• A Palestinian vendor waits to sell pomegranate in a street near the West Bank city of Qalqilya. EPA
    A Palestinian vendor waits to sell pomegranate in a street near the West Bank city of Qalqilya. EPA
  • An Egyptian man looks from the window of his home as he smokes a cigarette in Alexandria, Egypt. Reuters
    An Egyptian man looks from the window of his home as he smokes a cigarette in Alexandria, Egypt. Reuters
  • A disabled Syrian man practices weightlifting during a sports tournament to mark the International Day for People with Disabilities, in the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib. AFP
    A disabled Syrian man practices weightlifting during a sports tournament to mark the International Day for People with Disabilities, in the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib. AFP
  • Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc talks to the media in the Paddock ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Sakhir at Bahrain International Circuit in Bahrain. Getty Images
    Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc talks to the media in the Paddock ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Sakhir at Bahrain International Circuit in Bahrain. Getty Images
  • A worker separates stigmas from a saffron flower at the first Jordanian saffron farm in Jerash, Jordan. Reuters
    A worker separates stigmas from a saffron flower at the first Jordanian saffron farm in Jerash, Jordan. Reuters
  • Niklas Lemke of Sweden plays his second shot on the sixth during Day Three of the Golf in Dubai Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Getty Images
    Niklas Lemke of Sweden plays his second shot on the sixth during Day Three of the Golf in Dubai Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Getty Images
  • Workers reinforce a section of Israel's separation barrier in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. AFP
    Workers reinforce a section of Israel's separation barrier in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. AFP
  • A Yemeni child plays with his father's crutches as he tries out a prosthetic limb at a rehabilitation center in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA
    A Yemeni child plays with his father's crutches as he tries out a prosthetic limb at a rehabilitation center in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA
  • The small Jarada Island, in Bahraini waters in the capital Manama. AFP
    The small Jarada Island, in Bahraini waters in the capital Manama. AFP
  • The Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Toufic Maatouk performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem during the Beirut Chants Festival at St. Joseph Church in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA
    The Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Toufic Maatouk performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem during the Beirut Chants Festival at St. Joseph Church in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for December 4, 2020


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World Cup final

Who: France v Croatia
When: Sunday, July 15, 7pm (UAE)
TV: Game will be shown live on BeIN Sports for viewers in the Mena region

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Starring: Josh Hartnett, Saleka Shyamalan, Ariel Donaghue

Director: M Night Shyamalan

Rating: 3/5

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Dhadak

Director: Shashank Khaitan

Starring: Janhvi Kapoor, Ishaan Khattar, Ashutosh Rana

Stars: 3

Libya's Gold

UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves. 

The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.

Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.

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What is an FTO Designation?

FTO designations impose immigration restrictions on members of the organisation simply by virtue of their membership and triggers a criminal prohibition on knowingly providing material support or resources to the designated organisation as well as asset freezes. 

It is a crime for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide “material support or resources” to or receive military-type training from or on behalf of a designated FTO.

Representatives and members of a designated FTO, if they are aliens, are inadmissible to and, in certain circumstances removable from, the United States.

Except as authorised by the Secretary of the Treasury, any US financial institution that becomes aware that it has possession of or control over funds in which an FTO or its agent has an interest must retain possession of or control over the funds and report the funds to the Treasury Department.

Source: US Department of State