Sharjah / WAM More than 80 narratives of childhood, ranging from animation and shorts to features and documentaries from the region and around the world, will be screened at the upcoming eighth edition of the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth (SIFF) from October 10-15. FUNN, the Sharjah-based organisation that promotes media arts learning among children and youth, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, approved the new federal government cabinet. The new cabinet was announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, following discussions with His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi ...

DUBAI / WAM Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) confirmed the preparedness of the infrastructure of roads and mass transit networks for providing unique, smooth, and express mobility service to visitors of Expo 2020 from Dubai and other emirates across the UAE. Thanks to the huge support ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, on Saturday received at the ministry, Prof Dr Verena Lepper, Curator of Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection) in Berlin, and co-founder of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). At the start of the meeting, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) has highlighted the pivotal role played by global hospitality partners in accelerating the city’s tourism recovery. At a meeting with the General Managers of Marriott International hotels in Dubai, Issam Kazim, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Tourism shared a positive industry overview underlined by the steady growth in ...

Sharjah / WAM The Emirate of Sharjah is gearing up to host the 48th edition of the Watch & Jewellery Middle East Show (WJMES), which is organised by the Expo Centre Sharjah from October 5-9 with the support of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). The event will see the participation of world-leading companies in the watch and ...

The electoral farce that took place in Russia last week was hardly interesting as a political event: once again, the main Kremlin-backed party, United Russia, retained a constitutional majority in parliament in a procedure that only President Vladimir Putin’s propagandists could deem free or fair; this time around, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe couldn’t even send observers ...

Walk around a supermarket in the US or Europe and you will see some empty shelves once more. This isn’t due to people panic-buying toilet paper, as they did early on in the pandemic; rather it’s because supply chains are clogged at almost every stage between Asian factories and grocery stock rooms. But rising prices and patchy availability mean it’s ...

Now that the top US health regulators have delivered their verdict on Covid-19 booster shots, who exactly is in line to get one in the coming weeks? Sadly, too many of the wrong people and too few of the right ones, adding more messiness to a rollout process that’s been far from smooth. The Biden Administration already jumped the gun ...

It appears that the results of the partisan Arizona recount of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County is actually going to show a larger lead for President Joe Biden than the real count showed. The non-experts who conducted this farce were expected to roll out their results, but some have already leaked out. This doesn’t confirm anything. It can’t. ...