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On April 7, 14 large blue letters quietly disappeared from the outer walls of an office building in an exclusive neighborhood in northern San Salvador. One by one, the letters came down from the blue and beige stucco walls, leaving behind faint traces of the name of the law firm that had been working there just days before: M-O-S-S-A-C-K-F-O-N-S-E-C-A. Employees of the El Salvador branch of Mossack […]

DUBAI // A man who consumed hashish he took from an American tourist and was convicted of possessing other drugs will serve two years in prison instead of four, the appeals court ruled. The Emirati was sentenced to four years for using hashish and possession of 92 tablets that included amphetamine, procyclidine, zolpidem and prazolam. The 25-year-old was arrested at his home on the evening of October […]

CAIRO: Growing up in Egypt, Mina and other Copts remember all too well the anti-Christian slurs they used to hear at school and on the street.Once, while playing football, a Muslim youth snatched Mina’s necklace and crucifix and stomped on it.“I won’t forget that day,” said Mina, now in his 30s.Egypt is now trying to come to terms with the kind of religious bigotry behind a December […]

CAIRO: Traces of explosives have been found on victims’ remains from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May killing all 66 people on board, Egypt’s Aviation Ministry said Thursday.An official investigative committee which made the discovery has referred the case to Egypt’s state prosecution, it added in a statement.Under Egyptian law, the prosecution takes over “if it becomes clear to the investigative committee that […]

CAIRO — Egypt said Thursday that explosive traces had been detected on the bodies of passengers retrieved from EgyptAir Flight 804, which plunged into the Mediterranean Sea in May and killed all 66 people on board. The announcement by the Civil Aviation Ministry offers the strongest suggestion yet that a bomb might have felled the airliner as it flew to Cairo from Paris. Previously, officials had focused […]

Users will soon deem switching to Periscope unnecessary for livestreaming purposes, with the recent introduction of a new in-app feature that will let Twitter users stream live video directly from the Twitter app. Make no mistake; it’s still Periscope’s handiwork, only now more streamlined. Go Live On Twitter Starting Wednesday, Dec. 14, any Twitter user can now start their own broadcast by tapping the “Live” button housed inside […]

  Conspiracy theorists claim that photos taken by NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission show what could possibly be proof of an ancient human settlement frozen beneath layers of ice in Antarctica. Could this be Atlantis? Antarctica: Home Of The Lost City Of Atlantis? The legend goes that the city of Atlantis sank underwater. Theories abound where the civilization drowned and one of these proposes that the lost city […]

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Casual observers of Indian cinema might be unaware of the reasons why Rekha, an actress who dominated Bollywood during the 1970s and 1980s, dropped out of the public eye and became a semi-recluse. She rarely grants interviews or attends show business events. The chance to see her in public last week, when she attended the opening of the 13th Dubai International Film Festival on Wednesday and collected […]

DUBAI // A nanny was arrested after police found she was carrying methamphetamine. At Dubai Criminal Court, the 41-year-old Filipina was charged with possessing 0.24 grammes of the drug with the intent to sell. She also was charged with consuming drugs. She was stopped by police in Al Muraqabat in September. A female officer searched her and found the drugs in the palm of her hand wrapped […]

By Aislinn Laing | ANTANANARIVO ANTANANARIVO Family members of those lost aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing in 2014 criticised Malaysian investigators on Sunday for not doing enough to find debris, which could give more clues about what happened. Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, sparking a search in the southern […]

On April 7, 14 large blue letters quietly disappeared from the outer walls of an office building in an exclusive neighborhood in northern San Salvador. One by one, the letters came down from the blue and beige stucco walls, leaving behind faint traces of the name of the law firm that had been working there just days before: M-O-S-S-A-C-K-F-O-N-S-E-C-A. Employees of the El Salvador branch of Mossack […]

ABU DHABI // “Building nations is not complete without safeguarding heritage,” Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed told the Safeguarding Cultural Heritage Conference in the capital on Friday. The deputy chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council was addressing the first day of the conference, where attendees heard reports of past atrocities as a prompt to forging meaningful outcomes for the future. ​The conference concludes Saturday, with the adoption of […]

By Daniel Ramos and Fredy Builes | LA PAZ/MEDELLIN, Colombia LA PAZ/MEDELLIN, Colombia Bolivian authorities on Thursday suspended the license of a tiny charter airline whose plane crashed in Colombia this week after apparently running out of fuel, killing 71 people and wiping out a Brazilian football team on its way to a regional cup final. Monday night’s disaster sent shock waves across the global football community […]

Somewhere between Earth’s creation and where we are today, scientists have demonstrated that some early life forms existed just fine without any oxygen. The 2.52 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are exceptionally large, spherical-shaped, smooth-walled microscopic structures much larger than most modern bacteria, but similar to some modern single-celled organisms that live in deepwater sulfur-rich ocean settings today, where even now there are almost no traces of oxygen. Source

The Bank of England said its supplier of currency, Innovia, is working toward removing the use of animal fat in the production of its new plastic five pound note after objection raised by thousands of vegetarians. The bank said it did not know about traces of tallow, which contains animal fats, in the production of the currency when it signed the contract with Innovia. “We are aware […]

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Google offered a “Popular Times” feature on its Google Maps app last year to allow users to assess how busy an establishment would be at specific times of the week or day according to past history. Last year, Google introduced a new Google Search feature showing users when a bar, restaurant, retailer store or any other location was the busiest and most popular. When Is The Best […]

Photo A view of Aleppo from rebel-held territory. Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special envoy to Syria, said he feared that the eastern part of the city could be razed before Donald J. Trump is inaugurated. Credit Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United Nations special envoy to Syria offered unsolicited advice on Monday to President-elect Donald J. Trump: Pay attention to what happens between now […]

Full spoilers for Westworld continue below. Plenty of unanswered questions remain after Westworld’s third-to-last episode of Season 1, “Trace Decay,” but at least one key theory is confirmed: there are multiple timelines. As the HBO series further teases out the mystery of the maze and of who Arnold is, Dolores’s complicated storyline actually offered the most insight into what’s to come. The two biggest early theories of […]

AL AIN // A portable device that can easily detect pollutants in water used for crops and landscaping has been designed and made by four UAE University students. The project, which is awaiting patent, was created as an alternative to the bulky, time consuming and expensive methods employed by scientists for use in developing countries as well as the UAE. It will be used to test grey […]

Donatella Versace: “The United Arab Emirates is a very important market for Versace” The city serves as a launch pad for Versace’s most extravagant hotel – Palazzo Versace Dubai, 16th November 2016 Hospitality industry in the UAE remains firm on its growth trajectory with the launch of top-tier and breath-taking landmark projects. Continuing its positive momentum, The Palazzo Versace Hotel in Dubai opened its doors in […]

And yet it does. Among those bothered is Lod’s mayor, Yair Revivo, who is Jewish and announced last month that the city would broadcast the Shema, a central prayer that begins “Hear O Israel,” to counter the mosques’ call. Continue reading the main story The first of Islam’s five daily prayers begins before dawn, noted Col. Motti Yogev, a member of Parliament who introduced the new ban. […]

Photo Members of the Iraqi police tried to pull a body from a mass grave discovered in Hamam al-Alil on Monday. Credit Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images GENEVA — Islamic State militants have summarily killed scores of civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul in recent days, sometimes using children as executioners, and have used chemical agents against Iraqi and Kurdish troops, United Nations officials said […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Much about Yasir Arafat remains an enigma, in death as in life. The man who came to embody the Palestinian national cause was variously born in Jerusalem, or Gaza, or Cairo. It was never entirely clear what led to his death in a French military hospital in November 2004. The Yasir Arafat Museum will proffer answers to these questions when it opens to […]

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