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ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways has announced its suspending operations through Iranian airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. In a statement, the national airline of the UAE said, “Following the decision of the US Federal Aviation Administration to restrict US airline operations in Iranian-controlled airspace, Etihad Airways consulted closely with the UAE General Civil ...

Sharjah / WAM Souq Al Jubail, which hosts the largest fresh produce market in Sharjah, has announced the launch of its annual Dates Festival. The event, which will continue until the end of August, provides shoppers and visitors with an opportunity to choose from a wide variety of imported fresh dates. A variety of date farmers and traders hailing from ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Future Foundation has announced the launch of the 6th cohort of Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA), programme, with some 30 local and global companies working closely with the government entities in Dubai. Organisations taking part in the 6th cohort hail from 15 countries, including six companies from the UAE, five from the United Kingdom, three from the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED), has awarded the Emirati Entrepreneurs Association (EEA), with a package of quality support programmes, including financial and technical support. The package will be used to support Emirati entrepreneurs’ skills and capacity development and creation of a suitable environment where their business projects could flourish. Commenting on the announcement, Mouza ...

Dubai / WAM Hessa bint Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development headed the UAE delegation in the ministerial meeting about Women Empowerment at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Cairo, Egypt. During the meeting, she emphasized that women empowerment in their community is one of the main conditions that contributed to the achievement of sustainable development and gender equality, ...

NUR-SULTAN / WAM Mohammed Haji Al Khouri, Director-General of Khalifa Foundation, on Saturday, opened the Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Arabic learning centre at the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed School (KBZS), in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan. The opening ceremony was attended by Mohammed Ahmed bin Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to Kazakhstan, senior Kazakh officials and members of the UAE mission in ...

Mocha / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), organised second group wedding in Yemen as part of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and the follow up of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued the Presidential Resolution No. (1) of 2019 towards raising women’s representation in the Federal National Council (FNC) to 50 per cent with effect from the upcoming legislative cycle. Issued in the run-up to the fourth cycle of FNC elections that are scheduled to take place ...

SHARJAH / WAM The Expo Centre Sharjah concluded its visit to Egypt and Jordan where it explored prospects of future cooperation and joint coordination in the sector of international exhibitions and conferences, to promote the interests of the Arab economy. The Expo delegation was headed by Saif Mohamed Al Midfa, Expo Centre Sharjah CEO, and he was accompanied by Mahmoud ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A UN official has praised the UAE’s role in implementing disaster risk reduction across the world. Sujit Mohanty, Chief of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Regional Office for Arab States, said the UAE plays an important role, both locally and internationally, to apply emergency crises response systems and programmes. The UAE government has ...