Lausanne / Emirates Business The second edition of the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2018 saw a slight improvement in the global ranking of the UAE, allowing it to reach 17th place, and lead its Arab neighbours in the report. The IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2018 studies 63 economies. This year the majority (29) of countries in the study ...

HODEIDAH / WAM The Joint Yemeni Resistance Forces have successfully gained control of large parts of Hodeidah Airport in a qualitative and surprising military operation that destroyed the defences of the Iranian-backed Houthi militias, amid the escape of a large number of militias, and the killing of dozens under a barrage of fire of resistance with the participation and support ...

HODEIDAH / WAM Arab Coalition Forces have stated that Iranian-backed Houthi militias in Yemen have directly targeted civilian populations in the Tehama region, north-west of Hodeidah. Coalition Forces asserted that the purposeful targeting of civilians and residential areas by the Houthi militias is in direct violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and have therefore broken International Humanitarian Law relative to ...