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Watch: Sheikh Zayed at first police graduation ceremony 50 years ago
Photo: Abu Dhabi Police/Twitter
The cadets training lasted six months, and they graduated on February 22, 1969.
Abu Dhabi Police on Monday shared a nostalgic video of the UAE s founding father proudly overseeing the graduation of the emirate s first police squad.
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The video, posted on the authority s official social media accounts, features a retired major of the force taking a trip down memory lane to recount his experience as a young cadet over 50 years ago.
His narrative is interwoven with sepia images clips of the late Sheikh Zayed at the graduation ceremony, where cadets can be seen standing tall and proud as the visionary leader walks by.
Emirati who nearly died losing 99 kilos advocates mental health
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Weight loss used to be Essa Al Ansari s number one goal. Today, it s mental wellbeing.
An Emirati fitness influencer, who was recently hospitalised after a bout of overtraining led to an extreme eating disorder, is asking residents to prioritise mental wellbeing, while pursuing fitness goals.
Weight loss used to be Essa Al Ansari s number one goal. Today, it s mental health.
The 29-year-old has lost nearly 100 kilos over the last five years 99, to be precise. But though his weight loss has been completely natural and achieved with nothing more than diet and training, Essa says he s developed severe anxiety of late due to the stress of trying to attain self-imposed goals.
KT explains: What are monoliths and why have they taken over your social media feed?
The monolith that started it all in Utah. Photo: AFP
Copycat monoliths have since appeared all over the world. This two-metre obelisk is in Germany. It is still unclear who placed it there. Photo: Alamy.com/ae
A still from Stanley Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey, where monoliths were created by an alien race
Theories have been ranging and raging from movie prop to marketing ploy and, well, aliens
Monolith memes are everywhere. It will be a month this week since news of a mysterious metallic obelisk appearing in the middle of the Utah desert first broke.
Take Covid precautions seriously: Widowed frontliner nurse in UAE
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She notes that people who take the disease lightly should really think twice.
When Indian expat Jinu Johnson was first told that she would be looking after Covid patients at the isolation unit of her hospital, she was unfazed.
Although the 36-year-old was mentally prepared to catch the virus herself a near inevitability if you’re spending over 12 hours in high-risk zones what the mum-of-two never expected was for her husband to fall victim to the disease that has now claimed over 1.5 million lives across the world.
It was back in June that Johnson George who’d been working from home since the start of the lockdown first started displaying symptoms. “He had throat pain, mild fever, cough and weakness. He was given antibiotics, but the fever refused to subside,” recalls Jinu. When the frontline nurse noticed his cough was beginning to resemble that of the patients she was looking aft