Mexican influencer, her family killed in cartel-style hit (Pic credit: X) The bodies of Mexican TikTok influencer Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, 32, her husband Roberto Carlos Gil Licea, 36, and their two children — a 13-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl — were found wrapped in plastic inside an abandoned pickup truck in Guadalajara, in what […]
Local residents walk by a house destroyed by an earthquake that killed many people and destroyed villages in eastern Afghanistan, in Mazar Dara, Kunar province, Afghanistan, Monday, Septemnber 1, 2025. (AP) The death toll from an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has risen to more than 1,400, a Taliban government spokesman said on Tuesday.Taliban spokesman Zabihullah […]
Recipients can authorize someone else to collect parcels from Bahrain Post’s e-lockers using a secure access code, adding flexibility to deliveries. The Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications has launched the Bahrain Post electronic locker service on September 2, 2025, introducing a new nationwide system for secure, self-service parcel collection at high-traffic commercial locations across the […]
The UAE will phase out SMS and email OTPs by March 2026, replacing them with biometrics, passkeys, and UAE Pass/Representative Image The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has set a March 2026 deadline for banks and financial institutions to end the use of SMS and email-based one-time passwords (OTPs). The move, part of the […]
Laura Ingraham, a prominent American television presenter, author, and political commentator, recently faced intense online backlash after reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the SCO Summit in Tianjin. In her post on X, she wrote, “It’s insane that Modi apparently thinks this sort […]
Hundreds of students met across various cities in Indonesia on Monday, defying fears of a crackdown after deadly riots on the weekend left eight dead in the worst violence witnessed in the country in more than two decades.At least 500 people gathered outside the Indonesia parliament in Jakarta on Monday afternoon as dozens of police […]
German defense minister Boris Pistorius (AP) Two top lawmakers from Germany’s ruling coalition made a surprise visit to Ukraine.Jens Spahn, the leader of the conservative CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, and Matthias Miersch, the Bundestag leader of the center-left Social Democrats, met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and held talks in the Ukrainian capital. Trump-Putin Bonhomie ‘IRKS’ […]
Registration for Bahrain’s 2026 Hajj opens September 3 at 9 AM, allowing applicants to include up to four companions/ Image: File Starting Wednesday, September 3, at 9:00 AM, Bahrain will open online registration for citizens and eligible residents intending to perform Hajj in the 1447 AH (2026) season. The registration period will remain open until […]
A storm system will bring heavy rain, lightning, hail, and dusty winds to Fujairah, Al Ain, and surrounding UAE regions/Representative Image A shift in regional weather patterns is bringing rain, thunderstorms, and cooler evening temperatures to parts of the UAE this week. The country’s national weather body has issued alerts for potential hail, lightning, and […]
File photo of Robert F Kennedy Jr (Pic credit: AP) Nine former leaders of the centres for disease control and prevention (CDC) launched a scathing attack on health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Monday, accusing him of undermining science, crippling the nation’s top health agency, and “endangering every American’s health.“In a […]
