The UAE has expanded its visa-on-arrival programme, allowing Indian and Filipino passport holders with valid visas/residence permits from approved countries (US, UK, EU, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea) to enter without pre-approval, with options for 14-day (extendable) or 60-day stays.
Western nations, including the UK, EU, and US, are addressing a severe housing affordability crisis where costs outpace wages, locking out younger buyers. Governments are enacting reforms, like the UK's no-fault eviction ban and US bipartisan bills, amid calls to treat housing as a human right, not just an asset.
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that China is using fake job recruitment schemes on platforms like LinkedIn to trick government and military personnel into revealing sensitive information. Operatives pose as recruiters, offering jobs to gather privileged military, political, and economic data, with targets including security clearance holders and academics. China has rejected the allegations as 'malicious slander'.
China is using fake job recruitment schemes on platforms like LinkedIn to trick government and military personnel into revealing sensitive information, according to a Five Eyes intelligence alliance warning. Targets are asked for non-public details, with initial payments escalating for more classified data.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is on a three-day state visit to Russia, meeting President Vladimir Putin and seeking trade, tourism, and minerals deals. This visit, the first by a Tanzanian leader since 1969, aims to bolster relations and counter Western sanctions and influence.
A coalition of Western leaders, including Australia, the UK, France, Germany, and the US, has condemned Israel's settlement expansion in the West Bank, calling it illegal and undermining stability. They urged an end to construction and accountability for settler violence.
Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have called on Israel to stop expanding settlements in the West Bank and curb settler violence, stating that Israeli government policies are fueling regional tensions and undermining the two-state solution.
In the 1980s, then Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad launched his “Look East” policy, urging his country and others in Southeast Asia to emulate the state-led economic development models of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, rather than those of market-dominated Western nations. China subsequently emerged as a prime example of state-led development, but Japan is now leaning again towards a more dirigiste model under the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, not only in...
Russian Ambassador Vladimir Tarabrin alleges that Ukraine is producing and using chemical weapons, accusing Western nations of ignoring evidence and shielding the Kiev government from accountability.
Russia's permanent representative to the OPCW, Vladimir Tarabrin, has criticized Western nations for allegedly turning the organization into an arena for political confrontation, warning that such actions undermine its global authority.
The US is one of the very few Western nations that still uses the death penalty, although public support for capital punishment has gradually declined among Americans.
The US is one of very few Western nations still using the death penalty, although public support for capital punishment has declined among Americans.
