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What happened to UAE’s Iceberg Project? The ambitious plan to haul a colossal Antarctic iceberg to the coast of Fujairah | World News

The UAE Iceberg Project planned to tow a massive Antarctic iceberg 6,480 nautical miles to Fujairah but faced major challenges and remains unfulfilled/ Representative Image In a region where rain is rare and water more precious than oil, the United Arab Emirates once had its sights set on an audacious engineering marvel: towing a gigantic […]

Pope receives high-ranking Russian Orthodox cleric

Pope Leo XIV, left, shakes hands with Anthony Sevryuk, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, during their meeting at the Vatican. (Pic credit: AP) VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV held a first meeting on Saturday with a senior Russian Orthodox cleric at the Vatican since […]

Taiwan oppn defeats recall – Times of India

Taiwan’s opposition will keep its legislative majority in a blow to President Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party, with voters overwhelmingly rejecting an attempt to recall 24 Kuomintang lawmakers.Voters in every targeted constituency rebuffed the recall effort, according to Central Election Commission data, with the KMT and its allies retaining their combined legislative majority. The DPP […]

Russia seizes two villages in central Ukraine; raids kill 6

Russia on Saturday said it had wrested two villages in Ukraine, including one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, marking a fresh advance into an area largely spared seizures of land since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022.Overnight strikes by both sides meanwhile claimed six lives — four in central Ukraine and two in western Russia, […]

Japan tariff deal to include $550bn investment: Trump

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the United States. “Japan is putting up $550 billion in order to lower their tariffs a little bit,” Trump said Thursday. “They put up, as you could call it, seed money.”He said 90% of […]

Trump’s college crusade may reach other campuses

Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who has been influential in the White House’s efforts to reshape higher education, now wants to expand the campaign well beyond the elite schools that have borne the brunt of the pressure. Rufo says the education department is considering a proposal that would ensure all US universities that receive federal […]

Latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than birth weight

Ahmed Abu Halib and his wife Esraa Abu Halib, left, mourn over the body of their 5-month-old baby, Zainab, who died from malnutrition-related causes, according to the family and the hospital, during her funeral outside the Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis. (Pic credit: AP) KHAN YOUNIS: A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained […]

No proof Hamas routinely stole UN aid: Israeli military officials

JERUSALEM: For nearly two years, Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid provided by the United Nations and other international organisations. The govt has used that claim as its main rationale for restricting food from entering the Gaza Strip.But the Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from […]

Who is Gaza journalist Mohammed Abu Aoun who puts his camera, press shield on sale on LinkedIn for food?

Gaza photojournalist puts his camera, press shield on sale on LinkedIn to buy food for his family. A LinkedIn post by a Gaza-based photojournalist broke hearts as Mohammed Abo Oun said he is ready to put his camera and press shield on sale so that he could buy food for his family. “I am the […]

Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Greece’s capital Athens and residents are told to evacuate | World News

Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Greece’s capital Athens and residents are told to evacuate (AP) A wildfire burned through a northern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Saturday and some residents were ordered to evacuate, the country’s Fire Service reported. Residents of the town of Kryoneri, 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) northeast of […]