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UAE Visa Overstay Fines: What You Need to Know to Avoid Daily Penalties As millions of travellers and expatriates continue to live, work and visit the UAE, authorities have standardised visa overstay penalties and streamlined payment options, making compliance clearer but also more urgent than ever. Under the latest immigration framework, overstaying your visa in…

LONDON: The director of communications for Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain resigned Monday, adding to a sense of crisis for the govt and growing questions about Starmer’s leadership.The communications director, Tim Allan, a veteran political operative who only joined Starmer’s govt about five months ago, quit less than 24 hours after Morgan McSweeney stepped…

PARIS: Iran arrested a prominent reformist, local media reported Monday, deepening a crackdown on dissent following mass protests that posed one of the greatest challenges to the Islamic republic since its inception. The arrest of Javad Emam, spokesperson for the main reformist coalition, came days after Iranian and US officials held talks in Oman that…

Candace Owens explains why neither Bad Bunny nor Kid Rock Super Bowl halftime shows felt worth watching (Image via Getty) Candace Owens did not pick a side during the 2026 Super Bowl halftime debate. Instead, she rejected both choices in one blunt post that quickly spread online. The political commentator criticized the official halftime show…

MOSCOW: Russia said Monday that a gunman who shot and wounded a top Russian military intelligence officer in Moscow last week before fleeing to Dubai was acting on Kyiv’s orders. High-ranking general Vladimir Alekseyev was shot several times in his apartment block in Moscow and was hospitalised. There have been a string of assassinations of…

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a narrow medieval tunnel system hidden beneath a much older pagan burial site, a discovery that has surprised experts and raised new questions about how different eras interacted with the same landscape. The find was announced in a January 29 press release by the State Office for Heritage Management and…

Elon Musk has publicly targeted Steve Bannon, a former aide to Donald Trump, over Bannon’s documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his involvement in a never-released documentary project that sought to present Epstein in a more sympathetic light. The remarks, made amid renewed attention to Epstein-related disclosures, have intensified scrutiny of Bannon’s past collaborations and…

Amid the ongoing extortion crisis in Surrey, for which the mayor called on the federal authorities to declare an emergency, the Surrey Police released a strange video by Sikh-origin cop Rupi Bansi appealing to the people who might have the potential to fall into the trap of the gangsters. “Have you been asked to help…

Ujjwal Chadha, an Indian-origin AI Engineering Lead, has left his job as a Developer at Microsoft in the United States and returned to India for a remote role. He shared on X that the move has changed his life.Chadha mentioned the “PPP” advantage, saying that $250,000 is comfortable in Seattle, but it goes a long…

Six men have been arrested and charged in a human trafficking investigation in the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada, police say. The Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) launched an operation called Project Firebird to tackle the purchase of sexual services from minors.Investigators say officers identified multiple individuals who arranged meetings for sexual services with people…