DUBAI / WAM With the aim of promoting healthy diets and lifestyles, Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and Nestle have partnered to launch more than 40-TV episodes where tips on eating healthy and leading a healthy lifestyle especially among children will be shared with the public. The partnership comes in light of the “Healthy Children 2021”, an initiative supported by Vice …

  Beirut / AFP US-backed Syrian fighters and Iraqi forces on Thursday pursued twin assaults against the IS group, but experts warned the battles will be drawn out. The offensives on key regions of IS-held territory are the two most significant ground efforts against the extremists since they formed a self-styled “caliphate” in 2014. In Syria, an alliance backed by …

  Paris / AFP France and Egypt will hire two private firms to help in the hunt for the black boxes from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last week on route from from Paris to Cairo, the French foreign ministry has said. ‘We are in talks with two private companies… in coordination with the Egyptian authorities,’ a ministry spokesman said, …