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Craft, culture, and cocktails – all in one placeIf you love cocktails, here’s a week that’s made for you. ICD Brookfield Place is hosting Cocktail Week from June 16 to 22 – a chance to taste exclusive drinks across seven of Dubai’s top venues without leaving the building. This third edition brings together some of Dubai’s most interesting restaurants, bartenders, and creative minds for a week-long lineup of limited-edition drinks, events, and very cool happenings. And the best part? The cocktails start at Dhs35.Every drink has a storyExpect exclusive menus across top venues like Bar Des Prés, Il Gattopardo, Lulu…
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically…
Lucy Clarke-BillingsBBC NewsEPAA black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India’s civil aviation minister said on Friday. The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu confirmed. All but one of the 242 people on the London-bound flight died when it crashed into a residential area less than 60 seconds after take-off on Thursday. An official told the BBC that at least eight people on the ground were also killed.”The [recovery of the black box] marks an important step forward…
More than 40 Canadians planning to participate in the global march to Gaza in Egypt have been detained and their passports confiscated by authorities, organizers told CBC News.A group of 83 Canadians arrived in Cairo on Wednesday and Thursday, ahead of the scheduled march to Egypt’s border with Gaza, an attempt to draw attention to the deepening humanitarian crises facing Palestinians under Israel’s blockade of the war-torn territory more than 20 months after attacks began.Tatiana Harker, a member of Palestine Vivra Montreal and march co-ordinator, said Canadians were among the thousands of other demonstrators en route to Al-Arish, where they were expected…
Yesterday, June 12, the court issued opinions in Rivers v. Guerrero, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch, Martin v. United States, Parrish v. United States, Soto v. United States, and A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Recommended Citation: , The morning read for Friday, June 13, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 13, 2025, 9:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/the-morning-read-for-friday-june-13/ Source link
Take a chill pill this summer with these cool ice cream spotsIf not anything else, ice cream is the uniting factor of this world. We can all agree that there’s no problem a bit of an ice cream sweet treat on a hot summer day can’t fix, and hot summer days a-plenty are written in our fate for the next few months, which is why this list is exactly what you need.Start in Dubai Marina/JLTConestreet GelatoStart with fresh and homemade – Conestreet is bringing a taste of Italy to Dubai with their gelato made in-house, with only the freshest ingredients.…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. To keep up with the latest education news, sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter. Reporting Highlights Small Schools: Dwindling enrollment has left about 150 Chicago schools half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity, leading to high costs and limited course offerings. Soaring Costs: Chicago spends about $18,700 per student. At some small schools, per-pupil costs are double or triple that. At one 28-student school, the…
Israel says it has carried out strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme, with explosions seen in Tehran and elsewhere.Security cameras captured the moment a large, bright blast hit the capital.Iranian state media showed footage of fires burning in buildings and plumes of smoke rising from the city’s skyline, and also the scene at a nuclear facility in Natanz.Follow our live coverage here. Source link
Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes targeting the country’s nuclear program, raising the potential for all-out war between the two bitter adversaries.It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq, with multiple sites around the country hit.The leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed, Iranian state television reported, in a major body blow to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate escalation of the nations’ long-simmering conflict.A State TV anchor read a statement saying: “The news of assassination and martyrdom of Gen. Hossein Salami was confirmed,” but did not elaborate. Another top Guard…
On Thursday, June 12, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch, the court considered whether a tax court has jurisdiction to hear a taxpayer’s appeal of a proposed levy to collect unpaid taxes once imposing a levy is no longer an option because the taxes have been paid in full. In an 8-1 decision by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court held that tax courts no longer have jurisdiction under these circumstances. Specifically, Barrett wrote that “[b]ecause there was no longer a proposed levy, the Tax Court properly concluded that it…