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Eid Al Adha 2025: Dubai airport welcomes Eid travellers with special passport stamps | World News

[ad_1] A traveller shows the 'Eid in Dubai' stamp on his passport. Photo: x.com/DXBMediaOffice Passengers arriving in Dubai during the Eid Al Adha holidays are being welcomed with a specially designed passport stamp that reads ‘Eid in Dubai’, part of a festive initiative by Dubai’s General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA).The commemorative stamp, introduced at Dubai Airports and the Hatta border crossing, was designed by Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office. Images shared by the Dubai Media Office show the stamp placed prominently in arriving passengers' passports, symbolising a warm, cultural welcome as they enter the country during one of the most important festivals in Islam.The GDRFA confirmed that immigration officers have been stamping passports with the unique design since the start of the holiday weekend. The initiative aligns with broader efforts […]

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‘Elon Musk suffers from hypomania’: Dr Drew Pinsky breaks down Tesla CEO’s ‘abnormal’ behavior

[ad_1] Dr Drew said Elon Musk might be bipolar. Addiction medicine specialist Dr Drew Pinsky broke down Elon Musk's abnormal behavior that prompted an exchange of salvos with President Donald Trump. Appearing on Newsmax to discuss on Elon Musk's Asperger's syndrome that Musk himself admitted in 2021 on Saturday Night Live, Dr Pinsky said there's more than just Asperger's. Dr Pinsky said he respect Elon Musk, read his biography and thinks he is a great guy, a very successful man but there is a flip side of that success that Musk probably has hypomania. Dr Pinsky said he got to know from Musk's biography that Musk had has phases of hypomanic binges where he worked for hours without sleeping. Musk probably suffers from hypomania that many successful people have. Hypomania has the risk of turning into mania which makes one […]

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Cocaine in cement bags: Indian-origin Gurvinder Singh arrested in Australia for running international smuggling network

[ad_1] Indian-origin Australian Gurvinder Singh arrested in Sydney for running international drug smuggling. (Photo: NSW Police) Gurvinder Singh, a 42-year-old Indian-origin Australian man, has been arrested after two years of multi-agency investigation for allegedly masterminding an international drug racket that smuggle 20 million illegal cigarettes and nearly half a tonne of drugs into Sydney, the Australia Today reported. The racket involved cocaine concealed in cement bags, 280 kg of liquid methamphetamine and a network of "trusted insiders" at port facilities who helped the racked. The syndicate generated at least $443,000 in proceeds from selling illegal cigarettes on Sydney’s black market alone.Suspected shipment from VancouverIn August 2024, the Australian police intercepted a consignment of 280 kg of liquid methamphetamine shipped from Canada's Vancouver. Officers traced the illicit cargo to a clandestine cool-down operation in Riverstone and arrested two men who led […]

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Musk vs Trump: Steve Bannon raises suspicion about Elon’s ‘black eye’, says it will come up in ‘one of the drug investigations’

[ad_1] Steve Bannon says the mystery of Elon Musk's black eye will now come up in some drug investigations. Donald Trump's former aide Steve Bannon, who never shied away from expressing his hatred towards Elon Musk, has now raised suspicion about Elon Musk's 'black eye' that he sported at the Oval Office farewell that was jointly addressed by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. Steve Bannon said the 'black eye' was not caused by Elon Musk's physical fight with Scott Bessent in the White House, as that took place almost a month ago. But the explanation that Musk gave, that his five-year-old son X punched him in the face after he encouraged him to do so, was not credible enough. Bannon said he was not sure whether a five-year-old could cause such a prominent black eye. Bannon said it would […]

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‘Elon is new to politics’: JD Vance says he understands Musk’s frustration, Trump didn’t do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein

[ad_1] JD Vance says he understands Elon Musk's frustration but Trump had nothing to do with Epstein. Vice President JD Vance reacted to Elon Musk's public spat with Donald Trump that unfolded on social media when he was on Theo Von's podcast. Reacting specifically to Elon Musk's allegation against Trump that Trump is there in the Epstein Files and that's why the Trump administration is dragging its feet in releasing all the documents, JD Vance said it was absolutely false. “First of all, absolutely not. Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein. That's totally bs," Vance said. “I'm always going to be loyal to the president. And I hope that eventually Elon kind of comes back into the fold. Maybe that's not possible now because he's gone so nuclear.”“I think it's a huge mistake for him to go […]

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Kash Patel on Joe Rogan: FBI director reveals how India is helping America fight fentanyl crisis; take on China-backed trafficking network | World News

[ad_1] FBI Director Kash Patel has claimed that the United States is working closely with Indian law enforcement agencies to dismantle what he describes as a China-backed global fentanyl trafficking network. Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Patel alleged that while India is not a consumer of fentanyl, it has become an increasingly critical transit point for chemical precursors manufactured in China and passed on to Mexican drug cartels.“They’re going to places like India, and I’m also doing operations in India,” Patel said. “They’re having the Mexican cartels now make this fentanyl down in Mexico still.”Patel claimed that Chinese companies were “getting cute” by routing fentanyl precursors through third countries, including India, to evade direct enforcement and scrutiny.‘No fentanyl deaths in India’According to Patel, one of the clearest signs of a targeted campaign lies in where fentanyl deaths are […]

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Musk vs Trump: Tesla CEO deletes ‘Epstein files’ tweet, several others; is it a bid to mend broken ties?

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk Is Musk taking a step closer to ending his feud with Trump? Tesla CEO's latest move certainly seems to hint in that direction. James Fishback, principal architect of the "DOGE Checks" initiative — who had previously criticized Musk for his tweets targeting Donald Trump — praised the Tesla CEO after he deleted all posts directed at the former U.S. President. Fishback highlighted Musk’s deleted tweets and urged him to take the next step by offering an apology to Trump.Musk deleted posts"Elon has deleted his slanderous tweets about the President of the United States. Good first step. Next up: full-throated apology to Trump and his family," he said.The dispute began when Fishback responded to Musk’s post about potentially forming a new political party, dubbed the "American Party." "Elon, Keep tweeting about […]

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10 Eerie predictions from history that shockingly came true | World News

[ad_1] Predictions have fascinated humanity for centuries, whether they came from prophets, scientists, or writers. While most forecasts miss the mark or fade into obscurity, a rare few have turned out to be incredibly accurate. These striking insights offered glimpses into the future that seemed almost too precise to believe. Some were rooted in deep observation, while others appeared to be the result of sheer intuition. From world wars and space travel to the internet and organ transplants, these predictions came true in ways that continue to amaze us today. Here are ten historical forecasts that remarkably became reality.From Wi-Fi to World War, predictions that came true across the world1. The Cold War- Alexis de Tocqueville (1840) French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville predicted the rise of two dominant global powers during his travels in the United States. In Democracy […]

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Musk vs Trump: Elon Musk fan Ian Miles Cheon asks him to move space program to UAE | World News

[ad_1] Image generated by AI for creative and illustrative purposes only There’s always one tweet that distills geopolitical fantasy into 280 characters. This time, it came from Elon Musk loyalist Ian Miles Cheong:“Elon Musk should simply move his entire SpaceX operation to the United Arab Emirates. The UAE stands at the forefront of technological progress and mankind's ascent to the stars.”The idea sounds far-fetched. But it also speaks to something very real: the UAE’s growing ambition to become a serious player in the global space race, just as Musk finds himself increasingly disillusioned with Washington, and estranged from his on-again-off-again political ally, Donald Trump.A Rift at the Edge of OrbitThe Musk–Trump relationship, once a spectacle of anti-establishment synergy, has hit turbulence. Musk, long the poster boy for public-private innovation, turned sharply against Trump’s latest bloated federal spending bill, calling it […]

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Diddy trial: Combs hired porn stars for ‘freak off’, witness testifies; alleges rapper flew them cross-country

[ad_1] Sean "Diddy" Combs and his former influencer partner hired two male porn stars, who were flown across the country for “Freak Off” referring to sex parties, according to testimony in a Manhattan court on Friday.In the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial, an anonymous witness, identified as "Jane," informed the jury that she contacted the performers separately to join the couple’s “freak offs,” what she termed "hotel nights" during late 2021 and early 2022. She explained that the Bad Boys Records founder, whom she dated for three years until his arrest in September 2024, was attracted to the performers after viewing their content, New York Post reported.She described reaching out to "Cabral" and "Antoine" via Instagram, once whilst under the influence of ecstasy. She detailed their viewing of Cabral's content and subsequent discussions about his physical attributes.“We watched a few […]