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Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune has passed $100bn (£76bn) for the first time, adding him to an exclusive club of the world’s centibillionaires, after Facebook’s shares surged on news it is to launch a rival to the video-sharing app TikTok. Facebook announced the US rollout of Instagram Reels, its answer to the …

Lebanon’s Health Minister, Dr. Hamad Hassan, announced that the death toll of Beirut Port blast has reached 154, whereas the number of individuals who sustained injuries is 5000 thus far. Lebanon’s state news agency NNA cited the health minister as saying that one in five of the some 5,000 people …

An officer from Bur Dubai Police Station has recently been promoted for his honesty as he turned down a tempting bribe he was offered by a wanted criminal. Sergeant Raed Qaid Abdulrahim had rejected the offer of AED 50,000, a luxury car, an expensive watch and a AED20,000 monthly salary …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention has conducted more than 61,978 tests in different regions of the country and reports: • 216 new cases of coronavirus from different nationalities, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 62,061. • The full recovery of 276 patients from the symptoms of the …

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, KSrelief, has deployed the first Saudi airlift (air bridge) planes to Lebanon to provide humanitarian and relief assistance to the victims of the port explosion that occurred in Beirut in Tuesday. The explosion caused many casualties and injuries as well as heavy losses …

The response to Tuesday’s explosion in Beirut requires global support in order to “surmount the devastating impact” of the crisis facing the Lebanese people, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the country said on Thursday. Reiterating the Secretary-General’s commitment to assist Lebanon, Resident Coordinator Najat Rochdi, who also coordinates the …

The Central Bank of the UAE, CBUAE, has signed an agreement with the Arab Monetary Fund, AMF, to include the UAE Dirham as a settlement currency in the Arab Regional payments clearing and settlement system called “Buna”. “Buna” is a multicurrency platform that provides clearing and settlement services of cross-border …

Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, announced a 30 percent rise in new COVID-19 cases among UAE citizens during the last period and warned of the dangers of social visits and gatherings that do not follow all preventive and precautionary measures. The announcement was made …

During a news briefing , Dr. Omar Al Hammadi, the official spokesperson of the UAE government news briefing: The Ministry of Health and Prevention has conducted more than 50,739 tests in different regions of the country and reports: • 239 new cases of coronavirus from different nationalities, bringing the total …

The Traffic and Patrols Directorate of the Abu Dhabi Police, has revealed that 13,759 motorists failed to maintain a safe distance between vehicles, during the first half of 2020. The directorate urged drivers to commit to maintaining a sufficient distance between vehicles and noted that refusal to do so may …