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Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has committed to purchasing carbon offsets, to completely neutralise the CO2 emissions of its flagship “Greenliner” 787-10 aircraft for a full year of operations in 2021. The initiative is the start of the airline’s journey to reduce CO2 emissions to 50 percent …

Historic Abu Dhabi landmark Qasr Al Hosn marked its second anniversary yesterday with visual projections on high-profile buildings across the emirate, in addition to virtual cultural activations and a Forsan Al Emarat aerobatic air show. The activities are both a celebration of the two-year anniversary of its reopening and a …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced on Tuesday that it conducted 146,020 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 …

The Integrated Transport Center (ITC), part of the Department of Municipalities & Transport, has called upon vehicle owners in Abu Dhabi to register for the ‘Darb’ toll gate system and activate their accounts via https://t.co/mNhf2FN0xt or via the Darb app. The system will go live from 2 January 2021. ’Darb’ …

Ras Al Khaimah police have extended the 50% discount scheme on traffic fines which was decided to end on 9 December to 23 December 2020. Fines can be settled through the smart applications, while impoundment violations require offenders to visit the impoundment yard at Al Saedi area.

More than 66.85 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,538,379​ have died, according to a Reuters tally published on Tuesday. With 282,253 deaths and over 14.7 million confirmed cases, the United States tops the list of twenty countries with the highest recorded …

According to the NCM “National Seismic Network”, A 4.5 Magnitude earthquake on Richter scale is recorded in the South of Iran at 11:28 “UAE time”. The earthquake was not felt in the UAE and had no effect.

Academic calendar of 2020-2021 for MOE curricula schools, foreign curricula schools, and Indian and Pakistani curricula schools.

In response to recent media reports on the entry of Israeli citizens to the United Arab Emirates, FlyDubai has apologised to the affected passengers who experienced a delay on arrival to Dubai on Monday. Flydubai is currently reviewing the reasons behind the delay and is revalidating the processes and procedures …

Twitter has rolled out hardware security key support for Android and iPhone devices, to help users keep their accounts more secure. Now anyone with a security key set up on their Twitter account can use that same key to log in from their mobile device, so long as the key …