SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah FDI Office, Invest in Sharjah, operating under the auspices of the government of Sharjah, has announced the hosting of Sharjah-Arab Business Roundtable, a massive step in emphasising Sharjah’s importance in the Middle East’s finance and business sectors. The event is a platform for Invest in Sharjah to showcase the emirate’s investment opportunities in a …

  GENEVA / AP The UN refugee agency on Monday took the rare step of urging European Union members to suspend returns of asylum-seekers to their partner, Hungary, faulting its new policy of systematically placing migrants in containers and expelling any migrants not holding the proper papers. UNHCR says that since a tough new law took effect on March 28, …

  CAIRO / AP Egyptian Christians were burying their dead on Monday after IS suicide bombers killed at least 45 people in attacks on Palm Sunday services in two cities, as a state of emergency went into effect amid fears of further violence. At least 17 people were killed at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, the historic seat of Christendom …