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  The estranged sixth wife of Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum is being supported in her secret London hideaway by her Jordanian prince brother, it was revealed today. Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, 45, is battling Dubai’s billionaire ruler in the High Court to secure a forced marriage protection order for their two children – and stop them leaving Britain. And today she was supported by her younger brother Prince Ali bin Hussein, 43, who hugged her as she wore a fleece with the Jordanian flag on her sleeve in a picture he shared on Twitter from her bolthole. Princess Haya claims to have fled Dubai with her two children to hide in the UK ‘in fear of her life’ after becoming estranged from Sheik Mohammed. Haya and Prince Ali are the children of King Hussein, who was succeeded on the throne in Amman by Abdullah II in 1999. King Abdullah has visited Sheik Mohammed’s UAE twice in the past month – including one Abu Dhabi trip on the eve of the first hearing – in what diplomatic sources said we...

  Shyam Maheshwari SSG Capital Shyam Maheshwari was the former Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Partner of SSG Capital Management, and is primarily responsible for SSG’s investment activities in India. He has 17 years of experience in the deal sourcing, analysis and investing industry. India’s IBC has now been suspended for new referrals for one year. Shyam Maheshwari feels that until the IBC resumes, stressed and distressed companies will either continue to go along, being impotent to change or they may revert to the pre-IBC status: compromising and arranging under the Companies Act with the bias on lenders to determine debt restructuring. Shyam Maheshwari was the former Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Partner of SSG Capital Management, and is primarily responsible for SSG’s investment activities in India. He has 17 years of experience in the deal sourcing, analysis and investing industry. ‘Special situations’ conjures up something vaguely mysterious, in the vast array o...

  TOKYO, April 25 (Reuters) - Inquiries began into what caused the disappearance of a Japanese tour boat off the nation's northern coast as search efforts intensified on Monday to find the boat and its missing passengers, with the confirmed death toll rising to 11. So far nothing has been found of the ship, the "Kazu I," which left harbour on Saturday on one of the sightseeing trips for which the northern Shiretoko peninsula is famous carrying 24 passengers, including 2 children, and two crew members. Only a few orange orange flotation devices bearing its name have been discovered adrift by a rocky area along the rugged coastline. One child is among the dead. Searching resumed on Monday using aircraft and patrol boats, with media saying local fishing boats from the port of Utoro had also been mobilised. Searchers also walked steep cliffs along the shoreline. The Transport Ministry sent officials to the site on Sunday to coordinate operations, and Transport Minister Tetsuo...

  Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter is not dead in the water. In fact, the social networking service’s board met Sunday morning to weigh the option to accept his unsolicited $46.5 billion offer, according to The New York Times sources. Financing of Musk’s bid of $54.20 a share, the sources said, was “a turning point” that enabled the 11 board members to “seriously consider his offer.” The NY Times sources, who asked to remain anonymous, said the board planned to meet with Musk later in the day to discuss “other contours around a potential deal,” which included a timeline to close a deal and fees that would be paid “if an agreement was signed and then fell apart.” It is unclear at the moment if that meeting took place. The Tesla and SpaceX founder announced Thursday that he was putting together $46.5 billion in funds to buy Twitter, and was considering a tender offer to shareholders if the board rejected his offer. It is also $3.5 billion more than the $43 billion of his publicized...

  April 24 (Reuters) – No humanitarian routes were established out of the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, blaming Russian forces for not holding their fire. Vereshchuk said that the Ukrainian side would try again on Monday to establish safe passage out of Mariupol. She called for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is scheduled to travel to Moscow before visiting Kyiv next week, to demand a ceasefire and open up humanitarian corridors from Mariupol. “This is what Guterres should talk about in Moscow, if he is preparing to talk about peace,” Vereshchuk said.

  KYIV, April 24 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that he had talked with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the eve of the Turkish president’s talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Zelenskiy said he and Erdogan discussed the need for the immediate evacuation of civilians from the mostly Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol, including the surrounded but Ukrainian-held Azovstal factory, and the exchange of Ukrainian troops holed up at the plant.

  One person was killed and three firefighters were injured as wildfires that began Friday, fueled by high winds and dry grass, burned throughout western and central Nebraska, the authorities said on Saturday. Wildfires have been reported in at least 12 of the state’s counties since Friday. On Saturday, firefighters were battling them in Perkins, Hayes, Furnas, Red Willow and Frontier counties, according to the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency. The agency did not immediately release details about the person who died. A spokeswoman said the injuries to the firefighters were not believed to be life-threatening. A strong storm system that had been developing over the Dakotas since Friday brought “very strong winds” to Nebraska, and the same system drew dry air from the high plains of Colorado and New Mexico, Corey Mead, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, said late Saturday. To Know more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/us/nebraska-wildfire-death.html?smtyp=cur&...