Dubai / Emirates Business Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — the entity delegated to design, implement and supervise all the phases of the Emirates Mars Mission- Hope, under the supervision of the UAE Space Agency- has announced the launch of the Explore Mars Poster Competition, in which participants will submit scientific research on the Red Planet. The competition ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Denmark have signed an open skies agreement. The agreement was signed today by Director-General of the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi and the Ambassador of Denmark to the UAE, Merete Juhl. Al Suwaidi said the agreement allows for an unlimited number of their designated ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business DAMAC Properties on Monday announced it had launched ten major projects so far in 2016 with a combined value in excess of AED 13 billion. The announcement coincided with the first day of Cityscape Global 2016 taking place from September 6 – 8 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The new range of projects announced ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) announced its participation at Cityscape Global 2016, and will provide the visitors with the opportunity to live the real estate experience. During this event that is taking place on September 06-08 at Dubai World Trade Centre, visitors are getting to know more about the latest DLD’s services on its platform number ...

  Dubai / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Nawah Energy Company (Nawah) say that their most recent marine environmental survey off the coast of the Barakah nuclear energy plant has shown the presence of several marine species as a result of the artificial reef which was created there in 2014. The results reveal that a diverse and abundant ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Media Council (NMC) presented 22,000 books to the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development (MoCKD), in line with the initiative launched by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to mark 2016 as ‘The Year of reading’. Mansour Al Mansouri, Acting Director of the NMC, said His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed ...

  Damascus / AFP A string of bomb attacks hit across mostly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, killing several dozen people including at least 35 in President Bashar Al-Assad’s coastal stronghold of Tartus, state media said. At least 48 people died in the multiple blasts, with dozens also wounded in the double bombing outside of Tartus city, which is home ...

  Aden / AFP A possible US drone strike killed seven suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in central Yemen, a security official said. The official said a missile fired by what was “probably an American drone” hit an apartment building in the Al-Wadi area of Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa, killing seven people late Sunday. The United States, which rarely acknowledges ...

  Tunis / AFP Libyan politicians began on Monday two days of UN-brokered talks in Tunis to discuss power struggles and extremist threats that are undermining stability in the oil-rich country. The members of the Libyan Political Dialogue signed in December 2015 a political agreement that established the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). But nine months on, the GNA led ...

  Seoul / AFP North Korea test-fired three ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, South Korea said, in a new show of force as world leaders meet at the G20 summit in China. The missiles were fired into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) from the North’s Hwangju county at around 0300 GMT, a spokesman for Seoul’s defence ministry ...