Human Rights Watch says in a report that the United Arab Emirates’ sweeping legal changes introduced in late 2021 are “deepening repression” in the country, where “Abusive provisions remain and the new measures increase rights [ More … ]
Three NGOs have announced that they had filed a lawsuit at a Paris court against three top French arms’ producers for alleged war crimes complicity in Yemen after selling weapons to KSA and the UAE, according [ More … ]
Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), the longtime de facto ruler of UAE has unanimously been elected by the federal council as new president following the death of his half-brother the former president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed. [ More … ]
Amid Middle East summit, U.S. allies, including Israel, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, and even Saudi Arabia that did not join the meeting have showed limited support for Ukraine. “In this war, Egypt is not — and [ More … ]
A UAE wealth fund buys stakes in Egyptian fertilizer and cargo companies as part of a $2-billion investment in the country, according to Bloomberg. An Abu Dhabi wealth fund has agreed to invest about $2 [ More … ]
Yemeni Houthis warned they would face ‘escalation with escalation’ following attack on detention center that left more than 100 dead Yemen’s Houthi rebels have threatened further escalation after two ballistic missiles launched by the group [ More … ]
The United Nations Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, on Thursday met with the Saudi Deputy Defense Minister, Khalid Bin Salman Al-Saud, in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, where they discussed ways to end the [ More … ]
The central banks of Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have inked a swap agreement with a nominal size of 18 billion UAE dirhams and TL 64 billion ($4.7 billion), the Central Bank of [ More … ]
Emirati Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology said on Wednesday that Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are entering a new era of relations, according to Anadolu News Agency. Speaking to Turkish state broadcaster, TRT, [ More … ]
Following Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE have summoned their ambassadors from Beirut, over a diplomatic row provoked by Lebanese minister’s criticism of Riyadh’s on-going military intervention in Yemen. On Friday, the Kingdom [ More … ]
“Expo 2020 is yet another opportunity for the UAE to falsely present itself on the world stage as open, tolerant, and rights-respecting while shutting down the space for politics, public discourse, and activism,” says Michael [ More … ]
The UAE yesterday sentenced a Syrian human rights activist to ten years in prison on charges of terrorism and insulting the prestige of the state. Abdul Rahman Al-Nahhas, the Syrian activist who founded Insan Watch [ More … ]
No other dictatorship in the world gives more money to U.S. think tanks than the UAE, where major Emirati-funded DC policy organizations have said remarkably little about the country’s illicit influence. A report by Aditi [ More … ]
The UAE has launched a number of initiatives to lure investors in a bid to counter Saudi Arabia’s challenge. Riyadh has recently undertaken a number of decisions to overtake its Gulf neighbor as the main [ More … ]
State-owned Saudi media companies based in Dubai will start moving staff this month to Riyadh, as Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman pushes ahead with his plans to turn the kingdom into a regional business center. [ More … ]
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