One of the main reasons that the Three Gorges dam was built was to prevent flooding further downstream. The need for a dam was highlighted in 1954 when people were killed as a result of flooding of the Yangtze River.
Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011. The movement originated in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly took hold in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
On 9 January 1968 , three of the thenâmost conservative Arab oil states Kuwait , Libya , and Saudi Arabia agreed at a conference in Beirut , Lebanon to found the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries , aiming to separate the production and sale of oil from politics in the wake of the halfhearted 1967 oil embargo in response to the Six ...