Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways will increase capacity between Abu Dhabi and Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, by upgrading the current daily Airbus A321 service to a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from October 27. The step up from narrow body to wide body aircraft follows the announcement by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the immediate removal ...

MUKALLA / WAM Over 80 tonnes in food aid was distributed by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), in Yemen’s Hadramaut governorate. Five thousand people across the western neighborhouds of Mukalla received the aid, as part of the UAE’s efforts to improve living conditions in Yemen. The beneficiaries have thanked the UAE and the ERC for this humanitarian gesture and for ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Delegates of the eighteenth session of the General Conference (GC), of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), are set to arrive in Abu Dhabi on November 2 for five days of discussions around the future of manufacturing. The General Conference, UNIDO’s supreme policymaking organ convenes every two years to determine the guidelines and policies of ...