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Dubai clears up after epic rains swamp glitzy desert city
The rains were the heaviest experienced by the United Arab Emirates in the 75 years that records have been kept. They brought much of the country to a standstill and caused significant damage.Flooding trapped residents in traffic, offices and homes. Many reported leak...
Russia tightens officials' travel rules due to fears over secrets
Foreign travel was highly restricted during Soviet times and even before the Ukraine war those with access to certain secret information were banned from leaving Russia.Major Western powers also have tight travel rules for those with access to top-level secrets....
Israel's defences would trump Iran's in any air war, but at a high cost
Experts say Israel would have little trouble hitting targets inside Iran, which has an obsolete air force and indigenous air defence systems based on ageing Russian models.
How close is Iran to having nuclear weapons?
Iran is now enriching uranium to up to 60% purity and has enough material enriched to that level, if enriched further, for two nuclear weapons. That means Iran's so-called "breakout time" - the time it would need to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear b...
Boeing's safety culture under fire at US Senate hearings
Former Boeing engineer Ed Pierson said he turned over records, sent to him from an internal whistleblower, to the FBI that he said provided key information about the Alaska Airlines door plug.
911 outage reported across multiple US states
It was not immediately clear what was causing the outages.
Woman wheels corpse into bank to sign for loan
Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the cadaver into the bank in a Rio suburb on Tuesday and told the teller the man wanted a loan for 17,000 reais ($3,250), security camera video showed.
UK's Rwanda asylum scheme hits fresh parliamentary hurdle
The legislation is seen by the government as crucial to overcoming existing legal barriers to the scheme, under which the government wants to start sending asylum seekers arriving illegally in Britain to Rwanda to have their claims processed.
Man who set fire to mosque worshippers indefinitely detained
Mohammed Abbkr was found guilty of attempting to murder two elderly men in separate incidents as they walked home, one from a mosque in London in February and another in Birmingham, central England, in March.
UN Security Council to vote on Palestinian UN membership
The 15-member council is due to vote at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) Friday on a draft resolution that recommends to the 193-member U.N. General Assembly that "the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations," diplomats said....