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KT analysis found that travellers with flexible schedules as summer holidays approach may still save hundreds of dirhams by shifting departure datesWith the Eid Al Adha weekend starting on May 22 for some UAE residents, travellers are still weighing whether to book flights immediately or wait for a couple of days in hopes of lower fares, as air ticket prices fluctuate across key routes.A media review of one-way fares listed on flight booking websites on May 21 found that ticket prices on several popular routes varied by departure date, with some sectors showing drops on select travel dates.The analysis found…
Dr. Jamal Al Kaabi warns that no platform, not even a family WhatsApp group, is exempt from UAE media lawThe Secretary General of the UAE National Media Authority has issued a stark warning about the legal consequences of irresponsible social media use, citing a series of real cases in which individuals faced prosecution, account deletions, and imprisonment for content that violated the country’s media laws.Speaking at a recent address, Dr. Jamal Mohammed Al Kaabi stressed that even private family WhatsApp groups are considered media platforms under UAE law, meaning any content shared within them that violates regulations is subject to…
The deaths of these 11 children are included in the core charges of crimes against humanity that ex-president Rodrigo Duterte, Bato dela Rosa, and their co-conspirators are facing before the ICCA co-conspirator in the bloody war on drugs is likely to join soon former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte at the International Criminal Court (ICC) detention center at The Hague.The Philippine Supreme Court has rejected the appeals by Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa to save him from an ICC arrest order. He is back in hiding but Philippine authorities vowed on Thursday that they will arrest the fugitive senator wanted by…
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…