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Sudan’s army retakes the presidential palace in Khartoum, striking a blow to the Rapid Support Forces in a key symbolic victory.Sudan’s army and its supporters are celebrating across the country after troops recaptured the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum. Friday’s victory is perhaps the army’s most symbolic since launching a key counteroffensive against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in September last year. The RSF continues to control pockets in southern Khartoum, but has lost most of the capital since Sudan erupted into a civil war in April 2023. The development comes just days after RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan…
His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, announced on Friday.
A boy sits amidst Muslims performing the Eid al-Adha prayer at a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan September 2, 2017.The Sindh government has declared a public holiday across the province from March 31 to April 2, 2025, for Eid ul Fitr, according to a notification issued by the provincial administration. As per the communication signed by Chief Secretary Asif Haider Shah, all public and semi-government offices will remain closed from Monday to Wednesday. Earlier, the federal government also announced a three-day public holiday for Eid, with the Cabinet Division confirming the holidays from March 31 to April 2.The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee,…
Kate Middleton in ‘different phase’ of life with Prince William after cancerPrincess of Wales Kate Middleton has been very good at managing expectations, a royal expert has claimed.Speaking to the People, royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith says, “She [Kate] has been very good at managing expectations, and it’s wise for her to downplay it a bit because when she does more than people anticipated, it has a greater impact.” Smith continued, “It’s evident that she is feeling closer to 100 percent than one would have thought at this stage.”Another royal expert Ingrid Seward reflected on Kate Middleton’s return to royal…
Ellen Pompeo breaks silence on gender pay gap in Hollywood: ‘I deserved the same’Ellen Pompeo finally broke her silence on the pay disparity between male and female actors in Hollywood.During an appearance on the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the 55-year-old actress expressed frustration over the pay gap between her and male costar Patrick Dempsey in the hit drama Grey’s Anatomy. The TV personality revealed that Patrick was paid more than she was because he was already a known actor when their hit series premiered.”Back in those days — I don’t know if they still do this…
A loss of power forced London Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s busiest, to shut down on Friday morning, prompting chaos and disrupting travel for tens of thousands of air passengers. In a post on social media website X, the airport blamed a fire at an electrical substation in North Hyde in Hayes, west London, for the power outage and said it did not expect to reopen until early on Saturday. Aviation analyst Alex Macheras told Al Jazeera the knock-on effect of the historic disruptions would be huge. “It could possibly take days” to get back to normal, he said.…
The administration of the suspects and criminal phenomena in the General Administration of Investigations and Criminal Investigation in Dubai Police has seized.
A police personnel stands alongside Kamran Asghar Qureshi, father of Armaghan Qureshi on March 20, 2025. — Screengrab via Geo NewsPolice present suspect Kamran Asghar Qureshi in magistrate’s court.Prosecutor says suspect uncooperative, demands 3-day remand.Court orders medical exam, lawyer access, and FIR copy for suspect. KARACHI: A local court on Friday remanded Kamran Asghar Qureshi —father of the prime suspect, Armaghan, in the Mustafa Amir murder case — into police custody for two days in a case related to illegal weapons and drug possession.The Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) of the Karachi Police had arrested Qureshi on Thursday, from Armaghan’s residence…
This combined image shows death row inmates Aaron Gunches and Wendell Grissom. — AFPTwo US states executed convicted murderers on Thursday, the third and fourth death sentences carried out in the country this week.In Oklahoma, a man convicted of killing a woman during a home robbery was put to death. And in Florida, another man was executed for the rape and murder of a child and the killing of her grandmother.Wendell Grissom, 56, was sentenced to death in Oklahoma for the 2005 murder of Amber Matthews, 23, who was shot in the head while trying to protect a friend’s two young…
Kelly Clarkson’s 1,000th episode for ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ turns her emotionalSinger and talk show host Kelly Clarkson has just tugged at heartstrings with her emotional admission in celebration for the 1,000th episode of her show.The star of the Kelly Clarkson Show dished all of this during her monologue for the milestone episode and dished on ‘how far’ it’s come since its first airing on September 9th, 2019. “Over the next five and a half years, we have made 999 episodes — I cannot believe it, today marks the 1,000th. It’s crazy,” she began by saying.“We have met some hugely…