US–Israel war on Iran day 2: Dos, don’ts, missile alerts, school closures, other critical updates for UAE residents as emirates on high alert

UAE on High Alert: What Residents Must Know About the US–Israel War on Iran As the US and Israel military campaign against Iran enters its second day, the United Arab Emirates, long seen as one of the safest and most stable Gulf nations, finds itself responding to escalating regional tensions with broad public safety measures […]

UAE public school registration opens for 2026–27 academic year: Eligibility rules and how to apply | World News

UAE public school registration opens February 9 for 2026–27 academic year, Ministry of Education announces/Representative Image Parents planning to place their children in UAE public schools next academic year will have a fixed window to complete enrolment, as the Ministry of Education opens registration from 9 February to 6 March 2026. Officials said applications will […]

FBI arrests activist and school board member over St. Paul church ICE protest — who are Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen?

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday announced that Nekima Levy Armstrong was arrested in connection with the disruption of services at a church where a local official with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor.Bondi also announced the arrest of Chauntyll Louisa Allen, an elected member of the St. Paul School Board. The […]

Blast near Kabul school injures around 50 children; UN condemns ‘heinous’ act

Hand grenade blast near school in Hazara neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi injures at least 50, local media reports A hand grenade explosion near a school in Kabul’s predominantly Hazara neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi injured several children on Monday afternoon, according to Afghan authorities and local media reports.Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran confirmed that “a number of children” […]

James Dacombe: The Gen Z founder who left school at 17 and built a $3.3 billion AI chip company, becoming Europe’s youngest self-made billionaire at 25 | World News

At 25, British entrepreneur James Dacombe has joined a rare group of young founders whose fortunes have crossed the billion-dollar mark before most people have settled into a career. The North Yorkshire-born programmer left school at 17 to focus on CoMind, the brain-technology company he had started as a teenager, choosing a path far removed […]

A California school has been sued after a field trip of students who were encouraged to wear hijab, given Qurans

Zahra Billoo, CAIR official, called the lawsuit misguided and said the participation of the students in that field trip was voluntary. Two Jewish parents, three former Jewish students, a Hindu parent and a Zoroastrian parent have sued Palo Alto Unified School District and Palo Alto High School principal Brent Kline after the students were encouraged […]

Meet Mira Trivedi, Indian-origin student in New Jersey who’s pushing her school to not call Hitler’s symbol ‘swastika’

Indian-origin New Jersey student Mira Trivedi said, “If we don’t protect our sacred symbols, then who will?” New Jersey’s Mira Trivedi grew up seeing the ‘swastika’ symbol used on every sacred occasion. When she was studying the Holocaust in eighth grade, her teacher referred to Hitler’s symbol as ‘swastika’. Trivedi said she always knew that […]

Jaipur school suicide: Parents release classroom CCTV clip, claim 9-year-old faced relentless bullying before jumping to death | Jaipur News

New footage shows repeated bullying and a lack of teacher intervention in the classroom. JAIPUR: Parents of a nine-year-old girl who allegedly died by suicide at Jaipur’s Neerja Modi School last year have released new CCTV footage from her classroom, alleging that she was repeatedly bullied by her classmates.Claiming that the teachers failed to respond […]