Oman Astronomical Society gets rare recognition from Nasa Speaking to the Observer, Abdulwahab bin Sulaiman al Busaidy, Omani stargazer and Board member of the OAS, said that this rare recognition is a major milestone in the ambitious plans of the Sultanate ... 07/1/2024 - 7:38 am | View Link
OIA's strategies drive Oman's economic growth and diversification MUSCAT: The Oman Investment Authority (OIA) is significantly advancing Oman's economic diversification and growth through its strategic ... 07/1/2024 - 5:01 am | View Link
Oman announces public holiday and 3-day weekend Oman has announced a holiday and three-day weekend for the public sector to mark the occasion of Islamic New Year. According to a statement by state-run news agency ONA, Sunday has been declared an ... 07/1/2024 - 4:25 am | View Link
Heatwave Alert: Oman Braces for 50°C Temperatures As summer intensifies, Oman prepares for scorching temperatures nearing 50 degrees Celsius starting July 1, 2024. Oman Meteorology has issued warnings, forecasting extreme heat across desert and ... 07/1/2024 - 12:48 am | View Link
Travel Unpacked: Emirates' new business class seats and Trump hotel opening in Oman July has begun with a flurry of travel news in the region.Emirates has announced the first three cities that its retrofitted B777 jets will fly to later this year. Egypt is the most popular summer ... 06/30/2024 - 11:25 pm | View Link
DEDHAM, Mass. — A judge ordered the jury in the Karen Read murder trialto continue deliberating Monday after they said for a second time that they were deadlocked.
Jurors had told Judge Beverly Cannone on Friday that they were deadlocked, only for her to ask them to continue deliberating. They returned after the weekend in just over an hour Monday to say little had changed.
More than two months after hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court on Monday partially backed former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution for actions he took while in office. In a 6-3 decision split along ideological lines, the Supreme Court ruled former Presidents are largely immune from prosecution for official acts, but not actions they took in office that aren’t part of their job responsibilities—a decision that will have significant consequences for Trump’s remaining criminal cases and the future of the American presidency.
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“Under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts,” the majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts says.
Almost 250 years ago, four weeks before the battles of Lexington and Concord, Patrick Henry rose in St. John’s Church in Richmond, Va., to urge Americans to arm for a war that he saw as inevitable. He famously concluded his call to arms: “Give me liberty, or give me death.”
Patriots embraced Henry’s dramatic refrain, and rallying militia members sewed it into their hunting shirts.
An online petition calling for South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol to be impeached has experienced delays and disruptions following a flood of signatures.
People attempting to access the website on Monday experienced four hour delays and some received an error message showing that at least 30,000 people were attempting to use the website at the same time, according to Reuters.
The American path for what is socially accepted in grief is narrow. There’s the perceived need for a brave face, the getting over it, the worry of becoming a burden. There’s the Sisyphean pursuit of closure. There’s the frequently misinterpreted “five stages”—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—which were neither meant as a prescription for how to grieve nor, originally, even really about grief at all.
SEOUL, South Korea — For the first time, North Korean officials have been seen wearing lapel pins with the image of leader Kim Jong Un, another sign the North is boosting his personality cult to the level bestowed on his late dictator father and grandfather.
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North Koreans are required to wear pins over their hearts which for decades bore images of either the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, or his son Kim Jong Il, or both.