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Emiratis represent 74% of FANR's workforce

Emiratis represent 74% of FANR's workforce

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 5: The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) provides long-term career opportunities for Emirati employees by...

ADNOC Distribution delivers strong operating performance and growth in underlying profitability in H1 2023 to AED1.57 billion

ADNOC Distribution delivers strong operating performance and growth...

Abu Dhabi [UAE], August 5: ADNOC Distribution today announced its first half 2023 results, reporting a 9% year-on-year increase...

New phase of Empowering Future Leaders Program launched in Switzerland

New phase of Empowering Future Leaders Program launched...

Bern [Switzerland], August 5: Within the framework of the UAE wise leadership's keenness to support the country's youth, improve their...

5.2-magnitude quake hits southeast of Easter Island - USGS

5.2-magnitude quake hits southeast of Easter Island -...

Beijing [China], August 4: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted southeast of Easter Island at 0044 GMT on...

New Zealand releases roadmap for future of defense, national security

New Zealand releases roadmap for future of defense,...

Wellington [New Zealand], August 4: The New Zealand government has released for the first time its strategy for defense development...

Ukraine, Russia say they shot down each other's drones

Ukraine, Russia say they shot down each other's...

Moscow [Russia], August 4: Ukraine and Russia said on Thursday that they had destroyed each other's drones, with Ukraine reporting...

Putin critic Navalny expects 'Stalinist' prison sentence in extremism trial

Putin critic Navalny expects 'Stalinist' prison sentence in...

Moscow [Russia], August 4: Alexei Navalny's team said on Thursday he was preparing for a lengthy new prison sentence that...

South Korean police say 13 people injured in car ramming and stabbing

South Korean police say 13 people injured in...

Seoul [South Korea], August 4: A man injured more than a dozen people after he drove a car onto a...

Damaged car freighter arrives at Dutch port

Damaged car freighter arrives at Dutch port

Eemshaven [Netherlands], August 4: The badly damaged car freighter Fremantle Highway safely entered the Dutch port of Eemshaven on Thursday...

Evidence of widespread war crimes in Sudan

Evidence of widespread war crimes in Sudan

London [UK], August 4: As the conflict in Sudan continues to escalate, a prominent human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has...

Blinken tells UN and Russia: 'Hunger must not be weaponized'

Blinken tells UN and Russia: 'Hunger must not...

New York [US], August 4: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that food blockades must never be...

Continue to postpone the election of Thai Prime Minister

Continue to postpone the election of Thai Prime...

Bangkok [Thailand], August 4: Speaker of the House of Representatives of Thailand Wan Muhamad Noor Matha yesterday announced the postponement...

Hundreds of people suffer from heat stroke in South Korea

Hundreds of people suffer from heat stroke in...

Seoul [South Korea], August 4: South Korean officials said yesterday that nearly 600 people fell ill and required medical attention...

North Korea accuses US of pushing the region to the brink of war

North Korea accuses US of pushing the region...

Pyongyang [North Korea], August 4: North Korea on Wednesday criticized a new US arms aid package to Taiwan, accusing Washington...

The deposed president in Niger 'calls for help' the international community

The deposed president in Niger 'calls for help'...

Niamey [Niger], August 4: Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum said he had been held hostage, calling on the US and the...

Food insecurity due to conflict in Ukraine

Food insecurity due to conflict in Ukraine

Kyiv [Ukraine], August 4: The EU and Ukraine accuse Russia of weaponizing grain, while Moscow says the West is the...

Body found in river buoys at Mexico border amid criticism of policy

Body found in river buoys at Mexico border...

Mexico [Mexico City], August 4: A body was found stuck in a barrier of buoys installed by Texas authorities in...

Travis King: North Korea confirms custody of US soldier

Travis King: North Korea confirms custody of US...

Seoul [South Korea], August 4: North Korea has confirmed custody of Travis King in its first response to requests for...

Arrests after Greenpeace protest at Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home

Arrests after Greenpeace protest at Rishi Sunak's North...

London [UK], August 4: Five people have been arrested after activists climbed on the roof of the prime minister's home...

Ukraine says it launched July attack on bridge to Crimea

Ukraine says it launched July attack on bridge...

Kyiv [Ukraine], August 4: Ukraine's military launched an attack on Russia's bridge over the Kerch Strait last month, Kyiv has...

Trump pleads not guilty to charges he tried to overturn election loss|

Trump pleads not guilty to charges he tried...

Washington [US], August 4: Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that he orchestrated a plot to...

On Ukraine's landmine-strewn front, even the corpses can kill

On Ukraine's landmine-strewn front, even the corpses can...

Kyiv [Ukraine], August 4: When they found the bodies of Russian troops at an abandoned position, something about the corpses...

Bhutan: Second phase of the one million fruit tree plantation project completed

Bhutan: Second phase of the one million fruit...

The focus was on planting 13 high-value fruit crops such as almonds, pecan nuts, walnut, kiwis, avocados, dragon fruit, Miyazaki...

S. Korea's foreign reserves continue to rise in July

S. Korea's foreign reserves continue to rise in...

Seoul [South Korea], August 3: South Korea's foreign reserves rose for the second successive month in July on higher conversion...

Poland says Belarus violated Polish airspace in NATO provocation

Poland says Belarus violated Polish airspace in NATO...

Warsaw [Poland], August 3: Helicopters from Belarus violated Polish airspace in a targeted provocation against Poland and NATO's eastern flank,...

Greek government offers free holiday week to evacuated tourists

Greek government offers free holiday week to evacuated...

Athens [Greece], August 3: Tourists evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes last week due to wildfires will be allowed...

Son of Colombian president charged with money laundering

Son of Colombian president charged with money laundering

Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], August 3: Colombian prosecutors on Tuesday said they have charged the son of President Gustavo Petro,...