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Hassan bin Youssef Yassin
Hassan bin Youssef Yassin worked closely with Saudi petroleum ministers Abdullah Tariki and Ahmed Zaki Yamani from 1959 to 1967. He headed the Saudi Information Office in Washington from 1972 to 1981, and served with the Arab League observer delegation to the UN from 1981 to 1983.
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Even Mother Earth’s fury has failed to awaken us
Mother Earth has been the archetype of generosity and graciousness for as long as our planet has existed. Like every mother, though, there is a point where we push her too far and she loses her patience.
The greatest threat to the human race is the human race itself
The history of our universe goes back 13.8 billion years to the occurrence of the Big Bang. Our relatively young planet Earth was formed “only” 4.5 billion years ago, with the first complex animals emerging 500 million years ago and homo sapiens appearing only 300,000 years ago.
World afraid to ask the difficult questions on climate change
Last weekend, unprecedented wildfires raged across the US, Europe and Australia, 28 people lost their lives in flash floods in Kentucky, and Riyadh experienced rarely seen summer flooding of extreme intensity.
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