ABU DHABI / WAM Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, met Robert Rostek, Ambassador of Poland to the UAE, and discussed ways to expand economic co-operation between the two countries. New sectors, including small and medium-scale enterprises, innovation, tourism, industry, infrastructure and agriculture, have been identified for this purpose. The duo also discussed increasing investments in key ...

  Beirut /AFP Syrian government forces regained control on Saturday of areas they lost over the past two weeks to a rebel offensive on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo, ending a major attempt by insurgents to break the siege on eastern parts of the city, an activist group and pro-government media said. The insurgents had seized a ...

  Quetta / AP At least 43 people died and 35 others were injured when a bomb exploded at a Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Saturday, officials said. The blast hit a crowd of worshippers participating in a ceremony at the shrine of Sufi saint Shah Noorani in Khuzdar district, some 760 kilometres (472 miles) south of ...