Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) and the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in partnership with Petroleum Institute (PI), Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, and New York University Abu Dhabi, on Sunday jointly announced they will host the Fourth Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium in Abu Dhabi. The …

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business According to Xpress Money, one of the world’s most dependable money transfer brands, the remittance industry is possibly one of the few industries that posts year on year growth, despite global market conditions. In 2008, when the world faced an economic meltdown, the remittance industry remained resilient and since 2010, the remittance industry has …

  Aleppo / AFP Clashes and air strikes shook the Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitor said on Sunday, as heavy fighting resumed after the end of three-day truce declared by government ally Russia. The unilateral truce ended without any evacuations by the UN, which had hoped to bring wounded civilians out of the rebel-held east and deliver aid after weeks …

  Ankara / AFP Turkey has arrested more than 35,000 people over alleged links to the group run by the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for the failed July coup, local media reported on Sunday. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the suspects had been placed under arrest since the attempted putsch that fell apart within hours, quoted by …

  Mogadishu / AFP Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said on Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union’s AMISOM force withdrew. It was the third time this month that the extremist group moved into a town in the region after the departure of Ethiopian forces. …

  Aden / AFP The pro-government Arab coalition on Sunday stepped up air strikes on Iran-backed rebels in Yemen and clashes raged on the ground as warring parties ignored a UN call to renew a fragile ceasefire. The 72-hour ceasefire took effect just before midnight (2100 GMT) on Wednesday to allow aid deliveries in Yemen, whose war has killed thousands …

  Aden / AFP Yemen’s government announced on Sunday that nine people had died of cholera in second city Aden as the infectious disease spread across the war-torn country. Ten other people in the southern port city have been diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease which is transmitted through contaminated drinking water and causes acute diarrhoea, the health ministry said. …

  Arbil / AFP US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter arrived in Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan on Sunday to review the ongoing military offensive to retake the extremist bastion of Mosul. As the Pentagon chief went into talks with Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, US officials said Kurdish peshmerga forces had almost reached their goals in the week-old offensive. The battle …

  Lagos / AFP Nigerian troops have thwarted an attempted hijack of a vessel in the restive Niger Delta and separately arrested five pipeline vandals, a spokesman said on Sunday. “Troops of Operation Base 2 repelled a hijack of a vessel (MT VAJARA) by heavily armed bandits in Ramos River, around Agge area of Delta state,” Lieutenant Commander Thomas Otuji said …

  Calais / AFP With only hours to go before workers begin to demolish France’s “Jungle” migrant camp on Monday, officials are racing to process as many young people as possible to be transferred to Britain. The pace is therefore brisk at the camp outside Calais: young migrants are shown into a container where British Home Office officials have set up …