DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, announced its partnership with Samsung to provide early access to Samsung Pay, for the bank’s customers. Samsung Pay is a secure, fast and convenient mobile payment service that can be used to make contactless purchases with select Samsung devices* almost everywhere a card is accepted. The launch …

  BEIRUT / AP A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria’s rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country’s six-year civil war. Hours later, a small field hospital in the region was struck and destroyed, according to a civil defense worker in the …

  GAUHATI / AP India said on Tuesday that China should not interfere in its internal affairs, as the Dalai Lama began a weeklong visit to India’s remote northeast that Beijing has protested. The Tibetan spiritual leader was greeted by cheering supporters as he arrived in Arunachal Pradesh. China claims the partly ethnically Tibetan Himalayan state as its own territory, …