Emirati minister and head of ADNOC, Sultan al-Jaber, will oversee climate crisis negotiations in November despite wanting to ramp up oil production, which worries climate activists. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, chief executive of the Abu Dhabi [ More … ]
The secretive Al Nahyan family’s fortune, estimated at approximately $300 billion is about more than oil, says Bloomberg The Al Nahyan family owns Manchester City Football Club, a dozen or so palaces and invested big [ More … ]
EU Parliament has opened investigation into corruption cases and suspicions related to senior Emirati officials about launching a smear campaign against Qatar The European Union Parliament has opened an official investigation into corruption cases and [ More … ]
After detention in UAE, human rights groups had feared Sherif Osman would be extradited to Egypt and face imprisonment and torture after calling for protests on 11 November The Egyptian-American national arrived in the United [ More … ]
Several human rights groups have called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to release the Egyptian-American citizen Sherif Osman, warning that he could face torture and arbitrary detention should he be forcibly returned to Egypt. [ More … ]
A new Quincy Institute report examines one of the largest and most well financed foreign influence operations inside the United States. UAE meddling in U.S. politics is now a national security concern, according to a [ More … ]
“The United Arab Emirates steered U.S. foreign policy in its favor through a series of legal and illegal exploits, according to an unprecedented U.S. intelligence document,” says John Hudson. In what was described as the [ More … ]
An order of 120 TB2s is being discussed in the latest example of growing ties between UAE and Turkey, reported MEE citing exclusive sources The United Arab Emirates is reportedly in negotiations to make a [ More … ]
Emirates says arrest of Asim Ghafoor, an American citizen, was coordinated with the US to ‘combat transnational crimes’. The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — [ More … ]
The UAE’s AD Ports Group has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire a 70 per cent equity stake in two Egyptian container shipping companies, Transmar International Shipping Company and Transcargo International, the [ More … ]
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 … ]
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