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Dubai is getting a Vegas-style island

Abu Dhabi: Dubai property developer Wasl has awarded a contract to China State Construction Engineering Corporation to build a Las Vegas-style project called ‘The Island’. It is expected to open by the…
Saudi Arabia: Electric flying taxis to take off by 2026

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s budget airline Flynas has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Brazil-based Eve Air Mobility to explore the possibility of starting electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) operations in…

UAE: In a first, tech company announces 4-day working week

Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates (UAE) telecoms giant e& has announced a four-day working week for employees across three departments in the country. With this announcement, e& has become the first technology company to…
Iran re-arrests rapper Toomaj Salehi

Tehran: A 32-year-old prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was recently released from prison, has been re-arrested in the northern city of Babol on Thursday, November 30. According to the judiciary’s news…
PM Modi leaves for Dubai to attend COP28 summit

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for supporting developing countries with adequate climate financing and technology transfer to help them to deal with climate change as he headed to Dubai to…
Watch: French ‘spiderman’ climbs Burj Khalifa

Abu Dhabi: French climbers, Alain Robert, known as the “French Spiderman”, and Alexis Landot climbed an 828-meter-high (2,716.5 feet) Burj Khalifa in Dubai. This climb was part of Mashreq’s ‘Climb2Change’ global initiative,…
Burj Khalifa lights up with Legacy from Land of Zayed for COP28 opening

Abu Dhabi: Dubai’s Burj Khalifa was emblazoned with the logo of the Greening Education Hub – Legacy from the Land of Zayed – in celebration of its official opening at COP28. The…

UAE: 50% discount on traffic fines announced in Fujairah

Abu Dhabi: In celebration of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 52nd National Day, Fujairah Police has announced a 50 percent discount on traffic fines. The motorists can avail of the discount for…
Five killed in Jerusalem shooting attack

Tel Aviv: Amid the ongoing truce in Gaza, at least five people, including two gunmen, were killed in a shooting incident carried out by Hamas operatives at a bus station in Jerusalem…
India expects clear roadmap on climate finance at COP28, says Kwatra

New Delhi: India expects a clear roadmap on climate finance to be agreed at the ongoing COP-28 in Dubai, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said on Thursday ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit…
144 out of 170 refugee camps in Iraq closed

Baghdad: The Iraqi government has announced the closure of 144 refugee camps out of 170 across the country in the past few years. “Only 26 camps remained out of 170, and most…
Israel-Hamas truce to continue for another day

Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday, November 30, agreed to extend the humanitarian truce deal in the Gaza Strip by at least one more day, minutes before it was…
Blinken arrives in Israel to urge for truce extension

Tel Aviv: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv in an effort to persuade Israel to extend the ongoing humanitarian truce in Gaza which is set to expire…
Abu Dhabi announces new railway services

Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi is all set to establish a new railway service from the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s capital city to Al Dhannah region. An agreement to this was signed on…
‘War to continue till Hamas are crushed’: Israel PM Netanyahu

Tel Aviv: Five countries have been negotiating feverishly towards hammering out an agreement to extend the current ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas beyond Thursday for another four days even as fears…