Tag Archives: United Arab Emirates

Dubai International, one of the world’s busiest airports, canceled, diverted and delayed flights on Saturday due to heavy rain and flooding, Dubai Airports said. Flights are likely to be delayed throughout the day and some have been canceled or diverted to nearby Al Maktoum airport, state-owned Dubai Airports said on …

Google and Apple have removed an Emirati messaging app called ToTok amid claims that it is used for state spying. Not to be confused with China’s TikTok, ToTok markets itself as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text. However, The New York Times (NYT) has reported …

Iran has seized a vessel traveling through the Persian Gulf for allegedly smuggling diesel fuel, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. The move comes amid a series of high-profile tanker detentions. The unidentified vessel was illegally transporting 250,000 liters of fuel to the United Arab Emirates when it was …

The United States, Britain, and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations said on Tuesday. U.N. investigators recommended that all states impose a ban on arms …

Saudi Arabia and its allies have used “double-tap” airstrikes in Yemen, researchers at investigative journalism site Bellingcat have revealed. The tactic sees missiles fired once, then again when aid workers have rushed to the injured. It dramatically raises civilian death tolls and endangers rescuers. Evidence has now been found to …

The British Museum has completed its biggest ever handover of historical artifacts looted in Iraq, a collection of 156 inscribed tablets which had been shipped to the UK, it has been reported. The items mostly dated from between 2100BC and 1800BC, originating from the third Ur dynasty or Old Babylonian …

World’s worst humanitarian crisis ‘wouldn’t have been possible without the complicity and support of Downing Street’, campaigners say. The UK has licensed the sale of £6.2bn worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen, new statistics show. Fighter jets, bombs, and missiles made in Britain are believed to have …

Yemen’s Interior Ministry says Ibrahim al-Houthi, the brother of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has been assassinated. “The treacherous hands affiliated with the US-Israeli aggression and its tools assassinated Ibrahim Badreddin al-Houthi,” a statement from the ministry, cited by al-Masirah TV, said on Friday. The statement did not provide any further …

The ruler of Dubai, one of the most high-profile leaders in the Middle East, and his estranged wife are beginning a court battle in London over the welfare of their children. Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum’s wife, Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, is the third female member of his court to run …

Yemeni forces have launched drone attacks on King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Asir in retaliation against the kingdom’s aggression on their country. The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said several Qasef-K2 (Striker-K2) combat drones had targeted the airbase near the city of …

At least 40 people have been killed and another 80 injured after an airstrike hit a migrant center east of the Libyan capital of Tripoli early Wednesday, according to the Health Ministry’s emergency service Field Medicine and Support Center. Images from the ground showed piles of rubble left where the …

Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, a wife of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, is in hiding in London and said to be in fear for her life after fleeing her husband. Sheikh Mohammed, 69, who is a billionaire racehorse owner and has often been seen conversing with the …

Khalifa Haftar has threatened to attack Turkish interests in Libya after suffering a serious setback in his push to take the capital Tripoli, accusing Ankara of backing his rivals. Anti-Haftar forces supporting Libya’s internationally recognized government announced Wednesday they had retaken the strategic town of Gharyan in a surprise attack, …

Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two of its oil tankers were among those attacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and said it was an attempt to undermine the security of crude supplies amid tensions between the United States and Iran. The UAE said on Sunday that …