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Italy and the UAE will launch September 30 InnovItalyUAE, an initiative to boost cooperation between the two countries covering several sectors including cybersecurity, space research, smart cities, life sciences, food technologies, renewable energy and circular economy. Khalifa University of Science Read more
Abu Dhabi-based National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) has been awarded the expansion project of Lake Manzala in Egypt valued at AED600 million ($164 million), Zawya reports. NMDC in a letter to Abu Dhabi Security Exchange, ADX, has indicated that the Read more
Turkey announced the death of two of its soldiers, killed in an operation against blacklisted PKK group in Northern Iraq. The two soldiers, according to Turkish defense ministry, were killed in an attack by the terrorists to the Operation Claw-Tiger Read more
Qatar’s national carrier, Qatar Airways will from September 29 operate four weekly flights to Accra, Ghana’s capital, as the airline continues its expansion on the African continent. “We are delighted to be launching flights to the capital of Ghana, one Read more
Sudanese security forces have detained 41 people for the possession of explosives deemed capable of destroying capital Khartoum, country’s judiciary said. “Forty-one people were arrested in possession of explosives, enough to destroy (the capital) Khartoum,” said public prosecutor Tagelsir al-Hebr Read more
US President Donald Trump Monday vowed a response 1,000 times greater in magnitude” to Iran after reports alleged the Islamic Republic is plotting an assassination on US ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, to revenge killing top military general Qasem Read more
Emirates NBD, UAE’s largest lender, Monday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s biggest bank, as fruit of normalization between the two countries. The agreement announced by Dubai Media Office, Gulf Business reports, will allow Israeli clients Read more
Ethiopia, which has 64,300 patients and more than a thousand deaths from Covid-19, has just inaugurated a factory to manufacture test kits made by a Chinese-Ethiopian company. This site should make it possible to strongly increase the number of tests Read more
Emirati newspaper “Al Khaleej” has shed light on the important role played by Morocco in ensuring the success of the Libyan Dialogue held last week in Bouznika between the delegations of the High Council of State and the Parliament of Read more
International commercial flights to and from Saudi Arabia will resume from January 1 next year on the condition that all coronavirus-related precautionary measures are followed, state-run news agency SPA has announced. “Completely lifting the restrictions on citizens leaving and returning Read more