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H.H. Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the UAE Gender Balance Council, President of Dubai Women Establishment and wife of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, congratulated the wise leadership and H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF), on the UAE’s new achievement in gender balance by ranking first in the Arab world in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Gender Gap Report 2022.…

Multiple deaths have been caused by flooding and extreme high temperatures in eastern China as summer heat descends earlier than usual. Zhejiang province, east of Shanghai, experienced record-breaking temperatures on Wednesday, topping out at 42 degrees Celsius. Coastal provinces Jiangsu and Fujian were also experiencing high temperatures, while Henan, Sichuan, and Heilongjiang saw heat stroke hospitalizations, with an as-yet unreported number of deaths. There have also been floods in much of the country, with three people reported dead and five people missing in Sichuan province’s Pingwu county by midday Wednesday. In Heilongjiang, in the northeast, one person was reported dead…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has praised the speech of UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He expressed his confidence that the UAE and the world will benefit from the insightful vision of Sheikh Mohamed, which was manifested in many situations over the past years. In a tweet on his official Twitter account, the Egyptian President said, “I followed with great interest the speech of my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, to the brotherly Emirati people, in which he laid out a clear roadmap for prosperity, development and fraternity, and clearly defined the UAE’s…

An Antonov-32 aircraft with four passengers on board took off from the main international airport carrying the impeached Sri Lankan leader and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and a bodyguard, immigration officials said. Following months of widespread protests against the worst economic crisis in the nation’s history, Sri Lanka’s embattled president flew to the Maldives early Wednesday. After fleeing his official residence in Colombo before tens of thousands of protesters overran it, Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised to resign on Wednesday and allow a peaceful transition of power. To avoid the possibility of being detained, Rajapaksa is believed to have wanted…

In the wake of Elon Musk’s decision to terminate a 44 billion dollar takeover deal between Tesla and SpaceX, Twitter is considering legal action against him over his decision. It has been announced that the microblogging site, Twitter, has hired a large New York-based law firm in preparation for suing Musk. In the coming week, Twitter is planning to file a lawsuit in Delaware. According to Twitter’s chairman, Bret Taylor, the company is committed to closing the merger on the price and terms agreed upon with Musk, and plans to pursue legal action. A letter sent by Musk’s team to…

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), to which the slain former prime minister Shinzo Abe also belonged, is expected to dominate today’s legislative elections. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination two days ago has overshadowed the parliamentary election. In many ways, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that his party, which has ruled Japan for the majority of the past seven decades, is poised to win. Voter turnout may have boosted after Abe’s death and shifted the focus of the election. During a speech in support of a local candidate in Nara, Japan’s longest-serving leader was gunned down on Friday…

Disgraced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced he will resign July 13 after protesters stormed his residence and set the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s house on fire. Rajapaksa’s decision to resign on July 13, was revealed by Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. There were fireworks displays in Colombo in celebration of the president’s decision. In the early morning, Rajapaksa was evacuated from the presidential palace in Colombo after thousands of protesters stormed it and demanded his resignation. Hundreds of protesters packed into rooms and corridors in the president’s house, shouting slogans against the disgraced 73-year-old leader, according to a…

In the early hours of Sunday, 15 people were killed and nine injured when gunmen opened fire at a bar in the Soweto township in South Africa. As the carnage unfolded shortly after midnight, unknown gunmen penetrated the Orlando East tavern in the township, on the outskirts of Johannesburg. They shot at its patrons, police and witnesses said. Four people were killed and eight were wounded in a second apparently random shooting around 20:30 on Saturday in Pietermaritzburg, about 500 km southeast of Soweto. Police said the unknown gunmen fled the scene in both cases and are currently on the…

In the capital of Sri Lanka, thousands of protesters stormed the official residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. After months of protests over mismanagement of the country’s economic crisis, demonstrators from all over the country marched to Colombo demanding his resignation. He has already been moved to a safer location, according to reports. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday offered to resign in order to make way for an all-party government to take over the country. Protests have intensified throughout the country in order to bring about the resignation of the government led by Gotabaya Rajapaksa for mishandling…

A ruling party source told Kyodo News on Friday that Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed while delivering a speech two days before a national election in Nara. At approximately 11:30 a.m., Japan’s longest-serving leader was attacked from behind by a 41-year-old man in front of Kintetsu Railway’s Yamato-Saidaiji Station, police said. Two shots were fired before he collapsed. Blood was seen on his shirt when he was rushed to the hospital. This is being seen as a shocking act of violence in a country with one of the world’s lowest rates of gun crime. The shooting suspect…