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Abu Dhabi's New Year celebrations create unprecedented hospitality demand

Abu Dhabi's New Year celebrations create unprecedented hospitality...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], January 1: The hospitality sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi is witnessing record levels of occupancy...

Saud bin Saqr receives Norwegian ambassador

Saud bin Saqr receives Norwegian ambassador

Ras al-Khaimah [UAE], January 1: H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al...

Shakhboot bin Nahyan tours warehouses of Emirati relief aid directed to Gaza Strip in Al Arish, Egypt

Shakhboot bin Nahyan tours warehouses of Emirati relief...

Al-Arish [Egypt], January 1: Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of State, and the accompanying UAE delegation...

Kenya gets into 2024 with government securities' interest rates at historic high

Kenya gets into 2024 with government securities' interest...

Nairobi [Kenya], December 31: Interest rates on Kenya's government securities have closed 2023 at a historic high, putting the country...

Iran, Azerbaijan inaugurate new vehicular border bridge

Iran, Azerbaijan inaugurate new vehicular border bridge

Tehran [Iran], December 31: Iran and Azerbaijan on Saturday inaugurated a vehicular bridge across the Astarachay River, serving as a...

Israel launches missile attack near Aleppo int'l airport in N. Syria

Israel launches missile attack near Aleppo int'l airport...

Damascus [Syria], December 31: Israel launched a missile attack near the international airport of Aleppo city in northern Syria on...

EU members agree to lift air, maritime internal border controls with Bulgaria, Romania

EU members agree to lift air, maritime internal...

Brussels [Belgium], December 31: European Union (EU) member states reached a unanimous agreement on Saturday to eliminate air and maritime...

Sri Lanka receives highest monthly tourist arrivals in December in 4 years

Sri Lanka receives highest monthly tourist arrivals in...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], December 31: Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka passed 200,000 in December, the highest number for a month...

6.4-magnitude earthquake hits off eastern Indonesia

6.4-magnitude earthquake hits off eastern Indonesia

Jakarta [Indonesia], December 31: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's eastern province of Papua earlier Sunday, with no potential to...

Albania's ex-PM Berisha placed under house arrest in corruption probe

Albania's ex-PM Berisha placed under house arrest in...

Berlin [Germany], December 31: Albania's right-wing opposition leader, Sali Berisha, has been placed under house arrest following allegations of corruption...

US State Dept approves arms sale to Israel, bypassing Congress

US State Dept approves arms sale to Israel,...

Washington [US], December 31: The US State Department has approved the sale of further weapons to Israel worth millions of...

Death toll from Israeli strikes in Gaza Strip rises to 21,672

Death toll from Israeli strikes in Gaza Strip...

Gaza [Palestine], December 31: The death toll from Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip has reached 21,672, and the number...

UN says 81 aid trucks entered Gaza, number 'inadequate'

UN says 81 aid trucks entered Gaza, number...

Gaza [Palestine], December 31: Eighty-one trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom and Rafah crossings...

Eurostar trains cancelled due to UK tunnel floods

Eurostar trains cancelled due to UK tunnel floods

London [UK], December 31: British authorities announced Saturday the cancellation of Eurostar trains linking London to French, Belgian and Dutch...

Russia says seeking UN Security Council meeting on Belgorod

Russia says seeking UN Security Council meeting on...

Moscow [Russia], December 31: Russia on Saturday requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss what it...

Xi urges Chinese envoys to create 'diplomatic iron army'

Xi urges Chinese envoys to create 'diplomatic iron...

Beijing [China], December 31: Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Chinese ambassadors to forge a "diplomatic iron army" loyal to the...

Massive waves on California coast cause flooding

Massive waves on California coast cause flooding

California [US], December 31: Coastal communities in California faced another day of towering waves and possible flooding as officials issued...

Burundi's president says gay people should be stoned

Burundi's president says gay people should be stoned

Gitega [Burundi], December 31: Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on...

McDonald's Malaysia sues Israel boycott movement for $1 million in damages

McDonald's Malaysia sues Israel boycott movement for $1...

Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], December 31: McDonald's Malaysia has sued a movement promoting boycotts against Israel for "false and defamatory statements"...

Russia says 20 dead after 'indiscriminate' Ukrainian strikes on Belgorod

Russia says 20 dead after 'indiscriminate' Ukrainian strikes...

Moscow [Russia], December 31: Russia said 20 people including two children had been killed and 111 injured in "indiscriminate" Ukrainian...

Palestinian economy hard hit by Israeli aggression in 2023

Palestinian economy hard hit by Israeli aggression in...

Ramallah [Palestine], December 31: Palestinian economy was hard hit by the Israeli aggression which started on October 7 and has...

Sharjah takes part in honouring Historical Lexicon

Sharjah takes part in honouring Historical Lexicon

Cairo [Egypt], December 31: On December 18, the Sharjah Arabic Language Academy (ALA) participated in an event organised by the...

RAK Ruler attends conclusion of Mohamed bin Zayed Festival for Arabian Purebred Camel Racing

RAK Ruler attends conclusion of Mohamed bin Zayed...

Ras al-Khaimah [UAE], December 31: H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al...

At least 2 inmates killed, 6 injured in Uruguayan prison fire

At least 2 inmates killed, 6 injured in...

Montevideo [Uruguay], December 30: At least two inmates were killed and six others injured after prisoners started a fire...

AU welcomes signing of grant agreement to sustain peace in Ethiopia's Tigray Region

AU welcomes signing of grant agreement to sustain...

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], December 30: Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat on Friday welcomed the signing...

Qatar presents new initiative to end Israel-Hamas conflict

Qatar presents new initiative to end Israel-Hamas conflict

Gaza [Palestine], December 30: Qatar has proposed a new deal to end Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip and...

Türkiye announces destruction of 16 Kurdish militant targets in N. Iraq

Türkiye announces destruction of 16 Kurdish militant targets...

Ankara [Turkey], December 30: The Turkish forces on Friday carried out cross-border airstrikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in...