UAE hosts Gaza mass wedding, spreading hope worldwide / Image: File On this year’s 54th Union Day, the UAE marked its national anniversary not only with traditional fireworks and tributes to its Founding Fathers, but with an unexpected and deeply symbolic gesture: a mass wedding for 54 Palestinian couples in Gaza, one couple for each […]
Democratic Minneapolis mayoral candidate and state Sen. Omar Fateh, left, speaks at a news conference alongside U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., right, outside of Minneapolis City Hall on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski) For years, Donald Trump mocked Democrats for “changing” the character of American cities. But this week, as he […]
The irony is sharp. For years, British universities depended on international students to keep their books balanced and their campuses global. Now many of those same institutions are quietly shutting their doors to two of their biggest applicant pools. The sector insists this is about compliance, not discrimination, but the effect is unmistakable: students from […]
Abu Dhabi’s Tahnoon bin Zayed Scholarship will support 350 MBZUAI undergraduates starting 2025–2026/Representative Image Abu Dhabi has introduced the Tahnoon bin Zayed Scholarship in AI Excellence, a pioneering initiative to support outstanding undergraduate students at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). Starting in the 2025–2026 academic year, the scholarship will benefit around […]
Britain’s King Charles III, Queen Camilla, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Buedenbender view items on display relating to Germany, during a visit to the Royal Collection exhibition in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, during Steinmeier’s state visit to Britain, in Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025.(Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP) […]
Oman and Saudi Arabia approved mutual certificates of origin, boosting trade, industrial projects, and supply-chain integration/Image: QNA Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have taken a significant step to strengthen their industrial and commercial ties by agreeing to recognize each other’s certificates of origin. The move is designed to facilitate the movement of goods […]
On 29 July 2025, a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone, generating a Pacific-wide tsunami and providing a rare scientific opportunity. Remarkably, NASA and the French space agency’s SWOT satellite passed over the area at the time, capturing the first high-resolution spaceborne images of a major subduction-zone tsunami. Unlike traditional measurements, which […]
UAE residents in 2026 can enjoy 12 public holidays, including Eid, National Day, and school breaks/Representative Image Residents of the UAE have much to look forward to in 2026, with several public holidays promising opportunities for long weekends and family time. From Eid celebrations to the National Day, a mix of fixed Gregorian dates and […]
Kuwait cracks down on hawala-style money exchange / Image: File Kuwait’s Cabinet has approved a draft decree-law that criminalises unlicensed currency exchange activity and tightens penalties to curb informal trading and hawala-style operations. The move targets anyone who buys, sells, exchanges or transfers local or foreign currency for the public without a valid licence, whether […]
A Los Angeles doctor who admitted supplying ketamine to actor Matthew Perry was sentenced on Wednesday, after emotional victim impact statements from Perry’s family members who described the devastation caused by the actor’s 2023 death.Dr Carlos Plasencia is the first of five defendants to be sentenced in connection with the case, though he did not […]
