Browsing: UAE

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.

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.

The Independent says Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge has planted mangrove saplings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a group of children.

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.

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.

Arab News says the United Arab Emirates has approved for emergency use the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11, the health ministry said.

Afghanistan on brink of collapse because of frozen assets that the US will not release to allow the country to…

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

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.

Saudi Arabia will end restrictions on travel to and from the UAE, South Africa and Argentina on Wednesday morning. The…

Many residents whose visas had expired have been granted the automatic visa renewal. Some expatriates in Dubai, whose residency visas…

An Egyptian couple in the United Arab Emirates is welcoming the pitter patter of 40 tiny toes after giving birth to quadruplets – all baby boys.

A kidney donated from an Israeli woman was flown on a charter flight from Tel Aviv to the United Arab Emirates in a historic organ transplant exchange.

Michelle Chaaya, 32, was a human resources professional at a multinational firm in Lebanon until a few months ago. She now works as a bartender in Dubai, sending money to her family back home  where the financial crisis has left a lot of people destitute.

Two passenger jets from low-cost carrier FlyDubai and Bahrain-based Gulf Air collided with each other on the taxiway at Dubai International Airport early Thursday morning, though authorities reported no injuries in the incident.

The UAE’s embassy in Israel opened on Wednesday, with Israel’s president in attendance for the flag-raising ceremony.