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DEWA launches 'OWNEK' awareness initiative
Dubai [UAE], January 24: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) launched the "OWNEK" awareness initiative to help its accredited contractors...
Emirates completes ground testing for fully Sustainable Aviation...
Dubai [UAE], January 24: Emirates has successfully completed the ground engine testing for one of its GE90 engines on a...
SEDD releases 4th 'Emirati Women Entrepreneurs' booklet
Sharjah [UAE], January 24: The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) released the fourth edition of the "Emirati Women Entrepreneurs" booklet,...
People smuggling boss who went on run arrested...
London [UK], January 23: The head of a Kurdish people-smuggling ring has been arrested after going on the run ahead...
Netanyahu fires top minister after court order
Jerusalem [Israel], January 23: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed a senior minister from office, complying with a Supreme...
Syrian building collapse kills at least 16 in...
Damascus [Syria], January 23: At least 16 people were killed and four others injured in the collapse of a five-floor...
Burkina state media: Ouagadougou demands withdrawal of French...
Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso], January 23: The government in Burkina Faso has called on French forces stationed there to leave within...
Four Israelis detained on suspicion of smuggling drugs...
Tel Aviv [Israel], January 23: Four young Israeli women were arrested at Tel Aviv airport with 15 kilogrammes of drugs...
200 protesters arrested in Peru, government closes Machu...
Rio De Janeiro [Brazil], January 23: Police in Peru cleared a university in Lima and arrested more than 200 people...
Former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin marries again aged...
Washington [US], January 23: Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, 93, has married for the fourth time.
Six more classified docs found in Justice Dept...
Washington [US], January 23: Officials from the US Department of Justice found six more classified documents during a search of...
Sweden's NATO bid hit by repeated rows with...
Stockholm [Sweden], January 23: Sweden's bid for NATO membership is facing a dead end because Ankara's demands to Stockholm to...
France, Germany firm up ties as European 'driving...
Paris [France], January 23: Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and France's President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday pledged to drive Europe forward...
US attacked IS in Syria after base was...
Washington [US], January 23: US forces in Syria staged an attack against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria and...
Monterey Park shooting: Local residents in shock and...
Washington [US], January 23: Local residents are expressing their shock after a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, that left...
Labour urges probe into claims BBC chair helped...
London [UK], January 23: Labour is calling for a parliamentary investigation into claims the chairman of the BBC helped Boris...
Ten killed in shooting near Los Angeles during...
Los Angeles [US], January 23: A man fatally shot 10 people and injured at least 10 others at a ballroom...
Erdogan says Turkish elections to be held on...
Ankara [Turkey], January 23: Turkish president announces the date for the country's presidential and parliamentary polls.
Germany would not block Poland sending tanks to...
Berlin [Germany], January 23: Germany is ready to authorise Poland to send German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine to help Kyiv...
NZ's incoming PM calls Ardern abuse 'abhorrent'
Wellington [New Zealand], January 23: New Zealand's incoming prime minister has vowed to protect his family from what he called...
Global Council for Tolerance and Peace condemns burning...
Abu Dhabi [UAE], January 23: The Global Council for Tolerance and Peace has expressed its utmost condemnation of the burning...
Explosion kills 2 gov't soldiers in Yemen's oil-rich...
Aden[Yemen], January 22: Two soldiers of Yemen's government forces were killed and four others injured in an explosion in the...
Colombian government, guerrilla group to resume peace talks...
Caracus [Venezuela], January 22: The Colombian government and the guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN) will resume peace talks next...
World Insights: Global economy facing "turning point" amid...
Davos [Switzerland], January 22: The global economy has regained steam after a difficult COVID-19 pandemic, but experts at the World...
1st Chinese tourist group arrives in Egypt since...
Cairo [Egypt], January 22: Ahead of the upcoming Chinese New Year, Egypt received the first Chinese tourist group on Friday...
Palestinian man shot dead in West Bank
Ramallah [Palestine], January 22: A Palestinian man has been shot dead in the occupied West Bank in the latest incident...
European Parliament head under scrutiny after luxury hotel...
Brussels [Belgium], January 22: European Parliament President Roberta Metsola is facing questions over a gifted stay with her husband in...