Author: Gulf News Week
Cameron George is living the dream. Back in 2019, he was stacking shelves in Walmart, but the 26-year-old has since become a full-time crypto trader and content creator.His social media presence is filled with pictures of him standing next to his lime green McLaren 600 LT and smiling with his wife and five children. He wants between 10 and 20. In his many videos on trading, Cameron is confident and charismatic – he’s been making them since he was 13.One topic that comes up a lot in his videos is prediction markets, online platforms where you can bet on anything…
Two luxury handbags confiscated from jailed Vietnamese businesswoman Truong My Lan have sold for more than $535,000 (£399,000) in a government auction.Both found new owners in just 30 minutes of bidding – one of the white Hermès Birkin bags alone fetched $440,144, with the other selling for $94,858.Hermès’s exclusive Birkin bags can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The disgraced tycoon is serving a life sentence for embezzling from a major Vietnamese bank and has been ordered to return $27bn in reparations.The sentence was commuted to life in prison last June, after Vietnam abolished the death penalty for a…
An angry crowd set alight a section of a hospital at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after family and friends of a young man thought to have died from the virus were prevented from taking his body away for burial.”They started throwing projectiles at the hospital. They even set fire to tents that were being used as isolation wards,” local politician Luc Malembe Malembe told the BBC about the scene he witnessed at Rwampara General Hospital.In the chaos, police fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.The body of a dead Ebola victim…
Danish environment officials have begun an operation to move the carcass of a humpback whale from an island beach across the sea to mainland Denmark.The dead whale was discovered on the shores of Anholt island last weekend, two weeks after a private mission to save the humpback from being stranded on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast ended in failure.Denmark’s environmental protection agency said the carcass, not far from the beach, was causing significant disruption, and decided it should be transported by sea to the port of Grenaa, about 57km (35 miles) to the south-west.Islanders had earlier been urged to keep away…
The US has charged Cuba’s 94-year-old former president, Raúl Castro, with murder – stoking speculation that Havana could be next on Washington’s regime-change list. Amid a maximum pressure campaign that has led to the most significant fuel and energy shortages in Cuba in decades, a steady chorus of US officials is calling for the end of the island’s 66-year-old Communist government. While President Donald Trump has said that he believes no “escalation” will be necessary, the White House has also vowed it would not tolerate a “rogue state” 90 miles (144km) from US shores. What comes next is anyone’s guess:…
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists who were detained in Israel after their flotilla bringing symbolic aid to Gaza was intercepted have been deported, Israel has confirmed.It follows international backlash in response to a video posted by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir showing himself taunting activists kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs.On Thursday, the UK confirmed it had summoned Israel’s top diplomat in Britain, charge d’affaires Daniela Grudsky Ekstein, over the incident. In a statement, the UK Foreign Office said the move reflected the UK’s “strong condemnation of [Ben Gvir’s] conduct in taunting those involved in the Global…
A judge in the US state of Virginia has dismissed charges against a former assistant principal at a school where a six-year-old shot his teacher during class. Ebony Parker faced felony child abuse charges for allegedly ignoring warnings that the first grade student at her elementary school had a gun. Her defence team argued the state had not made its case against Parker, and Circuit Court Judge Rebecca Robinson agreed, striking down all eight counts including disregard for life.Dressed in a checked blazer in court, Parker sobbed and put her head on the defendant’s table as the judge dismissed the…
Iran has said it is significantly expanding the area around the Strait of Hormuz over which it claims military control in an effort to assert its sovereignty of the key trade route.A map published by Iran’s newly-created “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” claims “Iranian armed forces oversight” across more than 22,000 sq km (8,800 sq miles).It extends into the territorial waters of Oman and the UAE. The UAE described Iran’s claims of control as “nothing but fragments of dreams”.Iran’s new authority added that all transit through the strait “requires coordination with and authorization from the Persian Gulf Strait Authority”.The diplomatic adviser…
A plane from Paris to Detroit was forced to divert to Canada after a passenger from the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo boarded the plane “in error”, officials have said.US entry restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of the deadly virus meant the passenger should not have boarded the Air France plane, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency told the BBC.Almost 140 people are believed to have died from Ebola in the outbreak in central Africa, with more than 600 suspected cases identified.Officials did not specify if the passenger was showing symptoms of the virus or when the…
Vanessa Trump, the former wife of Donald Trump Jr, the US president’s eldest son, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she said in a social media post. “While this isn’t news anyone expects, I’m working closely with my medical team on a treatment plan,” she wrote on Instagram on Wednesday. Vanessa Trump said she underwent a medical procedure earlier this week and asked the public for privacy while she focuses on her health and recovery.She separated from Donald Trump Jr, with whom she has five children, in 2018. Vanessa Trump and US pro golfer Tiger Woods announced they were dating last…