The United Arab Emirates has created a federal authority to potentially run a national lottery and what it describes as “commercial gaming,” likely a sign that it is on the verge of allowing gambling as major casino operators flock to the Gulf
US gains authority to unilaterally enforce maritime law in Pacific amid regional tensions with China
The United States has been given authority to unilaterally enforce maritime regulations around Palau after signing a new agreement with the tiny Pacific island country, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday. In the new agreement, U.S. Coast Guard ships can enforce regulations
Sir Keir Starmer has pulled a screeching u-turn on plans to expand ULEZ-style low emission zones across the country, after his party’s unexpected defeat in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election last month. In May, a draft of Labour’s policy handbook –
Vladimir Putin faced an “unprecented challenge” to his authority with the failed coup in Russia, James Cleverly has said. The Foreign Secretary made a statement in the Commons today following dramatic events over the weekend as the Wagner mercenary group marched towards
China said Wednesday that it established a “strategic partnership” with the Palestinian Authority during a visit to Beijing by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The announcement marked another step in China’s campaign to gain political and economic influence in the Middle East, where
The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday renewing the European Union’s permission to inspect vessels off Libya’s coast suspected of violating the an arms embargo on the troubled North African nation. The vote on the resolution sponsored by France and Malta
The artificial intelligence field needs an international watchdog to regulate future superintelligence, according to the founder of OpenAI. In a blog post from CEO Sam Altman and company leaders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, the group said – given potential existential risk
The United Arab Emirates’ highest court Tuesday ordered a British hedge fund trader convicted of orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud to pay that amount to Denmark’s tax authority. Financier Sanjay Shah was convicted in a lower court of masterminding a scheme
St. John Paul II knew about sexual abuse of children by priests under his authority and sought to conceal it when he was an archbishop in his native Poland, a television news report has alleged. In a story that aired late Monday,
A local authority has been fined £280,000 for failing to cut down a decaying tree by a school playground that fell on and killed a six-year-old girl. Little Ella Henderson and her friends were hit by tragedy when a piece of a