Mansour bin Zayed receives Chief of Mongolian Presidential Court

Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 2: H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, today received the Chief...

Two Syrian children receiving medical treatment in UAE under directives of Sheikha...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 2: Under the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, President of the Supreme...

Iranian armed forces launched large-scale air defensemaneuver

Tehran [Iran], March 1: Iran's armed forces on Tuesday started a large-scale real-combat air defensemaneuver in the country to show their preparedness of defending the...

Criminal complaints filed against Japan's ad giant Dentsu, others over Olympics bid-rigging

Tokyo [Japan], March 1: Japan's antitrust watchdog on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc., five other companies and a high...

Thunberg demonstrates against wind farm, for indigenous rights

Copenhagen [Denmark], March 1: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has demonstrated in Oslo against a Norwegian wind farm that a court has ruled violates...

Istanbul hospitals evacuated due to earthquake effects

Istanbul [Turkey], March 1: Authorities in Istanbul have begun evacuating two city hospitals due to structural damage and decreased safety caused by the recent massive...

Danish parliament votes to abolish public holiday - the Great Prayer Day

Copenhagen [Denmark], March 1: A majority of the Danish parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of abolishing the public holiday the Great Prayer Day.

'Time is now' to let Finland, Sweden join NATO: Stoltenberg

Brussels [Belgium], March 1: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday reiterated his call for Turkey and Hungary to let Finland and Sweden join the...

Pro-UK party in N Ireland urged to back Brexit deal

London [UK], March 1: Leading politicians in Northern Ireland's parliament called on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to make decision over a trade agreement to...

Shooting injures two people in front of elementary school in Germany

Berlin [Germany], March 1: German police announced Tuesday that two people were seriously injured in a shooting spree near an elementary school in Bramasche, in...

Moroccans struggle to afford vegetables as Ramadan looms

Sale[Morocco], March 1: Shoppers inspect vegetables at a huge market in Sale, near the Moroccan capital Rabat, but exploding prices mean they are keeping their...

Hong Kong to scrap COVID mask mandate from today

Hong Kong, March 1:Hong Kong will drop its COVID-19 mask mandate, chief executive John Lee said yesterday, in a move to lure back visitors and...

Indonesia vows restraint as troops surround separatists holding NZ pilot

Jakarta [Indonesia], March 1: Security forces in Indonesia's restive Papua region have surrounded separatists holding captive a New Zealand pilot, but will exercise restraint while...

Russians tighten noose on Ukraine's Bakhmut, Putin warns of Western espionage

Moscow [Russia], March 1: Russian forces on Tuesday pressed forward their weeks-long drive to encircle and capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where the...

80 Afghan citizens dead in Italian shipwreck - Taliban foreign ministry

Kabul [Afghanistan], March 1: Afghanistan's Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday's shipwreck off the southern...

Russia, US bicker at UN over donating fertilizer to Syria

Damascus [Syria], March 1: Russia and the United States bickered on Tuesday over whether Russian fertilizer could be donated to Syria as Moscow heightens complaints...

US Supreme Court conservatives question Biden student debt relief

Washington [US], March 1: Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaledskepticism over the legality of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt...

US House Democrat opposes giving Biden power to ban TikTok

Washington [US], March 1: The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he opposes a Republican bill that would give President Joe Biden...

UAE President receives Ruler of Fujairah

Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 1: President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received today, at Qasr Al Bahr Majlis, H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin...

FAB facilitated over $9 bn worth of sustainable projects in 2022: CEO

Abu Dhabi [UAE], March 1: Hana Al Rostamani, Group Chief Executive Officer of FAB said that throughout 2022 the bank continued to build and leverage...

Mohammed bin Rashid reviews progress of Hatta Development Projects, approves Phase II...

Dubai [UAE], March 1: His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, reviewed...

Refugee agency appeals for $137 million to help displaced in Horn of...

Geneva [Switzerland], March 1:Lifesaving aid is needed urgently to help millions of people enduring one of the longest and most severe droughts on record in...

Britain's prime minister Sunak announces end to EU custom checks in Irish...

Brussels [Belgium], February 28: Goods traded between Great Britain and Northern Ireland - destined to stay in the Northern Ireland market - are to be...

Key left party quits Nepal's fragile ruling coalition

Kathmandu [Nepal], February 28: A key communist party has pulled out of Nepal's ruling coalition, forcing Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to seek a vote...

Putin awards US actor Steven Seagal Russian Order of Friendship

Moscow [Russia], February 28: Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin awarded US actor Steven Seagal, known for the 1990 US action thriller Hard to Kill, the Russian...

World Bank estimates Turkey earthquake damages at $34 bn

Washington [US], February 28: The devastating February 6 earthquake and aftershocks that hit southern Turkey have caused damages worth more than $34 billion in the...

Qatari businesswoman sparkles at Doha show

Doha [Qatar], February 28: A Qatari businesswoman has turned heads at the Doha Jewellery and Watches Exhibition, pitting herself against giants of the industry while...