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Watch: World Cup hosts Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney take stage togetherThink of it as being like a dinner party where the hosts are in the midst of a tense argument when you arrive.Football fans travelling to North America for the continent’s first co-hosted World Cup will find three host countries who have endured a tense time.The tournament, which will take place across a sprawling 16 host cities and three countries, comes after a period of fractious relations between its hosts: the US, Canada and Mexico.The underlying issues seemed distant when the countries’ leaders met for the draw in Washington DC…
ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin ordered the occupation of Crimea in 2014Russian-backed authorities in the occupied region of Crimea in Ukraine say at least four people have been killed in the latest wave of Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula.Three people were killed and seven wounded in one of the attacks on what were described as “non-residential facilities” in the regional capital, Simferopol. It appears to be the first attack resulting in fatalities there.In a separate incident, one person was killed and three injured in an attack on a commuter train travelling to the city of Kerch, the Russia-installed Crimea leader said.Ukraine…
Robodogs and Black Hawks: How one Mexican city is preparing for the World CupBBC’s Will Grant got a first-hand look at security preparations in Monterrey, as the city gets ready to host four matches.3 hrs agoLatin America
Getty ImagesAn ankle monitor, a meat slicer, some breast milk, and a package of live butterflies walk into an Uber…except this is not the setup to a joke.The seemingly unrelated items have made it to the rideshare company’s annual list of bizarre items left behind by riders.The list includes categories for the most unique items lost, the most commonly forgotten items, the most forgetful cities, yearly trends, and others. New York City earned the title of America’s most forgetful city, while Sunday was crowned as the most forgetful day on the list.”From AirPods becoming an everyday essential, to vaccine cards…
As the UAE becomes only the second country to approve the medication, experts explain why sustainable weight loss involves far more than simply replacing injections with a daily pill For years, the global narrative surrounding next-generation weight-loss medications has been visually defined by the click of an injection pen. We have watched from afar as Hollywood and social media feeds turned a class of chronic disease medications into the ultimate cultural status symbol. But this week, the UAE entered a new chapter in the rapid weight-loss conversation. In a decisive move, the Emirates Drug Establishment approved Wegovy (oral semaglutide)…
ReutersIn recent weeks, Canada became the first G7 country to approve a generic version of the popular drug Ozempic.Elizabeth Doran has been taking GLP-1 medications for nearly a year for weight loss to help reverse her prediabetes and high blood pressure. Because she had not yet developed diabetes, the retired 69-year-old was prescribed Wegovy for weight loss rather than its sister drug, Ozempic – both of which contain the active ingredient semaglutide.”I was one decimal point away from being diabetic,” Doran, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, told the BBC.Her Wegovy prescription meant she was not eligible for insurance drug coverage…
This July, a team of 15 riders will embark on the ‘Cycle Against Cancer’ challenge across Europe, raising funds and awareness for cancer patients through Al Jalila Foundation A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one. It’s a timeless truth from Stoic philosophy, but for long-time Dubai resident Guido De Wilde, it is a lived reality. When you are moving at the breakneck speed of a high-flying corporate life, your mind is naturally consumed by a tapestry of ambitions and endless pursuits. But when a doctor looks you in the eye and delivers a…
The war may redraw alliances and shift balances of power, but geography, Palestine and political identity will endure.In every major Middle Eastern war, the same illusion returns: the belief that bombs can rewrite history. The US-Israel war on Iran is rapidly and forcefully redrawing the map of the Middle East in ways previously unseen. Yet there are enduring realities that wars and bombs, no matter how precise, cannot erase or alter.Experts and analysts have not stopped predicting what the region will look like once the fighting ends. Some insist that this war will reshape the Middle East, topple regional axes…
Mladenov’s plan turns rebuilding from a humanitarian obligation into a weapon of political control.For months, Gaza has all but vanished into a diplomatic black hole. While the enclave has endured unprecedented destruction, mass displacement and institutional collapse, the political initiatives supposedly designed to address the catastrophe have remained paralysed.Then in late May, Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza and a former United Nations Middle East envoy, returned with a 15-point framework, presented as a roadmap to stability, governance and reconstruction. But beneath the bureaucratic language and carefully staged sequencing lies a starkly different reality: The plan…
Getty ImagesChinese spies are posing as recruitment agents to trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 has warned.In a joint warning issued in a bulletin by the Five Eyes alliance, made up of UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand agencies, it warned undercover operatives are using legitimate sites including LinkedIn, Indeed and Upwork to advertise fake analyst jobs.Applicants are then pressured into revealing “non-public” information which can be used by the Chinese military intelligence service.Five Eyes warns China’s spies “seek to acquire privileged military, political and economic intelligence that can provide China with a strategic…