Sharjah / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, on Sunday launched a special Ramadan campaign in the UAE that aims to provide 5 million books for children in refugee camps and students in under-privileged schools across the world. The campaign will distribute two million books to children and ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) participated at the 14th annual SpaceOps event in Daejeon, South Korea. MBRSC showcased its space projects, conducted detailed presentations and hosted demonstrations of the innovative technologies that have propelled the UAE onto the global space science stage. SpaceOps 2016 played host to the world’s most advanced space agencies, ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business UAE Exchange, the leading global remittance, foreign exchange and payment solutions brand, emerged as one of the strongest brands at the recent 12th Annual Superbrands Tribute held in Dubai. Recognised and voted as a ‘Superbrand’ for the eighth consecutive year, the title was conferred after a meticulous criterion set by the Superbrands Council that comprised ...

  Dubai / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced the working hours for all DHA hospitals, administration and primary health centres during the Holy Month of Ramadan. The working hours for DHA administration will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday, according to an official announcement of the DHA. In the Hospitals category, Latifa Hospital’s outpatient ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The leaders of the exhibitions industry in the Middle East and Africa converged on Sharjah to set the course for the region’s fast-evolving exhibitions industry. The UFI Leadership meeting at the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry was followed by a networking lunch which was attended by some of the leading exhibition organisers, venues, and ...

  Ulan Bator / AFP US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday warned Beijing against setting up an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) over the disputed South China Sea during a visit to Mongolia. Washington would consider the establishment of such a zone—which would require civilian aircraft to identify themselves to military controllers—”a provocative and destabilising act,” Kerry said in ...

  Berlin / AFP A German right-wing populist politician has attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel as a “dictator” who is trying to “replace the German people” with migrants, a Sunday newspaper reported. Alexander Gauland, of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, told a rally outside Berlin that Merkel’s liberal asylum policy was radically transforming the face of the country, the ...

Seoul / AFP North Korea hit back at the United States on Sunday for labelling it a money-laundering state, describing it as a “nonsensical” effort that only revealed the flaws of existing sanctions pushed by Washington. The US on Wednesday branded Pyongyang a “global money laundering concern”, aiming to lock the impoverished by nuclear-armed country out of the world financial ...

  FRESNO / AP Hillary Clinton’s savage takedown of Donald Trump in her recent foreign policy speech has her supporters fired up. As the likely Democratic nominee toured California, crowds burst into applause at the mere mention of Thursday’s speech, in which Clinton cast Trump as dangerously unqualified to be president. Supporters say they feel more confident and excited in the ...

  Puli Alam / AP Taliban gunmen stormed a court complex in a city south of Kabul on Sunday, killing at least seven people in the insurgents’ third so-called “revenge” attack for last month’s execution of Taliban-linked prisoners. The attack in Pul-i-Alam, capital of volatile Logar province, also left 23 prosecutors wounded as they were meeting to decide the fate of ...