Fri 28 March 2025: The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) unveiled the new symbol for the UAE’s national currency, the ‘dirham’, yesterday, the official news agency WAM reported. The unveiling of the new dirham symbol, WAM reported, “comes as part of the CBUAE’s efforts to establish the UAE Dirham as an international currency.” “The letter was chosen, derived […]
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Fri 28 March 2025: The importance of sharing meals is recognised across cultures, from the Jewish Shabbat meal to the fast-breaking Iftar meals during Ramadan. The known link between food and social relationships is ancient. The English word companion, the French copain (friend) and the Italian compagno (partner) come from the Latin cum and pānis – literally “with-bread”. The Chinese term for companion/partner […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: As Eid nears, Sambhal police have announced stringent laws on Eid prayer and use of loudspeakers. The Superintendent of Police announced that Eid prayers will only be allowed at allocated mosques and Eidgah laying complete prohibition of public prayers on roads and rooftops. Additionally, more police personnel are set to be […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Home break-ins and motor vehicle theft have increased in Australia over the past year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday. The proportion of households affected by break-ins rose from 1.8 percent in 2022-23 to 2.1 percent in 2023-24, an increase of 32,000 households, bringing the total to […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: An estimated 1 in 10 people worldwide have diabetes. Africa is the region with the fastest growth and it’s estimated that the number of people on the continent with diabetes will more than double in the next 20 years, increasing to about 55 million people by 2045. Having diabetes has serious consequences for health and […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune for the first time, NASA said on Wednesday. The data was obtained in June 2023 using Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph. In addition to the image of the planet, astronomers obtained a spectrum to characterize the composition and measure the temperature […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Tesla will start sales in Saudi Arabia next month, the electric carmaker said on its website, signalling CEO Elon Musk and the kingdom have healed a rift that dates back to the billionaire’s short-lived bid in 2018 to take the company private, Reuters reports. Tesla TSLA.O trades in other Middle Eastern countries, but […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Trump is following Musk’s lead in branding post-apartheid South Africa a country riddled with racial discrimination. They are wrong. As a white South African man now living in the United States, I am acutely aware of the oversized role played by Elon Musk and a few other white men with strong […]
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Wed 26 March 2025: Indonesia’s president on Tuesday announced that his country will join the New Development Bank (NDB), a multilateral bank developed by member nations of the economic bloc BRICS. The decision was made after discussions with the bank and Indonesia’s financial team, Prabowo Subianto said, according to local English daily Tempo. “After an […]
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Wed 26 March 2025: Israel has refused to open all of the halls in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron for Muslim prayers on Laylat Al-Qadr (Night of Destiny), the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf [Endowments] and Religious Affairs said on Wednesday. Laylat Al-Qadr is the holiest night in Islam. It […]
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