Dubai’s COVID-delayed Expo 2020 has announced itself to the world with an extravagant opening ceremony headlined by British pop star Ellie Goulding and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
The largest city in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates kicked off its world’s fair on Thursday night. The event, which was delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic but retained its original name, begins on Friday and runs until March 31, 2022.
It is the first expo for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, and is one of the world’s largest events to take place in the midst of the pandemic,
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