Tolerance Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan is accused of sexual assault by one of the event’s curators. Britain’s Hay Festival will not return to Abu Dhabi until the United Arab Emirates’ tolerance minister [ More … ]
A prominent Emirati female poet said she was banned from travelling out of her home country over her anti-normalization stance. Veteran poetess Dhabiya Khamis Al-Muhairi took to social media on Saturday urging immediate assistance from [ More … ]
US Senator Ted Cruz rejects criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, saying Riyadh played ‘major role’ in brokering Arab peace with Israel The ambassadors of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia in [ More … ]
Israeli prime minister’s deal has been met with Palestinian anger, and mistrust across Israel’s political spectrum for its lack of transparency. Meanwhile, the Palestinian prime minister said on Monday that the signing of normalization accords [ More … ]
The flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi was the first direct commercial flight between the two countries The first official direct flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates landed on Monday, ahead of [ More … ]
An airliner carrying Israeli and US delegations to the UAE on Monday flew over Saudi Arabia as the first publicly acknowledged entry of an Israeli plane into Saudi air space, reported Reuters. Israel’s flag carrier El [ More … ]
Investigation reveals that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind the lethal drone strike that killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libyan capital Tripoli The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind a [ More … ]
Chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced on Friday his movement’s opposition to Egyptian support for the UAE-Israel normalization deal. Speaking to TRT World, Haniyeh criticized the UAE-Israel deal and reiterated that it came about [ More … ]
The UAE State Security Agency has secretly arrested scores of Emiratis, Palestinians and Jordanians living in the UAE for opposing Abu-Dhabi’s peace deal with Israel. The Emirates Leaks website quoted human rights sources as saying [ More … ]
Oman has terminated a contract with UAE-owned Damac International amid speculation that the new Sultan is moving slowly away from a position of neutrality on regional geopolitical matters, a policy that had been maintained by [ More … ]
Corrupt and criminal actors from around the world, including Afghan warlords, Russian mobsters, Nigerian kleptocrats, European money launderers, Iranian sanctions-busters, and East African gold smugglers, operate through or from Dubai, says a new damning report [ More … ]
A Democratic House committee chairman said the investigation into arms sales might have been “another reason” for the firing of the inspector general, Steve A. Linick, reported the New York Times. The US State Department [ More … ]
Turkey has vowed to “defend” Libya’s UN-recognized government after eastern-based renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar declared himself ruler of the North African country. At the same, time, senior UAE officials visited Sudan to rally support [ More … ]
UAE-aligned separatists in southern Yemen have warned of an “imminent war” against Saudi-supported mercenaries, fighting on behalf of the UN-recognised Yemeni government, based in Riyadh. The UAE and Saudi are joint-leaders of the US-backed coalition [ More … ]
The European Union is ready to impose stricter sanctions on high-level Syrian regime officials and scientists who were involved in using chemical weapons against civilians, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency [ More … ]
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