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Dubai / Emirates Business Dental tourism in the Middle East and Africa is being dubbed the backbone of the region’s ballooning medical tourism industry, with the value of the dental consumables market projected to climb to USD 1.44 billion by the end of 2020. Much of this growth, according to experts, can be laid at the doorstep of technological advances ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, was honoured by Efma and Accenture with a ‘Bronze Digital Distribution’ award at the 2016 Global Distribution & Marketing Innovation Awards for its innovative mobile-based ‘Fitness Account’. Launched in November 2015, the Fitness Account is a mobile only savings account that allows customers to earn higher interest ...

  Moscow/AFP Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that jets from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier deployed in the eastern Mediterranean had launched their first strikes on Syria. “For the first time in our naval history, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov started taking part in combat,” Shoigu said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Black ...

  Riyadh/ AFP Arab leaders must treat the region’s 100 million young people as an asset, not a liability, the UN’s youth envoy said in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. “This is a generation that is so willing to contribute,” but is beset by obstacles in the 22-nation region plagued by conflict since a wave of Arab uprisings demanding reform erupted after ...

  Moscow / AFP Russia’s security service said on Tuesday it had detained five suspects with ties to the IS extremist group who were plotting to carry out attacks in the country. The FSB security service said in a statement it had “thwarted the activities of a group created to perpetrate crimes of a terrorist and extremist nature” in Moscow and ...

  Rome/ AFP A farming crisis in war-torn Syria has reduced food production to a record low and raised fears people in the conflict-hit country will be forced to flee famine, the UN’s food agency said on Tuesday. “Widespread insecurity and unfavourable weather conditions” in parts of the country continue to “hamper access to land, farming supplies and markets”, the Rome-based ...

  Madrid / AFP Spanish police were searching on Tuesday for several Algerians who fled a migrant detention centre following a riot, the sixth such incident since August as calls mount to close the facilities. In the latest incident, which took place on Monday evening, nine Algerians escaped from a holding centre in Murcia, a region in the south east, ...

  France /AFP Burundi’s brutal regime has set the small central African country on a “descent into hell”, a prominent human rights group said on Tuesday, warning of the risk of genocide. “Since April 2015, when large popular protests broke out against the decision of President Pierre Nkurunziza to seek a third term, Burundi has been in violent political crisis,” ...

  Dhaka / AFP Around 200 Rohingya Muslims fleeing a surge in violence after security forces took control of Myanmar’s Rakhine state last month are stranded at the Bangladesh border, community leaders said on Tuesday. Bangladeshi border guards pushed back the Rohingya—mostly women and children—to the Myanmar side on Monday, community leaders said. “We heard they are 200 in number. ...

  Democrats and progressives, you lost. You can fight President-elect Donald Trump, or you can join him. There will be time enough for fighting, but for now, I suggest that you join him — at least on some of his high priority items. As it turns out, several of them are your priorities too. 1: Infrastructure. The president-elect is a ...