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) - 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 [...]
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 [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Political changes in the Arab world could boost the region's economies in the long term through inclusive reforms that would render them more dynamic, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.
But oil-importing economies face pressure due to increased crude prices and disruption to economic activities, the IMF said in its Regional Economic Outlook report.
"The c [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Emirati authorities confirmed on Monday that five activists are being held in custody for "opposing the government system" and "insulting" Emirati leaders, in a statement on official news agency WAM.
"A group of UAE (United Arab Emirates) citizens were arrested on order of the public prosecution and questioned in the presence of their lawyers," said an English-language [...]
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Dubai appeals court on Monday ordered a UAE bank to repay a deposit worth $250 million plus interest to Kuwait's Global Investment House, ending a long dispute, the Kuwaiti firm said.
The dispute dates back to August 2008 when Global placed the deposit at the Dubai branch of National Bank of Umm Al-Qaiwain (NBQ), the company said in a statement.
The court also o [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Emirati authorities confirmed on Monday that five activists are being held in custody for "opposing the government system" and "insulting" Emirati leaders, in a statement on official news agency WAM.
"A group of UAE (United Arab Emirates) citizens were arrested on order of the public prosecution and questioned in the presence of their lawyers," said an English-language [...]
LONDON (AFP) - A British man who admitted sparking a bomb scare on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to London's Heathrow airport in January was jailed for three years Friday.
James Glen, 38, had admitted "communicating information about a bomb hoax" on an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi on January 24, the same day as a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport which [...]
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