Bloomberg Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party is discussing using a press clampdown and intimidation in rural areas to thwart a newly united opposition’s challenge to its three-decade rule in elections next year, according to three senior officials with knowledge of the matter. Officials of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front are increasingly concerned the health of Mugabe, 93, …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received a delegation from the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), headed by Director-General Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi, at Qasr Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, he was briefed by …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has held a telephone conversation with Gerry Brownlee, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand, congratulating him on his appointment as the New Zealand Foreign Minister. During the telephone conversation, Sheikh Abdullah expressed his happiness as New Zealand announced that it …