Emirates Business CFA Society Emirates, the association for financial and investment professionals in the UAE, has unveiled the results of a survey which assessed the impact of introducing Value Added Tax (VAT) across the GCC. The survey provided market insights from CFA members and charterholders in the United Arab Emirates. With the UAE set to become the first country ...

  Geneva / AFP The number of unaccompanied children making the notoriously dangerous Mediterranean crossing aboard unseaworthy boats has more than doubled this year, the UN children’s agency said in a new report on Tuesday. Entitled “Danger every step of the way”, the UNICEF report said nine out of every 10 children arriving in Italy were unaccompanied minors, noting that more ...

  Thessaloniki / AFP Greek police on Tuesday cleared two more improvised migrant camps near its border with Macedonia, moving occupants to state-run facilities, officials said. Police in Greece’s second largest city Thessaloniki said the operation was ongoing in the makeshift camps, which had formed around a highway motel and a nearby petrol station. Many of the migrants are from ...

  ISTANBUL / AP The European Union’s envoy to Turkey has resigned less than a year into the job, according to his office. The EU delegation in Ankara confirmed that Hansjoerg Haber was leaving his post, without giving any reason. Turkey was Haber’s first assignment as a German diplomat, between 1993 and 1996. He returned as European Union ambassador to ...

  YANGON / AP An official says a military helicopter has crashed in the jungle in northern Myanmar, killing three officers on board. The aircraft went down Tuesday in the jungle near Daik U town in Bago division, some 150 kilometers (120 miles) northeast of Yangon. Khin Lay Si, an official in the Daik U administration office, says the rescue ...

  Jerusalem / AFP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a long-dormant Arab peace initiative with the Palestinians that he has spoken of reviving must be changed before Israel can support it. Netanyahu made the comments to members of his Likud party, Israeli media reported, after facing pressure from right-wing members of his cabinet over his recent comments on the Arab ...

  Dhaka / AFP Bangladeshi clerics said they have issued a fatwa against the killings of minorities and secular campaigners in the mainly Muslim country, where police have arrested over 10,000 people in a crackdown on militancy. Nearly 50 people have been killed over the last three years in a wave of gruesome attacks targeting Hindus, Christians, Sufi Muslims and ...

  Manila / AFP Philippine authorities on Tuesday confirmed that extremist guerrillas had beheaded a second Canadian hostage, as they defended their inability to save him despite months of pursuit. ” We strongly condemn the brutal and senseless murder of MrRobert Hall, a Canadian national, after being held captive by the Abu Sayyaf group in Sulu for the past nine ...

  Jalalabad / AFP Afghan and Pakistani forces clashed in an escalation of tensions between the neighbouring countries, killing at least three people and forcing the closure of the main border crossing, officials said on Tuesday. The fighting erupted along the Torkham border on Sunday night and continued erratically over the next two days, apparently after Afghan forces objected to ...

WASHINGTON Even by Donald Trump’s standards, his comments about the Orlando shooting have been reckless and self-serving. They are also dangerous for the country. Trump’s response to Sunday morning’s terrorist attack by Omar Mateen was initially an opportunistic tweet; then a boasting statement on his website: “I said this was going to happen”; followed by a renewed call to temporarily ...