Tag: news

dnata said it has purchased a 50 percent stake in Dubai Express, Freightworks and a 25.5 percent stake in Bolloré Logistics, UAE from Kanoo Group. Dubai-based air services provider dnata has strengthe…
( read original story …)

---

Dubai motorists can avoid having to pay traffic fines if they stay trouble-free for 12 months under a new initiative announced by Dubai Police. The initiative, announced during the UAE’s Year of Toler…
( read original story …)

---

The aim of the Dubai Fitness Challenge 2018 was to get residents in the city to be more active. And it succeeded. The 30-day citywide event saw a massive 34 percent increase in participation compared …
( read original story …)

---

Dubai-based flydubai has announced the start of flights to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The five times weekly service between Dubai and Tashkent will start on March 11 and will become a daily …
( read original story …)

---

A Briton has been arrested and detained in the United Arab Emirates after reportedly being assaulted when he wore a Qatar football team shirt to a match. Ali Issa Ahmad, 26, from Wolverhampton, is sai…
( read original story …)

---

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Co has sold 34.9 million common equity shares in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a company spokesperson said on Tuesday, and plans to convert 75 mil…
( read original story …)

---

Pope Francis gave a historic open-air mass to 135,000 people in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) on Tuesday. Thousands more greeted him as he arrived at the Zayed Sports …
( read original story …)

---

Each evening at 1830 UTC, DW’s editors send out a selection of the day’s hard news and quality feature journalism. You can sign up to receive it directly here. Pope Francis is on a visit to the United …
( read original story …)

---

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The opulence of Abu Dhabi is not subtle. Bentleys line the roads, glass skyscrapers rise like blades over corporate business parks, a multibillion dollar hotel once u…
( read original story …)

---

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – The Latest on Pope Francis’ historic visit to the United Arab Emirates (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Pope Francis received a surprise when a little girl crawled under …
( read original story …)

---

More than 120,000 worshippers packed Zayed Sports City stadium and its surroundings in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to see the Pope, who is in the Gulf country to promote interf…
( read original story …)

---

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – The Latest on Pope Francis’ historic visit to the United Arab Emirates (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Pope Francis has concluded his historic visit to the Arabian Penin…
( read original story …)

---

Pope Francis, who has made outreach to Muslim communities a cornerstone of his papacy, leads an unprecdented open-air mass for some 170,000 of the estimated one million Catholics in the United Arab Em…
( read original story …)

---

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – The Latest on Pope Francis’ historic visit to the United Arab Emirates (all times local): 1:05 p.m. Pope Francis has departed Abu Dhabi after making the first papal t…
( read original story …)

---

Ali Issa Ahmad watched Qatar beat Iraq in the Asian Cup match at the Al Nahyan stadium in Abu Dhabi. He was later arrested by UAE officials. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images A British footb…
( read original story …)

---

… banks from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have joined a digital currency project, major Saudi Arabian financial news portal Argaam reports on Feb. 5 Referring to comments …
( read original story …)

---

Dubai is already getting ready for a brand-new 550m tower in Al Sufouh Neighbourhood, and it’s going to be the next “Downtown” to head to. Plans have been set to construct the Burj Jumeira and its sur…
( read original story …)

---