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Dubai’s beaches are calling…While the weather’s still on the pleasant side, it’s the perfect time to hit up Dubai’s beachfront restaurants. Whether you’re lounging by the pool, enjoying a long, leisurely lunch, or sipping cocktails on a sun-bed, here are 14 of the best beachfront restaurants in Dubai to enjoy before it’s too hot.Click through the gallery 3 of 12 African QueenAfrican Queen, the iconic St Tropez restaurant revived by the founders of Beefbar, is now in Dubai at J1. This stunning spot blends French Riviera vibes with African flavours, offering Mediterranean dishes like truffle pizza cooked over a wood…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The first time I saw Andrew Rabinowitz, it was in April 2017 at Baltimore District Court, where he was representing a property management company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. That day, the company had three cases against tenants at Dutch Village, one of the many large apartment complexes the Kushner Companies owned in the Baltimore area. One tenant was a Morgan State University student facing struggles typical of residents in the Kushner…

Denmark will not give up Greenland to the US, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said during an official visit to the Arctic Island.Responding to repeated threats from Donald Trump, Frederiksen offered closer collaboration on security but told the US president: “You can’t annex other countries.”Frederiksen stood alongside Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and his predecessor Mute Egede in a show of support and unity in the face of US threats on Thursday.Her three-day trip to the territory follows last week’s controversial visit by a US delegation headed up by Vice President JD Vance, which was widely criticised in both…

Mere hours after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar last Friday, the head of the military junta controlling the country, Min Aung Hlaing, pleaded for any and all international assistance to be sent quickly to the isolated country. Hlaing claimed he had “opened all ways for foreign aid,” as he asked for countries and organizations to “come and help” with desperately needed rescue efforts after the quake buckled roads and toppled thousands of buildings, trapping an untold number of people. Nearly a week after the earthquake, the death toll was at 3,145 people, with more than 4,500 people injured and…

EMERGENCY DOCKET By Amy Howe on Apr 3, 2025 at 1:38 pm The court could rule in Office of Personnel Management v. American Federation of Government Employees at any time. (Aashish Kiphayet via Shutterstock) A group of nonprofits challenging the layoffs of thousands of probationary employees urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order by a federal judge in San Francisco that would require the federal government to reinstate more than 16,000 employees who were fired by six agencies in February. “It strains credulity that returning employees to work would cause irreparable harm to the Government,” the group…

Home Daily News Trump administration invokes state secrets… Immigration Law Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege for deportation flights, disputes Nazi analogy By Debra Cassens Weiss March 25, 2025, 11:02 am CDT A prison guard transfers deportees from the United States, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16. (Photo by the El Salvador presidential press office via the Associated Press) Government lawyers are arguing that the state secrets privilege protects the Trump administration from divulging details about deportation flights to El Salvador in Central America, and that the Venezuelans…

The ultimate day out…Dubai World Cup is the world’s most spectacular race day, and it is back once again taking place on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the iconic Meydan in Dubai.It is a highlight in the sporting and social calendar, where sporting excellence, fashion, entertainment, and fine dining mingle together, making it one of the UAE’s unmissable annual social events.The best horses, trainers, and jockeys from around the world descend to Dubai for a packed day of thrilling action. There’s a whopping 30.5 million dollars up for grabs across nine races.We all can’t wait to see who will lift…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The last time Sam met with his therapist, Scott Owen, the session was nothing more than an hour of Owen sexually abusing him, he told a Provo, Utah, courtroom this week. Sam remembers sitting in his car afterward, screaming as loud as he could. “I could feel him all over my skin,” he said. “I could not believe this was happening.” It was October 2017, and Sam had…

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing is in Thailand for a regional summit as his country reels from an earthquake that killed thousands and left cities in ruins.The earthquake in central Myanmar last Friday killed 3,085 people and injured 4,715, the junta has said. Hundreds more are missing and the toll is expected to rise.Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Bangkok on Thursday, according to AFP, on the eve of a summit that will gather leaders of the seven countries that border the Bay of Bengal.His attendance, which was earlier confirmed by a spokesman for the Myanmar army, will be unusual…

Scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine is linked to reduced dementia risk.Using the health records of more than 280,000 older adults in Wales, researchers found those who received the shingles vaccine were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine.The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, build on other recent studies that have demonstrated associations between herpes virus infections and an increased risk of developing dementia.Lead author Pascal Geldsetzer, from Stanford University, said the protective effects of the vaccine appeared to be…