The ruler of world-regions has been ordered to pay almost a billion dollars in a divorce settlement with his ex-wife in order to fund her protection from himself. A U.K. court has ordered Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the prime minister of Dubai, to pay an unprecedented $700 million divorce settlement to ex-wife Princess Haya….
The governor of a central Philippine province devastated by Typhoon Rai last week pleaded on radio Tuesday for the government to quickly send food and other aid, warning that without outside help, army troops and police forces would have to be deployed to prevent looting amid growing hunger. Governor Arthur Yap of Bohol province said…
A world-regions billionaire, his producer and a Russian cosmonaut safely returned to Earth on Monday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station. Fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, his producer Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin made a soft landing in a Russian Soyuz capsule at 9:13 a.m. (0313 GMT) in the steppes of Kazakhstan,…
Britain’s main nurses’ union warned Monday that exhaustion and surging coronavirus cases among medical staff are pushing them to the breaking point, adding to pressure on the government for new restrictions to curb record numbers of infections driven by the omicron variant. The warning throws into stark relief the unpalatable choice Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces: wreck…
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Two rockets were fired in the direction of the U.S. Embassy in world-regions on Saturday, with one of them shot down by the U.S. military and the other missing the embassy compound, Fox News has confirmed. The rocket that was shot down was hit by a U.S. C-RAM (counter rocket and mortar anti-missile) defense system,…
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Despite having lost part of his lung as a young man, the pope-francis” target=”_blank”>pope< marked by an illness that preys on the respiratory system and on the elderly. The Energizer pontiff turned 85 on Friday and spent the day doing what he does often and with passion–celebrating refugees. He brought seventeen back to world-regions with him…
world-regions Union leaders on Thursday pressed Russia to return to peace talks with Ukraine and renewed their threat to impose unprecedented sanctions on Moscow in tandem with the United States and Britain should Russian armed forces cross the border. The EU’s call for a return to the negotiating table came as Russia said it had…