DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Mansour bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai International Marine Club, attended the 22nd Business Excellence Awards ceremony hosted by the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai and honoured 42 winners of Dubai Quality …

  Moscow / AFP Desperate efforts to salvage Syria’s ceasefire shifted to Moscow on Tuesday as the country’s battered second city of Aleppo came under fresh fire that killed at least four people. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to hold talks with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura in the Russian capital in a last-ditch bid to rescue peace negotiations that …

  Kuwait City / AFP The UN envoy has met delegates of Yemen’s warring parties separately in a bid to restart peace negotiations after a protest walkout by the government, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The government delegation quit on Sunday in protest at the rebels’ seizure of one of the few loyalist army bases in the northern mountains in …