GENEVA / AP UNICEF is appealing for $3.3 billion this year to help millions of children worldwide facing conflict, malnutrition and other humanitarian emergencies. The UN children’s agency says more than 40 percent of the appeal would provide funds for children either displaced within Syria or who have fled abroad to escape the country’s nearly six-year war. UNICEF said ...

  BEIRUT / AP The World Food Program says it has resumed food airdrops to the besieged Syrian city of Deir al-Zour. The U.N. agency said on Tuesday it was using a new drop zone after IS group militants took control of the primary zone two weeks ago. The extremist group laid siege Deir al-Zour in 2015, trapping Syrian government ...

  AVDIIVKA / AP Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least seven people overnight, injuring many more and briefly trapping 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported. Rebels in Donetsk said an electricity sub-station was damaged in shelling, cutting power to the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk and trapping more ...

  MANILA / AP The United States is not building any weapons depot anywhere in the Philippines, the US ambassador said Tuesday, denying the basis on which President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to abrogate a 2014 defense pact that allows US forces to temporarily base in local camps. Ambassador Sung Kim said that nothing is being planned now that even closely ...

  Bloomberg Brexit Secretary David Davis called on lawmakers to give the government permission to implement the will of the British people who voted for the UK’s formal departure from the European Union. Davis kicked off the debate in the House of Commons in London on Tuesday and made the case that the issue is straightforward. The lower house of ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, and The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) on Tuesday signed a landmark US$1 million agreement to increase tourism to Thailand. Under the new agreement, the Abu Dhabi-based airline and TAT will jointly promote travel to Thailand from priority markets including the United Arab Emirates, ...

  Bloomberg Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., which announced a fifth delay in the delivery of its passenger jet last week, plans to boost the number of engineers at a Seattle facility by more than a third as it steps up flight tests to meet an extended deadline. The maker of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet will increase staff to more than 200 ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business JustKidding opened their retail operation in Abu Dhabi at Town Square, at Al Forsan Village located in Khalifa City ‘A’ area. Town Square is now home to several community focussed brands including JustKidding, a multi-brand retailer with all the leading baby brands under one roof. JustKidding was founded in 2006 by two loving and caring ...

  Bloomberg US airlines tumbled the most in three months as concerns mounted that President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations will lead to more restrictions on flights. Investors are fearful that the US curbs will expand or be answered with retaliation by other nations, said Joe DeNardi, an analyst at Stifel Financial Corp. Trump already ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG was fined $629 million by UK and US authorities for compliance failures that saw the bank help wealthy Russians move about $10 billion out of the country using transactions that were likely thinly veiled attempts to cover up financial crime. The UK Financial Conduct Authority issued a 163 million-pound ($204 million) fine on Tuesday hours ...