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Schools and many offices were closed across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday as heavy rains returned to the desert country just two weeks after record downpours that experts linked to climate change. A lightning…

Pro-Palestinian students have gathered in protest at universities across the UK following violent demonstrations at campuses in the U.S. Students in Leeds, Newcastle and Bristol set up tents outside university buildings…

Forbes recently unveiled a new list of top schools outside the Ivy League, citing ongoing anti-Israel protests on Ivy League campuses. According to Forbes, the  publication highlighted a shift in reputations, naming…

Turkey is joining South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, made…

Former US President Donald Trump took advantage of a break in his hush money trial to hold a major campaign rally Wednesday — blaming his legal troubles and America’s…

The first asylum seeker has been deported to Rwanda under Rishi Sunak’s migrant crackdown. The migrant, whose name is unknown, was flown out of the UK yesterday evening and arrived in Kigali. He was put on a…

The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined the former president on Tuesday for defying a gag order and warned that further violations could see him thrown in jail. Trump, 77, is accused…

The 2016 US Democratic Party presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has said if former US President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, his…

Two men have been charged with criminal damage over the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, one of the country’s most photographed trees that used to stand next to the Hadrian’s Wall UNESCO World Heritage site in…

A teenage boy died on Tuesday after a man wielding a sword stabbed the youth, two police and two other people, in a street attack in east London, police said. The man used what appeared to be a Samurai-type sword in the…

King Charles III on Tuesday makes his first official public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer, after doctors said they were “very encouraged” by the progress of his treatment. The British head of state and his…

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and six Arab countries have urged the international community to implement robust sanctions against Israel, including halting the export of weapons, in response to its…

Dubai announced on Sunday that work had begun on a new terminal at Al Maktoum International Airport, which the Gulf emirate’s ruler said will become “the world’s largest” at a cost of almost $35 billion. “We approved…

American President, Joe Biden, has revealed that he once considered suicide after losing his first wife, Neila and daughter, Naomi, in a car crash in Delaware in…

The Saudi Arabia ministry of hajj and umrah has warned intending pilgrims against patronising fraudulent companies offering cheap services for the forthcoming 2024 pilgrimage. In a statement on Friday, the ministry…

The United Arab Emirates announced $544 million to repair the homes of Emirati families on Wednesday after last week’s record rains caused widespread flooding and brought the oil-rich Gulf state to a standstill. “We learned…

The United States' state of Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that would allow teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed.…

German police said Wednesday they had arrested 11 suspected members of a Nigerian mafia group behind a large-scale dating scam. The Black Axe gang was involved internationally in “multiple areas of criminal activity”,…

Germany is introducing ‘Opportunity Card’ from June 2024 for individuals with the requisite qualifications and skills to search for work opportunities in Germany. This will enable skilled job seekers to reside in…

Palestinians have exhumed at least 190 bodies from a mass grave at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, the state news agency Wafa reported on Sunday. The bodies were found following the…

Jo-Emma Larvin wheeled a baggage cart piled with suitcases through London’s Heathrow Airport in August 2020 and handed her passport to an Emirates Airline agent for a flight to Dubai. Larvin was traveling…

Two people were killed and six others wounded in a shooting at a block party on Saturday in the US city of Memphis, local police said. Two people were found deceased at the scene, and one of the six wounded “remains in…

As Air France Flight 447 tragically plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, a chilling cockpit recording unveiled the final moments of the 32-year old pilot, Pierre-Cedric Bonin and his co-pilots. The Airbus A330 disappeared…

Bulgarian customs officers said they confiscated around 400 kilogrammes of heroin from Iran in a Turkish lorry at the EU’s external border with Turkey. The drugs, worth the equivalent of €8.5 million ($9.06 million) and…