Author: Shuaib Hassan

The Etemad daily has revealed that at least 23 workers have taken their own lives* since the beginning of the current Iranian year (21 March) due to worsening economic conditions. The daily reported that the workers were all men and working without a contract or on a short-term contract. Ten labourers killed themselves by self-immolation to attract attention to their dire situation, six men hanged themselves, three took deadly doses of pills, and two shot themselves dead. The workers identified by Etemad were sacked or suspended from work. In other cases, they faced threats of being laid off. The daily…

School is only UAE CBSE curriculum school to date to be rated Outstanding DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: GEMS Millennium School – Sharjah (GMS) has become the only school in the emirate to date to be awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA) following its recent highly detailed review of the school. SPEA will be announcing further results of other schools in the emirate in due course. The Indian curriculum school jumped a very rare two levels from a ‘Good’ rating at its last review in May 2019 to the top ranking. This follows an in-depth inspection…

WASHINGTON (JTA) — With a new right-wing government in Israel raising alarm bells among many in the United States, the timing seemed ripe for a gathering by AIPAC, which regularly convenes bigwigs to talk about the US-Israel relationship. But the group’s conference this week in Washington is focusing not on that relationship but on American electoral politics. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s “Political Leadership Forum” on Monday and Tuesday was closed to press. But it offers the latest signal of how the group’s activities have evolved from the days when its policy conferences were feel-good affairs that sought to…

Gabriele Mini and Andrea Kimi Antonelli claimed the first ever pole positions at Dubai Autodrome for the new Formula Regional Middle East Championship. The series has been created out of a rebrand and a calendar tweak for what was FRegional Asia, with the series organisers planning to hold races in East Asia under that name while the races in the United Arab Emirates, and the newly added rounds in Kuwait, now come under the new FRMEC banner. FRegional Europe champion Dino Beganovic was first to set a representative laptime in Q1, halfway through the session, but his 1m55.393s benchmark only…

Participants consisted of members from navies and coast guards for the United States and regional nations including Bahrain. All personnel attended a classroom exchange at U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain before operating at sea from guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) in the Gulf of Oman. While ashore, participants held discussions on maritime law, safety, vessel inspection and search procedures. Personnel then embarked The Sullivans to conduct routine flag-verification boardings on vessels transiting international waters. “The Sullivans’ crew was proud to work alongside our partners to help strengthen partnerships and ensure maritime security here in the Middle East,”…