DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - Dubai's ruler has appointed a new governor for the Dubai International Financial Centre free zone, the official WAM news agency reported on Monday.
"Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, in his capacity as ruler of Dubai, has issued a decision appointing Abdullah Mohammed Saleh as the new governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre," WAM said.
"Saleh will replac [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - (AFP) - Pirates have hijacked a petrol tanker belonging to the United Arab Emirates in the Indian Ocean and are sailing it to the Somali coast, the EU's anti-piracy body announced on Monday.
"Late on the morning of July 16, it was reported by the owners that the MV Jubba 20, a laden tanker, had been pirated in the northern Indian Ocean, on her regular route from the [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - An Emirati court has sentenced six people to between three and five years in jail for trying to smuggle weapons from Turkey to Yemen in an operation foiled by Dubai police, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
"Six men were sentenced to prison for their roles in trying to ship 16,000 pistols through Dubai into Yemen," said The National.
The English-language daily said a state [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - A blogger was among five activists who went on trial before a court in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday accused of "criticising" the government, newspapers reported.
Ahmed Mansoor, an Emirati blogger and civil society activist, appeared with four other activists in a closed hearing before the State Security court in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, said The National on it [...]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - The oil-rich Gulf states will press their efforts to broker an end to a political crisis in impoverished Yemen which has seen hundreds of people killed in five months of protests, the UAE foreign minister said on Tuesday.
"The unstable situation in Yemen is top of our agenda," Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahayan told a foreign ministers' meeting of the six-nation G [...]
ABU DHABI (AFP) - The United Arab Emirates Sunday recognised the National Transitional Council in Benghazi of the rebels battling to oust Moamer Kadhafi, the official WAM news agency reported.
The decision to recognise the NTC as the "sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people" was announced by Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, who said the UAE would so [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Suzanne al-Houby, a Palestinian who lives in the United Arab Emirates, has become the first woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, she said in a statement on Saturday.
"Becoming the first Arab woman to reach the top of the world was an enormous thrill and a great privilege," Houby said in the statement.
"I would like to share this triumph with the [...]
ABU DHABI (AFP) - Gulf Arab states aim to bring a long-awaited customs unification into effect in 2015 as they vie to remove hurdles that delayed the union launched eight years ago, an Emirati minister said on Saturday.
"What we have agreed upon is that in the next three year, meaning 2011 to 2014, we should complete all the pending issues in regard to the customs union," said the S [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Britons joined street parties in the United Arab Emirates on Friday to mark the royal wedding in London, despite a decided lack of enthusiasm among other expatriate communities.
Hotels in the oil-rich UAE offered an Arabian fantasy to guests willing to fork out $450 to $1,500 (300-1,010 euros) for an overnight stay with a royal high tea thrown in a [...]
ROME (AFP) - A United Arab Emirates fighter jet taking part in NATO-led military operations over Libya crashed on landing at a NATO air base in Italy on Wednesday and its pilot was forced to eject, officials said.
"An F-16 crashed on landing at Sigonella air base," a NATO official told AFP, adding that he could not reveal the nationality of the plane involved.
The pilot "ejected sa [...]
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