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San Juan Islands, Washington. Photo by Rosemary Behan

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On the move: Passage to Alaska, part 2: raw nature

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Emirates adds 10,000 seats to Jeddah this Umrah season

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Fyre Festival promoter awaiting sentencing is arrested again 
A luxury suite balcony on a beach view room at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa. Courtesy Nikki Beach Resort & Spa

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Travel briefs: Four hotels going plastic-free
Budapest's Matthias Church and the statue of the first Hungarian king, St Istvan (Stephan), on top of the hill of Buda Palace. Attila Kisbenedek / AFP Photo

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24 hours in Budapest: Your guide to Hungary's capital
A superior room at Grand Millennium Al Wahda in Abu Dhabi. Grand Millennium Al Wahda

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Five last-minute staycation offers for Eid Al Fitr 

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Hotel Insider: The Residence Zanzibar
Football fans should visit the Caucasus mountains in Sochi while in town for a match. Getty 

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The World Cup in Russia: key spots to visit between matches
Southend Pier Cultural Centre is seen in the foreground. View Pictures / UIG via Getty Images

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Emirates to London Stansted: 7 things you can do in the area
The Japanese city of Osaka at dusk. Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg

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Emirates to start daily A380 service to Osaka
The Address Hotel Downtown Dubai is now open again for overnight stays. Emaar Hospitality Group

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The Address Downtown hotel reopens two years after fire
The RAK shuttle service takes tourist from DXB to RAK. Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority

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Ras Al Khaimah-Dubai shuttle service will be free this summer
Etihad will begin direct services to Barcelona, Spain, from November 21, 2018. Courtesy GoLearnTo

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Etihad launches new route to Barcelona
Southend Pier Cultural Centre is seen in the foreground. View Pictures / UIG via Getty Images

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Emirates to London Stansted: 7 things you can do in the area
The Japanese city of Osaka at dusk. Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg

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Emirates to start daily A380 service to Osaka
The Address Hotel Downtown Dubai is now open again for overnight stays. Emaar Hospitality Group

TRAVEL

The Address Downtown hotel reopens two years after fire
The RAK shuttle service takes tourist from DXB to RAK. Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority

TRAVEL

Ras Al Khaimah-Dubai shuttle service will be free this summer
Etihad will begin direct services to Barcelona, Spain, from November 21, 2018. Courtesy GoLearnTo

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Etihad launches new route to Barcelona
You can now check in for Flydubai flights from the comfort of your own home. Natalie Naccache / Bloomberg

TRAVEL

Flydubai launches its own home baggage check-in and delivery service
The Hyatt Capital Gate hotel - soon to be Andaz Capital Gate - is housed in the Capital Gate building in Abu Dhabi, which is tilted at an angle of 18 degrees. Courtesy Hyatt Capital Gate

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Hyatt Capital Gate to be rebranded as an Andaz hotel later this year
King's College and The Backs, Cambridge. Courtesy www.visitcambridge.org

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Your guide to spending 24 hours in Cambridge
Olympic National Park, Washington State. Rosemary Behan

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On the move: passage to Alaska, part 1: signals fade
The hotel is located in the heart of the Dubai Creek district at the entrance to Al Seef Courtesy Jumeirah Group

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Zabeel House hotel opens on the banks of Dubai Creek
The Imperial room. Courtesy Rome Cavalieri

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Hotel Insider: Rome Cavalieri, Waldorf Astoria Resort
Etihad Airways will begin its second daily A380 service to Paris Charles de Gaulle from October 1, 2018. Etihad Airways. AFP

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Etihad's A380 fleet the only way to Paris from Abu Dhabi from October
The tented rooms have nice big sitting areas. Sharjah Collection By Mantis

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Sharjah now home to a luxury tented resort - in pictures 
The key to surviving economy class is to bag a good seat and fill up sections of time with different activities. Photo by Mark Nolan/Getty Images

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On the move: a survivor's guide to long-haul economy
Greek artist George Zongolopoulos’ sea-facing Umbrellas sculpture is a symbol inherently connected with the city. Carlo Raciti

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Where to eat, sleep and shop in Thessaloniki, Greece
Kamalaya Lifestyle. Courtesy Kamalaya Koh Samui

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Top 10 wellness spas around the world 
The Liberty store on Regent Street. Courtesy Regent Street

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Your complete guide to a shopping holiday in London 
HRBXTE Traditional white painted Mykonos streetview with blue door, Greece. Zoltan Gabor / Alamy Stock Photo

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Mykonos: peaceful pursuits on a five -star party island
A one-bedroom suite with water views. Pearl Rotana Capital Centre

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Hotel Insider: Pearl Rotana Capital Centre, Abu Dhabi
Cologne sits on the Rhine. Getty

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Where to eat, sleep and shop in Cologne, Germany
Temple of Hera Lacinia, or Juno Lacinia in Sicily, Italy. Courtesy Butterfield & Robinson

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Your Summer travel guide for 2018
State-of-the-art health treatment at Chenot Palace Health Wellness Hotel. Courtesy Chenot Palace Health Wellness Hotel

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An appetite for life: checking into the Chenot Palace Health Wellness Hotel in Azerbaijan
The sand dunes of Wadi Rum 

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From Thailand to Jordan, Baku to Nepal: Nine affordable Eid Al Fitr offers to consider
Travelling cna leave you unwashed, run down and frayed around the edges. However, our pick of six innovations will help combat all of that with some ingenious ideas. 

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Six on-the-go tech items for travellers 
Namibia is a land of truly surreal landscapes where empty roads provide a ringside seat to the dunes of the Namib Desert Getty Images

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The greatest escape: a Namibian road safari
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A kite flies over the border in an area where kites and balloons have caused blazes, between Israel and the Gaza strip June 8, 2018. Amir Cohen / Reuters

MENA

Kite runners of Gaza: ‘They reach our occupied cities instead’
This undated handout video grab file taken from footage released by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2014 shows its head Mullah Fazlullah, centre, at an undisclosed location on the Pakistan-Afghan border. According to reports quoting the Afghan Defence Ministry on June 15, 2018, Fazlullah, militant leader of the TTP, was reportedly killed in a drone attack on June 14 in the border area of Marawera district, in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar province. TTP Handout / EPA

ASIA

Why Fazlullah's killing could prompt Taliban power struggle
A Syrian refugee woman throws flowers on Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, centre, during his visit a Syrian refugee camp, in Arsal, near the border with Syria, east Lebanon, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

MENA

Lebanon's Bassil meets UNHCR to defuse refugee row
Mohamed Salah is helped by Egyptian teammates as he tries to pull on a shirt during a training session at the Akhmat Arena in Grozny. Karim Jaafar / AFP

FOOTBALL

Sam Morsy on Egypt's Mo Salah: 'he has a big aura about him'
Fireworks display to celebrate Eid Al Adha at the Festival City in Dubai. Satish Kumar / The National 

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