NEW DELHI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, held on Thursday formal talks with His Excellency Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, where the two leaders discussed ways to promote bilateral cooperation. The two leaders agreed that promoting bilateral cooperation would ...
Read More »Mohamed visits Gandhi’s memorial in New Delhi
New Delhi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, visited on Thursday the Raj Ghat, the memorial site of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, accompanied by Dharmendra Pradhan, India’s Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed observed a ...
Read More »UAE-India bond is a partnership committed to progress: Abdullah
Abu Dhabi / WAM On the occasion of the official visit to India by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Foreign Minister, has reflected on the deep ties that bind the UAE and India, in an article published in ...
Read More »Erdogan threatens to send refugees to EU as NATO steps in
Ankara / AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday threatened to send the millions of refugees in Turkey to European Union (EU) member states, as NATO agreed to deploy ships to the Aegean Sea to ease the migrant crisis. In a speech in Ankara, Erdogan stepped up his denunciations of Western policy in the refugee crisis, confirming he had ...
Read More »Russia claims US planes bombed Syria’s Aleppo
MOSCOW / AFP Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday accused the United States of bombing the Syrian city of Aleppo after the Pentagon said Moscow’s air strikes had destroyed two hospitals in the city. Moscow furiously denied the US claim, charging in return that Washington had sent ground-attack planes to bombard Aleppo, an allegation the US said was a “fabricationâ€. “Just ...
Read More »â€˜Brexit’ bandwagon gathers pace as EU fears copycat demands
Bloomberg If David Cameron leaves next week’s European Union summit with a deal to overhaul the terms of Britain’s membership, many of his counterparts will breathe a sigh of relief —and dig out their own wishlists. As populist and anti-EU forces surge across the region, the prime minister’s ultimately successful strategy of issuing demands for change and threatening to leave ...
Read More »Kurdistan is ‘part of Iraq’: PM Abadi
Berlin / AFP Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi urged Kurdistan on Thursday to drop any plans for independence, criticising a proposed statehood referendum and warning the autonomous region would not prosper on its own. Abadi also highlighted the economic crisis Iraq faces, saying that oil revenues had fallen by 85 percent compared to two years before—a major challenge made ...
Read More »â€˜Elections’ acid test for Merkel’s handling of refugee crisis
Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel is embarking on an election campaign that will test whether Germans back her management of the country’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Merkel will hold her first rally of the month-long push on Thursday ahead of three state elections on March 13. With the votes looming, her approval rating is at the lowest in ...
Read More »Mohamed accorded official reception
NEW DELHI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, was welcomed to India on Thursday morning with a state visit arrival ceremony at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed is in India on a three-day official visit, ...
Read More »Crown Prince, Indian President discuss bilateral ties
NEW DELHI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, met in New Delhi on Thursday with Pranab Mukherjee, the President of the Republic of India. The Indian President received His Highness Sheikh Mohamed at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Presidential Palace. Sheikh Mohamed is on ...
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