Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention issued a circular warning about the dangers of misusing ethyl chloride spray, which has recently gained interest among adolescent students who have been purchasing it from various social networking sites, e-commerce websites, private pharmacies and speciality stores. The circular states that the substance is a local anaesthetic that affects the central …

  PORT-AU-PRINCE / AP Aspasie Tanis lives hand-to-mouth on the edge of eviction in the best of times, scraping out a living selling packets of spaghetti and cookies outside her low-slung concrete shack in Haiti’s capital. Now the death of her father by stroke threatens to send her into a lifetime of debt. The distraught single mother is frantically seeking loans …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Under the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates is determined to step up its humanitarian initiatives to help the displaced people and refugees around the world, said HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Emirates Red Crescent …