Emirates Development Bank aims to provide financing worth AED30 billion by 2026
Abu Dhabi [UAE], May 28: Emirates Development Bank (EDB) aims to provide financing worth AED 30 billion by 2026.
Sharjah Ruler: Eight new nurseries in Sharjah
Sharjah [UAE], May 28: H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has announced a plan to enhance...
Dubai Press Club revives award for media students launched by Mohammed bin...
Dubai [UAE], May 28: Dubai Press Club today announced the launch of 'Ibda'a - The Arab Youth Media Award'. The award revives a student media...
Muslim Council of Elders strongly condemns Israeli occupation's targeting of displaced persons'...
Cairo [Egypt], May 28: The Muslim Council of Elders, under the chairmanship of His Eminence Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, has condemned...
New Caledonia airport to remain closed until at least June
Paris [France], May 27: New Caledonia's international airport will remain closed until at least next Sunday, its operator said, nearly two weeks after rioting erupted...
France sent more gendarmes to New Caledonia to deal with the riots
Paris [France], May 27: In addition to sending more gendarmes, France plans to lift the state of emergency to pave the way for dialogue to...
Mr. Hun Sen said that the Cambodian Prime Minister decides on the...
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], May 27: Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen recently denied information on social networks that he had personally set the start date for...
Ukraine's Zelensky appeals for Biden, Xi to join Swiss peace talks
Kharkiv [Ukraine], May 27: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday appealed for US President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping to participate in a planned...
Taiwan thanks the US and others for supporting peace in the region
Taipei [Taiwan], May 27: Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Sunday expressed his gratitude to the United States and the international community for support amid higher...
Burkina Faso extends junta's term
Ouagadougou [Burkina Faso], May 27: The military leader of the West African country of Burkina Faso, interim President Ibrahim Traore, is to remain in office...
Hamas fires rockets at Israel's Tel Aviv, causing first sirens for months
Gaza [Palestine], May 27: Hamas has said it launched rockets at Tel Aviv, prompting sirens to sound in the Israeli city for the first time...
Sharjah Ruler visits Al Hira Literary Council
Sharjah [UAE], May 27: H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, paid a visit to the...
UAE, Qatar discuss enhancing parliamentary cooperation ties
Algiers [Algeria], May 27: Dr. Tariq Humaid Al Tayer, First Deputy Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), during a meeting with Hassan bin Abdullah...
Floods in Armenia leave at least one dead, hundreds evacuated
Yerevan [Armenia], May 27: Flooding caused by heavy rain and rivers bursting their banks in Armenia and Georgia has left one person dead, villages cut...
Hundreds of thousands evacuated as cyclone 'Remal' hits Bangladesh coast
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 27: Authorities in Bangladesh have evacuated hundreds of thousands of people to safety as a tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal...
Some 160 villagers reported taken in deadly raid
Kuriga [Nigeria], May 27: Ten people have been killed and at least 160 other villagers have been kidnapped from a remote community in Nigeria's central...
Papua New Guinea continue rescue efforts after hundreds feared killed in landslide
Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], May 27: Emergency crews in Papua New Guinea on Monday continued their rescue efforts to find survivors after more than...
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 35 in Rafah, Gaza authorities say
Tel Aviv [Israel], May 27: Israeli air strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city...
Trump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at Libertarian convention
Washington [US], May 27: Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday...
China's premier to hold rare summit with U.S.-allied South Korea, Japan
Beijing [China], May 27: Leaders from China, Japan, and South Korea will meet for the first three-way talks in four years on Monday in Seoul,...
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes north west of Tonga
Nuku'alofa [Tonga], May 27: A 6.6 magnitude has struck 70km northwest of Tonga, this morning.
Hamas launches rocket attack towards Tel Aviv
Hamas says it has launched a "big" rocket attack at the Tel Aviv area in central Israel, several of which were intercepted by air defence...
Yemen's Houthis free more than 100 prisoners
Sana [Yemen], May 27: Yemen's Houthi group freed more than 100 detainees in Sanaa, calling the move a "unilateral humanitarian initiative" to pardon prisoners and...
More than 670 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide
Port Moresby [Papua New Guinea], May 27: More than 670 people are assumed to have died in Papua New Guinea's massive landslide, the U.N. migration...
Tunisia announces partial cabinet reshuffle
Tunis [Tunisia], May 26: The Tunisian Presidency on late Saturday night announced a partial cabinet reshuffle involving the interior and social affairs ministries.
Estonia is not going to close border with Russia: president
Tallinn [Estonia], May 26: Estonia is not going to close its eastern border with Russia, Estonian President Alar Karis said in an interview with...
Italy to resume financial support to UNRWA: FM
Rome [Italy], May 26: Italy will resume its financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near...