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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s ruler, has been ordered by a UK family court to pay $734 million to his estranged wife, Haya Bint al-Hussein, and children. According to Aljazeera, this is the largest financial award…

The fast-spreading Omicron variant is now the dominant strain of Covid-19 in the United States, health authorities reported Monday, as the WHO called for greater efforts to ensure the pandemic ends next year. The new variant…

Britain announced on Tuesday 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) of extra support for businesses hit hardest by the wave of Omicron COVID-19 variant, which is hammering the country’s hospitality sector and other businesses. Finance…

Donald Trump, former US president, was booed by an audience on Sunday when he revealed that he had received a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. Trump made the comments during the…

A Myanmar junta court on Monday postponed giving its verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial for illegally importing and possessing walkie talkies, a source with knowledge of the case said. The Nobel laureate has been detained…

The streets of Santiago erupted in celebration Sunday after leftist millennial Gabriel Boric became Chile’s youngest-ever president-elect with an unexpectedly large victory over his…

Israel’s health ministry Sunday recommended banning Israelis from travelling to the United States and added several European countries to its Covid “red list”, aimed at containing the Omicron variant’s spread. Barring US travel…

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has revealed how he worked as a taxi driver to earn more money after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. In a documentary film…

•Ohio police ask for help finding thieves who stole entire bridge. •Someone first stole the deck boards and then came back for the rest of the structure, leaving police baffled…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the Omicron COVID variant has now been detected in 77 countries. Omicron — labelled a “variant of concern” — was detected by South African…

Malta’s parliament was set Tuesday to approve plans to legalise possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use — a first in Europe, although other countries tolerate it. Adults will be allowed to have up to seven…

The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is showing a higher rate of reinfection than other variants and its growth rate is shortening in the United Kingdom, the Health Security Agency’s chief medical adviser said on…

The government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK's travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria,…

A United States House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6 US Capitol insurrection is preparing to bring a contempt of Congress charge against Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s ex-chief of staff. Meadows…

“An 18-year-old graduate of this educational institution entered the premises of the Orthodox gymnasium of the Vvedenskiy Vladychniy convent and blew himself up”, the ministry said in a statement. A 15-year-old was injured in…

The United Kingdom will scrap the travel red list this week. According to Daily Mail, Grant Shapps, the UK transport secretary, convinced the government that the red list should be replaced with…

President Joe Biden is facing significant skepticism from the American public, with his job approval rating lagging across a range of major issues, including new lows for his handling of…

The son of Panama’s ex-president Ricardo Martinelli was arraigned Saturday by a Brooklyn court on charges of conspiracy to launder tens of millions of dollars in bribes. The defendant, Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Linares, was…

Former US President Donald Trump earlier this year lashed out with profanity at Benjamin Netanyahu for congratulating President Joe Biden on his victory in the election, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday. Trump accused the…

Indicating a demographic shift, the number of women surpassed men for the first time in India with the sex ratio being 1,020: 1,000, according to findings of the National Family and Health Survey-5. “With this, we can say India…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under fire Wednesday after a video emerged of his senior aides joking about holding a Christmas party at Downing Street last year when social…

Beginning from January 1, 2022, the United Arab Emirates will transit to a four a half-day day working week, with Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday forming the new weekend.…

One of the scientists behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is warning that the next pandemic may more contagious and more lethal unless more money is devoted to research and preparations…

Former President Donald Trump has slammed Gen. Mark Milley for his role in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling him ‘a fucking idiot”. He blasted the US’s top military officer…