Abu Dhabi allows businesses with licences expired before 2010 to renew them penalty-free throughout November 2025/Image: WAM Abu Dhabi has introduced a time-limited initiative allowing investors to renew or update economic licences that have been inactive for three years or more, granting a full waiver on late renewal fees. The move, aimed at encouraging compliance […]
Couple loses Dh800,000 in UAE property scam case / AI-generated illustration A UAE court has sentenced three Arab men to six months in jail for defrauding a couple of Dh800,000 through a fake real-estate financing scheme, after luring them via a social media advertisement and presenting forged documents to secure the payment. The judgment, issued […]
Samia Suluhu Hassan (left), protesters (AP) Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, securing 97.66 per cent of the vote, the national electoral commission announced on state television on Saturday, AFP reported. The result comes after days of violent protests, opposition arrests, and an internet shutdown across the East African nation.A […]
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi (Image: X@/RT_com) Israel’s top military lawyer, Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, resigned on Friday after admitting she had approved the leak of a video showing IDF soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee. The footage was reportedly taken at the Sde Teiman detention facility during the Gaza war. Her resignation comes amid a criminal investigation […]
Parkin PJSC expands paid parking to Dubai Studio City and Outsource City, rates starting Dh2/Representative Image As Dubai’s commercial districts continue to expand, its streets are adapting. Parkin PJSC, the emirate’s largest public parking operator, has added paid parking zones in Dubai Studio City and Dubai Outsource City, effective 31 October. Clearly marked T-code areas […]
Representative Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Friday reportedly cursed at police officers and Transportation Security Administration personnel at Charleston International Airport, calling them “f***ing incompetent” and demanding treatment she believed befitted a member of Congress, according to an incident report. The episode took place this week when officers from the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department […]
FILE – This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled “America,” by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. (AP Photo, File) LONDON: For sale: The world’s most valuable toilet, a lavatory literally worth its weight in gold. Sotheby’s announced Friday […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday reaffirmed that the US would resume nuclear testing, following his announcement this week that he was directing the Pentagon to restart the weapons tests.While talking with reporters on Air Force One in midair, Trump gave an indirect answer when asked whether he would include the traditional underground nuclear tests […]
US President Donald Trump instructed his administration’s lawyers to seek court clarification on legally funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP) after federal judges ordered the use of emergency funds in November to cover food stamp benefits. The rulings by federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island rejected a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) claim […]
Flights were suspended for almost two hours at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Friday after sightings of unidentified drones, the latest in a series of similar scares across Europe, an airport spokesman told AFP. Take-offs and landings were suspended between 8:08 pm (1908 GMT) and 9:58 pm and a “whole series of flights” were diverted to […]
