Firefighters have brought under control a fire that broke out at a residential tower in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday night, Sharjah’s government media office said. Seven people were treated for minor injuries from the fire in the 48-storey Abbco Tower in Sharjah’s Al Nahda area[…]
The Saudi-UAE coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels has declared a unilateral ceasefire. The suspension of the coalition’s military operations is expected to go into effect at 12pm local time (09:00 GMT) on Thursday and last for two weeks, Saudi Arabia’s state-run news agency SPA quoted coalition spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Malki[…]
More than 20,000 Pakistani nationals stuck in the United Arab Emirates have requested permission to fly home despite a suspension of most passenger flights out of the country due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. The requests were registered with the Pakistani consulate between 3 and 6 April, a[…]
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say more than 30 civilians have been killed in air raids carried out by a Saudi-UAE-led military coalition, with the United Nations confirming the death toll as it deplored a “shocking” failure to protect the war-torn country’s unarmed population. Saturday’s air raids in northern al-Jawf province came[…]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed the first cases in the Middle East of the new deadly coronavirus, saying that doctors were treating a family that had recently come from a city at the centre of the outbreak. The UAE’s Ministry of Health said on Wednesday it had diagnosed[…]
A chat app which intelligence experts have accused of being an Emirati spy tool has gone back on the market, days after it was abruptly pulled following a New York Times investigation. ToTok, a messaging service like WhatsApp or Skype that allows users to text or send video messages, was[…]
The president of Yemen’s internationally recognised government has urged Saudi Arabia to intervene to stop the United Arab Emirates’ backing for southern separatists fighting for control of the key southern city of Aden and its surrounding areas. The statement by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Thursday came after Yemeni officials[…]
At least 47 people have been killed in two separate attacks in the southern port city of Aden. A missile attack on a military camp in Aden, the seat of Yemen‘s internationally recognised government, has killed at least 36 people, according to officials. The earlier attack, a suicide bombing, killed at least[…]
Tehran is to revive maritime security talks on Tuesday with officials from traditional foe the United Arab Emirates (UAE), amid worsening frictions between Iran and the West in the Gulf region. “The 6th joint meeting will be held on Tuesday between a visiting seven-member delegation from the United Arab Emirates’[…]
United Nations – Yemenis are dying from cholera, hunger and other ills because Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are not making good on funding pledges they made earlier this year, a top United Nations official warned on Thursday. Mark Lowcock, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator and under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the UN[…]
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