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Imams, preachers, muftis and religious scholars who have served in Dubai for more than 20 years will be granted golden visas as part of a gesture of appreciation from Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Religious figures in
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The EU’s Food Safety Agency (EFSA) warned on Wednesday of a large-scale bird flu pandemic if the virus becomes transmissible between people as humans lack immunity against the virus. This comes a day after Texas reported that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, had
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Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed nine people on Wednesday and injured more than 900, while 50 workers traveling in minibuses to a hotel in a national park were missing. Some buildings tilted at precarious angles in the mountainous, sparsely populated county of Hualien, near the
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The UAE on Sunday announced a one-week holiday for federal government employees to mark Eid al-Fitr. Federal employees in the Gulf state will be on holiday from Monday, April 8 to Sunday, April 14. “The UAE Cabinet has mandated one-week Eid Al Fitr holiday for federal government,” a statement shared
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A person in the United States is recovering from bird flu after being exposed to dairy cattle, officials said Monday amid rising concern over the current global strain of the virus. It is only the second case of a human testing positive for bird flu in the country, and comes
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An avalanche at the top Swiss ski resort of Zermatt swept away at least three people Monday, media said, and authorities warned of the risk of more disasters amid heavy winds and snowfall. Police in the Valais canton in southern Switzerland said on X, the former Twitter, that the avalanche
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The omnipresent and constantly evolving issue of terrorism occupies a central place on the international agenda. During a recent visit to New York, Sen. Nathalie Goulet, representing Normandy, shared her thoughts on this global scourge and the actions needed to combat it. The main objective of her visit was to
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Russia struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs Wednesday for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others, local officials said. The airstrikes caused widespread damage, hitting several residential buildings and damaging the city’s institute for emergency surgery. Russia has escalated
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Shares of Donald Trump’s social media company rose about 16 percent in the first day of trading on the Nasdaq, boosting the value of Trump’s large stake in the company as well as the smaller holdings of fans who purchased shares as a show of support for the
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Sameh Makki’s soup kitchen is barely 100 meters from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan’s war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets. The 43-year-old, his family and local volunteers have risked everything to get supplies to feed around 150 families
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The Daesh on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on Niger’s army that it said had killed 30 soldiers on Wednesday. The group said in a statement carried by its AMAQ news agency and posted on its Telegram channel that the soldiers were killed in an ambush on a
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Senegal began voting Sunday for a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis. Around 7.3 million voters are registered in the West African nation where two favourites have emerged: the governing coalition's former prime minister Amadou Ba and anti-establishment candidate
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A former Filipino congressman accused of masterminding the killings of a provincial governor and several others has been arrested in East Timor and will be deported to the Philippines, Philippine justice officials said on Friday. Police arrested Arnolfo Teves Jr. while he was playing at a golf driving range on
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Catherine, the Princess of Wales, has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, she said Friday in a stunning announcement that follows weeks of speculation about her health and whereabouts. Her condition was disclosed in a video message recorded Wednesday in Windsor and broadcast Friday, coming after relentless speculation on social media
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The Jordanian army said on Monday its air defense radar system had detected suspicious aerial movements from an unknown source along the border with Syria. Jets believed to be Jordanian had been heard hovering over the Jordanian city of Irbid and areas near the border crossing with Syria, witnesses said
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The Israeli military said on Sunday that a soldier believed to have been held hostage in the Gaza Strip died during Hamas’s October 7 attack. Captain Daniel Perez, 22, was killed in the unprecedented attack on southern Israel which triggered the ongoing war in Gaza, and “his body is