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Saudi Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman underwent surgery Wednesday to treat appendicitis, the Saudi Press Agency reported. According to the SPA, the laparoscopic surgery was successful.

The United Arab Emirates said it will supply its first locally manufactured air defense missiles to German security contractor Rheinmetall AG, as the Gulf state expands the production and export of military technology. Halcon, a unit of state-owned Edge Group, designed the SkyKnight missile system to provide early warning signals …

Microsoft will roll out text predictions for Word by March 2021. The text prediction will use machine learning to predict a word or phrase the user would want to type or will be likely to type the next word in a Microsoft Word document. It will work similarly to Smart …

The National Center of Meteorology forecasts that tomorrow’s weather will be partly cloudy to cloudy at times with a chance of rainfall over some areas, especially coastal and northern areas.Humid by night and Friday morning with a probability of mist formation over some eastern internal areas.Moderate to fresh winds.

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) will impose the annual fishing and trade ban on sharks from 1st March, coinciding with the spawning season of the fish. In line with the Ministerial Resolution No. 43 of 2019 regulating shark fishing and trade, the ban will continue until 30th …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention has announced that 93,199 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the past 24 hours. The total number of doses provided up to today stands at 5,761,463 with a rate of vaccine distribution of 58.25 doses per 100 people. The vaccination drive is …

President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of congratulations to Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, on the occasion of his country’s National Day and Liberation Day celebrations, on the 25th and 26th of February. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed …

The 2021 ministerial retreat concluded on Wednesday with a new edition of the National Agenda and strategic projects to boost the country’s competitiveness and speed up development in the next 50 years. The two-day retreat, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister …

The UAE Cabinet, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has approved the establishment of the Executive Office of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT). The Executive Office will oversee the implementation of the UAE’s …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced on Wednesday that it conducted 179,229 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus …