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United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has pardoned British student Matthew Hedges who was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday for spying for a foreign country after the Briton’s family appealed for clemency in a letter Read more
A court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sentenced to life in prison Matthew Hedges, a British PhD student charged with spying. An Abu Dhabi court Wednesday read out the verdict giving the 31-year academic 30 days to appeal Read more
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has granted a contract for the construction of a 60-million-gallon reservoir for the city with the aim of increasing its water storage capacity. The contract signed by Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO Read more
A high-level delegation from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, ADFD, attended Thursday the inaugural ceremony of the $2.3 billion landmark infrastructure project of a high-speed train service connecting the cities of Tangier and Casablanca in Morocco. Inaugurated by King Read more
An Emirates pilot has been sentenced to one year in prison after being charged with threatening to blow up a flight of the Emirati airline on a trip on board of the aircraft while off-duty. A court Wednesday sentenced a Read more
The UAE is in talks to reopen its diplomatic mission in Damascus as ties between the two countries edge towards normalization following seven years of tensed relations over the Gulf country’s support for rebel groups, opposed to President Bashar al-Assad’s Read more
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem has been appointed new chairman of high tech venture, Virgin Hyperloop One, in replacement of British billionaire and investor Sir Richard Branson who threw in the towel last month. Bin Sulayem currently heads Dubai-based global marine Read more
French rail transport company Alstom has delivered the first batch of the 50 metro trains commissioned by the Dubai government. The Emirate’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) did not disclose the number of carriages it received over the weekend but Read more
The call launched by King Mohammed VI to neighboring Algeria for a direct, open and frank dialogue to settle the transient and objective differences hampering the development of relations between the two countries has triggered positive reactions worldwide and earned Read more
Dubai Holding is on the verge of acquiring minority equities in Azadea Group based in Beirut, Lebanon and which operates Zara clothing and Virgin Megastore chains in the Middle East, Bloomberg reports citing sources who were not allowed to speak Read more