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In 2024, Dubai rents rose 22% for apartments and 13% for villas, while expat families needed AED 300,000–500,000/ Image: Pexels A recent Quora post by Volker Motzkus, a German national who lived in Dubai between 2013 and 2015, has offered an unusually candid insight into life as an expatriate in the UAE. Motzkus, a Senior…

Tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are all among the companies that have donated toward the construction of U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed ballroom, planned for the site where the White House’s East Wing once stood before it was recently demolished. The ballroom was initially supposed to span 90,000 square feet, cost…

The federal government is refusing to say why it quietly cancelled a contract for refurbished military vehicles for Ukraine that the Canadian company involved says it is still “ready, willing and able to supply.” Defence Minister David McGuinty told the House of Commons defence committee this week that his department had cancelled the contract with…

Representative image (AI) An Indian nurse working at Singapore’s Raffles Hospital has been sentenced to one year and two months in jail for molesting a male visitor. The court passed the sentence on Friday.He also received two strokes of the cane, a form of corporal punishment for the same. 15-Year-Old Boy STABBED & ROBBED By…

A week after US President Donald Trump signed the Gaza peace plan in Egypt, Hamas said a committee of technocrats will take over governing postwar Gaza, representing several Palestinian factions.The groups said they had agreed to the arrangement after Hamas claimed to have received “clear guarantees” from mediators that “the war has effectively ended.” FULL:…

A man who says he was detained by police for following a National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from Star Wars on his phone has sued the District of Columbia, claiming the officers violated his constitutional rights. Sam O’Hara, 35, from Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit on Thursday, stating that the orchestral…

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald…

Indian-origin woman arrested and later released in North Carolina for knife attack on husband what she claimed an accident. Chandraprabha Singh, an Indian-origin 44-year-old woman, was arrested earlier this month after she allegedly cut her husband Arvind’s neck with a knife. Singh is a teacher assistant at a Charlotte elementary school. She was accused of…

National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) predicts foggy and misty weather in Abu Dhabi, Dubai. Image: AI Representative Image. Misty mornings are set to return across the UAE, with rising humidity paving the way for fog and light mist through the weekend. The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) has cautioned drivers to stay alert during early…

The Trump administration is telling Colorado to stop importing grey wolves from Canada as part of the state’s efforts to restore the predators, a shift that could hinder plans for more reintroductions this winter. The state has been releasing wolves west of the Continental Divide since 2023 after Colorado voters narrowly approved wolf reintroduction in…