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A five-year-old Syrian refugee “Sama”, living in Lebanon with her family had her eyesight restored through an initiative by H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation. Sama, who was …

Arab Youth Centre, AYC, today signed a partnership agreement with the New Media Academy, NMA, the first academy of its kind in the Arab world, to boost the capabilities of Arab youth and enable them to innovate, produce content for various new media platforms and create an Arab media identity …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced on Sunday that it conducted 133,935 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 …

Dubai Public Prosecution has referred 3 people to criminal court on the charges of kidnapping and impersonating a public figure. The defendants had attacked the victim, forced him to get into their vehicle and requested him to pay AED 5,000, claiming that they were security officers.The victim did not have …

Dubai Sports Council has announced the addition of an exciting new fun and family event to its community sports calendar: the Aqua Challenge, which will take place at the AquaFun Waterpark in JBR on October 31, the second day of Dubai Fitness Challenge 2020. Being organised by the Council in …

According to the National Center of Meteorology (NCM), it will be fair to partly cloudy at times, with convective clouds forming eastwards. The relative humidity is expected to increase at night. The temperatures are expected to be in the high 30s to low 40s on average.Winds are also expected to …

More than 36.93 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,067,766​ have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Upon the approval of the His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, International Humanitarian City (IHC) chartered two aircrafts carrying aid to support those affected by the devastating floods in Sudan. An Emirates Sky Cargo B777 bound for Khartoum left Dubai …

Python removal agents working with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have caught the largest Burmese python yet to be captured in Florida. The 18-foot, 9-inch long snake was captured on October 2nd by Ryan Ausburn and Kevin Pavlidis along the L-28 Tieback Canal about 35 miles west of …

Instagram said Tuesday that it will automatically hide negative comments in posts, one of several new steps the Facebook-owned social media platform is taking to reduce bullying and harassment. Instagram has been testing the feature in recent days and said it will target comments that users have reported as inappropriate …