Author: Olive Metuge

Wellness trends in Dubai just got cooler…If there’s one thing Dubai does well, it’s staying ahead of the curve – especially when it comes to health and wellness trends. The city’s taking a more holistic (and way more fun) approach to feeling good; less solo treadmill time, more community, recovery, mindful movement, and social wellness clubs that are more about connection than kale smoothies. Here are 7 wellness trends in Dubai 2025 and ways to feel your best.Outdoor YogaDubai’s winter months bring the kind of weather that makes us want to be outdoors all the time. The best outdoor yoga…

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. Reporting Highlights Elections: The way Texas school districts elect their board members plays a key, if often overlooked, role in whether ideologically driven conservatives win majorities. Diverse Districts: In some of Texas’ most diverse school districts, board members elected via at-large…

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US President Donald Trump has held what he described as a “very good” hour-long phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after speaking to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.Zelensky said afterwards that he believed that “lasting peace can be achieved this year” under Trump’s leadership. They also discussed possible US ownership of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant, Zelensky said.The apparently cordial mood of the conversation is in marked contrast to Zelensky’s visit to the White House last month, in which the two leaders – along with US Vice-President JD Vance – were involved in a tense exchange.Wednesday marked…

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WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Mar 19, 2025 at 11:15 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Coming up: On Friday, March 21, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:45 a.m. EDT. Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Wednesday, March 19, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 19, 2025, 11:15 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/03/the-morning-read-for-wednesday-march-19/ Source link

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It’s that time of year again. This year’s ABA Techshow 2025 will be a historic one for a couple of reasons.For one thing, it marks the 40th annual iteration of the show. For another, it promises to be the biggest of all time—emanating for the first time from the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. In this episode of the Legal Rebels Podcast, Techshow co-chair Stephen Embry talks to the ABA Journal’s Victor Li about what to expect from this year’s show. Embry is the editor-in-chief of TechLaw Crossroads, a blog devoted to legal technology and innovation, and a regular…

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All the needful words for living in Dubai…Dubai slang is a strange old patois. Part of the reason why is the incredibly diverse multicultural make up of the population. According to a 2024 survey, Dubai’s population is 88.5 per cent expat. That means along with English and Arabic, many other language roots are thrown into the semantic salad. This leaves the street vernacular with a distinctively international flavour and a thesaurus-busting number of ways to vocalise our love for the city. To help you navigate the living lexicon of Dubaisms, and nail your Dubai-lingo streak, we’ve compiled a list of…

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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. The for-profit prison company GEO Group has surged in value under President Donald Trump. Investors are betting big on immigration detention. Its stock price doubled after Election Day. But despite its soaring fortunes, the $4 billion company continues to resist having to pay detainees more than $1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live. At the 1,575-bed detention center GEO runs for Immigration…

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Cagil KasapogluBBC World ServiceEPAEkrem Imamoglu, the Turkish presidential hopeful detained on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, is one of the country’s most popular politicians. A leading figure in the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and mayor of Istanbul, the 54-year-old has long been seen as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most formidable rival.He stunned Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK) when he retained control over Istanbul in last year’s municipality elections, winning a second successive mandate in Turkey’s largest city.Many political commentators in Turkey have referred to this as “Erdogan’s worst defeat ever”.But Imamoglu’s arrest,…

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Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a co-ordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump administration pushes Russia to end its war in Ukraine.Former president Joe Biden last year ordered his national security team to establish working groups to monitor the issue amid warnings from U.S. intelligence that Russia was escalating a shadow war against Western nations.The plan was led by the president’s National Security Council and involved at least seven national security agencies working with European allies to disrupt plots targeting Europe and the United States, seven former…

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