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Emirates Development Bank aims to provide financing worth AED30 billion by 2026

Emirates Development Bank aims to provide financing worth...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], May 28: Emirates Development Bank (EDB) aims to provide financing worth AED 30 billion by 2026.

Sharjah Ruler: Eight new nurseries in Sharjah

Sharjah Ruler: Eight new nurseries in Sharjah

Sharjah [UAE], May 28: H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has...

Dubai Press Club revives award for media students launched by Mohammed bin Rashid in 2001

Dubai Press Club revives award for media students...

Dubai [UAE], May 28: Dubai Press Club today announced the launch of 'Ibda'a - The Arab Youth Media Award'. The...

Muslim Council of Elders strongly condemns Israeli occupation's targeting of displaced persons' camps in Rafah

Muslim Council of Elders strongly condemns Israeli occupation's...

Cairo [Egypt], May 28: The Muslim Council of Elders, under the chairmanship of His Eminence Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand...

New Caledonia airport to remain closed until at least June

New Caledonia airport to remain closed until at...

Paris [France], May 27: New Caledonia's international airport will remain closed until at least next Sunday, its operator said, nearly...

France sent more gendarmes to New Caledonia to deal with the riots

France sent more gendarmes to New Caledonia to...

Paris [France], May 27: In addition to sending more gendarmes, France plans to lift the state of emergency to pave...

Mr. Hun Sen said that the Cambodian Prime Minister decides on the start date of the Funan-Techo canal

Mr. Hun Sen said that the Cambodian Prime...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], May 27: Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen recently denied information on social networks that he had personally...

Ukraine's Zelensky appeals for Biden, Xi to join Swiss peace talks

Ukraine's Zelensky appeals for Biden, Xi to join...

Kharkiv [Ukraine], May 27: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday appealed for US President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping...

Taiwan thanks the US and others for supporting peace in the region

Taiwan thanks the US and others for supporting...

Taipei [Taiwan], May 27: Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Sunday expressed his gratitude to the United States and the international...

Burkina Faso extends junta's term

Burkina Faso extends junta's term

Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso], May 27: The military leader of the West African country of Burkina Faso, interim President Ibrahim Traore,...

Hamas fires rockets at Israel's Tel Aviv, causing first sirens for months

Hamas fires rockets at Israel's Tel Aviv, causing...

Gaza [Palestine], May 27: Hamas has said it launched rockets at Tel Aviv, prompting sirens to sound in the Israeli...

Sharjah Ruler visits Al Hira Literary Council

Sharjah Ruler visits Al Hira Literary Council

Sharjah [UAE], May 27: H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah,...

UAE, Qatar discuss enhancing parliamentary cooperation ties

UAE, Qatar discuss enhancing parliamentary cooperation ties

Algiers [Algeria], May 27: Dr. Tariq Humaid Al Tayer, First Deputy Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), during a...

Floods in Armenia leave at least one dead, hundreds evacuated

Floods in Armenia leave at least one dead,...

Yerevan [Armenia], May 27: Flooding caused by heavy rain and rivers bursting their banks in Armenia and Georgia has left...

Hundreds of thousands evacuated as cyclone 'Remal' hits Bangladesh coast

Hundreds of thousands evacuated as cyclone 'Remal' hits...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 27: Authorities in Bangladesh have evacuated hundreds of thousands of people to safety as a tropical cyclone...

Some 160 villagers reported taken in deadly raid

Some 160 villagers reported taken in deadly raid

Kuriga [Nigeria], May 27: Ten people have been killed and at least 160 other villagers have been kidnapped from a...

Papua New Guinea continue rescue efforts after hundreds feared killed in landslide

Papua New Guinea continue rescue efforts after hundreds...

Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], May 27: Emergency crews in Papua New Guinea on Monday continued their rescue efforts to...

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 35 in Rafah, Gaza authorities say

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 35 in Rafah,...

Tel Aviv [Israel], May 27: Israeli air strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in...

Trump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at Libertarian convention

Trump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at...

Washington [US], May 27: Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the...

China's premier to hold rare summit with U.S.-allied South Korea, Japan

China's premier to hold rare summit with U.S.-allied...

Beijing [China], May 27: Leaders from China, Japan, and South Korea will meet for the first three-way talks in four...

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes north west of Tonga

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes north west of Tonga

Nuku'alofa [Tonga], May 27: A 6.6 magnitude has struck 70km northwest of Tonga, this morning.

Hamas launches rocket attack towards Tel Aviv

Hamas launches rocket attack towards Tel Aviv

Hamas says it has launched a "big" rocket attack at the Tel Aviv area in central Israel, several of which...

Yemen's Houthis free more than 100 prisoners

Yemen's Houthis free more than 100 prisoners

Sana [Yemen], May 27: Yemen's Houthi group freed more than 100 detainees in Sanaa, calling the move a "unilateral humanitarian...

More than 670 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide

More than 670 feared dead in Papua New...

Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], May 27: More than 670 people are assumed to have died in Papua New Guinea's...

Tunisia announces partial cabinet reshuffle

Tunisia announces partial cabinet reshuffle

Tunis [Tunisia], May 26: The Tunisian Presidency on late Saturday night announced a partial cabinet reshuffle involving the interior and...

Estonia is not going to close border with Russia: president

Estonia is not going to close border with...

Tallinn [Estonia], May 26: Estonia is not going to close its eastern border with Russia, Estonian President Alar Karis...

Italy to resume financial support to UNRWA: FM

Italy to resume financial support to UNRWA: FM

Rome [Italy], May 26: Italy will resume its financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...