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It is a controversial host.

The world’s top management consultancy McKinsey & Company is using its position as a key advisor to the UN’s COP28 climate talks to push the interests of its big oil and gas clients, undermining efforts to end the use of the fossil fuels driving global warming, according to multiple sources and leaked documents.

PML-N former PM Nawaz Sharif’s chartered flight dubbed ‘Umeed-e-Pakistan’ has departed for Pakistan after a delay of 1 hour and 22 minutes from Dubai.  The chartered…

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Dubai’s ‘second airport’ could handle up to 250 million passengers a year by 2050.

The Boeing 737-800 plane set off from Kathamandu and was heading to the international airport in Dubai when one of the engines burst into flames.

France24 says France secured promises of new energy supplies from the UAE after talks between President Emmanuel Macron and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan in Paris.

The Guardian says AMAZON has bowed to pressure from the United Arab Emirates and restricted search results for LGBT-related products such as books and rainbow-coloured flags on its website in the country.

Arab News says Disney and Pixar’s latest movie “Lightyear,” which was slated for a June 16 release, has been banned in the UAE — one of the most liberal countries in the Arab World — over content, including a same-sex intimate scene.

Arab News says the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention announced the country’s first case of monkeypox on Tuesday.

United Arab Emirates Gas cylinder blast in Abu Dhabi kills 2 and injures 120. Abu Dhabi authorities are restricting information about the blast, and have…

Dubai woman and her dog killed as tenant turns on electricity generator releasing the ‘silent killer’ A Dubai woman and her dog killed in a…

The cargo ship Al Salmy 6 capsized during rough and stormy weather in the Gulf, Captain Nizar Qaddoura, operations manager of the Salem Al Makrani Cargo company, said.

Arab News says the UAE called on the international community to take action to ensure that women and girls have more prominent roles at the heart of post-conflict recovery efforts.

Arab News says US is sending a warship and fighter jets to help defend the UAE after a series of missile attacks by Houthi militia in Yemen.

Arab News says the UAE defense ministry said it has shot down two Houthi missiles targeting the country, state media reported early on Monday.

Crude oil price rose for a fourth day on Wednesday as an outage on a pipeline from Iraq to Turkey increased concerns about an already tight supply.

The Metro says Three people have been killed and six others wounded in suspected drone attacks in Abu Dhabi.

Arab News says The UAE on Wednesday reported a surge in daily coronavirus infections with 2,234 cases confirmed.

The UAE is cutting its working week to four-and-half days and moving its weekend from Friday-Saturday to Saturday-Sunday.

New rules governing divorce, inheritance and child custody set to provide ‘flexible, advanced judicial mechanism’ for non-Muslims, local media say.

Visa free travel for UAE and Israeli citizens. The United Arab Emirates and The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that their citizens will be…

Aljazeera says the United Arab Emirates will invest 10 billion pounds ($14 billion) in post-Brexit Britain, targeting infrastructure, clean energy and technology over the coming years.

TRT World says data shows trading volumes between the UAE and Israel jumped from $51m in the first 7 months of 2020 to $614m over the same period in 2021.

According to state news agency WAM, the United Arab Emirates is preparing to be the world’s leading travel destination for the next six months during Expo 2020 Dubai, while the local hotel sector has restored pre-pandemic reservation rates.