe dust storms?

In 2016, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that by 2026 Iraq could suffer 300 dust events a year

IraqMay 05, 2022
Cars drive on a road amidst a sandstorm, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
Dust storm in Iraq grounds flights and sends people to hospitals with respiratory problems

Sandstorms are becoming more frequent owing to drought and climate change

IraqMay 05, 2022
BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA - MAY 04: Meta employees stand in the showroom during a media preview of the new Meta Store on May 04, 2022 in Burlingame, California. Meta is set to open its first physical retail store on May 9. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP
A look inside Facebook-owner Meta's first physical retail store in California

Meta Store opens May 9

TechnologyMay 05, 2022
A handout photo made available by NASA shows NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins speaking to members of the media after arriving at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with fellow crewmates NASA astronauts Robert Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti ahead of SpaceX’s Crew-4 mission, in Florida, USA, 18 April 2022. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission is the fourth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Lindgren, Hines, Watkins, and Cristoforetti are scheduled to launch at April 23 at 5:26 a. m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. EPA / NASA / Joel Kowsky HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDIT: (NASA / Joel Kowsky) HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY / NO SALES EPA-EFE / NASA / Joel Kowsky HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDIT: (NASA / Joel Kowsky) HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY / NO SALES
Nasa astronaut Jessica Watkins becomes first black woman to be launched to space station

Four Nasa astronauts launched by SpaceX arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday night

USApril 28, 2022
Injeel Moti, a PR executive rents a loft apartment in JVC as she needed more space to work from home. My Dubai Rent. Antonie Robertson/The National
What it's like to live in a loft apartment in Dubai's Jumeirah Village Circle

Injeel lives in the one-bed apartment with her two cats

UAEApril 28, 2022
(FILES) In this file photo Muslim pilgrims gather at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 7, 2019, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city. - Saudi Arabia on April 9, 2022 said it will permit one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate in this year's hajj, a sharp uptick after pandemic restrictions forced two years of drastically pared-down pilgrimages. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Rain greets worshippers in Makkah on Laylat Al Qadr, or the night of destiny

It's the night when the Quran was revealed to the Prophet.

RamadanApril 28, 2022
DGrade's recycling factory in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD).
This factory in the UAE can recycle 1 billion plastic bottles a year

DGRade's new factory recycles polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into sustainable clothing and recycled food packaging

EnvironmentApril 27, 2022
French President and La Republique en Marche (LREM) party candidate for re-election Emmanuel Macron (L) kisses the hand of Egyptian opera singer Farrah El Dibany after his victory in France's presidential election, at the Champ de Mars in Paris, on April 24 , 2022. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)
Egyptian soprano Farrah El Dibany performs at Macron's victory event

The mezzo-soprano performed the French national anthem

EuropeApril 25, 2022
In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, from left; U. S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a picture during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Blinken in Kyiv says US will return its diplomats to Ukraine

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also announced that Bridget Brink would be the new US ambassador to Ukraine

USApril 25, 2022
Father. Liubomyr Fylypchak and Ukrainian residents after the Easter mass held at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Abu Dhabi. Pawan Singh / The National
Ukrainians in the UAE mark Orthodox Easter and pray for war to end

The service was held at St Joseph's Cathedral in Abu Dhabi

UAEApril 25, 2022
An aerial view shows damaged buildings, amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, in Mariupol, Ukraine in this handout picture taken with a drone released April 24, 2022. Azov/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT.
Aerial footage shows scale of destruction in Mariupol

Russia controls nearly all of the city although Ukraine 'continues to resist'

EuropeApril 24, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seen ahead of a press conference in a city subway under a central square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo / Efrem Lukatsky)
Zelenskyy asks God to 'save all Ukrainians' in new Easter video

In the video, released on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv

EuropeApril 24, 2022
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