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A shipment of food aid from the UAE reached Gaza through the maritime corridor from Larnaca in Cyprus, Reem bint Ebrahim Al Hashimy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, announced on Sunday. The shipment for the people of northern Gaza Strip was facilitated with the joint cooperation of the UAE, the US, Cyprus, the United Nations, and international donors including the UK and the European Union. The 252 tonnes of humanitarian relief supplies was successfully unloaded at the UN warehouses in Deir Al Balah, awaiting distribution to the Palestinians who are in most urgent need. Stay up to date with…

Iraq has instructed its interior ministry, the Red Crescent and other relevant bodies to offer help to neighbouring Iran and assist in the search after the Iranian president’s helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain, the Iraqi government said in a statement on Sunday. A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were making their way to the site of the incident. The bad weather was complicating rescue efforts, the state news agency IRNA reported. The chief of staff of…

Certain resident juridical persons are exempt from corporate tax By Mahar Afzal /Compliance Corner The UAE corporate law exempts certain businesses from the obligation to register for corporate tax, while others are liable to register. However, the registered businesses can benefit from reliefs while calculating their taxable income. This article provides a summary of the key reliefs and exemptions available to businesses in the UAE. Certain resident juridical persons, such as government entities, government-controlled entities, businesses engaged in natural resource extraction, those involved in non-extractive natural resource businesses, and natural persons with business revenue below Dh1 million in a Gregorian…

Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs apologised on Sunday after surveillance video surfaced showing him physically assaulting his then-girlfriend Casandra Ventura in 2016. Combs is the target of several civil lawsuits that characterise him as a violent sexual predator who used alcohol and drugs to subdue his victims, and his homes were raided this year by federal agents. Disturbing footage published Friday shows Combs attacking Ventura — a singer and model also known simply as Cassie — corroborating allegations she made in a now-settled lawsuit late last year. “My behaviour on that video is inexcusable,” Combs said in a video posted on…

Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City won an unprecedented fourth straight English top flight title with a 3-1 win over West Ham United on Sunday to pip rivals Arsenal on the final day of a thrilling Premier League season. Two glorious early goals from league player of the season Phil Foden created a party atmosphere in the sunshine at the Etihad Stadium, before a stunning bicycle kick from Mohammed Kudus before half-time brought West Ham briefly into the game. But Rodri sealed the victory with a low 59th minute shot from outside the area, giving Pep Guardiola’s side a phenomenal sixth title…

Ubisoft unveiled Assassin’s Creed Shadows last week, giving us our first real glimpse at the first Assassin’s Creed game to be set in Japan. Its Feudal Japan setting is something that fans of Assassin’s Creed have craved for a long time, and while it’s awesome that Ubisoft is finally delivering that concept, some other games did beat it to the punch. Many other developers have noticed how fruitful a historical Japan setting can be, from its feudal era all the way until the West started to intervene in the Edo period. As a result, there are quite a few games…

The UAE Floating Hospital in the Egyptian city of Al Arish has conducted a number of specialised and complex surgeries for Palestinian patients and the injured, as part of the medical services provided by UAE to Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip. The provided medical support falls within the framework of Operation Chivalrous Knight 3, ordered by President Sheikh Mohamed, to alleviate the humanitarian crisis facing the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. Dr Ahmed Mubarak, director of the hospital, said that the hospital’s specialist medical team…

Russia struck a busy lakeside resort on the edge of Ukraine’s second largest city on Sunday and also attacked villages in the surrounding region, killing at least 11 people and wounding scores. The missile strikes were the latest in what have been constant Russian attacks in recent weeks on the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, where Russian troops have launched an offensive. Valentyna, 69, had blood running down her face at the lakeside resort area where her home had been destroyed and a busy restaurant nearby been obliterated. Her husband was killed down by the water, she said, gesturing to…

Saudi manpower solutions company (Smasco) a leading manpower solutions company in Saudi Arabia, on Sunday announced that the final price of its initial public offering has been set at 7.5 Saudi riyals per share, at the upper end of the range. This marks the successful completion of the institutional bookbuilding process, giving the company a market capitalisation of 3 billion riyals at listing. The price range for the offering was set at 7 to 7.5 riyals. The offering raised gross proceeds of approximately 900 million riyals. The institutional bookbuilding process generated an order book of around 115 billion riyals and…

Ending a TV show well is an infamously hard thing to do. Plenty of great, talented writers have tried and failed over the years, and even more fans have been left disappointed as their favorite shows failed to stick the landing. While bad final episodes have been a part of the TV landscape for decades, no series finale in modern memory has been as universally and passionately detested as Game of Thrones‘. After entertaining millions of viewers for eight years, the HBO drama delivered a final trio of rushed, ham-fisted episodes in May 2019 that brought its story to an…