Dubai / Emirates Business The new GITEX Startup Movement will support global startups experimenting in robotics, drones, and 3D printing in securing funding and reaching new markets and audiences. UAE startup DigiRobotics, which launched CafeBot and CarBot driverless car at last year’s GITEX, will return to showcase the first virtual reality robotic simulator, 3D printing by a seven-axis robot, …

  Hasakeh / AFP Kurdish fighters advanced in the flashpoint city of Hasakeh in northeast Syria after a Russian mediation bid failed to halt clashes with pro-regime forces, a monitoring group said on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a military source said the Kurds seized territory across several neighbourhoods in the city’s south in violent clashes on …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE’s Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) hosted a workshop on nuclear non-proliferation, at which US nuclear nonproliferation experts provided FANR staff with training in implementing export controls over commodities that can have either nuclear-weapon or peaceful purposes. Held in Abu Dhabi, the three-day workshop was conducted by the US Department of Energy’s International …