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If your Instagram and Facebook news feeds are not refreshing, you are not alone. Thousands of users across the world were hit with an outage on both platforms Thursday afternoon, with many located in the US, Europe, South America and parts of Canada . DownDetector shows the Instagram outage is …

 To the tune of AED43.13 billion in cash dividends for 2019 have already been paid out by Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and Dubai Financial market to more than 700,000 investors on behalf of to the companies listed in the two capital markets, according to data released by the two bourses. …

The field inspections carried out by the Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection (CCCP) Sector in Dubai Economy across the emirate have revealed increasing rates of compliance with the COVID-19 precautionary measures. The latest round of inspections found that 820 shops and commercial establishments fully complied with the precautionary guidelines. The …

In line with applied precautionary measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, the Abu Dhabi Crisis, Emergency and Disasters Committee outlines quarantine guidelines for international arrivals to Abu Dhabi. The Committee also sets out special procedures for international arrivals in Abu Dhabi by air or land travelling directly to other …

As part of ongoing efforts to expand the reach of the Phase III clinical trials of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine, a new centre 4 Humanity was launched in Egypt, making it the fourth Arab country to participate in these trials following the UAE, Bahrain and Jordan.The extension follows the successful …

The centres operated by the Environment and Protected Areas Authority, EPAA, collectively welcomed over 57,000 visitors during July and August. The Wasit Wetland Centre welcomed some 1,000 visitors in July and 560 in August while Arabia’s Wildlife Centre received 5,970 visitors in July and 15,201 in August. The Kalba Bird …

Miral, Abu Dhabi’s leading curator of experiences, today welcomed H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Executive Council and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Office, at Yas Island’s Yas Bay, which is to become Abu Dhabi’s premier waterfront destination. The development will play an important …

The President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, has awarded H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, the ‘Hilal-e-Pakistan’ (Crescent of Pakistan), country’s second-highest civil award and decoration, in recognition to his significant efforts to support Pakistan in all humanitarian and development fields, and …

The National ambulance, along with the civil defense teams and Sharjah police, had responded and evacuated a residential building which caught fire hours ago in Al Majaz area. Two moderate injuries (burns) were reported and transferred to Al Qasimi Hospital for treatment after receiving initial treatment at the site.

The Zayed Sustainability Prize has announced that solar-powered lighting solutions developed by one of its previous winners have been installed in the Egyptian village of Habisha, in the Asyut Governorate – as the latest deployment from the UAE-driven humanitarian initiative, 20by2020. With an aim to improve standards of living and …