DUBAI (AFP) - A hot air balloon with 14 people aboard crashed in a desert area east of Abu Dhabi on Sunday, killing a French person and an Indian national, the operating tourist company said in a statement.
Several other people were injured, one seriously, in the early morning crash near Sweihan, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of the UAE capital.
The genders of the two dead have not yet [...]
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DUBAI (AFP) - Amnesty International on Friday urged the United Arab Emirates to investigate the alleged torture and forced confession of 17 Indians sentenced to death last month for killing a Pakistani man.
Citing Indian rights group Lawyers For Human Rights International (LFHRI) which is campaigning on their behalf, it said the 17 men were beaten with clubs, given electric shocks, deprived of [...]
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DUBAI (AFP) - Dubai and Abu Dhabi's main airlines resumed normal flights to Europe on Wednesday after cancelling about 370 of them for combined losses of more than 90 million dollars, the two airlines said.
"Our flights (to Europe) are back to normal now" except for extra flights to clear the passenger backlog, Emirates Airlines senior vice president for Europe, Salem Obaidallah, told AFP.
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ABU DHABI (AFP) - The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday likened Iran's control of three disputed Gulf islands to Israel's occupation of Arab territories.
"The occupation of any Arab land is an occupation," Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan said in a question-and-answer session of the consultative Federal National Council, according to WAM state news agency.
"Ther [...]
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DUBAI (AFP) - Seventeen Indians have been sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani man in a turf dispute between rival bootleg liquor gangs in the United Arab Emirates last year, newspaper reports said on Monday.
The 17 were accused of being the leaders of a mob of up to 50 people involved in the attack in which the Pakistani man was beaten to death with metal bars, the reports said.
T [...]
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DUBAI (AFP) - With tolerance wearing thin for behaviour considered inappropriate, more and more Emiratis are denouncing the "offensive" customs of the very foreigners who are contributing to their country's success.
The United Arab Emirates, Dubai in particular, has undergone breakneck development in recent decades, attracting foreign money and foreign visitors -- in their billions and mill [...]
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RABAT (AFP) - Rescuers searching for a brother of the United Arab Emirates president, whose glider has crashed in Morocco, dived deep into a lake on Monday to look for his body, officials said.
The missing man, Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, is managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, considered the world's largest sovereign wealth fund with assets estimated at more than [...]
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ABU DHABI (AFP) - The United Arab Emirates will respect any sanctions imposed by the United Nations on key trading partner Iran, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan said on Saturday.
"The Emirates will respect any international sanctions that could be imposed by the UN Security Council on Iran," he said at a news conference with visiting Cyprus Foreign Minister Markos [...]
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ABU DHABI (AFP) - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have signalled a willingness to press China to support tough new sanctions on Iran, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.
Gates and other top officials have appealed to the Saudis and to UAE leaders to use their economic leverage to persuade China to lift its opposition to slapping sanctions on Iran over its nuclear p [...]
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