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Podcast: Trending Middle East
Episode: Solar cars in the UAE, Iraq names new president, Lebanon approves deal — Trending
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Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world. On today's episode, the world’s first production-ready solar car, the Lightyear 0, will arrive in the UAE early next year, not long after it goes on sale in Europe at the end of 2022.
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Iraq’s Parliament elects former water resources minister Abdul Lateef Rasheed as the country’s new president, in a crucial step towards ending a political deadlock that has lasted more than a year.
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Lebanon approves a US-mediated maritime border deal with Israel. Both countries claim about 860 square kilometres of the M...