The United Arab Emirates participated in the Ministerial Meeting on Syria which convened in Rome Monday in the presence of foreign ministers and senior officials from a number of countries and regional and international organisations. Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, Minister of State, led the UAE delegation to the meeting. A

More than 600,000 meals have been distributed in villages and underprivileged communities of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan as part of ‘100 Million Meals’ campaign. Food parcels, equivalent to 200,000 meals in each country in Central Asia, were distributed in collaboration with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity

Following the latest QIB-UK Real Estate View from London Report, in this issue we discuss the state of the sector almost one and a half years on since the onset of COVID-19, as well as take a closer look at the latest updates around the fight against the pandemic, vaccination

The General Authority of Customs (GAC) held an awareness seminar for heads of departments of customs ports titled (Developing the Administrative Organization of Customs Work), yesterday, as part of Qatar GAC’s constant endeavor to develop the mechanisms of customs work applied at the ports. The seminar, which is considered a

Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC) has launched an e-learning program, as part of a more inclusive initiative to develop staff skills and elevate the performance of the tourism sector in the State of Qatar. This is by conducting trainings on LinkedIn’s e-learning platform in many topics including project management, business

HE the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi met on Monday with HE Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the State of Qatar Haris Lukovac. During the meeting, bilateral cooperation relations between the two countries were reviewed.   Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The State of Qatar participated on Monday morning in the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Rome, Italy. HE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani chaired the State of Qatar’s delegation to the meeting. At the beginning of his

HE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani met on Monday with HE Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria Alexander Schallenberg on the sidelines of the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Rome,

The State of Qatar reiterated condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, wherever it is committed, and whatever its justifications may be, affirming its determination to continue working as an effective international partner to prevent the heinous scourge of terrorism. This came in a pre-recorded speech delivered on

The United Arab Emirates participated in the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition Against Daesh, which was co-chaired by the United States and Italy in Rome today. The UAE delegation was headed by Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, Minister of State, who delivered the UAE speech, stressing the need to continue

H.E. Maktoum bin Butti Al Maktoum, the Director of MoFAIC’s Dubai Office met with H.E. lldephonse Ntawunkun, Consul General of the Republic of Burundi in Dubai and received his credentials. His Excellency welcomed the Consul General and hailed the political, economic, commercial and investment relations that bind the two friendly

United Airlines Holdings Inc is poised to buy more than 200 Airbus SE and Boeing Co jetliners, one of the largest purchases in its history, as the US carrier revamps its single-aisle fleet with more efficient planes, according to people familiar with the plans. While terms are still being finalised

Boeing believes that sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) can offer the biggest carbon-reduction benefit to the industry in the short-term while waiting for new propulsion technologies to mature. In addition, the airframer remains downbeat on the prospects for hydrogen, and also offers a cautious view on the prospects for new engine

For the second time this month, Southwest Airlines is again canceling and delaying thousands of flights this weekend. According to the aviation blog One Mile at a Time, 48% of Southwest’s schedule was either delayed or canceled on June 25, with another 281 flights canceled and more expected. The airline,

The UAE has strongly condemned and denounced the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist militias’ systematic attempts to attack civilians and civil objects in Khamis Mushait, Najran and the Southern Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a ballistic missile and explosive drones, which were intercepted by the Coalition Forces. In a

RAMALLAH, The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today strongly condemned the brutal Israeli repression against peaceful Palestinian protests in the occupied territories and called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for its actions and impose deterrent sanctions against it. It said in a statement that the

JERUSALEM, A Palestinian citizen from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Al-Thawri embarked today on demolishing a room of his own after he was forced to do so by Israeli municipality to avoid paying exorbitant costs if the municipality carries out the demolition. Hamza Mahmoud Abu Sal’oum, a resident of Al-Thawri

RAMALLAH, Major-General Talal Dwaikat, spokesman for the Palestinian security forces, said today that the committee in charge of investigating the death of Nizar Banat, a political activist from the West Bank city of Hebron, has begun its works and will announce the results shortly upon the end of the investigation.

HEBRON, Hardcore Israeli settlers opened gunfire today at Palestinian civilians and set two residential tents on fire after raiding the village of al-Tuwanah in Masafer Yatta community, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Mohammad Rabaee, head of the Al-Tuwanah village council, told WAFA that

NABLUS, Israeli occupation forces on Saturday evening attacked dozens of Palestinian protesters taking part in the ongoing protests in the village of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, against Israel’s construction of a colonial outpost near the village. Several injuries were reported as a result of the

The UAE has joined the Central American Integration System (SICA) as a Non-Regional Observer Member State. The state’s accession agreement to the organisation was signed during the Ministerial Council of SICA, which was held in San José, Costa Rica. In a recorded speech, H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan,

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) has signed a cooperation agreement with Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (SUAD) to support the education sector in a number of African countries. In a virtual ceremony held recently, the agreement was signed by Sultan Al Shamsi, Assistant Minister of Foreign

SYDNEY – Workers and residents in Sydney were ordered to stay home for a week on Friday, as authorities locked down several central areas of Australia’s largest city to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19. Sixty-five COVID-19 cases have been reported so far in the

“Africa is facing a fast-surging third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, with cases spreading more rapidly and projected to soon overtake the peak of the second wave the continent witnessed at the start of 2021,” according to the World Health Organization’s regional office in Africa. WHO said in a statement the

The first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Ivory Coast in late February.  By March 1, the country started vaccinating people, making it the first in the world to do so through the COVAX initiative, a program co-led by the World Health Organization; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; and UNICEF. “The program plays a crucial role,”